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Finding clarity in work, career, and life.

Reflections, tools, and honest ideas to help you think better, choose with intention, and move forward with confidence.

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Career Clarity

The Well-Earned Luxury to Choose your Adventure.

I just finished a session with a client and I’m still thinking about it. She is one of the most...

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Coaching

Why lighthearted joy and fun is serious business.

Last week I was so inspired watching Alysa Liu compete at the Olympics. She had retired, came back, but this...

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Career Growth

Embrace the beauty of imperfection in your career.

I see it every week with clients arriving feeling stuck, exhausted from over-analysis, searching for the perfect strategy, the perfect...

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Career Clarity

The ‘Arrival Fallacy’

“By the time you make it, you’ll realize there’s nothing to make.” Nobody told me this when I was grinding...

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Career Clarity

The importance of a ”fitting environment”.

Lately, I’ve been talking a lot about this topic: the importance of working in an environment that fits the person...

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Coaching

MY STORY

A Journey Through Change: Reflecting on the Last Few Years. This picture was taken in 2008 when I sent it...

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Job Search & Networking

HOW TO BUILD A NETWORK THAT WORKS FOR YOU

Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking at the D2 collective on how to ‘Build a Network that works...

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Career Growth

MY TOP INSPIRING BOOKS FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT

I’ve never been a huge fan of traditional self-help books. They often read like a never-ending to-do list: get fitter,...

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Career Clarity

THE IMPORTANCE OF FULFILLMENT (THE DARK HORSE PROJECT)

Ok, I’m officially obsessed with the Dark Horse Project (and its book). Harvard researchers studied people who achieved remarkable success...

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Career Clarity

TOP 5 CAREER STRUGGLES FOR MID CAREER INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONALS

Research mode: Activated Here’s what I learned After 20 Career Confessions and way too many flat whites. While coaching international...

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Career Clarity

CAREER DESTINATION OR DIRECTION

What’s more important in your career, knowing your destination or your direction? And be honest, how do you feel when...

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Career Growth

BUILD YOUR CAREER AROUND YOUR STRENGTHS

Build your career around your strengths, not your weaknesses. This isn’t just a nice idea. It’s a principle I believe...

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Job Search & Networking

THE HUMAN COST OF MASS LAYOFFS

The human cost of mass layoffs (and how to turn them into opportunity) It’s no secret that mass layoffs have...

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Career Growth

IN PRAISE OF SAYING YES

In praise of saying YES. It feels almost counter-cultural in today’s world, it’s rare to hear reminders about the power...

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Career Growth

BE THE MASTER OF YOUR FATE (AND CAREER)

“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” This line from Invictus , the...

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Career Clarity

CREATE YOUR CAREER VISION

Visualise to make it real. We often underestimate the power of having a career vision. Not just a goal or...

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Coaching

SHOULD WORK BE MEANINGFUL?

Should work be meaningful, or simply a way to pay the bills? I’ve always believed that work can and should...

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Career Growth

STORYTELLING AND STANDUP COMEDY

What stand-up comedy taught me about storytelling. Those who know me, know I like to try new things. One of...

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Career Growth

AMBITION  (WHEN IS IT TOO MUCH?)

Ambition: How big is the gap between where you are and where you want to be? In career coaching we...

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Career Growth

INCREASING YOUR LUCK SURFACE AREA

I want to share a concept that has probably helped the most in my career… Nice hook, right? But it’s...

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Job Search & Networking

PERSONAL BRANDING

If the words Personal Branding make you cringe and break out in a cold sweat, same. I get it. For...

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Job Search & Networking

YOU ARE THE AVERAGE OF THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU SPEND THE MOST TIME WITH.

We all know social connections matter in life and careers, but I’m always surprised by just how much our circles...

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Coaching

HOW WILL YOU MEASURE YOUR LIFE? 

Xmas is around the corner, and I get (even) more philosophical than usual. Lately I’ve been thinking about one of...

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Career Clarity

HOW TO GO BACK TO WORK AT A JOB THAT MAKES YOU FEEL DRAINED.

I am back in snowy Amsterdam, and I am having so many conversations about that scary feeling of going back...

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Job Search & Networking

‘BRIDGE JOBS’ AND WHY I LOVE THIS (UNPOPULAR) STRATEGY

Too many people stay in jobs that drain their souls because they are terrified of taking the ‘wrong step’. They...

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Job Search & Networking

BEING HUMAN MIGHT BE THE SMARTEST JOB SEARCH STRATEGY IN THE AI ERA

I was reading an article in The Economist today  and it finally pushed me to address something I had been...

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Job Search & Networking

THE ART OF SOFT NETWORKING 

I work with many people who feel uncomfortable with traditional networking. It often feels transactional, forced, or premature. They don’t...

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