Adrian Choo has helped thousands of clients successfully achieve Career Clarity™ with his holistic approach to their Careers through a proprietary framework and deep understanding of Career Dynamics™. He has been a C-suite Headhunter with Top Global Search Firms for more than a decade, published several books, and has a regular show on National Radio, "Happy @ Work with Adrian The Career Strategist" on One FM 913 every Thursday Morning that is in to its Third year! Adrian loves helpings people a...
Nov 13, 2022•33 min•Season 2Ep. 67
Tracy Hooper is the Founder of The Confidence Project . She leads dynamic presentations for high-achieving employee groups of any size. Tracy has been a TV news reporter, anchor, producer, and voice-over professional. Tracy’s aim is to cultivate a culture where people elevate their presence, communicate with clarity, and work together better. As a result of working with Tracy people often share that they have more control over how they present themselves, more impact with the people they interac...
Oct 30, 2022•34 min•Season 2Ep. 66
Mike Thomson has been in the recruitment agency industry for thirteen years, he launched Spark at the end of 2021 with the goal to change how everyone attracts top talent. Hiring is uninspiring, generic, faceless, and lacks personality but not anymore. He is an entrepreneur, matchmaker, sales professional, storyteller, father, athlete and optimistically curious about people. For more information on Mike, go to his web site https://www.sparkrecruiting.ca/ In this episode, Mike shared his thoughts...
Oct 16, 2022•33 min•Season 2Ep. 65
Rupert French was teaching in a country school 40 years ago when he discovered that one third of the students leaving the school would be facing long-term unemployment. In response to this, he helped to establish a community support for unemployed youth. Ten years later, he transitioned to career and job search coaching and training. Impressed with the writings of William Bridges, and borrowing methods from sports psychology, he encourages job seekers to see themselves as self-employed, the CEO ...
Oct 02, 2022•27 min•Season 2Ep. 64
When Neha Lagoo Ratnakar was in school, she wanted to be a postwoman, then a librarian and then a doctor. After a failed attempt at the entrance test and a stint with Clinical Psychology. She found her true calling in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Her first job was in Training and Organizational Development, and she realized that there was a better way to onboard and train executives beyond a traditional classroom (and don't even get her started on sterile classroom team building session...
Sep 18, 2022•35 min•Season 2Ep. 63
Ben Wiant works with professionals in career transition to define, own, and confidently communicate their professional value and narrative. He helps them create and implement effective job search strategies to overcome the complexity of the modern job search using The 3 Doors Job Search – a foundational model he created to strategically access new career opportunities. As a former recruiter, Ben knows what happens behind closed doors in the hiring process – he has reviewed over 175,000 resumes, ...
Sep 04, 2022•33 min•Season 2Ep. 62
Michael Yinger is a seasoned senior executive with experience creating, building, and managing organizations and providing strategic advice via Board of Directors membership both in the US and internationally. Over the course of his career, Mr. Yinger has delivered positive results (sales growth of 10-20% in a down market), dealt with senior level clients (CxO level), and established efficient organizations and partnerships in several different industries, within startups and established compani...
Aug 21, 2022•31 min•Season 2Ep. 61
Michael Levitt has seen and done it all! He is the founder and Chief Burnout Officer of The Breakfast Leadership Network, a San Diego based burnout media firm. He is an in-person and Certified Virtual Speaker, a Certified NLP and CBT Therapist, and is one of the world's leading authorities in burnout recovery and prevention. In addition, he is a Fortune 500 consultant, #1 bestselling author, and host of the Breakfast Leadership Show, a top 200 podcast on iTunes. Michael was a former Healthcare e...
Aug 07, 2022•34 min•Season 2Ep. 60
Aletta Rochat is a professional speaker, a speech Coach as well as an interview Coach. She shows you how to speak like a professional when it matters most, so that you are remembered, hired, and promoted. Clients come to her for: ● Presentation Preparation ● Interview Coaching ● Coaching to Increase Influence You can find more information on Aletta at her website, https://www.alettarochat.com/ . With us she shared so many interesting and useful job transition ideas, including: ● COVID has made g...
Jul 24, 2022•34 min•Season 2Ep. 59
Dan Cumberland is on a mission to help you set yourself “on fire”. Years ago, he found himself in a job that didn't fit for him and no easy way out, so he set out to learn everything there is to learn about meaning, purpose, and work. After a Master's degree and a lot of experimentation, he's now doing everything he can to help you find where meaning, life, and work intersect and to inspire you to push into those places. He's been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, Fast Company, Career Builder, ...
