Context
Experience accumulates over time. But it does not automatically prepare you for what comes next.
Throughout a career, you collect projects, responsibilities, wins and decisions. You take on bigger challenges, enter new environments and learn to do things that once felt out of reach.
Then comes a point where what got you here is no longer enough. You need to make a move, step into greater responsibility or perform in a different context.
And in that moment, a harder question appears: out of everything you have built, what really matters for what comes next?
Why Distill
You have to recognize what is worth carrying forward, let go of what no longer serves you and find a new way to operate.
This is where Distill begins.
Two moments. Same logic.
When a career changes, the way you operate has to change too.
Distill works with professionals facing important transitions, inside or outside their organization.
Sometimes the next move is external: a new company, role, market or direction. Sometimes it is internal: a new position, greater responsibility, exposure to senior leadership or an environment that demands a different presence.
In both cases, the work starts from what you have already built and what the next scenario requires.
01
Strategic Career Transition
When it is time to move.
For professionals evaluating or leading a change of company, role, level, market or direction.
The work can involve deciding on the next move, reading opportunities, shaping your narrative, market conversations, interviews, negotiation and everything that emerges along the way.
02
Executive Advisory
When it is time to step into a larger space.
For professionals who have taken on greater responsibility, started working with new stakeholders or need to find their footing in a more complex position.
The work can involve reading the landscape, building strategic relationships, influence, decision-making, communication and preparation for critical moments.
The method
DISTILL
To distill is to separate the essential from the rest to arrive at something more consistent and valuable.
The Distill method applies this logic to a professional trajectory: it identifies what matters, gives shape to what has been built and turns it into choices and actions for what comes next.
Extract
Everything starts with what already exists.
Distill
Not everything you have lived needs to come with you.
Position
What was scattered gains a sharper shape.
Activate
What has been extracted needs to enter circulation.
In practice
Two contexts of evolution. The principle remains.
Daniela H.
VP of Payroll and HROps
Alternative Assets · Global
+70%
compensation increase
From a solid trajectory to a global opportunity.
She had a consistent track record in HR Tech and wanted to expand her scope and recognition in the market. We worked on reading her trajectory, positioning and narrative for opportunities with greater reach.
Result
Global offer with a +70% compensation increase. With her professional evolution, the work expanded into new leadership and executive challenges.
Max D.
Finance Manager
Machine Manufacturing · Brazil / Americas
New offer
in a position of greater responsibility
From a new responsibility to a new way of operating.
When temporarily assuming a regional position, Max began dealing with greater exposure and a broader network of stakeholders. We worked on reading the landscape, strategic relationships and his presence in this new challenge.
Result
He strengthened his regional impact, advanced relevant negotiations and was recognized with a new offer in a full-time position of greater responsibility.
Jane Alves · Founder
About Jane
A decade understanding how professionals, companies and markets meet.
I am Jane Alves, founder of Distill. For over 10 years I have worked in People, Talent and business in Latin America.
My trajectory combines corporate experience, strategic recruiting, entrepreneurship and executive education at MBA Americas, with close work alongside professionals and organizations in different markets and cultural contexts.
It was from this experience that Distill was born, the method that named the company: transforming a complex trajectory into clarity, positioning and action.
Today, I advise leaders in moments of professional evolution, whether to land a new position or to sustain a new level of performance inside an organization.
Insights
Ideas and perspectives on career, leadership and professional evolution.
I write about the moments when a trajectory needs to be re-read, repositioned and put into action. For those who are evolving, not just developing.
Next step
Let's look at what you are experiencing.
If you are facing a change, taking on a new responsibility or trying to decide what comes next, we can start by understanding your moment.