Best Career and Life Coaches, A-F

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Directory of Life and Career Coaches: A-F

Here's an alphabetical listing of the best career and life coaches, A-F

Abilities Enhanced® is a career center that offers career coaching, resume writing, job-search strategies, and helps ease career transitions.

Active Coaching Limited's Jon Mitchell is a Career Transition Coach with more than four years of experience. He works with professional people from a variety of backgrounds including IT, finance, law, accountancy, management consultancy, the armed forces, and professional sport, among others.

Georgia Adamson, CCM, CEIP, CPRW, JCTC, Adept Business Services provides coaching in employment interviewing and salary negotiation; job and career transition. Often Georgia's clients start out having her provide professional resume services and then expand to the coaching aspect after a trust-based relationship has been established. She describes her mission as three-fold: She aims to help clients identify the value they can offer employers, define and pursue effective job or career changes, and address career-management issues they don't feel able to deal with alone or for which they want an impartial "second opinion" to guide their decision-making.

Advance Career & Professional Development, provides affordable, comprehensive career coaching, training, resume writing and interview coaching to help you achieve your greatest potential. Offers free resume evaluation and free one-hour session.

Aenzi LLC specializes in providing quality career coaching services to women and minorities. From coping with office politics to making career changes, this coaching service is designed to meet minorities'' unique needs in the workplace, including career coaching that focuses on effective communication techniques. Aenzi also provides resume writing and interview preparation services.

Altered Image specializes in life and performance coaching and is part of the Unicorn Projects groups of businesses. The Altered Image philosophy of the main tenet of business is that anyone can change and create a better life for himself or herself and that Altered Image's guidance can assist clients in learning how.

Amaze Yourself Coaching is Keri Coffman-Thiede, a career coach who specializes in helping people find and do the work they love. She works with individuals seeking to move beyond "making a living" to experience fulfillment through their daily work, whether it involves a new career direction, education, or career guidance. Keri has worked in the fields of counseling and recruitment and combines her passion, skills and experience to help her clients realize their innate gifts and honor them through meaningful work.

Apple Coaching provides an accredited and experienced life coach using coaching and neuro-linguistic programming techniques, offering personal and business performance coaching by telephone and online.

Authentically Speaking helps people identify their ideal career path, navigate their transition and nurture their careers. Hallie Crawford's team of coaches work with people of all ages, have clients all over the country, and have helped thousands of people achieve their career goals.

Barclay Career & Organizing Solutions, offers time management and career solutions based on your personality type.Helps people who are overwhelmed by the clutter in their lives increase productivity and reduce stress.

Baskin Business & Career Services. Beverly Baskin, ED.S, MA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Nationally Certified Career Counselor, Master Career Counselor, and Certified Professional Resume Writer. Beverly and her staff at BBCS have more than 20 years of experience in career and personal counseling, executive coaching, and the implementation of career-marketing campaigns. Beverly has been published in 10 books on resumes and careers. Various individual and program services encompass the following: Extensive career counseling and career testing, preparation and development of executive resumes and cover letters, researching recruiters and companies, Internet placement, job-search marketing/mailing campaigns, and targeted interviewing programs for executives. Additionally, the organization works extensively with corporations for projects including outplacement, spouse relocation, pre-decisions for buyout packages, executive coaching, and team building.

Maia Berens/Real Self Coaching offers clients a coach to inquire, point out perspectives, mentor and offer tools. Maia offers her views and counsel and is noted for her gentle intervention. Results include vastly improved self-esteem and trust in oneself.

Jen Zobel Bieber helps dynamic individuals reach new levels of confidence and joy by helping them to close the gap between what motivates them...and what scares them. As a certified personal coach, Jen takes a special interest in working with high-achievers, who tend to face unique challenges when it comes to fear, pressure, self-expectations, and the expectations of others. In recognizing this, Jen helps her clients attain a level of personal fulfillment that rivals their public achievements.

Rima Bogardus, CPRW, CEIP, Career Support Services, provides career coaching and resume writing for healthcare, human services, sales, and education professionals. Rima offers assistance in areas such as changing jobs, changing careers, improving job-interviewing skills, learning how to network, refining work/life balance, developing a personal organization system, and reducing lifestyle factors that hinder work performance.

