Does your career need a little TLC?

Have you ever wondered how to maintain a career that truly energizes you? I got you.

My one-hour virtual workshop in collaboration with Park Slope Parents is now available for purchase for only $25!

The “Growing A Meaningful Career Workshop” is packed with actionable insights and strategies that will empower you to take control of your career journey. From nurturing essential relationships to making calculated risks, enhancing your personal brand, and much more, this workshop covers it all.

In this workshop, we cover…

Nurturing Key Relationships: Discover the power of cultivating meaningful professional connections that can propel your career forward.

Calculated Risks: Learn how to embrace strategic risk-taking to open up new opportunities and expand your horizons.

Optimizing Your Personal Brand: Find out how to present yourself in a way that resonates with your values and goals, building a compelling personal brand.

Taking the Call: Understand why taking that interview call at least once a year, even when you're not actively seeking a change, can be a game-changer for your career.

It's essential to take charge of your career journey, not just during a transition, but consistently and intentionally.

Growing a Meaningful Career means ongoing self-assessment, strategizing, and taking steps to ensure your career remains fulfilling and aligned with your aspirations.

Waiting for the job offer? Here's what to do.

Waiting. It’s the absolute worst part.

You’ve been through multiple rounds of interviews, received great feedback, they’ve checked your references. You’ve followed up with the powers that be. And yet, there you are. You’re still waiting.

There are MANY reasons these situations happen. Most of them have nothing to do with you.

So, what do you do?

Focus on what you can control.

Hiring freezes, reorganizations, re-prioritizations…and even vacations happen. These things are all out of your control. So focusing your energy on any of these things – or your paranoia of what could be happening is not productive.

What is within your control is tending to other existing processes that are in play AND drumming up new opportunities with outreach to your network.

New conversations. Leads. Possibilities.

So, if this one goes away – which I hope it doesn’t (but it might) – you have the feeling that you still have momentum elsewhere. You’re not starting from scratch.

When you put all of your effort into one process and it goes away…it can feel devastating. Even paralyzing. Please, please don’t do this. It will set back your timeline and it will be tough to recover.

When you move forward with the mindset of - detached optimism - when you have multiple possibilities moving at once, you stay nimble and resilient if rejection comes your way.

I wish I could say you could move through this process without rejection. Sadly, that’s rare. But, if you expect it’s coming and you prepare for it – each hit can be felt and absorbed without taking you out of the game.

Authentic vs. Executive Presence

Early on in my business, in addition to my 1:1 work, I facilitated 2-hour workshops on Executive Presence to rooms filled with aspiring women leaders.

At the time, I felt my own impostor syndrome sneaking up – standing in front of 30 women, telling them to focus on eye contact, watch their filler words and reign in their body language – when I was struggling with the very same “challenges.”

While I absolutely believed in my mission to advance women into positions of power and I knew this was part of the work to get them to “fit into these roles” and “play the part” there was always something about the work that felt uncomfortable for me.

Reading this now – the problems seem so obvious, but full transparency, 8 years ago – it wasn’t clear. I thought there was something a little bit wrong with me for struggling to conform to the “Executive Presence” standards set for me. Just as I was telling these women, there was something a little bit wrong with them.

That they had to change themselves to fit the culture.

Be something that wasn’t who they were.

What I see now is that this discomfort was leading me somewhere important. A place I needed to grow.

A place where I was enough. I was worthy of being who I am and sharing my message in my way.

And the patriarchal systems that don’t support me, accept me, require that I stay small – must change.

What does it look like to break the rules of Executive Presence as we’ve been taught so we can show up with Authentic Presence?

Do we truly need to pretend to be white men to lead, or can we use our gifts without bending who we are, inspiring others to do the same?

Showing up authentically requires walking directly into the fire of fear, realizing–not everyone is going to like it and you don’t need to be for everyone.

I can be here for the people who are here for me. And it’s enough.

Setting Fall Career Intentions

School is finally back in session for us New Yorkers who are the very last to return in the country. 

For me and many others I’m connecting with, there’s a familiar wave of grief. 

A chapter closing on a nourishing slower pace, travel and adventures, an abundance of family time and a dip in stress levels. 

A glimmer of possibility for how life all year round could be different. 

There are clues for you, your career and your life in those possibilities. Now is your moment to mine them and be intentional about small tweaks you can make to access that summer vibe.

So, if you’re someone who is feeling that sadness about the end of summer, sit down and brainstorm a list of everything you loved and even liked about how it all went. 

And then choose two of those things that you’re able to intentionally build into your career this fall and ongoing. 

Did you schedule more in-person coffee dates and lunches with your people?  

Did you naturally have more buffer between meetings because colleagues were on vacation?

Did you have more time for deep thinking projects? 

There’s much we can learn from the change of seasons and just like a career transition–the change doesn’t have to mean that we’re starting fresh. We can bring a few gems along with us, to sturdy us and keep us whole amidst the shift. 

After one of my favorite summers of all time–I’m feeling both loss and gratitude for what I’m leaving behind. 

Yet, I’m stepping into fall with the muscle memory of freedom and play and release of control that made this summer unique. 

The work to come is intentionally building these elements into my daily life when the culture around me is bringing their Big Fall Energy. 

More details on results will follow, but for now I’m off to an outdoor coffee date with a colleague in the last days of my sandals and flowy skirts.