Jul 10, 2022•31 min•Season 2Ep. 58
Victoria Pelletier is a dynamic, innovative, and passionate Senior Executive with over two decades of progressive executive experience in strategy, operations, growth initiatives, and business and talent development in organizations such as Brookfield, American Express, Aon and IBM. She is currently a Managing Director at Accenture, leading much of North America’s Travel Industry Client Portfolio. She is a visionary leader with a passion for innovation, creativity and Diversity, Equity & Inc...
Jun 26, 2022•35 min•Season 2Ep. 57
Susan Collins spent over 20 years in HR with a front-row seat, watching professionals search for their place in organizations. She believes that finding joy and purpose at work not only leads to a more successful career but also enhances everything else in life. She now supports leaders eager to clarify their goals, achieve their objectives, and unlock their potential. For additional information, go to Susan’s website https://www.thenetworkconcierge.com/ . As a special bonus, she shares some of ...
Jun 12, 2022•34 min•Season 2Ep. 56
Donna Peters is the author of the #1 international bestseller, Options Are Power: Career Strategies for High Performers Who Want a Life. She is host of the The Me-Suite podcast, 2021 finalist for both Best Business Podcast and People's Choice Award. Donna is a certified Executive Coach, speaker, and leadership faculty with 20+ years advising senior executives and next generation leaders at the world's most admired companies. Donna acted professionally on stage, film, and stand-up for 10 years be...
May 29, 2022•36 min•Season 2Ep. 55
Nathan A. Stuck is an experienced Director level executive with a demonstrated history of affecting organizational change, implementing solutions, and driving results. Jack of all trades and well versed in Business Planning, Strategy, Corporate Social Responsibility, Operations Management, Sales, Marketing, Team Building, and Market Research. He is passionate about giving back and all things B Corporation (the term used for any for-profit entity that is certified by the nonprofit B Lab as volunt...
May 15, 2022•37 min•Season 2Ep. 54
Dr. Benjamin Ritter is a leadership, executive, and career coach, L&D director, values geek, international speaker, podcaster, author, mentor, and passionate about guiding leaders in finding, creating, and sustaining a career they love. With over 10 years of experience working with clients from companies such as Amazon, Coursera, Doordash, Google, Fiserv, Northwestern, Pinterest, and Yelp, Ben understands how to navigate any career path you decide you want to travel. From empowering professi...
May 01, 2022•33 min•Season 2Ep. 53
With a unique, innovative, and practical evidence-led, neuroscience-based approach ICF certified Executive, Leadership and Career Coach, Bruna De Palo empowers people to understand why the brain triggers certain behaviors and how to optimize its functions. With an ability to bring cutting-edge neuroscience concepts to life through practical frameworks and tools, she helps people stop acting as Human Doings and start living as Human Beings and feel alive at work. In this episode, Bruna discusses ...
Apr 17, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Marsha Friedman is a Career and Personal Transformation Coach for professionals who are struggling to get through the challenges of life, which are affecting their family, finances, relationships, or career. Marsha helps her clients rediscover their passion, reinvent their lives, and reach their full potential. Prior to founding MEF Coaching & Consulting Group, Marsha was the head of learning and organization development for Diebold Global Service Logistics. Marsha is co-facilitator of Summi...
Apr 03, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 51
AJ Eckstein founded Career Coaching Company during the COVID-19 pandemic to “pay it forward” and help students and professionals land their dream internships and jobs. He built up the coaching team to include over 15 coaches who are recent grads at top companies that specialize in 1-on-1, live tailored coaching. AJ previously coached over 320 hours and has helped over 100 individuals land top offers. AJ is a 5x intern and has worked for Fortune 100 companies like Disney and tech startups like Te...
Mar 20, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Mark Herschberg is a seasoned executive and cybersecurity expert who can bridge the divide between business and technology. He has started, grown, and fixed startup companies spanning 10 different verticals as well as helped two Fortune 500 companies with their internal startup initiatives, and helped create educational programs at MIT and HBS in business and leadership. He understands that networking, negotiating, communicating, leading, career planning — are all skills critical to your career ...