David Bonham-Carter, Life Coach offers personal coaching by telephone, email, or Skype phone to help clients who are in crisis or looking for a general change in life direction. Bonham-Carter offers a unique approach to career and relationship issues, as well as a specific program for achieving improvement in quality of life. Free session and newsletter available on website.

Deborah Brown, Career Coach, works with clients to enable them to be confident in their careers even with the state of the economy, execute career moves in the face of uncertainty, be passionate about their work, and have the charisma to lead and inspire those around them.

Diane Burns, president of Career Marketing Techniques, is a Certified Career Management Coach and Job and Career Transition Coach specializing in coaching career-changers and career-builders to meet their career goals. She offers professional career coaching, goal development, interview training, and executive level resumes. Additionally, Diane specializes in coaching military who are transitioning to corporate America and American citizens seeking Federal employment.

Leelo-Dianne Bush, Certified Life, Retirement and Business Coach, has 30+ years of entrepreneurial experience and can help clients live a happier life, overcome obstacles, attain more fulfilling relationships, make smooth life transitions, make more money, develop strategies, resolve conflicts calmly, find life balance, increase passion, reduce stress, tolerations and frustrations, achieve better focus, increase confidence and acquire more creative inspiration.

Ellen Cahill, M.A., Certified Comprehensive Coach, Leaps & Bounds: Pathways to Success. Ellen partners with small-business people as well as creative folks and those with communication challenges. Ellen asks: "Do you use defeating self-talk or decrease your effectiveness due to difficulties coming across to business or personal people effectively? Let's work on empowering you for success and moving you forward towards your hopes and visions via telephone sessions."

Call to Career is Cheryl Palmer's professional career coaching and resume writing firm, where clients come for assistance with finding fulfillment at work. Palmer is credentialed as a Certified Executive Career Coach. Services include career discovery (finding your niche), career assessment, job search strategies, and resume writing.

Nick Card/Personal Insight Coaching offers quality life coaching for about half the cost. Specializing in life coaching, shyness coaching, and transitional coaching by providing mentoring, needs assessment, and goal-setting help. Coaching offered via phone, in person, or IM.

Career Acceleration Network (CAN). Executives and professionals benefit from founder Karen P. Katz's innovative approach to career acceleration. With more than 10 years' human resources experience with Fortune 200 companies, and 10 years as teacher, trainer, and career counselor in corporate outplacement and academia, Karen proposes practical solutions to career challenges. A proponent of lifelong learning, Karen holds industry certification as a Credential Career Manager and a master's degree in adult learning and organizational development.

Career By Design, LLC's Founder and President Rhoda Smackum provides highly customized, results-oriented career transition and outplacement consulting services to individuals and organizations across the globe. Rhoda has worked with many organizations designed to assist clients in getting re-employed quickly after displacement. She is an Associate Certified Career Coach, a Certified Global Career Development Facilitator and holds a master's degree in administrative management.

Career Change Pathways is the coaching practice of Janet Cranford, MSW, LCSW, a career-transition coach who helps people in their 40s, 50s, and 60s design life/work based on their strengths, values, and life purpose. Through a process of self-discovery and an exploration of career possibilities, clients discover meaningful work that expresses who they are and that allows them to make a difference in the world.

Career Coaching enables visitors to learn 39 essential time-management and personal-effectiveness tools in a downloadable e-book.

CareerCoachingUSA.com offers one-on-one coaching in such areas as preparing an effective job-search strategy, power interviewing, marketing yourself effectively, networking for success, negotiating, changing careers, you've graduated with a major in... what can you do?, second careers in mid-life, entering the workforce at mid-life, moving up or moving out, the psychology of change, and managing stress.

Career Consulting Services. Shahrzad Arasteh, M.A., CPRW, offers professional career counseling and consulting services to individuals and businesses. Services include career exploration and transition, guidance with job search and career planning (including tips and strategies), resume and interview preparation, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator-AE (MBTI-AE) assessment and interpretation, assessment of work-related interests and values, and additional services customized to meet the needs of clients. Arasteh's approach to career counseling is grounded in her belief that the client is an active partner in the career journey. She particularly enjoys helping clients identify work they find meaningful and reach their dreams.

