Your Career Isn’t Over — It’s Evolving.
Market surprises messing with your career? I help seasoned pros flip their skills into careers that actually hire today.
Empower Your Journey
What We Work On (And What We Don’t)
This isn’t about polishing a LinkedIn headline or chasing the credential of the month. I help you: - Map your existing skills to roles and industries beyond your current field - Choose training, certifications, or programs that signal credibility instead of just effort - Position yourself for roles that hiring managers can justify, not just admire - Target roles and industries based on your translatable past skills and experience - Formulate an executable game plan you into the jobs we target. What we don’t do: - Cosmetic rewrites (although I have some great referrals) - Generic “personal branding” exercises - Advice that sounds good on LinkedIn but collapses in a hiring conversation - Social media optimization (again...awesome referrals)
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
- Joseph Campbell
Built for How Hiring Really Works
This Is Not Resume Therapy
Clarity
What you actually need first
Most career advice fails because it skips clarity and jumps straight to tactics. We start by slowing things down just enough to understand what your experience actually signals in today’s market—and where it realistically travels. Clarity beats urgency every time.
Translation
Turning experience into market language
Senior professionals don’t lack skills—they lack translation. We take what you’ve built over 15–20+ years and map it to roles and industries that hiring managers already recognize, including paths you may not have considered but are well within reach.
Signal
Separating what matters from what doesn’t
Not all credentials, certifications, or buzzwords carry equal weight. Using talent intelligence data and real hiring patterns I’ve learned to interpret over a 20-year career, we identify which signals influence decisions—and which are just cosmetic upgrades that don’t move the needle.
Strategy
A career plan you can defend
The outcome of this work isn’t advice—it’s a game plan. You’ll walk away with a prioritized, actionable transition strategy that aligns your background, any required retooling, and market demand into a path that makes sense to employers and to you.
Judgment
Informed, not inspirational
This process is built on judgment, not optimism. We use real data to pressure-test ideas against how hiring really happens, weigh trade-offs honestly, and focus on moves that hold up under scrutiny—so you’re not betting your next chapter on hope or headlines.
Career Elevation
Built From the Inside of Hiring
I’ve spent 20+ years inside recruiting, talent acquisition, and talent technology—across agency, corporate, and consulting environments—working with hiring managers, executives, product teams, and candidates across virtually every major industry in the U.S. I’ve worked deep in the backend of applicant tracking systems, helped build and implement hiring platforms, and designed AI-powered sourcing and outreach tools dating back to the early 2010s. I’ve seen how automation, screening, and decision-making evolved because I’ve been behind the curtain the whole time. That breadth matters. I don’t just understand one function or one industry—I understand how skills travel across fields, how roles translate, and how hiring systems actually evaluate experience before a human ever gets involved. I use that perspective to run a structured discovery process with you: clarifying what you actually enjoy, identifying what your skills allow you to do right now, and mapping those signals to roles and industries where you can move quickly. The output isn’t advice—it’s a concrete plan of action designed to get you through screening, into conversations, and into the right role as efficiently as possible. This isn’t career theory. It’s applied judgment, informed by how hiring really works.
Real Reviews, Real Results
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Choose your own adventure...
because one size doesn't fit much anymore
Career Clarity Session
$225 | 75–90 minutes
This is for people who know something needs to change but aren’t sure what should come next—or what ideas to stop entertaining.
We’ll walk through your background, pressure-test your assumptions, and look at your options through the lens of how hiring actually works today. Not vibes. Not optimism. Reality.
What you'll get:
- A grounded take on what’s viable right now
- Roles worth exploring (and ones to drop)
- Clarity before you invest more time, money, or ego
Good fit if: you’re stuck, circling, or getting contradictory advice from people who haven’t hired anyone lately.
Career Signal & Positioning
$895 | 3-5 Sessions totaling up to 5 hours
This is where most people realize the problem isn’t their experience—it’s how that experience is being interpreted by systems and humans who don’t know them.
We focus on how your background is read by automated screening, recruiters, and hiring managers. We identify what actually counts, what doesn’t, and where you’re getting filtered out before anyone ever talks to you.
What you'll get:
- Clear role and industry targets
- Signal-based positioning (not resume cosmetics)
- Insight into how to survive automated screening
- Clarity on what retooling actually pays off
Good fit if: you’re qualified, experienced, and still not getting traction.
Career Transition Game Plan
$2,250 | Full engagement up to 2 months
This is for people who are done experimenting.
We combine discovery, talent intelligence, and real hiring patterns into a concrete plan: what to pursue, in what order, and why. The goal is momentum—not endless preparation.
You leave with a documented strategy designed to get you through screening, into real conversations, and toward an offer without unnecessary detours.
What you'll get:
- A clear transition strategy tied to market data
- Target roles and industries for you
- Prioritized next steps and sequencing
- Unlimited bespoke guidance as you go
- Career Game Plan: a written plan for your reference
Good fit if: you’re committed to a real pivot and want to minimize false starts.