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INTERVIEW: Thinking About Starting A Coaching Business?

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I have known Karen Chopra and Mark Danaher for a while now and have the utmost respect for both. Karen has had her own business for many years and coaches other folks on how to build a coaching business / practice. Mark has built a strong coaching business and also helps people to build their own private practice.

Today I ask our experts:
– – Why is there so much interest from people who want to start their own career coaching private practice?
– – What tips do you have for people who are thinking about this or have started recently?

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Check out Mark Danaher and Jim Peacock’s
5-week, online, discussion-based seminar,
Building Your Coaching Business.

Also, you can read my blog; Thinking about starting a career coaching private practice? Read Now

Bio’s
Karen Chopra, LPC, CCC, NCC, is the founder of Chopra Consulting for Consultants  (www.KarenChopraConsulting.com), which helps therapists, counselors, coaches and other consultants create thriving businesses.  She also has a well-established career counseling private practice in Washington, D.C. (www.ChopraCareers.com), and has helped hundreds of clients with career exploration, job search, and career management. 

A former U.S. Government trade negotiator, she is the author of Coaching Career Clients on Salary and Other Workplace Negotiations and numerous other articles on the business and practice of career counseling. Maryland-CDA has honored her with both their Outstanding Career Practitioner and Lifetime Achievement awards. She received her M.A. in Community Counseling from George Washington University and her B.A. from the University of Virginia.   She also has a master’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

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Mark Danaher is the founder of Mark Danaher Training and Coaching (www.markdanaher.com).  He helps professionals make a career change from the work they hate to the work they will love. Mark has been a career counselor and coach for over 25 years helping professionals connect the dots to reduce stress, regain balance, and thrive in their life and career.   Through his private coaching practice, Mark presents workshops and training for career professionals, universities, businesses, and organizations thought out the United States. 

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Jim Peacock is the Principal at Peak-Careers Consulting and writes a weekly email for career practitioners. Peak-Careers offers discussion-based online seminars for career practitioners focused on meeting continuing education needs for CCSP, GCDF and BCC certified professionals as well as workshops for career practitioners and individual career coaching.

He is the author of A Field Guide for Career Practitioners: Helping Your Clients Create Their Next Move and The Adventure of Finding Me in New Zealand. He is also the recipient of the 2020 Kenneth C. Hoyt Award from the National Career Development Association and the Mid-Atlantic Career Counseling Association’s Professional Contribution’s Award in 2020.

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INTERVIEW: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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I have been exploring and working on my own implicit biases this past year or so, largely due to the many inequities witnessed in our country. I’ve questioned myself on my biases and blind spots on this subject and I want to do a better job at awareness and what I can do to help improve our country…beginning with me and my work.

My guests today are:

Dustin Ward, founder of, It Is Time…LLC, which looks to end racism in communities across Maine.  

and

Jenn Tardy,  owner and operator of Jennifer Tardy Consulting (aka Team JTC) which is an internationally known, award-winning diversity recruitment consulting firm

Today I ask our experts

– What role might career service providers play in supporting and /or promoting diversity, equity, and Inclusion awareness?

– What can career service providers do to increase awareness of implicit bias within their own actions?

Interview on DEI for career coaches
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BIO’s

Dustin Ward hails from Presque Isle, Maine, and is a graduate of the University of Southern Maine (’10) achieving a B.S. in Political Science, and Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary (’19) with a Masters in Divinity.  His love for law, politics, and ethnic and racial studies grew during his time away at college. Yet the murder of George Floyd in 2020 became a catalyst for him to step away from ministry work, and begin focusing on equity work as a Racial Equity and Reconciliation Advocate. 

In September of that year he founded his own business, It Is Time…LLC, which looks to end racism in communities across Maine.  Dustin also works as an Implicit Bias Educator for Mindbridge, a Board Member and partner with Atlantic Black Box, and the first Person of Color to be a Select Board Member of The Town of New Gloucester. 

https://www.itistime.me/and social media: @itistimeme – Instagram and Twitter. email: itistimeme@gmail.com

Jenn Tardy has vast industry experience as a Recruiting Thought Leader, Diversity Recruitment Practitioner, and Career Success Coach with over 15 years of multi-industry experience in the field of human resources and recruiting. She has been helping employers and job seekers reach their goals since 2004 and is on a mission to make it easy for recruiters to find, attract, engage, and hire job seekers from historically underrepresented backgrounds, ultimately helping employers to increase diversity.

