Career Coaching
Get personalized coaching and guidance so you can land your next opportunity —
without all the headaches or guesswork.
Does your career need an energy boost?
Here are some signs it might.
- Career Change Wanted, Outlook Cloudy: You know you want a change, but you’re not sure what it looks like or the steps to get there.
- Job Market Overwhelm: You’re feeling apprehensive about the job market, and unsure about how to position your skills.
- Self Doubt: You’ve lost your sense of confidence, and those negative thoughts are holding you back from taking action.
- Workplace Anxiety: Your interactions with your coworkers are stressful, and always draining. You’re missing the tools to navigate and manage conflict with ease.
Take your daily grind from sluggish to super charged!
Together we can put the pep back in your professional step. Book a call today to get started.
Or start making progress with one of these key offerings:
Are you feeling tangled in the toxic dynamics of your current workplace?
Get help finding or building your way out! In this program, we will work identify what is giving you “the ick” in your workplace and what changes you need to make to set yourself up for more ease and less frustration.
Ever felt like you’ve been heading down your professional lane when, out of nowhere, you are blindsided and sideswiped by a colleague or manager?
Instant professional road rage! And we all know where road rage gets us. Gain tools and methods to get to your professional destination without being derailed by careless, chaotic, combative or cruel colleagues.
How I Can Help
Build Your Confidence
Imposter Syndrome, Self Saboteurs, Inner Gremlins, Limiting Beliefs, Inner Critic(s), The Voice of Doubt. Buzz words that describe the “enemies” of our confidence. Together we can untangle the negative thoughts in your head to help you:
- Turn down self-doubt, anxiety, and fear
- Tap into your wisdom and know-how
- Rebuild your confidence
So that you can do the things you want to do with more ease and less stress.
Mindset & Relationships
Activating your imagination. Nurturing talents and growing skills. Expanding perspective. These are activities that create a new landscape of possibilities under your direction.
- Troubleshoot and shift toxic behavior patterns
- Navigate workplace conflicts and conversations
Clarify Your Career Vision
I don’t have a crystal ball or a magic genie to predict the future — do you? If you’re like me, a step-by-step approach to career planning might feel frustrating. Instead of planning for a future we can’t predict, together we can help you:
- Develop skills, methods, techniques and tools that ensure you are always ready for opportunity.
- Gain clarity on your professional leverage when the right position pops up.
- Discover career directions that feel like growth to you.
- Get you playing at the level you want right now!
Job Search Strategy
The days of applying everywhere to see what sticks are over. Companies are looking for the right fit. I can help you do the same. Together we can identify your target companies and a create clear plan of outreach:
- Clarify your career vision
- Start making progress in your job search
- Use your network and build real relationships
- Showcase your worth in your interviews
- Craft a clear plan of action
My Approach
Overall, my approach combines practical coaching tools with activating your creativity.
Imagination, expanding your perspective at a birds’ eye view and what I like to call “dream surfing” are where possibility and new solutions emerge.
Do you remember what it was like to simply allow your mind to wonder? Without guilt, objection or complaint.
As adults, we often forget the power of the imagination. Yet, if you ask many at the top of their fields, this is exactly what they practice every single day.
Let’s rekindle your creativity like the pros do to make your dreams reality.
How It Works
Free Consult Call: We’ll start with a complimentary consult call to get to know each other.
A Program Designed for You:
Whether it’s a 6-session coaching program to build confidence or a 3-session interview prep program to hone in on your story, we will work together to design a program to help you achieve your specific goals.
Ongoing 1:1 Sessions:
In our ongoing sessions, you are the focus; no one is there to judge you or evaluate you or tell you what to do.My job as the coach is to listen to you with compassion to help you find clarity on your goals and dreams to design the life and career you want, and to hold you accountable along the way.
Tune-Up Sessions (A-la-carte)
Whether it’s emergency prep for the upcoming interview next week, an ad hoc coaching session or a quick question about job hunting, a-la-carte sessions are available as needed outside your coaching program sessions, or after they are complete.
FAQs
You may be wondering…
What is Coaching?
Coaching is an almost unheard of magical practice… it is a space devoted completely and totally to YOU! I think of it as a sacred experience where we focus exclusively on who YOU are, what YOU want, and the career path YOU envision. Without judgement, putting fear and expectations in their place, and bringing forward the values and opportunities that are important to YOU.
If you’d also like a more technical definition… The International Coach Federation (ICF) “defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.” The coaching process is directed and driven by the client; the coach is a collaborative partner who actively listens and contributes reflection, powerful questions, and resources.
What does a Coach do?
My job as your coach is to create and hold a safe, nonjudgmental, confidential space. What do we do in that space? We answer your big questions, questions like:
- What do I want out of my career?
- What do I want my career to look and feel like?
- How do I want to show up at work?
- What is the impact I want to have in my work?
- What are the steps I need to get where I want to be?
Or may be like:
- How do I defeat imposter’s syndrome?
- How do I show up as confident and capable?
- How do I get my work and ability visible to the right people?
- How do I decide which direction to go in where there is no map?
- What is the value of a network, how do I build one, and do I want to?
And so many others!
Additional Services
If you’re a career changer or rising professional seeking some practical career services support, here’s where I can also support you:
- Resume Writing: One-of-a-kind resume or LinkedIn profiles that work for both ATS systems and human eyes
- Professional & Executive Bios: Tell your story in 100-500 words, from elevator pitches to academic profiles
- Interview Prep: Practice and prepare so you can put your best foot forward
Seeking professional writing, editing, or publishing services for another project?
The Sharp Pen offers straightforward writing & author services to get your creative project out of your head and onto the printed page. Not a writer? No problem. Our ghostwriting service has you covered. Demonstrate your industry knowledge and business expertise through publishing.
Whether it’s a book, passion project or academic journal, I’ll help you go from idea to Amazon before the end of the year.
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