Executive Career Coaching

When you’re standing in the middle of your career but are not sure what your next career or executive role should be, you could be feeling frustrated, confused, and without the right direction. Our Executive Career Transition program answers these questions and more for executives who don’t know what’s next.

Our Executive Career Transition program offers all the support you need to successfully transition to your next executive career opportunity. We consider ourselves a healthy mix of coaching and consulting experts. This means that when we can do or write something to support your executive career transition, without question, we will. When only you can answer questions about your career goals, we’ll coach you through the process of developing the insight that works for your specific executive career transition.

We’ll walk you our proven roadmap with all the strategy and techniques you need, not to mention a rock-solid executive resume, LinkedIn profile, and cover letter, to make the right executive career transition.

We’ll Focus On:

Strategically Evaluating You, Your Career, and Your Aspirations: Choosing your direction and career target, and helping you build the network you need to achieve it.
Developing Your Messaging and Marketing Strategy: Writing your executive resume, LinkedIn profile, and cover letter.
Taking Action on Your Executive Job Search: Determining your effective interview strategy—answering tough questions, taking your job search to the point of offers, negotiating your best salary and compensation, and more.

“A grand thank you to the Five Strengths team for helping me—even pulling me—through the rigors of professional transition.”

B.H.J.Principal Consultant

“I would gladly recommend Five Strengths to anyone wanting to make a career transition. It is an investment well spent.”

K.A.Vice President of IT, Banking

Take the Time, Stress, and Confusion Out of Your Executive Career Transition

We know that you’re a highly talented, results-oriented executive with a track record of success in your field.

We also know that, if you’re like most executives:

You are ready for a challenge—with appropriate rewards for success. You need a new challenge, because you need to grow. You’re excited by the sense of purpose your executive career has presented so far, and you know you have so much more to offer. We respect your drive for success and the satisfaction of being appropriately rewarded for your contributions.

You are ready for a change. Perhaps you’ve been in the same industry for many years and would like to explore something new. Maybe you’ve performed the same role for a while and it’s no longer challenging or rewarding. You want to make the right decision, but you’re unclear which option will best leverage your strengths and allow you to achieve your short and long-term career goals. Because you’re unclear about your direction, you have difficulty articulating your next step to yourself and others.

You haven’t proactively searched for a job in years. Until now, you’ve likely been promoted or recruited into each of your recent positions. The executive job search process has changed over the years and you’re not sure how to approach it in an efficient and strategic way. You’re probably overwhelmed by the conflicting advice that is available online. In the past, you’ve worked with executive recruiters, but only when they’ve contacted you with attractive opportunities. You know that you want to make a change, but given the complexity of today’s job market, it almost feels easier to stay where you are.

When you first started thinking about your executive career advancement, you likely realized that:

You’re an expert in your field, but you’re not an expert at marketing yourself. You have a proven track record of success, but lack an executive resume to showcase your accomplishments. While you’re widely respected for your contributions and results, you struggle to clearly and concisely communicate your unique value proposition. As you consider your next step, you may experience difficulty weaving together your strengths and experiences into a compelling narrative that persuades others that you’re ready for the opportunity you want.

You’ve been so busy driving results that you’ve neglected your professional network. You know a lot of people, but you’re unsure how they can help you. Perhaps it’s been some time since you reached out to them and you’re uncomfortable asking for their help. You may be unfamiliar with networking best practices that enable you to tap into hidden career opportunities, or even create your own position.

You use LinkedIn, but less strategically than you could. You understand that it’s important to be visible, but you haven’t taken the time to fully learn and maximize LinkedIn’s potential. You might lack a more comprehensive social media strategy. While you may be a thought leader in your field, you haven’t leveraged current tools and techniques for expanding your influence, gaining visibility, and solidifying your brand.

We help you develop and execute a winning executive career transition strategy!