Career Designs offers expert career services to individuals who are looking to create a more fulfilling life. Services include career assessment and development, resume writing, interview coaching, targeted mailing, and job search strategies. Career Designs helps those who need assistance researching companies and contacting key people; individuals wanting to start their own business; those who haven't a clue what they want to be when they grow up; people who need help marketing their talent; professionals and executives needing to update their resume; individuals going through career transition; and individuals wanting more meaning and passion in their lives.

Career Doctor: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.. Dr. Hansen, a career expert and professional career coach, offers personal empowerment through one of three avenues. You can utilize a vast collection of career development resources, review his biweekly career column, or read/subscribe to The Career Doctor Blog. Take Dr. Hansen's free assessment, Are You Ready for Career Coaching? A Coachability Quotient Quiz. Dr. Hansen has helped hundreds of teens, college students, and experienced job-seekers identify obstacles, develop action plans, and achieve success -- and he can help you!

Career Edge is an international award-winning resume house and career-coaching consultancy. Its distinctive and powerful resumes, in-depth interview training programs, and tailored outplacement, transition packages have helped professionals and executives the world over to navigate, progress and ascend within the competitive corporate marketplace.

The Career Muse. Jamila Siddiqui is a career coach and consultant specializing in empowered career decision-making and achieving for the young adult. Practice focuses on the process of choosing a career path or major, balancing the demands of work and life, performance on the job, making a career transition, perfecting one's resume, and polishing interview presentations.

Career Planning and Management, Inc. specializes in mid-career redirection.

Career Potential, LLC, a career-consulting firm serving a national clientele. Since 1992, company president Ford R. Myers and his team have been been helping clients take charge of their careers, create the work they love, and earn what they deserve. Myers has conducted presentations at many organizations and universities, and he has been featured in numerous publications, radio, and TV shows.

Career Solutions, Inc. offers programs and services that help people maximize their potential in work, education, and life. Career Solutions uses a "Whole Person" approach that considers all aspects of people's lives to increase the likelihood of their finding success and satisfaction in work, as well as meaning and balance in their life as a whole.

Career Visions. Jane Finkle has more than 18 years' experience in helping individuals with career assessment, planning, job search strategies and workplace adjustment. She also consults with both private and non profit organizations on a variety of career development issues. Janeadvises internet users nationwide regarding career and education interests on US News and World Report's Career and Graduate School Forum. Jane has an MS in counseling from the University of Rochester, is a national certified counselor (NCC) and is certified in the Myers Briggs Type Indicator.

Chenofsky Singer & Associates LLC specializes in executive and career-management coaching, specifically working with individuals returning to the workplace after taking some time off, career changers, and those in transition. Chenofsky Singer & Associates LLC offers wide-ranging perspectives on executive and leadership development, transition and career coaching, and human-resources consulting. The coaching service provides particular expertise in helping clients who are undergoing significant transformations and guides executives, leaders, individuals, and organizations through complicated changes.

Chicago Psychology Group specializes in performance enhancement both on and off the job and offers organizational consultations, workshops, and training sessions to improve staff performance and morale, individual management and life coaching, and psychological marketing consultation.

Ian Christie founded BoldCareer to help individuals boldly manage their careers. A career coach, entrepreneur, former senior director at Monster.com, and former retained executive search consultant, Ian is a recognized expert in the career and recruitment fields. Ian brings both a strategic and highly practical approach to assisting executives, managers and other clients in developing their careers. Services include career planning, assessments, job-search strategy, interview training, resume writing, career change support, and ongoing coaching to assist with your development on the job or in self-employment.

Janet Scarborough Civitelli, Ph.D., a vocational psychologist (TX #34252) specializing in career counseling, coaching, and consulting. Her expertise is helping clients create work that they love. Some of Scarborough's current interests are assisting clients to create careers to allow for fulfilling integration of diverse life interests, coaching introverts to utilize their strengths in advancing their careers, and consulting with high-achieving individuals to increase their interpersonal effectiveness in work and personal spheres.

Clear Ambition(TM) is an all-inclusive career planning program that uses the Internet, and telecounseling to offer its clients convenience and affordable access to the highest caliber of career counseling. The comprehensive program provides online self-assessment, career counseling, exploration, and planning tools in one package. Each career counselor has a master's degree in counseling and is certified by the National Board of Certified Counseling (NBCC).

Coach Betty is Betty Louise, who has motivated hundreds of people, including business professionals, athletes, moms, and entrepreneurs to discover who they are and how to fulfill their dreams. She offers a three-to-six-month Quick Results Plan with action-based steps to help clients integrate body, mind, and spirit as they manifest goals.

