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Advance your professional journey with our knowledgeable contributors, who are offering a wealth of resources to help you achieve your career goals. Learn how to build a strong personal brand, receive career coaching, plan for successful transitions and find guidance on how to achieve long-term success and fulfillment in your chosen industry. Whether you are preparing for an interview, working on your personal brand or navigating the complexities of remote work you can find practical advice and helpful tips by experts in their fields.
Pretty Privilege? The Hidden Truth About Attractiveness Bias in Hiring
The "pretty privilege" narrative has calcified into an assumed truth, circulating as shorthand for who advances and who doesn't, collapsing complex cognitive processes into a simple story about looks...
Why Job Interviews Fail Even When You Don’t
Most people imagine a failed interview as something painfully obvious, someone rambling without direction, freezing under pressure, or forgetting the company's name. In practice, the interviews that...
How to Ask Post-Interview Questions That Make You Unforgettable
Most candidates waste their final interview moments by asking generic questions that fail to impress. In this guide, discover how strategic, research-driven questions can make you memorable...
The Interview Setting – An Authenticity Trap for HSPs
For Highly Sensitive People (HSPs), interviews can feel more like psychological obstacle courses than authentic conversations. You're expected to perform confidence, enthusiasm, and certainty, often...
Complete Guide to CV Writing, LinkedIn Optimization, and Interview Success
In these AI-driven times, human personality has been compartmentalised into neat boxes, static labels, and lists of categories. Traditional personality assessments promise to reveal "who you really...
5 Mindful Ways to Write Powerful Accomplishment Statements for Your Resume
When it comes to crafting a standout resume, your accomplishments, not just your responsibilities, are what catch a recruiter’s eye. However, generating accomplishment statements isn’t just a writing...
Why You’re Not Getting The Job, Even When You’re Qualified
If you’ve ever left an interview thinking, “I nailed it!” and still didn’t get the offer, this is for you. You meet all the job requirements. You have the experience. You even made the interviewer...
The Rise of Freedom-Based Careers – Why Flexibility is the New Success
We grew up believing hard work and good grades would lead to stability and fulfillment. That’s why we all got the degree and landed the job, right? But the reality of the corporate world hit hard for...
5 Signs You're on the Right Path Even if Everything Feels Like It's Falling Apart
Feeling like everything is going wrong just as you’re trying to move forward? You might be more aligned than you think. In this article, I share five powerful signs that you're on the right path...
Rethinking the Future of Work as We Navigate the Post-Pandemic World
The post-pandemic world has permanently reshaped how we work, but are we truly ready for what comes next? This chapter explores the challenges businesses and employees face as they navigate new work patterns...
Navigating the Transition and Returning to the Workplace After Years of Hybrid and Remote Work
Major changes in work settings, especially after years of enjoying the flexibility and solitude of hybrid or remote work...
11 Ways to Make Yourself Indispensable at Work
We've all been there. Your boss is laying off people, and you don't want to be one of them. So, what do you do? You position yourself...
How To Become A Digital Nomad
Discover the freedom of working remotely while exploring the world as a digital nomad. In this comprehensive guide, we'll show you...
Remote Work – Redefining Work-Life Balance In The Digital Age
In today's fast-paced world, achieving a healthy work-life balance is more challenging than ever. The rise of remote work has presented...
A “How To” Guide for the Prospective Writer – Step Nine on the Writing Journey
If you’re just tuning in to the “How To” Guide for the Prospective Writer, then you need to whisk back to the first step, because (drumroll please!), we’re almost done!
Daily Reflective Practice Is Not Counter to Productivity – It Enhances Productivity and Well-Being
Time and space for reflection, perspective, context, imagination, silence, and tuning into our bodies, emotions, and thoughts often feel like a luxury in a world chronically characterized by busyness...
How to Translate Self-Belief onto Video
Last week, I coached a solicitor through my Speak Proud video feedback service. She had everything in place: the knowledge, professionalism, script, videographer, and lighting. On paper, it was perfect...