When you work with us, you can expect to:

Enthusiastically embrace a clearly defined target that best aligns with your strengths, interests, and professional goals. After fully exploring valuable, competing options, some you may not have previously considered, you’re clear about your next step. No longer limited by your own filters and blinders, you feel confident in your direction and highly prepared to communicate your career goals to others. You’re excited about the future and eager to face new challenges.

Dramatically shorten your job search. With a clearly defined target, an effective networking approach, and a powerful marketing plan, you’ll virtually eliminate the frustration and overwhelm that accompany most executive career transitions. You’ll apply current best practices while avoiding the pitfalls of ineffective approaches. You’ll also develop a comprehensive understanding of your target business community, enabling you to bypass your competition on your way to highly desirable hidden job opportunities.

Successfully market yourself to ideal targets with a powerful career portfolio that demonstrates your strengths and accomplishments. You’ll also have a cohesive story that frames your background and experiences to best position you for the job you want. This compelling narrative will lead otherwise skeptical decision makers to conclude that you’re an ideal fit for your desired opportunity. With a clear story, you’ll approach your executive job search with greater confidence and command greater respect from influential leaders.

Execute a networking strategy that capitalizes on your current relationships and expands to include key leaders in your field. This network will provide you with invaluable insights and information on unpublicized career opportunities. With a clearly targeted message, you’ll engage with ease, quickly and efficiently achieving the results you desire. And by applying powerful best practices, you’ll develop mutually beneficial relationships that eliminate the vulnerability and awkwardness of asking for help.

Develop a comprehensive social media strategy that widely exhibits your thought leadership and expertise. Using the latest social media tools and best practices, you’ll attract attention and broaden your sphere of influence. And with a strategically developed LinkedIn profile and new command of the tool, you’ll raise your visibility with executive recruiters, hiring managers, and other influential leaders.

The Power of Our Program Is in Our Engagement for Your Long-Term Success

You may have learned about our team from a trusted business associate when you decided you needed a resume. You might have seen one of our popular blog posts on the benefits of working with a credentialed career expert. You probably know that you could simply get an executive resume and approach your job search in the same, ineffective way that has left you spinning your wheels–or paralyzing you into inaction.

We strongly recommend that you consider an entirely different approach. We provide a three-month program to clearly identify and target your next executive career move. While this process certainly requires a deeper investment and greater commitment than an executive resume, it yields far greater results. Your team of two career strategists will work with you tirelessly and with unparalleled commitment to your career success to develop and execute your career transition strategy.

Throughout this process, you’ll never be alone. We will support you every step of the way, offering guidance, constructive feedback, and direction. Most importantly, we’re available when you need us. You won’t need to wait for scheduled calls to ask questions, clarify your direction, or seek support. Over the course of our work together, you can expect us to dedicate 60 to 80+ hours to make your career transition successful.

By Now You Are Probably Wondering: Does Our Approach Work?

Ultimately, your aim is to find a job that enables you to achieve your personal and professional goals. We have worked with hundreds of clients who faced many of the same challenges that you face today.

Here is just a sampling of the results we have seen:

40% Increase in Salary:

A highly motivated university professor had been struggling to transition from academia to the private sector for more than a year. He exhausted his arsenal of job search tactics and approached us weary and skeptical about his ability to ever make a change. By helping him to clearly define his next step, maximize his networking approach, and strategically market his unique value, within three months, he had successfully transitioned to a new role leading the product development strategy for a medical device company. In addition to securing a highly coveted role in a growing organization, with our support, he successfully negotiated a 40% increase in his compensation package after receiving an offer that was initially declared to be non-negotiable.

Job Offer Based on Resume and Reputation Alone:

A leading global executive received no responses to his own resume. Frustrated and at the end of his internal resources, he called on us to prepare his career portfolio. Within two days of sending out his new resume and cover letter, he received interview offers. Within two weeks, he had several offers, including a plane ticket across the globe to sign a contract for an incredible position—based on the strength of his resume and cover letter alone.

