Career Coaching Benefits and Potential Areas of Exploration:
- Set your priorities, goals, and boundaries to enjoy a values-aligned career under your control.
- Navigate social uncertainties in high-stakes settings by rationalizing risks and systemizing responses.
- Influence diverse stakeholders by translating data into actionable information and relatable stories.
- Gain credibility and visibility beyond a technical domain and create bridges across functional silos.
- Make confident, timely decisions without perfect data by using risk-mitigating strategies.
- Develop executive sociability, not by playing politics, but by shifting to a goal-enabling mindset.
- Defuse the burnout bomb before it goes off by developing new perspectives, coping mechanisms, and insights.
- Explore new paths that might better match your purpose and goals.
Introduction:
Analytical, introverted leaders often encounter a career ceiling when their data-driven, structured approach clashes with the rising social demands and greater tolerance for ambiguity required in senior leadership roles. Being naturally independent and skeptical of conventional leadership or career coaching, they may find themselves frustrated by stalled advancement and unclear how to move forward.
As an advisor and certified executive coach, I specialize in working with clients to overcome the Sociability Ceiling: the invisible barrier where analytical, introverted leaders rise to the level of their perceived sociability, not their leadership competence or potential. While this ceiling persists when sociability is viewed as a fixed trait, I know it to be a learnable skill. Through various practical methods and tailored frameworks, I will help you develop the visible, valued leadership traits and social behaviors essential to breaking through the Sociability Ceiling and into the most senior roles.
Our introductory call will take just 20 minutes.
Get Promoted and Thrive
Managing data is easy – Managing People is Hard
You’ve worked hard, exceeded expectations, and gained the respect of your peers. Yet, that promotion you’ve been hoping for is always out of reach. While you are highly competent in your field and perhaps already doing the job, it might not be enough to secure that next promotion. Many analytical, introverted leaders are stuck, unsure how to bridge the gap between their current position and career aspirations.
Career coaching for promotion isn’t just about looking back at your accomplishments. It’s also about determining what you can do for the organization, AND how you interact and communicate with the leaders at that next level. Most managers will tell you the milestones needed to potentially get promoted. A few will tell you about the skills and behaviors you must acquire to actually get promoted, but none will tell you how to overcome the Sociability Ceiling to become accepted, valued, and effective at that next level.
Together, we will work to improve your executive sociability and uncover blind spots to improve your leadership skills, align your goals with organizational expectations to expand your influence, and develop a strategic approach to communicate your value to the organization – all while staying true to your authentic analytical and introverted self.
This process will position you as an attractive candidate for promotion and prepare you to thrive in your new role. We’ll explore what you truly want from your career beyond the obvious perks of a higher salary or title, ensuring that your next move aligns with your long-term professional and personal goals.
Finally, while we will focus on getting the promotion, we will also plan for what happens after the promotion. Then, based on your needs, our engagement can be extended to ensure that your first 6 to 9-months in your new role are successful (see Leadership Development).
Benefits:
1. Develop self-awareness by evaluating your strengths and unique talents, weaknesses, and blind spots to prepare yourself for promotion.
2. Create a clear, actionable roadmap outlining the steps and milestones needed to achieve your promotion goals.
3. Enhance your leadership presence by cultivating the skills and behaviors expected at higher levels of the organization.
4. Learn to articulate how your career aspirations support the company’s objectives, making a compelling case for your promotion.
5. Prepare for success post-promotion by developing the mindset and capabilities to excel in your new role.
You’ve worked hard, exceeded expectations, and gained the respect of your peers. Yet, that promotion you’ve been hoping for is always out of reach. While you are highly competent in your field and perhaps already doing the job, it might not be enough to secure that next promotion. Many analytical, introverted leaders are stuck, unsure how to bridge the gap between their current position and career aspirations.
Career coaching for promotion isn’t just about looking back at your accomplishments. It’s also about determining what you can do for the organization, AND how you interact and communicate with the leaders at that next level. Most managers will tell you the milestones needed to potentially get promoted. A few will tell you about the skills and behaviors you must acquire to actually get promoted, but none will tell you how to overcome the Sociability Ceiling to become accepted, valued, and effective at that next level.