A “How To” Guide for the Prospective Writer – Step Seven on the Writing Journey
Every writer reaches a point where the manuscript feels finished, yet one crucial stage remains. Before your work can shine, you need distance, honesty, and most importantly, an editor.
Make Your Value Visible and the 3 Steps to Attract the Career Opportunities You Deserve
Career opportunities don’t always knock, especially when others make their value more visible. The real shift comes when you learn to communicate your impact, not just deliver it. For years, I believed...
Is Professional Identity Important?
What was your immediate reaction when you read this question? “Of course it is!” “Professional identity is everything.” “It’s how others see me, and that’s important to me.” “It’s hard to change...
3 Key Ways to Escalate Your Professional Online Presence in 2025
Are you aware of how essential a strong digital presence is today for all forms of professional advancement? In a climate where AI technology is gobbling up online search feeds, making it harder to...
Activate BE(A)ST Mode – The Career Framework for the Modern Professional
Job security has always been our comfortable, cultural fiction. However, reality has reminded us throughout history that such a thing does not truly exist. The Great Depression wiped out entire...
Therapeutic Coaching – A Path to Manage My Career
In an era defined by disruption, complexity, and continuous change, career development has become a far more intricate and emotionally demanding journey. Traditional models of professional...
The Benefits of Therapeutic Coaching in Navigating Career Transitions
Career transitions, whether voluntary or imposed, are among the most challenging experiences in an individual’s working life. Therapeutic coaching offers a psychologically informed, future-focused...
Regulate to Rise – How Attachment and the Nervous System Shape Career Success
What if the real key to thriving at work is not about working harder, but learning how to regulate our nervous system? Success has long been measured by how much we can push, produce, and...
What Career Disruption Really Feels Like and Why It Might Be a Gift
Losing your job or facing burnout can feel like the end, but it might just be the beginning. This article explores the hidden gift of career disruption and how it can spark self-awareness, courage, and a more...
If You Don’t Advocate Your Career Brand, Who Will?
In a world where self-promotion often gets mistaken for arrogance, many professionals shy away from showcasing their achievements. Yet, if you don’t advocate for your career brand, who will?
What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
It feels like just yesterday that question was being asked. I remember clearly, at age 12, I wanted to be an air traffic controller. I didn’t really know what the job entailed, but my dad was a pilot, and I’d...
Finding Balance Under the Holiday Lights
The festive season is often painted as a time of joy and celebration, yet for those navigating career transitions, it can quietly amplify stress, uncertainty, and emotional fatigue. This article sheds...
A “How To” Guide for the Prospective Writer – Step Eleven on the Writing Journey
Publishing your book is an incredible accomplishment, but the journey doesn’t end there. The next step is learning how to market your work so readers can discover it. This article walks new authors through...
Shaken Identity – What Happens When Work Becomes Who We Are
In my last article, “What career disruption really feels like and why it might be a gift,” I explored how losing a role can shake our confidence and force us to confront fear. But disruption doesn’t...
A “How To” Guide for the Prospective Writer – Step Ten on the Writing Journey
Receiving your Galley Copy is one of the most unforgettable moments in an author’s journey. It’s the first time you hold your book in your hands, the weight of your work, your effort, and your dreams...
How To Make Career Decisions That Align With Your Core Values
At some point in your professional life, often right around the time you’ve earned some stability, raised a few kids, and learned the ropes of juggling way too much, you pause. You glance around at...
The Redundancy Reset – How to Thrive After Job Loss
Losing your job can feel like the rug has been pulled out from under you. Redundancy often brings a wave of emotions, including shock, anger, fear, even relief, and it’s easy to get stuck in the spiral...
Just Starting Your Career Life? Your Experiences Provide Valuable Insights
If you are starting your career, you know you are entering a rapidly changing world. This includes a constantly shifting job market, adjustments in education, training, and skill development needed to keep up...
