At the end of a coaching session, a client once said, “I just want you to tell me what I should be doing so I can go do that.” She …
4 Surprising Keys to Career Transition
As with most professions, I learn as much from my career transition clients as they learn from working with me. Looking back over 2016, I decided to compile a list …
Changing careers? Learn from a few regrets
Most people would rather not spend time thinking about their regrets yet an unexamined regret can haunt us more than the regret itself. If we don’t take the time to …
Networking Your Way to a New Career
In 2008, I hired a coach to help me change careers and market my new coaching business. “Don’t I need a website?” I asked him. “Shouldn’t I start blogging?” I …
3 Tips for Becoming a Better Public Speaker
Almost twenty years ago, I gave my first big presentation on behalf of the software company at which I worked. It was a disaster: there were far more people in …
Career-Changers: What Kind Are You?
(Originally published in the September 2016 edition of the Talk/Touch/Move newsletter, republished with permission.) In my work as a career and life coach, I hear from a lot of people who …
Quitting your job CAN be your best decision
In 2009, I resigned from a successful career in financial technology to start my own coaching business. My decision was quick: one day I was still working downtown, burnt out at …