Insights

  If you are like most people, when you think about networking, your first thought is about that big fish mover and shaker who can offer you a great opportunity on the spot.  Which is also why, like most people, you probably stop before you even start.  Getting to the “right” people is not about […]

Read Lean In or attend a panel discussion of successful executives and you often hear, “Then I was offered the opportunity to …” or “Then I was asked to join…” What they don’t tell you is that they were offered an opportunity after they asked for it.  In a Forbes interview I read, Sheryl Sandberg, Marisa Mayer, and […]

Read Lean In or attend a panel discussion of successful executives and you often hear things like, “Then I was offered the opportunity to …” or  “Then I was asked to join…”.  It can leave the best of us wondering, “What am I doing wrong that I am not in such demand?”  What they don’t tell you […]

Your Story – Why it’s Key to Getting a Job You Love   A recent client took a shot at giving me her elevator pitch, and it sounded like this, “Seven years at X bank, an internship at Y bank, all in selling financial products with good results.”  Even with how much I like her […]

It’s amazing how consistently I see job-seekers make these mistakes. It’s not that they aren’t talented or smart — it’s that (please listen up!) job search and career management are a separate job from the job you do. It’s frustrating but true. Doing a job without learning the tools of career management means you are […]

The response to the Career GPS offer has been fantastic! It looks like summer is, in fact, a good time to think about career. To share more about my approach, I am offering an exercise I call “Jump Starting Your Value Proposition.” When we know and trust what we are good at, others see our […]

Summer is a fantastic time to do the groundwork for your next career move! It’s also the time we want to relax and feel free. I get it. Which is why this summer I am offering the laser focus version of my Career GPS program, so you can stop putting it off, and start following […]

Last Tuesday I attended the International Coach Federation’s Prism Award event where talent development and coaching experts had a robust discussion on trends.  In the room were top coaches. On the panel were heads of Talent Development from PVH Corp, Google, Comcast, GSK, ESPN, Coca-Cola and Prudential, all of whom have in-house “universities” that include robust coaching […]