Health Insurance Reinvented – How Employers Can Cut Costs and Elevate Care
In today’s competitive business environment, employers are realizing that health insurance is more than a benefit, it is a strategic investment. Rising premiums and fragmented care models have long...
The Hidden Link Between End-Of-Year Gestures and Talent Retention in Global Teams
What if your Christmas gift was silently pushing your talent out the door? In diverse teams, end-of-year recognition is not a small operational detail, it is a cultural signal with real...
When Life Leaves a Mark – The Brain Tattoo Experience
At an NSA National Conference, I participated in a presentation called Brain Tattoo. It was a simple, yet profound concept: they asked us to take part in a photoshoot where one sentence, just a few words...
The Nervous System of an Organization – Why Embodied Wellness Belongs in the Workplace
If your organization were a living organism, what would its nervous system look like? Steady and adaptive or constantly in fight-or-flight?
Redefining Lactation as a Workplace Right – Not a Privilege
Breastfeeding is often celebrated as a personal choice, a maternal instinct, or an act of love, and while all of that is true, it’s also an issue of public health, gender equity, and economic justice.
Therapists Beware – Reading Between the Lines of a ‘Supportive’ Employer
Whether you are just starting out or have been practicing for years, there are certain signs every therapist should look out for before joining a private practice. Work environments play a crucial role...
The Underutilized Secret to Exceptional Workplaces
When I walk into a room full of senior leaders and ask, “Which of you leads with compassion?” the silence is often deafening. Yet ask them whether they believe compassion matters, and almost every...
9 Game-Changing Ways Networking and Freelancing Are Impacting Charities
In a sector traditionally defined by full-time roles, what happens when networking and freelancing enter the mix? The charity world is embracing flexibility and collaboration like never before. Gone...
Why 80% of Personal Trainers Quit Within 2 Years and How to Avoid That
In an era where online coaching is being pushed as the ultimate solution for fitness professionals. I was one of these people, thinking...
How Freelancers Can Get Paid On Time – Top Strategies To Avoid Client Payment Issues
One issue that many freelancers have is clients who do not pay their bills or continually pay their bills late. These are some helpful...
What I’ve Learned In 15 Years As A Freelancer – 6 Self-Care Suggestions
To survive as a freelancer or a consultant for many years, there’s a lot of knowledge to be gained around running a business, money...
What I’ve Learned In 15 Years As A Freelancer – 8 Business-Focused Lessons
It’s time to start a new series about the many lessons I’ve learned as a freelancer over the past (gulp) fifteen years.
How To Protect Your Freelance Or Independent Contractor Business As Laws Change
Are you a freelancer or independent contractor that operates like a business, or are you just skilling along? It’s an important distinction.
How To Build a Successful Freelance Career and Break Free From The 9-5
Freelancing is a growing domain, with around 64 million people engaging in this kind of work in 2023. This job brings plenty of...
Networking with Purpose and the Journey of Greg DeKalb
In the bustling world of networking, few names resonate as strongly as Greg DeKalb. As the founder of Appointments IQ and the renowned Tony P's Networking Events in Chicago, Greg has carved a niche...
5 Non-Negotiables of a Modern Network Marketing Leader in 2025
The network marketing industry is evolving rapidly, ushering in a new era of opportunities. Leaders from various fields are entering...
Choosing The Right Fit Between In-Person And Virtual Networking
Both in-person and virtual networking come with their own distinct advantages and challenges. Choosing the right approach depends on...
Boost Your Career With Simple Networking Hacks
Networking is crucial for career development, but many women leaders find it challenging. Common concerns include feeling inauthentic...
Networking Like A Boss – Tips For Expanding Your Circle
In today's interconnected world, networking is not just a tool; it's a necessity. Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting...
Networking To Land Your Dream Job Now
The best strategy to obtain recommendations is to engage in networking.
The Power Of Networking – How To Build A Strong Professional Network
Unlock the untapped potential of your professional circle with a strategic approach to networking. Learn how to identify your objectives,
