Career Coaching

Entrepreneurial leaders do not have a mindset that adapts to failure. Things go wrong, of course, but entrepreneurs don´t call them "failures" they call them "glitches, mistakes, bungles, setbacks" – but not failing.

When one such entrepreneur was asked about the hardest decision he ever had to make, he answered that he didn´t know what a hard decision was. An entrepreneur will approach decision-making with the idea that there´s a strong likelihood that he/she will be wrong. This doesn´t dissuade them – to the contrary they just do the best they can and worry about handling obstacles as they arise.

Here's a few entrepreneurs:

I provide career coaching services with a difference. By combine life coaching, career coaching and mind programming techniques from NLP it enables a much richer and holistic approach, which results in much better outcomes for the client.

Having helped hundreds of people with their careers I have learnt that you must both consider and challenge the things that are more important than career as these drive decisions. Failure to consider these elements could result in a bad decision. I have a structured process utilising various tools and techniques, which allows clients to be very confident about what they need and then I help them get it. I am that confident in my career coaching services that I also provide a no quibble money back guarantee against all my work.

Darren Cockburn www.my-life-coach.co.uk

CareerGuy.com educates individuals on the most enduring and effective career change tool: the leverage of relationships. Though many individuals are familiar with the term "networking," few make viable use of this most ancient technique of transition.

Our intention is to distinguish standard, front-door methods from non-traditional and contrarian "back-door" approaches. Subscribers and participants in our teleseminars and programs learn to embody and build search campaigns based on our core principles:

1) The best way to get a job is...don't be looking for one!

2) An ounce of research is worth a pound of job search.

Darrell W. Gurney www.CareerGuy.com

Megan Fitzgerald is an expat career and personal branding coach and founder of Career By Choice. Named "one of the top 50 personal branding consultants worth working with", she helps fellow expatriates and global minds use their unique value or personal brand to build a career or business that ´fits´ who they are and their international lifestyle. Having lived, worked or played in over 25 countries, she currently works "virtually" with professionals and entrepreneurs across the globe, as well as in Rome, Italy where she currently resides.

With multiple degrees, certifications in personal branding, online identity management, career and executive coaching and social media marketing, and over 15 years of experience in career and business development, she takes a creative, 2.0 approach to helping her clients build strong personal brands – on- and offline. Megan teaches them how to use the right tools and strategies to develop their online identity and network, which in today´s globamarket place, is just as important as one´s presence and network offline to professional success.

Megan Fitzgerald www.careerbychoice.com

David Holmes Consulting is an organisation specialising in Career Management both for individuals and organisations. For the individual, we help manage changes in career, whether it be a move within the current organisation, a new role elsewhere, or a complete change of direction. We not only help focus clients on the change but we are there to provide ongoing support during the transition process. For organisations we provide a full outsourcing service - assessment, coaching, development programmes and job search facilities. We help with CV´s, interview skills, and improving impact and presence.

We offer pragmatic approaches to making a real difference and include one on one support and a range of assessment and psychometric tools. Our associates are executives with many years experience at senior levels in business. This experience coupled with recognised qualifications and skill means we are fully able to answer your particular need.

David Holmes and David Kelham www.davidholmesconsulting.co.uk

Barbara Frankel, has been recognized as one of the top Executive Coaches and Transition Specialists by the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, NBC, ABC, CBS News, The American Banker, Money Magazine and Newsday. Barbara worked in Human Resources in both the private and not for profit sectors including American Express and JPMorganChase Bank. Her direct, pragmatic, caring and results-oriented approach to all phases of the job search, career management, enhancement and the onboarding process has helped hundreds of individuals achieve unrealized dreams, financial success and personal satisfaction for the next chapter of their lives. Working with human resources professionals, recent graduates, high-potentials, mid-career individuals to CEOs, her career advisement includes: alternative career options, customized marketing plans, launching business ventures and consultancies, retirement planning, communications and key messaging coaching, effective relationship management, social entrepreneurship, onboarding and assimilation into new positions/organizations.

As a pioneer and leader in the Career Management field for more than 20 years, she co-founded three professional associations in the field. Currently Barbara is the President-Elect of the Career Counselors Consortium, a consortium of the most experienced career coaches in the New York metropolitan area, which she co-founded 11 years ago. She was awarded the "Fellow Practitioner" title, the highest level of competency by the International Board for Career Management. In addition, Barbara developed a professional development training institute 20 years ago to train colleagues in comprehensive career assessment, creating resumes that utilize the latest marketing techniques, customized job search campaigns, state of the art job search strategies and compensation negotiation techniques. She is recognized as an expert in assessment with certifications in numerous instruments including the MBTI (Myer Briggs Type Indicator), Career Architect, Strong Interest Inventory, Campbell Interest and Skills Survey, PRF, 16PF, Hogan Development Surveys, FIRO-B profile, Benchmarks, VOICES, 360s and more.

Barbara Frankel www.barbarafrankel.com