Coach for Change Unlimited is a coaching and consulting practice with more than 30 years of experience working with individuals, families, and groups in identifying and fulfilling goals including those associated with learning, behavior, social skills, career and/or interpersonal relationships.

Coaching with Jen's Jenny Waller specializes in empowering individuals to take new skills and perspectives into a brighter future in tune with real desires. Coaching with Jen assists clients to identify, and nurture conditions to allow confidence and self-belief to grow.

Sara K. Collins, MBA, is a certified Career and Life Coach who helps her clients regain focus and enjoy their jobs again. Her specialty is career development and work/life balance strategies for people stuck in the rat race. Sara coaches exclusively by phone and e-mail, and has a nationwide client base.

Complete Writing Coach, with 30 years of experience as a writer, editor and professional coach, guides completion of memoirs, understanding of screenwriting, or assisting with business writing needs.

Kathy Condon, KC Solutions offers expertise in helping individuals identify their innate talents, identify the industry that would more than likely bring them the greatest joy, find networking events and what to say/do when at them. Her career coaching pledge is "Promise you I'll keep you on track."

Lisa Cook, M.Ed., J.D., Plan B Coaching, assists clients in navigating career and life options. Plan A was her first career as an attorney and Plan B has been a diverse career counseling practice, helping clients find their own Plan Bs. She has assisted more than 1,000 clients, from administrative assistants to managers. Professions include: secretaries, economists, writers, information technology professionals, lawyers and managers. In addition, she has delivered numerous workshops on varied career development topics, including job burnout, stress management, resumes, interviewing, and self-marketing. Her specialties include the legal profession and federal job seekers.

Life and Career Coach Sean Cook specializes in work with college students, recent alumni, and higher-education/student-affairs professionals.

Cosmic Coaching Centre. Cecile Peterkin is founder and president of Cosmic Coaching Centre and provides a host of coaching solutions for career, leadership and life development. She offers personalized one-on-one coaching sessions and inspirational group sessions as well as a collection of e-books and courses based on her more than 17 years of experience as a manager, leader and counselor. Career counseling services are geared primarily toward middle managers and their various challenges.

Culture Builders offers powerful body-mind coaching to get clients unstuck and into the career of their dreams. Debra Thorsen, Certified Personal and Professional Coach, has worked with executives and managers from UCSD, IBM, Xerox, Marriott, AT&T, and Volvo. Debra has an MBA from Carnegie Mellon and her Coaching Certification from the Newfield Network. She offers a free phone consultation to learn more about body-mind coaching.

Dream Job Coaching, a career coaching firm specializing in transitions. This 7-step process has guided thousands of clients to find their dream job and reach career fulfillment.

Dreams & Vision, Tasha Chimienti offers conscious business management and consulting services focused on marketing communications and operations. With more than 16 years experience, as well as a profound and soulful understanding of the new age, metaphysical and alternative health fields, Dreams & Vision strives to elevate businesses to their next opulent level, saving clients time, resources, money, and energy. A fog lifter and an anchor, Dreams & Vision bridges the gap between a brilliant idea and its realization.

Dreams2Realities. Sheila Warner and Sharon Phillips are trained UK coaches who specialize in life and parent coaching. With backgrounds in psychology and education, they offer one-to-one coaching sessions, telephone and Internet coaching, tailor-made workshops for groups and businesses, and presentations to groups and organizations.

eCareerCenter.com specializes in helping job-seekers get noticed on the Internet. Jeff Fleming serves as a second set of eyes and ears looking with the job-seeker.

Susan Eckert, MA, Career Coaching & Leadership Development Consulting, offers support to individuals who want to love what they do for a living. Career coaching includes job transition, career advancement, career planning, job search, creating powerful resumes and cover letters, interview preparation, and crafting your unique pitch. Consulting services include leadership coaching, development planning, and management training.Eckert offers a free session, ebooks, ecourses, and other resources.

Cory Edwards, Partnering For Success, works with all levels of clients, but particularly enjoys working with career changers, return-to-work moms, and dissatisfied workers. She describes herself as having "a talent for motivating and encouraging others." Her practice is strictly via telephone and email. She provides career assessments, interview and negotiation strategies, and personal marketing plans.

