A Strategic Career Partnership for Experienced Professionals at a Crossroads
This work is designed for mid-career professionals with significant experience who feel underutilized, misread, or overlooked by today’s hiring market, and who are no longer interested in playing the volume application game.
If you’ve built real expertise, led teams, delivered results, and still find yourself stalled or second-guessing your next move, this program may be for you.
The Real Problem
Most experienced professionals don’t struggle to get a job because they lack skills, intelligence, or work ethic.
They struggle because:
- They present experience too broadly.
- They don't successfully position their value for decision-makers.
- They put their trust in systems designed to filter them out.
- They haven't strategically activated their network.
Working Professional to Professional
Successful career transition at this point in your career requires more than cosmetic changes (resumé rewrites, LinkedIn makeovers, or reactive, short-term hacks).
It should be a 360-degree partnership that focuses on:
- Defining a clear, saleable professional identity and an impactful value proposition.
- Activating the key relationships that deliver referrals and opportunities.
- Building trust and credibility in your experience, expertise, and delivering outcomes.
What Drives Success in Today's Economy
Double-Down on Your "Why."
You've grown and evolved over the course of your career. Focus on future deliverables, not past laurels.
Become a Specialist
It's tempting to tout all that you know and can do. But having the right niche is what's going to get you hired.
Build a Community
A network will stand by and watch you fail. A community of colleagues who share your goals, values, and outlook will step in and help you succeed.
Share Your Expertise
Your work doesn't speak for itself. In today's crowded, noisy career marketplace, you have to do more to engage and speak for your work. That builds trust and credibility.
What Decision-Makers Need in Order to Say "Yes!"
- Lead with your authority. Everything else will fall in line.
- If you know who you are and define what you do and what you deliver...
- That makes it easy for recruiters, hiring managers, and allies to find you and understand what you can do for them...
- That also empowers your network, and your like-minded community to more readily understand whom to introduce you to, and refer you to...
When you share your subject-matter expertise and engage with topics crucial to your sector or industry, you build authority...
Employers, recruiters, colleagues, and other professionals take notice!
These factors build continuous momentum that leads to opportunities, interviews, and offers.
Avoiding a Mismatch
Career transition is a delicate and vulnerable time. To get a new (and better) job, you and your coach must be aligned on methodology, goals, and process.
To compete and succeed, you have to take a comprehensive approach that positions you for every job you're going to get from here on out.
Sorry to say, but we are likely not a fit if:
- You’re looking for quick edits or shortcuts without changing how you position yourself.
- You want someone to fix your search while you stay on the sidelines.
- You’re wedded to online job applications as your primary strategy.
- You’re price-shopping or not ready to make a serious commitment.
- You’re not ready to step out of your comfort zone.
I completely understand if the timing is not right, or if we don't align on one or more of these approaches.
The new value proposition you helped me write captured exactly the kind of person they were looking for: me! Thanks for all your support, John. I know it helped me secure the spot.
Peg M.
Editorial director
A Long-Term Investment in Your Career
My programs run between $1,900 and $3,600, depending on the depth and duration of our engagement, and are scheduled over a period of four to eight weeks.:
- 1:1 strategic coaching in 60-minute zoom sessions.
- Complete positioning and execution through a time-tested syllabus including weekly assignments, detailed handouts, and accessible worksheets/exercises.
- Unlimited email access and feedback between sessions, including collaboration on key documents and other best practices.
This is an in-depth personal and professional strategic engagement. It’s an intentional repositioning of the next chapter of your career, and beyond.
An Invitation to Connect!
If what you’ve read resonates, the next step is a strategy conversation.
On the call, we’ll:
- Clarify your current situation and goals.
- Identify what’s actually getting in your way and the next steps to take to get past it.
- Decide whether working together makes sense and at what level.
I look forward to speaking with you!
John helped me transition into a challenging role at a promising startup after working many years in large companies. His wide knowledge of industries, deep understanding of organization dynamics, and, most importantly, his ability to empathize and get to the crux of navigating career challenges are unparalleled.
John C.
FinTech TPM, Data, Business Intelligence Leader
I went from being a jack of all trades to a very unique specialist. My pitch to clients/future employers is very strategic now, and I am really enjoying this new part of my career. John's availability, level of care, and communication were well above and beyond my expectations.
Jim L.
Chief Growth Officer/Culinary Product & Business Development
Your advice to "own" your age gave me the confidence to be my authentic self. As it turns out, the CEO of this company was looking for someone with exactly my experience. One week and two interviews later I have what is potentially the best opportunity of my career
Michael G.
Chief Operations Officer
Starting a new business from scratch is a daunting task. I would not have been able to do this without John’s guidance. John stepped in with a clear plan and coached me through each step, listening carefully and tailoring his methodology to address my individual needs and questions.
Chris G.
Professional Sports League Leadership Consultant