Career strategy for early-career professionals
Position your experience for what comes next.
Confidential career strategy and leadership coaching for recent graduates and early-to-mid-career professionals navigating pivots, searches, interviews, promotions and first leadership roles across technology, entertainment, advertising, marketing and media.
Every engagement is confidential by default
No guarantees of interviews, offers or promotions
Original strategy — never templated résumés
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What are you navigating?
Career advisory
Four ways the work is organized
Every engagement maps to one of four client outcomes, not to a menu of documents.
Uncertain about direction
Clarify What's Next
For professionals in their first decade of work who are uncertain about direction or weighing a consequential change.
- Career exploration
- Career strategy
- Career pivoting
- Target-role and target-industry definition
- Transferable-skills analysis
- Strengths, interests, values and constraints
Story is not landing
Position Your Value
For professionals whose experience is stronger than the way it currently reads on paper or in conversation.
- Professional value proposition
- Career narrative
- Career-transition story
- Résumé or CV
- LinkedIn profile redesign
- Professional biography
Actively searching
Win the Opportunity
For professionals actively pursuing a role, a promotion or another opportunity right now.
- Target-company strategy
- Job-search operating plan
- Networking and relationship mapping
- Informational-interview strategy
- Recruiter strategy
- Outreach and referral messaging
Growing where you are
Advance as a Leader
For professionals growing into more scope, their first management role or a newly accepted position.
- Promotion strategy
- Internal mobility
- Professional presence
- Visibility and sponsorship
- Stakeholder influence
- Navigating organizational dynamics
Point of view
Early careers are decided by positioning, not by effort.
The work is invisible without a narrative
Two or three years of real contribution reads as a list of tasks unless it is framed as judgment, ownership and outcome.
Volume is not a strategy
Two hundred applications with no plan produce fewer conversations than twenty with a target list and a referral path.
AI is changing the first decade fastest
Entry and mid-level scope is shifting. The response is to position human judgment and domain depth, not to chase tools.
Industry expertise
Where this work is grounded
- Technology
- Entertainment
- Advertising
- Marketing
- Media
- Consumer brands
- Nonprofit and public interest
- Startups and early-stage
Methodology
A four-stage model
Each stage has a defined output. Nothing is written before the direction is clear.
- 01
Clarify
Define your goals, constraints, market and direction before anything is written or sent.
- 02
Position
Develop your narrative, value proposition and professional materials so they match the work you actually do.
- 03
Pursue
Activate relationships, opportunities, interviews and offer strategy with a weekly operating rhythm.
- 04
Advance
Support the transition, your performance in the role and the long-term value of your career.
Client stories
Outcomes, in the client's words
Client stories are published only with written approval. Approved stories will appear here.
How stories are documentedAbout the coach
ELITE
I work with recent graduates and early-to-mid-career professionals who are capable, ambitious and stuck between what they have done and what they want next.
The practice is deliberately narrow: career strategy, positioning, search and the first leadership transition. Every engagement begins with clarity and ends with a plan you can run without me.
Read the full biographyInsights and tools
Start with a recommendation
Career Positioning Assessment
Eight questions about where you are and what you are weighing. You receive a recommended engagement and the reasoning behind it.
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Frequently asked
One conversation is usually enough to name the real problem.
Consultations are confidential and there is no obligation to continue.
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