Successful Industry & Role Change:

A CFO and co-founder of a medical device company decided to pursue new career opportunities. In particular, he wanted to transition to an IT-related role in a new industry. Recognizing the challenge of making such a complex shift, he engaged us for help with his career portfolio, as well as his marketing strategy. By helping him leverage his network and align his messaging with his target position, he successfully secured a role as VP of IT in the financial services industry.

Multiple Offers, Broader Network, and a Compelling Narrative:

An accomplished operations executive reached a plateau at his company and decided to pursue more challenging opportunities to advance his career. After submitting hundreds of job applications with minimal response, he approached us seeking an executive resume. Instead, we worked with him on a comprehensive program, including clarification of his career direction, as well as the development of a powerful networking strategy. When we began our work together, this executive was very reluctant to network due to discomfort with the process. As he began to apply best practices, however, he immediately began to reap the rewards, including several job offers.

This Program Is Not for Every Executive. Do You Qualify?

While our program has a proven track record of success in accelerating executive career transitions, it is not for everyone. If you prefer to:

Remain in an unrewarding position that no longer offers the challenge and fulfillment you crave
Use a trial and error approach that incorporates ineffective or outdated practices and lengthens your job search
Deliver a message about your career direction that confuses your audience and risks your candidacy
Arrive at an interview unprepared to market your most powerful and relevant accomplishments
Experience a vicious cycle of frustration and disappointment that leads you to believe it would be easier to stay where you are today

Then no, this program is not for you!

If, however, you are:

Excited to transition to a career that respects your unique value, generously rewards you for your contributions, and offers the fulfillment you have been missing
Ready to apply proven strategies and best practices to shorten your job search
Eager to execute a marketing strategy that best reflects your value and direction
Committed to maximizing your candidacy in the interview process
Prepared to invest in expert support to achieve exponentially powerful returns

Then you have come to the right place! Contact us today to get started on the path to greater career success and satisfaction.

Please note: We are not an executive search firm. We do not identify open positions or send you on job interviews. We do, however, arm with you the confidence, tools, and best practices to secure the job you want!

Our Work Together: Concentrated, Powerful, and All Geared to Your Success

The Executive Career Success Series offers comprehensive, concierge-style support to accelerate your career transition, and it positions you to achieve the rewards you deserve.

Get right to work–No time is ever wasted. The minute you enroll in the program, we get to work. We provide you with our proprietary assessments and tools to prepare you for our first session, which will kick off Phase 1 of this three-phased process. Then you’ll meet with us weekly for scheduled coaching sessions over the course of three months.

What are “coaching sessions”? How do they help you? As your coaches, we’ll guide your executive career advancement strategy. We’ll talk a lot, laugh a lot, and work very hard together to create actionable steps and comprehensive plans that you can easily follow to achieve your career goals.

During each meeting together, we’ll review your action steps from the previous week, address any questions or challenges you may be facing, and plan your strategy for the upcoming week. Between sessions, you’ll take action to maximize your results. You’ll also experience the accountability that comes from having an expert team supporting each step you take toward your success.

Then, when you’ve clearly defined your executive career target, we’ll develop your customized career portfolio to market you better than you can do on your own. We’ll interview you much in the way a hiring executive would during a real interview, but you’ll have the knowledge that we’re always on your side of the table.

Your coaches are 100% dedicated to your success at every step of the process. We provide unlimited support between scheduled sessions–we guarantee that if you email us with critical questions, we’ll respond immediately. You’ll never lose momentum because you need answers to move forward with your exploration and your strategy.

Executive Success Series Overview

Phase 1: Strategically Evaluating You, Your Career, and Your Aspirations

In the first phase, we dig deep to fully explore your strengths, interests, values, and goals. This highly introspective and personalized approach offers a unique opportunity to reconnect with your passions and motivations to reveal career options that align with who you are. Most executives haven’t taken the time to reflect on their personal and professional goals and evaluate whether or not their current career path has set them on a course to achieve them.

As you delve deeply into your career background, critical success factors, and ideal career profile, you gain invaluable insights into what you need from your career to achieve your goals. These insights inspire a clear career vision that excites and motivates you to take the next step.