She owns and operates Jennifer Tardy Consulting (aka Team JTC) which is an internationally known, award-winning diversity recruitment consulting firm based out of Maryland, USA.Sure, here is our website: https://www.jennifertardy.com/ and here is Jenn’s Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifertardy/

Jim Peacock is the Principal at Peak-Careers Consulting and writes a weekly email for career practitioners. Peak-Careers offers discussion-based online seminars for career practitioners focused on meeting continuing education needs for CCSP, GCDF and BCC certified professionals as well as workshops for career practitioners and individual career coaching.

He is the author of A Field Guide for Career Practitioners: Helping Your Clients Create Their Next Move and The Adventure of Finding Me in New Zealand. He is also the recipient of the 2020 Kenneth C. Hoyt Award from the National Career Development Association and the Mid-Atlantic Career Counseling Association’s Professional Contribution’s Award in 2020.

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INTERVIEW: LinkedIn, The Latest and Greatest

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What are the latest and greatest changes happening on LinkedIn? If you are not paying attention closely to LinkedIn, you may have missed some of these changes. And you may be missing out on the opportunity to take advantage of them. I am thrilled to interview these three LinkedIn “heavy hitters” who share their knowledge and tips that you don’t want to miss out on.

Guests today

Bob McIntosh, CPRW is a career trainer and coach who works at an urban career center and earned the distinction of a LinkedIn’s Top Voices, Hannah Morgan,  Career Sherpa is a trainer and job search strategist and a LinkedIn Top Voice in Job Search and Careers, and Edythe Richards is a career counselor and trainer who has helped thousands of people locate and sustain meaningful employment. She is the founder of A Top Career.

Today I ask our experts

 What are some of the newer and possibly under-utilized features of LinkedIn
 and suggestions on how to leverage them?

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Biographies

Bob McIntosh, CPRW is a career trainer and coach who leads more than 15 job-search workshops at an urban career center, as well as counsels job seekers on every aspect of the job search.  His colleagues rely on Bob to critique their clients’ LinkedIn profiles and conduct mock interviews. In addition, Bob has gained a reputation as a LinkedIn authority in the community where he leads workshops for non-profit and for-profit organizations.  Job seekers from across the state attend Bob’s  LinkedIn workshops.  His greatest pleasure is helping people find rewarding careers in a competitive job market.  For enjoyment, he blogs at Things Career Related and contributes to Recruiter.com.  Follow Bob on Twitter and connect with him on LinkedIn.

Hannah Morgan is a trainer and job search strategist. She has worked in outplacement services, a graduate school career center, a department of labor one-stop and as a recruiter/HR generalist. She is a nationally recognized author and speaker on job search trends and was previously a LinkedIn Top Voice in Job Search and Careers. She founded CareerSherpa.net to combine her career expertise with her love of writing, speaking and social media. Hannah is a regular contributor to US News & World Report. She has been quoted by media outlets, including Kiplinger, Forbes and Money Magazine. She is also author of The Infographic Resume and co-author of Social Networking for Business Success. Hannah is active across social media including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.

Edythe Richards is a career counselor and trainer who has helped thousands of people locate and sustain meaningful employment. She is the founder of A Top Career, a Washington, DC-based consulting firm that empowers people to clarify values, resolve stressors, and balance personal priorities with professional pursuits. She is also the creator and host of several podcast series, including Myers-Briggs Question Corner, and EQ at Work.Edythe is a Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF), Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW), Myers-Briggs Master Practitioner, certified Gallup Strengths Coach, and a certified Emotional Intelligence Practitioner and Trainer with a Master’s in Counseling. Connect with Edythe on LinkedIn and follow her on Twitter.

Jim Peacock is the Principal at Peak-Careers Consulting and writes a weekly email for career practitioners. Peak-Careers offers discussion-based online seminars for career practitioners focused on meeting continuing education needs for CCSP, GCDF and BCC certified professionals as well as workshops for career practitioners and individual career coaching.

He is the author of A Field Guide for Career Practitioners: Helping Your Clients Create Their Next Move and The Adventure of Finding Me in New Zealand. He is also the recipient of the 2020 Kenneth C. Hoyt Award from the National Career Development Association and the Mid-Atlantic Career Counseling Association’s Professional Contribution’s Award in 2020.

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Interview: Visioning Your Future

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Today I ask our experts:
Why is it so important to take the time to envision the next 3-5 years
as a person or a business?

What recommendations do you have for people who want to do this exercise?

My guests today are Sabrina Woods, Holistic Career Coach, LinkedIn Trainer & Consultant and Megan Piper,  Principal of Piper Consulting helping leaders clarify their vision and create traction through building a healthy company. Both Sabrina and Megan help people and businesses envision their future. 