Mar 06, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Cord Harper is the founder and CEO of Endeavor Agency, one of the leading career transition and outplacement firms in the US for executives and professionals. Cord founded Endeavor Agency in 2011 to help executives and professionals gain every advantage for themselves in the challenging process of making a career change. Prior to that he led the physician division of one of the largest healthcare recruiting firms in the country, Maxim Healthcare. His early career covered many different industrie...
Feb 20, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 48
This week we have Jacob Share, an expert in job search techniques, a pro blogger, an outside of the box creative thinker, and a huge community builder (oh, and he does this all with a great sense of humor). You can summarize Jacob by saying, he likes to help people. A consummate Internet professional since 1994 with far-reaching experience and success in authority blogging, social media, marketing, web development and e-commerce. I like to help people while doing things in a big way. We discusse...
Feb 06, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 47
In this episode, we are so fortunate to have Diane Pleuss with us. Since 2004, Diane has matched hundreds of entrepreneurs with their perfect fit franchise opportunity, while successfully guiding them to avoid rookie mistakes – at no cost to her clients. As a result, they are creating wealth, making an impact in their marketplace, and enjoying the systems already in place to accelerate their path to success. Diane discusses some key franchise information with us today, such as: · What is the dif...
Jan 23, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 46
In this episode, we are so fortunate to have Tami Jaffe, a success coach and consultant who has a passion for inspiring ambitious professionals who are dreaming to do something new or want to start a business. She has a broad range of expertise and interest including: · Business start up · Corporate leadership · Keynote speaker · Real estate consulting · Job transition support Tami covered topics about job change strategy and if you decide to go start your own business. Some key topics included:...
Jan 09, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 45
We are so fortunate to have Tiffany Franklin join us for this episode. Tiffany has dedicated her career to helping people conceptualize and implement strategies for an effective and efficient job search. Since 1998, she has worked at three university career centers (UPenn, Vanderbilt, Drexel) and spent time as a recruiter for an international creative staffing firm. In 2011, she launched a side executive career consulting practice and has advised over 1,000 global clients across industries with ...
Dec 14, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Scott Singer is a Certified Professional Resume Writer, a Certified Professional Career Coach, and a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. He helps job seekers market themselves by providing the excellent marketing materials and tools they need to succeed in their search, including resumes, cover letters, and LinkedIn profiles, as well as the coaching to help them successfully navigate what can be a challenging and complicated process. In this episode, Scott discussed many tips and ideas for you...
Dec 05, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 43
This episode features Daniel Alfon who is the author of Build a LinkedIn Profile for Business Success . Daniel joined LinkedIn in early 2004 and publishes Articles , interviews and exclusive content about advanced LinkedIn strategies to clients and subscribers to his website, www.danielalfon.com . In this recording, Daniel shares many key tips and techniques to use with LinkedIn and just in general, such as: · How to make sure your resume and profile have key words to ensure applicant tracking s...
Nov 27, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 42
This episode is with Connie Dorigan, an executive search professional in the food processing world. The love of food comes naturally to Connie. With a dad who grew up on a dairy farm and a mom who read cookbooks like novels, she understood at an early age the unifying power of food. The human condition is something she’s always been fascinated with. Educated in social work and psychology and recruiting for over 30 years, she applies her love for people and greater understanding of the “business ...
Nov 16, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 41
This episode, with Edythe Richards, provides so much support in helping you find your next great job opportunity. As a career counselor, nationally recognized expert on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®), and Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW), Edythe has helped thousands of Baby Boomers, Veterans, Recent College Grads, Immigrants, and Mid-Career Adults locate and sustain meaningful employment. Edythe shares her tips/techniques to build your self confidence when you are in career t...
Oct 31, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Brad Minton is a Career Coach and Certified Resume Writer who has spent the last 10 years helping students, new graduates and early career professionals find their purpose and land the careers that they aspire to have. He started his career in mental health working as a therapist. In 2011, he made a career transition taking his talents to move into career development. He began working in higher education career for 3 different institutions. In 2020 he started his own business, Mint To Be Career ...
Oct 16, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 39
This week’s episode is information packed as well as being a real treat to listen too - Mitch Gray is my special guest. He is the author of “How to Hire and Keep Great People”, where he teaches leaders how to hire talented and really terrific people. He is also a sought-after speaker, a leadership and personal development guide, a writer, and the host of “The Mitch Gray Show” podcast at Mitch Gray Media. In the episode, some key points Mitch talked about included: · The recruiting world is fille...
Oct 04, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 38