In this phase, we map your strengths, interests, and experience to executive career options that best fit your unique career goals. Because you may not be aware of the breadth of options available to you, you’ll likely uncover career possibilities that hadn’t occurred to you in the past. You’ll engage in an external exploration process to determine which career direction you ultimately want to pursue.

As you clearly define your next career move, you begin to approach the transition process with renewed confidence and enthusiasm. You can now articulate your career goals, making it much easier to engage others in your search. You’re now ready to develop a marketing strategy to target your next executive opportunity.

Phase 2: Developing Your Messaging & Marketing Strategy

In the second phase, we’ll prepare all of the messaging and materials that you need to effectively market yourself for the job you want. After an in-depth analysis of your skills and accomplishments, we’ll zero in on those that best position you for your desired target. And we’ll coach you on how to communicate these accomplishments in a streamlined and compelling fashion so that others listen and agree that you’re the best fit for the opportunity you seek.

Your executive career portfolio, which will include an executive resume, three cover letters targeting different audiences, and a personalized LinkedIn profile, will powerfully showcase your expertise and experience. With a particular focus on the most relevant and significant aspects of your background, your portfolio will attract the attention of hiring leaders and executive recruiters. Additionally, your LinkedIn profile will raise your visibility and maximize the power of your professional network.

We’ll develop your career story, which is particularly important if your background doesn’t intuitively align with your career direction. In a compelling narrative that weaves together your strengths, interests, and accomplishments, you’ll confidently and convincingly convey the connection between your career past and future. This in-depth process will prepare you to ace the interview process.

In addition to your written career portfolio and verbal career narrative, we’ll leverage the power of today’s social media tools to demonstrate your thought leadership with a prominent online presence. Together we’ll develop a social media strategy to highlight your expertise and attract the interest of influential executive leaders. In the process, you’ll differentiate yourself from your competition.

Phase 3: Taking Action on Your Executive Job Search

Now that you have a clear career direction and a powerful marketing strategy, you’re ready to execute your job search strategy in the third phase of the program. We’ll develop an action plan that circumvents outdated and ineffective job search approaches and effectively targets unpublished executive career opportunities.

We’ll begin with a networking strategy that maximizes your current connections and expands to include influential, new professional contacts. Whenever possible, we’ll facilitate introductions to executives in our own extensive networks. We’ll provide you with critical resources to strategically broaden your reach.

In addition to networking, we’ll coach you to leverage the power of executive recruiters. While seemingly straightforward, the executive recruitment process can be complex and difficult to navigate. We’ll teach you when and how to engage these resources for maximum results.

We’ll launch a marketing campaign to position your unique value to influential leaders in your field. Using a strategic approach to predicting which target organizations will soon require your expertise, you’ll bypass your competition in pursuit of hidden opportunities. These particular opportunities often enable you to influence the scope and profile of the position in advance.

As you progress through the program, you may find yourself evaluating one or more job offers. During this time, we’ll help you to consider your alternatives and make the best decision to meet your goals and needs. We’ll support you as you negotiate a compensation package that reflects your value.

We recognize that this program requires an investment on your part. When you invest in us, we invest in you. We dedicate a minimum of 60 to 80 hours of personalized career transition support, guiding and championing you every step of the way. While we cannot guarantee that you will find a job during this three-phase process, you have our commitment that we will do everything in our power to prepare and position you for your next executive opportunity.

We Are Committed to Your Success

While we take a systematic approach to our work together – we have seen what works – every engagement is customized to meet the needs of our clients. We are experts at tailoring our work to suit your goals. As we work together, let us know where your requirements diverge from the general framework of the program and we will make every effort to adapt the format accordingly.

Read on for more details on the levels of service we offer.

The Executive Career Success program is about aligning your career goals with your skills, strengths and assets—and with your vision, ambitions, and burning desire to be the best you can be in your industry and in your network.

