How much time does it take?

As much as you want to give. You open the slots yourself and can close them at any time. One session is a 30-minute video call, with no preparation beyond your own story.

You set the price of your session yourself. Nawaya keeps 10 percent of each paid session for booking, payment and visibility. Payouts run through Nawaya. One thing to know before you start: the first session is free for everyone who is new, and that one is not paid out. It is the conversation that decides whether they come back.

How do I get approved?

Automatically. As soon as you've sent your application and confirmed your email, your profile is live. You add a photo, your story, your price and your times afterwards, at your own pace. Without a move you made yourself there is no profile, and if someone doesn't fit Nawaya, we take their profile down.

Do I need to speak German?

No. Your languages are on your profile and on your card, and people choose by them. English and Arabic are just as welcome.

You don't have to be a coach. You've made the move.

1A career change, a resignation, a first team, going independent, a move abroad.

2Right now someone is facing that exact decision and wants to hear from you.

3On Nawaya you talk 1:1 by video, at your price, at times you choose.

A career change, a resignation, a first team, going independent, a move abroad.
Right now someone is facing that exact decision and wants to hear from you.
On Nawaya you talk 1:1 by video, at your price, at times you choose.

Find your Guide

Confirm your email and you're live.

Meet the Guides who are already here

Made the switch

People who made the switch

Every card shows the path someone actually took and the languages you can talk in.

Rami Hajji
- Egypt and TunisiatoGermany
- Sales and leadershiptoFounding Nawaya
Left at 19 with a degree nobody here knew and a language I did not speak. Sixteen years later Germany is home, and I am building Nawaya.
Talks about: starting a career again in a country that is not yours, building something of your own, and the decision to hand in your notice
Speaks English, German, Arabic, French
Career changeStay or leave
then $88 per session (30 min)
Isabell Hajji
Over ten years in HR and leadership, full-time, alongside raising a child.
Talks about: leadership, difficult situations at work seen from the HR side, and a career that has to fit a family
Speaks German
First team
then $88 per session (30 min)
Firas Fessi
- Offshore renewablestoTender and acquisition
Engineer in offshore renewables, then tender and acquisition management for complex global projects. Belgium.
Talks about: the step from engineering into tender and acquisition management, and career decisions in demanding international environments
Speaks English
Career change
then $75 per session (30 min)
Karim Hajji
- R&D in energytoInternational sales
- International salestoPatent examiner, EPO
R&D in energy, then international sales between Germany and MENA, today patent examiner at the European Patent Office. Three deliberate career changes.
Talks about: changing careers more than once, and building a career in Germany after school in Cairo and Tunis
Speaks English, German, Arabic
Career changeMoving abroad
then $100 per session (30 min)
Amine Zgarni
Medical director in Munich.
Talks about: leadership and management, burnout and the boundaries between work and family, and the questions that come with a career as an expat
Speaks English, German, Arabic
First teamMoving abroad
then $90 per session (30 min)
Asma Gharbi
- Doctorate in biotechtoFilm production
Doctorate in biotechnology, now making the move into film production. In the middle of it.
Talks about: a career change while it is happening, and building a career abroad
Speaks Arabic
Career change
then $75 per session (30 min)
Sana Dabbous
- UAEtoGermany
- Digital transformationtoSelling AI to industry
Twelve years in sales, from the UAE's digital transformation to selling AI to chemical and pharma companies in Germany.
Talks about: working between the UAE and Germany, and selling something to an industry that is not ready for it yet
Speaks English
Career changeMoving abroad
then $90 per session (30 min)
Amine Darkaoui
- HR consultanttoFounder, HR e-learning
Over ten years as an HR consultant and trainer in Morocco, founder of an HR e-learning platform.
Talks about: building your own platform out of a consulting career, and what ten years of working with teams and professionals taught him
Speaks Arabic, French
Going independent
then $65 per session (30 min)
Warren Nugent
From UX to Product
Speaks English
Career changeStay or leave
then $75 per session (30 min)
Bochra Kammoun
- PhD in agronomytoProject management
- TunisiatoFrance
From a PhD in agronomy into project management and digital transformation in the farming sector, and from Tunisia into a working life in France.
Talks about: leaving research for a role in the field, and building a career in another country
Speaks Arabic, French
Career changeMoving abroad
No open times right now
$85 per session (30 min)View profile

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Why Nawaya

Your move is exactly what someone needs right now.

You need no certificate for this.
One decision you made yourself, and what came after it.

Someone is facing your decision

They have read everything and asked everyone, and they are still not one step further. What they are missing is a conversation with someone who knows the other side from the inside.

Your price, your hours

1:1 by video. You open the slots that suit you and decide what a session with you costs. Payment runs through Nawaya.

Your profile, in your words

You tell us where from and where to. That is what your card shows, and you can change it yourself any time.

What you bring

A move you made yourself.

One of these five, said in one sentence: from where to where. That is the whole test.

I changed careers.
I left a job after weighing it for a long time, or decided to stay.
I led a team for the first time.
I went independent.
I moved abroad.

Coaching training is welcome and does not replace this. What counts is that you went through it yourself and can say what nobody told you beforehand.

How it works

From application to first session

Four steps, no waiting line.

Apply
A short form: from where, to where, in which languages.
Confirm your email
You click the link in your inbox. That is the moment your profile goes live.
Profile and slots
You add a photo, your story and your price whenever you like, and open your first slots.
First session
Someone who is facing your decision books. You talk 1:1 by video.

FAQ

Questions before your first conversation

The short answers. If yours is missing, write to us.

Yes, that is exactly the point. Guides on Nawaya are people who made a specific move themselves. You share what you did, what it cost you and what you would do differently. No method needed. If you are also trained as a coach, that goes in your profile; what people see first is still your move.

Someone is thinking about the move you already made.

Tell us in two sentences where you started and where you went. The rest we do together with you.