Hi, I’m Meredith
I coach early to mid-career professionals and recent PhDs who are stuck in uncertainty about their career path, unclear about their next steps, and who want to find the motivation to clarify their purpose, understand their skills, and bring their values and career into closer alignment.
My background
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I have coached thousands of Yale undergraduate and graduate students across disciplines on how to articulate their core values and the things they really care about. The result has been hundreds of students finding better alignment between their lives and their careers rather than contorting themselves and their interests to align with other people's expectations.
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In 2013, I received my doctoral degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, resulting in multiple peer-reviewed publications and a book-length dissertation on privilege, power, and education. My training as an education researcher taught me how to ask nuanced questions and pay close attention to the language of others in order to truly understand them.
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As a community organizing and public narrative training facilitator with the Leading Change Network, I spent 8 years eliciting and clarifying people's stories about the things they care about so that they could use that story to motivate others to collective action. Group sizes ranged from 10 to >200, were US-based and international, and covered topics from healthcare to labor unions to education reform and beyond.
My story
Born and raised in a college town in Indiana, I maintain my core values of honesty, sincerity, genuine interest, warmth, curiosity, openness, and nonjudgmental engagement in every career and life coaching session. As a certified and trauma-informed life coach with a doctoral degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a master’s degree from the University of Michigan in student and adult identity development, I bring expertise and awareness towards helping people get unstuck in their careers and in life.
Why do people feel stuck? Reflecting on my own early career transitions, it was my fear of making the wrong choice, my fear of imperfection, my fear that I wouldn't be very good at the path I chose, my fear that I wasn't as smart as my school-based accolades taught me I was, and my ultimate fear that I'd be nothing and amount to nothing in my life. That was not a very motivational or action-oriented place to be.
While I didn't have a life coach to support me through my process of transformation, my parents and a few close friends did for me what a life coach does: they got curious about me, asking questions regarding the things I cared about, what I valued, and the way I wanted to live my life. By thinking out loud, I started to gain clarity about myself and who I was outside of the fear-based, judgmental box I had built for myself. From there, I started to make more aligned choices that felt in keeping with my newfound knowledge, which ultimately made me feel less anxious, less worried about perfectionism, more secure in what I had to offer the world of work, and less worried about the things I wasn't as good at.
And now I want to get curious about your life and support you through your own transformational process. Ultimately, my calling is to help you find your calling that aligns with your values and the contribution you want to make in the world. I can't wait to help you gain clarity about your next steps.
Here to help.
Book a free 30-minute exploratory call. We’ll talk about where you are, where you want to go, and what’s getting in the way.