Services
Different moments call for different kinds of support.
Sometimes the work is building a foundation: understanding who you are, what you bring, and how to navigate the world of work.
Sometimes the work is discernment: making meaning of your experiences, identifying what matters most, and determining what comes next.
Sometimes the work is execution: maintaining momentum, navigating obstacles, and turning intention into action.
The coaching approach we choose depends on where you are in that process.
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Build a foundation for a meaningful career
Designed for college students and recent graduates in their first 1-3 years of their career, the Early Career Blueprint provides the foundation needed to navigate the transition from education to work with greater confidence and direction.
Over 1-2 months, we'll clarify your values, strengths, interests, and work preferences; identify roles and opportunities that align with what matters most to you; and develop the professional tools needed to communicate your story effectively.
We'll then translate your experiences into professional language, strengthen your networking and job search strategy, and build confidence for interviews and professional conversations.
By the end of the process, you'll have a clearer sense of who you are, what you bring, where to focus your energy, and how to communicate your value to others.
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Unearth the story, values, and patterns that will guide your next chapter.
Designed for individuals in the first decade of their career who are navigating a meaningful career transition, the Choice Points Process provides a structured framework for making sense of where you've been, clarifying what matters most, and identifying a path forward that feels both meaningful and actionable.
Together, we'll explore the experiences, values, patterns, and questions that sit beneath the immediate job search or career decision so that the choices you make are grounded in a deeper understanding of yourself and your work.
Over the course of this 3-4 month process, we will:
Make Meaning of Your Career Story: Connect the dots across your experiences, identify recurring themes, and uncover the patterns that have shaped your relationship to work.
Clarify Your Core Work Values: Surface the values, cultural preferences, motivators, and conditions that help you do your best work.
Identify Your Strengths and Contributions: Name your strengths, skills, and energy drivers so you can better understand the value you bring and communicate it effectively.
Develop Your Career Path Profile: Create a values-aligned description of the work, environments, and opportunities that fit who you are and what you want next.
Evaluate and Discern Potential Paths Forward: Explore possibilities, test assumptions, and identify the options that feel most aligned with your goals, values, and circumstances.
Create a Clear and Actionable Next Step: Develop a realistic plan for moving forward with greater confidence, whether that means staying where you are, pursuing a new opportunity, or exploring an entirely different direction.
By the end of the process, you'll have a clearer understanding of who you are, what matters most to you, the value you bring, and the career paths most likely to support a meaningful and sustainable future.
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Maintain momentum through a concentrated period of action.
If you don't need a months-long process of career discernment, but do need focused support during a specific period of intensive action, Sprint Coaching may be the right fit.
Whether you're actively applying for jobs, preparing for interviews, building a networking strategy, or refining your professional materials, Sprint Coaching provides proximity, accountability, momentum, problem-solving, and support during a concentrated period of action.
As your coach and thought partner, I'll help you hold the thread, identify what matters most, navigate obstacles as they arise, maintain momentum, and continue moving forward when the process becomes difficult or discouraging. Together, we can focus on:
Active job searches and application strategy
Interview preparation and mock interviews
Networking outreach and relationship-building
Resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn development
Clarifying and communicating your professional story
Creating and maintaining a realistic action plan
Troubleshooting challenges and making decisions in real time
One-Month Sprint: Four weekly 30-minute coaching sessions with Voxer support between meetings. (To be completed within six weeks.)
Two-Month Sprint: Eight weekly 30-minute coaching sessions with Voxer support between meetings. (To be completed within ten weeks.)
What to expect
Career questions are often about much more than work. They are connected to our identities, relationships, values, responsibilities, and hopes for the future. I work with individuals across a range of backgrounds and career stages, but most of my clients are navigating some form of transition, uncertainty, or change. Together, we'll make sense of where you are, clarify what matters most, and identify a path forward that reflects both your aspirations and the realities of your life.
In the First Decade of Your Career
You’re thoughtful, capable, and imaginative. You’ve stepped into roles, built credibility, and learned how to function inside real systems. From the outside, things look stable. Inside, it’s more complicated.
The day-to-day reality of work feels smaller than you expected. You’re tired of overthinking every next step, tired of bouncing between job postings and pros and cons lists, tired of wondering why the work you can do doesn’t feel like the work you want to do.
You want your work to matter, not in a grand, world-changing way, but in a way that feels aligned, energizing, and true to who you are. You want direction without rigidity, stability without stagnation, and purpose without exhausting yourself trying to prove your value.
In this stage, the work is about identity formation. Clarifying who you are becoming professionally. Naming what matters. Designing a path that feels intentional instead of reactive.
If this resonates, an exploratory call is the right next step. We’ll talk about where you are now, what you want, and what’s shaping your decisions, and explore how to move forward with clarity and traction.
Mid-Career in a Compressed Season
You’ve built a meaningful career rooted in your values. Your work has mattered to communities, to organizations, to the people you serve. For years, you’ve shown up with integrity, empathy, and very few boundaries between your commitments and your identity.
But this season feels different.
Parenthood, caregiving, leadership responsibility, financial pressure, relocation, aging parents. The layers have compounded. Your time is compressed. Your nervous system is tired. You haven’t slept eight uninterrupted hours in years. You are still high-functioning, still delivering, still the reliable one. But there is almost nothing left at the end of the day.
Meaningful work still matters to you. It shapes how you understand yourself. At the same time, your capacity has changed, and the pace you once sustained no longer fits this chapter.
Together, we recalibrate what progress looks like in this season. We narrow strategically. We preserve what matters. We build modest, steady movement that fits your real constraints
Neurodiverse, anxious, or emotionally overwhelmed
You’re thoughtful, creative, and capable, but career decisions, job searching, or major transitions can feel confusing or heavy. You may have plenty of ideas but no clear starting point, or find yourself stuck in perfectionism, procrastination, or fear of choosing the “wrong” path.
I work with many creative, insightful clients who live with ADHD, anxiety, burnout, or other forms of neurodivergence, and it’s very common for focus, prioritization, and task-organization to feel especially tough when the stakes are high. For many, the logistics of career change feel harder than the work itself.
While I don’t offer intensive day-to-day executive function support, I do provide clear thinking, steady structure, and grounded next steps to help you move forward at a pace your nervous system can actually sustain.
If this feels like you, I’d love to talk. Book an exploratory call and we can explore what support might look like.
Academics & recent Ph.D.’s
You’ve built deep expertise, intellectual discipline, and a capacity for complex thinking. You know how to research, synthesize, teach, and contribute meaningfully to your field. But the institutional path ahead may feel narrower than you expected. Tenure-track roles are scarce. Short-term contracts feel unstable. The structure of academia no longer fits the life you want to build.
You may not be certain that you want to leave academia entirely. Or you may already know you do. What feels unclear is how your expertise translates beyond the university and what meaningful, sustainable work could look like outside traditional academic structures.
This stage is not about abandoning your training. It’s about translating it. Reimagining how your knowledge, rigor, and intellectual identity can live in new environments.
If this resonates, an exploratory call is the right next step. We’ll examine what you value about academic life, what no longer fits, and how to position your expertise strategically beyond institutional boundaries.
“Like therapy for my career, Meredith didn’t just ask open-ended questions, she kept the sessions grounded by addressing the root cause of my meandering career confusions. Nothing seemed too daunting to tackle when it came to how I could align my values with my career moves. Never has someone better understood and helped me uncover my underlying motivations. Every session, I took away actionable insights and a digestible to-do list. Meredith saw the potential of my career before I did and it’s dramatically improved how I show up to job interviews and my current workplace.”
— Grace O., Yale Alum, Class of 2022
Let’s get started!
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.