If you’ve been curious about executive coaching but have hesitated because you’re not sure what it entails or whether it would help you, here's what former client SJ Crawford shared on LinkedIn about working with me 1:1. 

When someone tells you the next step in your career is “networking,” something in you tightens. It feels foreign. Transactional. A little inauthentic.

That discomfort is a sign you’ve been handed the wrong definition of networking, and it’s conflicting against your integrity. 

Here are five steps I suggest to my well-meaning introverted clients who want to grow their careers without being schmooze-y.

In dozens, if not hundreds, of conversations I've had over the years with directors, VPs, and department heads in engineering, finance, construction, and tech, many of them wrestle with the same quiet, corrosive experience: being technically excellent and still somehow invisible in the leadership suite where they're the only woman. Here’s a framework to help you deal with that issue.

Here are the stories of how two of my clients built the connections and relationships that blew the door open to what came next. In the process, they became their own bosses, grew their self-advocacy skills, and made more money than the systems they left ever imagined for them.

I had “Gold Star” credentials and was multilingual, yet I had neither the language for advocating for my own potential nor the confidence to do it.

In hindsight, I saw I was caught in Chronic Overachiever Trap (aka the Good Girl Trap).

In this space, we alchemize workplace anxiety, stuckness, and frustration into pragmatic groundedness, forward momentum, and therefore, gratifying self-actualization. 

No more dreading the persistent question at family holiday gatherings.

Equip yourself with self-advocacy and leadership skills to elevate workplace conversations and career confidence. As a result, you'll achieve both personal and professional growth. Transform your trajectory with 1:1 coaching.