Effective Executive Coaching, Inc. Kevin J. Fleming, PhD, PC, provides personal coaching and transformative change. Fleming's clientele includes such notables as top ranking CEOs, Hollywood executives, and Juilliard musicians.

Eidolon Career Solutions, specializes in helping alternative and eccentric people make money and enjoy more freedom with a career that fits their unique lifestyle while teaching others how to better serve and understand their diverse, alternative lifestyle clients, customers, and employees. Offerings include but are not limited to career management coaching programs and workshops, resume services, and inclusion and awareness based training and facilitation.

Elevating Your Business, with Maria Marsala, Small Business Builder, Internet Veteran and former Wall Street Trader. EYB powers up women and the service businesses they own to increase their bottom line in less time and lead successful, productive and fulfilled lives. We do this by offering a support, focus, clarity, accountability, motivation, consulting, training, coaching, and yes, we provide that gentle kick in the rear to keep you going, too.

Executive Coaching Services, founded by leading international coach and trainer Sean McPheat. Executive and management coaching services, specializing in helping and developing managers and CEO's to become more successful in all that they do.

Executive Coaching, Washington, DC. Executive and CEO coaching from Change Leaders, Inc.

Fearless Soul Life Coaching's Carey Powell, Certified Life Coach, believes that everyone has a fearless soul. As a life coach, Carey's primary focus is helping her clients tap into their gifts, strengths and inner power, to lead more successful,l and fearless lives. With 15 years of corporate experience in executive administration and management, Carey now integrates her corporate expertise into her coaching practice to assist her clients with issues such as career transition, time management, organization, project management, teamwork and management skills. Carey offers a variety of coaching programs and products including phone coaching, tele-classes, workshops, retreats, inspirational gifts, and private coaching for clients throughout the U.S. and internationally.

Debra Feldman, founder of JobWhiz, Your Job Search Partner, has extensive experience in corporate management consulting and contributes her substantial talents in analytical problem-solving, strategic market planning, and marketing communications to making clients' transitions move swiftly and successfully towards a great new opportunity. She collaborates one-on-one with senior executives on their career transition providing both guidance and expert execution of job-search activities, such as, research, due diligence, and scripting individual correspondence. Uniquely, Debra provides consultation on competitive positioning for access into the hidden job market in which more than 85 percent of all new jobs are landed. Her energy, insights, and savvy business acumen avoid misdirected efforts obtaining more successful results in less time.

Mary-Frances Fox, a Canadian career advisor, offers complete professional career strategy advisory services to help individuals meet their own career and income goals rather than be limited by their employers' plans. She originated the Career Equity© process for rapidly completing significant career and income improvements. An authority in the career transition and career management field for 15 years, Mary-Frances publishes the Career Equity© blog, speaks to business groups, is a board member of Women Entrepreneurs of Canada, and a professional development leader and member of the Association of Career Professionals International. Most current clients are seeking a new job, new career, new business or new income level.

Art Frank, Resumes "R" US offers clients a road map to the many different sources, common and uncommon, that they can tap into to get maximum mileage out of their resumes. Art facilitates conducting a widespread, efficient, and intelligent job search.

Fresh Vision Coaching. Elizabeth Nofziger is a life coach, writer, speaker, and teacher who helps busy professionals make positive life changes. She works with clients to help them discover easy and enjoyable ways to integrate health, fitness, and balance into their lives. She believes that healthy eating and exercise choices can be a natural part of her clients' routines and that implementing these habits can change their entire outlook on life.

Niquenya Fulbright is a professional life coach specializing in career and relationship coaching. Niquenya has more than 10 years of experience mentoring in resume writing, procurement, customer service, and office administration. She helps her clients to improve the quality of their personal relationships and sex lives through positive goal-setting, self-assessment, and image consulting.

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Quintessential Careers Directory of Life and Career Coaches: A-F

Here's an alphabetical listing of the best career and life coaches, A-F

THE DIRECTORY OF CAREER AND LIFE COACHES:

Browse through our list of career and life coaches, organized alphabetically. Or, use one of these many other directories for locating the best career or life coach for you:

Maximize your career and job-search knowledge and skills! Take advantage of The Quintessential Careers Content Index, which enables site visitors to locate articles, tutorials, quizzes, and worksheets in 35 career, college, job-search topic areas.

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Directory of Life and Career Coaches: A-F