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A Phased Approach


The phase-by-phase structured approach I use provides an excellent foundation for your success and is great for individuals who are interested in intentionally designing or redesigning the next phase in their life or career.   
What follows is an overview of each phase, followed by my recommendation for you based on our exploratory discussion.
Regardless of where you begin, I’ll always stand at the ready to help you stay out of your own way and on a course toward your wildly important life or career goals with confidence. 


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Engaging in one phase in no way obligates you to take on another.  I’ve simply put my program together in a way that, through many years of working with clients, I’ve determined works best.  I’ve also designed each phase to be completely independent of the other and yet work together beautifully. 
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Phase 1 – Fearless Foundation
Phase 2-Recruit Your Employer
Phase 3-Strategic Intervention
Phase 4-Maintaining Momentum



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A Brief Overview of Each Phase


Phase 1:  Fearless Foundations
  • Raise awareness around the mindsets, limiting beliefs and blind spots that may be keeping you from accomplishing your most important goals.
  • Identify self-sabotaging behavior and practice replacing it with new tools and skills that are more useful to your goals both personally and professionally consistently.
  • Take concrete steps using proven approaches for achieving their wildly important goals. This may, or may not, include a career pivot or job search.
  • Learn to effectively navigate toward the fear busters in your life and mitigate the influence of ‘fear junkies’
This much-loved phase contains a clear, proven, coached approach to setting yourself up for success through personal effectiveness strategies that impact all areas of your life.  Mastering your personal saboteurs, strengthening fear-busting relationships, eliminate the impact of fear-junkie relationships, and set healthier boundaries around people and activities that no longer serve you.  Get out of your own way and on with your best life.
It includes an initial exploratory session, one 60-90-minute strategy session, and six 45-50 minute coaching sessions.  We’ll agree on assignments for completion between sessions.  The Phase is an excellent start for Leaders, Entrepreneurs, and Professionals alike. 3 Month Retainer
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Phase 2: Recruit Your Next Employer
  • Clarity: Best Direction and Most Viable Target Markets
  • Campaign:   Pitch, Resume, LinkedIn Profile, Online Presence
  • Canvas: Effective Networking, Search Firms, Job Boards, Hidden Job Market
  • Connect: Acing Your Interview
  • Carry Through: Building and Maintaining A Robust Approach that builds momentum. Fine-tunes your approach and setting yourself up for your best success at the negotiation table and the first three months on the job.
Job Market Targeting Strategies for 2020, Job Search Mapping, Hands-on Executive Resume, and LinkedIn Profile and Cover Letter Guidance, Tapping into the Hidden Job Market and Navigating Past the Gatekeepers, Ace Your Interview, Negotiate your best package and ensure success during your first 90 days on the job. Our most popular phase contains a proven approach to setting yourself up for a successful career pivot in 2020.
Excellent for the Professional that needs a solid plan and a proven process for effecting a successful career pivot.
One initial exploratory session, 1-90 minute strategy session, five-45-50 minute coached sessions. Agreement on assignments for completion between sessions. 3 Month Retainer.
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Phase 3: Strategic InterventionUse Strategic Intervention sessions to tackle a specific area of overwhelm or frustration in your career, relationship, or life effectively.  We’ll only tackle what you specifically need for an area that is stagnant, worrying, or not gaining traction.  This phase will draw on elements of both Phase 1 and Phase 2 but is not a substitute for either.
Excellent for the Professional that is not contemplating a career move but wants to work with a professional coach to address an area of overwhelm, confusion, or frustration in a very targeted way.
One initial exploratory session, six – 45-50 minute coached sessions.  Agreement on assignments for completion between sessions. 3 Month Retainer.

Phase 4: Maintain Momentum (Not available for New Clients. Provided for Your Reference. Subscription.)Two Sessions per Month: You’re hitting your stride and want ongoing coached support to tackle any obstacles or needed adjustments to your plan.  Most importantly, to make sure you stay on course and are not slipping into behavior that could sabotage even your best efforts.  Engage in the help you need to stay out of your own way and continue your robust plan of action. Highly recommended and completely optional.  
Single Session per Month: You’ve become well versed and are confident in your skillset and tools.  A monthly tune-up will keep you sharp, on task and moving forward successfully.  Avoid the pitfall of falling back into old habits.  Highly recommended and completely optional.

What's Next 
Executives and professionals  across all industries are particularly prone to thinking "Okay, what's next?".  It propels them through their work.  From time to time they realize that   “what’s next” line of thinking has also been cropping up for them in their personal lives as well.

"I'm at the top of my game - now what? " "I make a good living - so what?".  applies to you personally as well. (you’ve made it to some definition of the top—now what?  You make a good living— so what?).   

You're bored or no longer feeling energized by what used to excite you. Perhaps you have an opportunity to make a career pivot but you're not sure what that pivot ought to be.  Maybe you worked hard to get just where you are and it isn’t all it was cracked up to be—what does that mean and where do you go from here?  Perhaps personal matters have been placed on the back burner for a bit too long and now you're feeling overwhelmed.   I hear you. I've been there, I know the way through and I’ve worked with many other professionals, leaders and founders like yourself.   I can help you get a handle on next best steps for your situation and provide the tools to have you navigate it with confidence.  All decisions are personal.   I want to help you get clear, figure out what’s next for you and what's getting in the way.

What to Expect
  • An in-depth Discovery process (what you want in your work and life and why it matters)
  • Assessments (what are your strengths? Interests? Personality type? Aptitudes?  Saboteurs?  What's the based job market targets for you to put your job search energies into.  Your coach will incorporate any 360º data you have from your current &/or previous roles, in addition to determining the best executive assessments for you.)
  • Personalized coaching sessions (usually 45-50 minutes in length every other week, from the comfort of wherever you can speak on a phone, so yes, you can be in an empty conference room at your office or at Starbucks.  If you're in or near Annapolis we can even meet in person!)
  • Customized independent experiences (yes, that’s a way better way of calling it homework.  Your coach has hundreds of tools, experiences and exercises to draw from and assign to you at the just-right moment.  Including any nuts and bolts skills like,
    • identifying best job market targets,
    • hidden job markets,
    • best job search approach for 2020,
    • resumes that make it past the gatekeepers, 
    • LinkedIn profiles that work for you
    • nailing your pitch, your interview and your salary negotiation
  • Like the rest of your life, expect to get out of these experiences and assignments what you put into them.  Trust us that the work you’ll do in-between your 1:1 sessions with your coach will be helpful and enriching and fun.
  • Your Best Career Pivot + Life Plan that’s customized for your current and future goals and needs with action items and accountability to help you put each step into motion with confidence.
If this sounds right for you,  use the link below and let's talk about your specific situation and what coaching will look like for you. 
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