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Good morning! As I prepare for Tuesday’s webinar, I wanted to share some thoughts with you live. If you haven’t already, please sign up for Tuesday’s webinar. Details are below:     Discover Your Vision: listening to your voice for your next career move A step by step process for the ambitious professional who is tired of wondering where […]

Thank you for the robust response to my recent survey. It makes it so much easier to offer programs that will resonate with you.   And the survey says!… Two thirds of you are looking for a new job, while one third want to receive a promotion where you are. 36% don’t know what you […]

Several years ago I felt my rapport with my boss slipping. It had been a challenging period and our relationship felt strained and distant. In a moment of insight, I reached out to a former boss who I knew was good at managing up — she had had several promotions and always seemed to know […]

  Writing a resume can make you feel vulnerable.  It’s very personal to talk about yourself, it’s hard to know what will catch the reader’s attention, and it feels like so much is hinging on it. The reality is that a  resume is just one piece of a larger process- whether that sets your mind […]

When clients share their frustrations about corporate life, I often see benefits they don’t. One of these is that milestones and progress are easier to measure, which is why when my clients are working on longer term projects like job search, promotion, or shifting their team’s dynamics, progress can be hard to measure. Here are […]

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 […]

Lisa was bright, with proven results, and was a leader in trend sighting and innovation. She was also quirky and occasionally silly with clients. Her style didn’t fit in with the culture of her ad agency, which had traditional consumer packaged goods clients. As one of the largest in the industry, Lisa’s firm approached their […]

Happy Holidays! It’s the end of the year and I want to give you the gift of feeling like the girl in this photo. Every year I see people, and work teams, do their annual review by looking at all of the goals they didn’t accomplish in the year and dragging those into the new […]