We are career experts who are uniquely positioned to guide your executive career transition. In fact, we have helped hundreds of executives like you transition to rewarding career opportunities. Our program will empower you to:

Evaluate Your Strengths

Reconnect with your passions and interests to determine the best career path to fulfill your specific goals. By fully evaluating your career options to identify your ideal target, you’ll see possibilities that you may not have otherwise recognized.
Move confidently in the direction of your target opportunity. After mapping your strengths and interests to your desired role, you’ll pursue your next career move with enthusiasm and determination.
Understand your own communication style, as well as how to effectively communicate with others with different styles. As you recognize other styles, you’ll be able to seamlessly adapt your own style to maximize your interactions with influential leaders.

Build Your Network

Get in touch with the latest trends and developments in your target business community and beat your competition to the best opportunities. Leverage proven techniques to gather the right information while filtering all the noise.
Engage in written correspondence that confidently, persuasively, and respectfully expresses your message.We’ll proofread and edit your communications to ensure that you make the right impression and best achieve your goals.
Get the information and support you need from your network. With a message that clearly articulates your goals and direction, you’ll maximize the power of your network, rather than continue to hit dead ends.
Strategically expand your network with access to our vast pool of executive contacts. We’ll facilitate introductions as appropriate, as well as share highly underutilized, yet powerful resources for connecting with others who can influence your direction.
Leverage the power of executive recruiters to tap elite opportunities. Learn the “dos and don’ts” of engaging these strategic resources for maximum success.
Demonstrate your thought leadership with a powerful online presence. Utilize the latest social media tools to expand your influence and increase your visibility.
Eliminate the competition with accelerated access to tailor-made career opportunities. Using a targeted marketing campaign, reach decision makers before the position is defined and influence its development.

Create a Compelling Narrative that Markets You More Effectively

Powerfully market yourself to recruiters and executive leaders by showcasing your most significant accomplishments. Deliver a career portfolio that makes you shine.
Share a clear and compelling narrative that persuades decision makers that you are the best fit for your target position. Connect the dots between seemingly fragmented experiences and streamline your message for maximum impact.
Stand out from your competition with a unique value proposition. Differentiate yourself from your peers with an emphasis on the strengths and experiences that maximize your attractiveness to decision makers.
Wow your interviewers with your confidence and value. Then reinforce their positive impressions with references that will consistently and powerfully support your brand.

Invoke the Accountability You Need to Accelerate Your Success

Stop making excuses for not making a career change and get into immediate action. Break free from stagnation and finally get on the path to achieving your professional goals.
Avoid ineffective job search approaches and grab the attention of decision makers. Conduct a highly efficient and focused executive job search that will dramatically shorten the process.
Overcome the discomfort and anxiety of asking for help. By applying best practices that lead to mutual reward, you’ll gain powerful support while reciprocating with demonstrable value.
Get support when you need it. Don’t wait for scheduled coaching calls to ask questions, get feedback, and remove roadblocks.

Turn Career Change into Career Success!

Gracefully exit your current job. Develop and execute a plan for transitioning out of your current role that protects your relationships and maintains your positive reputation.
Command a compensation package that you deserve. Make a compelling business case to justify the financial rewards you desire.

The Bottom Line: Your Investment in Your Success Reaps Boundless Dividends

Because each of our clients has unique career goals and support needs, we offer three levels of service.

Your investment in your career success ranges from $600 to $10,000 based upon the level of support you choose. While we are confident that one of these programs will meet your needs, if you feel that your transition requires a customized program, we are happy to discuss this with you to find an approach that works for you.

You’re a highly talented executive with a compelling value proposition.

In the right opportunity, you’ll find the challenge, fulfillment, and reward you’ve been missing.

So what are you waiting for?

Every minute you spend in the wrong job is time away from the life and career that you want. With our Executive Career Success program, you have no more excuses.

We take the time, stress, and confusion out of your transition so that you can focus on what you do best!

Don’t let another day go by in an unrewarding career! Contact us today to get started on your executive career transition.

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