Together, we will work to improve your executive sociability and uncover blind spots to improve your leadership skills, align your goals with organizational expectations to expand your influence, and develop a strategic approach to communicate your value to the organization – all while staying true to your authentic analytical and introverted self.
This process will position you as an attractive candidate for promotion and prepare you to thrive in your new role. We’ll explore what you truly want from your career beyond the obvious perks of a higher salary or title, ensuring that your next move aligns with your long-term professional and personal goals.
Finally, while we will focus on getting the promotion, we will also plan for what happens after the promotion. Then, based on your needs, our engagement can be extended to ensure that your first 6 to 9-months in your new role are successful (see Leadership Development).
Benefits:
1. Develop self-awareness by evaluating your strengths and unique talents, weaknesses, and blind spots to prepare yourself for promotion.
2. Create a clear, actionable roadmap outlining the steps and milestones needed to achieve your promotion goals.
3. Enhance your leadership presence by cultivating the skills and behaviors expected at higher levels of the organization.
4. Learn to articulate how your career aspirations support the company’s objectives, making a compelling case for your promotion.
5. Prepare for success post-promotion by developing the mindset and capabilities to excel in your new role.
Defuse the Burnout Bomb
As a top performer, work demands a significant portion of your time and attention. Whether you spend 40 or 80 hours per week working, that time is greater than you spend each week on nearly any other activity outside of work, including perhaps sleep. This level of intensity can make you feel like you are simply reacting to the immediate work at hand, trapped and rudderless, questioning your value, or myriad other feelings that make you dread going to work tomorrow. When that dread becomes unmanageable, it can worsen performance, focus, relationships, and even sleep, thus further creating or amplifying negative emotions.
While every case of burnout has unique contributing factors, career coaching can help you break this spiral by gaining new perspectives, establishing boundaries, changing behaviors, and identifying your “recharging” activities.
While every case of burnout has unique contributing factors, career coaching can help you break this spiral by gaining new perspectives, establishing boundaries, changing behaviors, and identifying your “recharging” activities.
Explore New Possibilities
Careers rarely follow a linear path. Sometimes opportunities present themselves that we feel cannot be ignored, our existing career no longer meets our needs, we feel unchallenged and hunger for more, or our personal situation has changed and we have complex choices ahead. Perhaps you have been approached by a competitor but love your present job, you are an engineer or scientist wanting to move into a business role, you want to take your experience and apply it in a new group or project, or you are close to retirement and wish to find a new fulfilling mission.
Career coaching can systematically help you explore new possibilities so you can fully comprehend what gives you purpose and satisfaction now, and the new realities of your potential futures.
Career coaching can systematically help you explore new possibilities so you can fully comprehend what gives you purpose and satisfaction now, and the new realities of your potential futures.
Details and Proposed Process:
Typical Engagement: 3-6 Months
- We choose to work together, allowing a great fit to yield great results.
- Every aspect of our engagement remains strictly confidential.
- I move at your pace and will partner with you to accomplish some, all, or even more than your original objectives.
- My coaching focuses on context only, such as addressing behaviors or ideas that hold you back, and creating a positive, forward-looking attitude. Content development is left to the client, though I am always happy to provide coaching and guidance to ease the process.
- Please review my engagement process. Should you have any questions, let’s discuss them during our introductory call.
- During a follow-up call, we will finalize the terms, development goals, and desired outcomes before signing the contract.
- Sessions are 1-hour long and held on the same weekday and time. Typical engagements are set to meet once per week for the first half and then once per month for the second half. The meeting schedule is customizable.
- Sessions are conducted using teleconference applications, such as Zoom.
My Qualifications:
- Certified Career Coach: Center for Executive Coaching – 2024
- I am a certified executive coach with additional specialties through the Center for Executive Coaching. My credentials and added certifications are available on the Education and Certifications page.
- My business, engineering, and scientific background information is available on LinkedIn.