I attended Sabrina Woods’ annual retreat “Going Beyond New Year’s Resolutions: A Retreat to Reflect on What Matters this past January and I also had the pleasure of attending Megan’s workshop she did for the Maine Association of Training & Development this spring. Both were enlightening and helped me look forward in my personal and work like.

*See my blog on my why I take monthly tech-free retreats

Visioning Your Future

BIO’s

Sabrina Woods is a Holistic Career Coach, LinkedIn Trainer & Consultant. She has 20 years of experience in the career services field including work at Harvard and Northeastern University. She is also the president of the Career Counselors Consortium professional association based out of Boston.  For more info: www.sabrina-woods.com or www.linkedin.com/in/sabrinawoods.

Megan Piper is an Entrepreneurial Operating System Implementer helping leaders clarify their vision and create traction through building a healthy company. She instills purpose, accountability, and discipline, and provides tools to measure progress against meaningful metrics. Megan is uniquely qualified to advise organizations with years of executive experience across diverse environments, from IT to e-commerce, healthcare to non-profits. 
https://piperconsultingco.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/meganpiper/

Jim Peacock is the Principal at Peak-Careers Consulting and writes a weekly email for career practitioners. Peak-Careers offers discussion-based online seminars for career practitioners focused on meeting continuing education needs for CCSP, GCDF and BCC certified professionals as well as workshops for career practitioners and individual career coaching.

He is the author of A Field Guide for Career Practitioners: Helping Your Clients Create Their Next Move and The Adventure of Finding Me in New Zealand. He is also the recipient of the 2020 Kenneth C. Hoyt Award from the National Career Development Association and the Mid-Atlantic Career Counseling Association’s Professional Contribution’s Award in 2020.

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Interview: Following up on My 3 Words for 2021

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Instead of writing New Year’s Resolutions or goals, since 2016, I choose three words to guide me each year. In January of this year, I interviewed four people about how they choose their 3 words and what those words mean to them. I wanted to follow up with them on how their 3-word activity is going six months later.

If you have not watched the January interview, you may want to begin with that one to understand “How they choose them” and “what the words mean to them.” (Watch January Interview).

In this June interview, I asked them how it was going and if there were any surprises. It was so great to circle back with these folks and hear how powerful this activity really is.

3 Words to Guide
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Note: You can read my blog explaining my guiding words and how I choose them this year. (READ NOW)

BIOs of the interviewees

Candina “Dina” Janicki is a Global Career Development Facilitator , Certified Career Services Provider, and a Certified Professional Resume Writer with a specialty in the Military Community. Dina works as a Project Operations Manager and Career Development Manager, aiding transitioning service members through the Microsoft Software and Systems Academy (MSSA). She has been a military spouse for 20+ years and volunteers her time to aid other military spouses and veterans through mentorship and career development assistance. She has also authored the article, “Opportunity Found: Chaos Theory for Military Spouse Employment” which talks about the Advantages of Chaos Theory of Careers for Aiding Military Spouses. (Opportunity Found: Chaos Theory for Military Spouse Employment (ncda.org)) . Connect with Dina on LinkedIn

Renée Beaupré White is passionate about helping individuals explore their interests and develop their skills. With more than 30 years’ experience in career counseling in higher education, Renee is highly skilled at assisting students and adults in career exploration, development, transition, and the job search process.  As the current Director of Career Services at Castleton University, her alma mater, Renee is also a part-time career coach at Proctor Jr. Sr. High School.

Rob Hatch is the co-founder and president of Owner Media Group, providing strategies and skills for the modern business. He brings a unique blend of knowledge and background in the field of Human Development with his experience as a successful business leader and executive coach, and his weekly newsletter is read by tens of thousands of individuals all over the world. As a speaker, trainer, and coach, Rob works primarily with business leaders and teams, guiding them through critical transitions in their organization. He’s the best-selling author of “Attention! The power of simple decisions in a distracted world.”

Jim Peacock is the Principal at Peak-Careers Consulting and writes a weekly email for career practitioners. Peak-Careers offers discussion-based online seminars for career practitioners focused on meeting continuing education needs for CCSP, GCDF and BCC certified professionals as well as workshops for career practitioners and individual career coaching.

He is the author of A Field Guide for Career Practitioners: Helping Your Clients Create Their Next Move and The Adventure of Finding Me in New Zealand. He is also the recipient of the 2020 Kenneth C. Hoyt Award from the National Career Development Association and the Mid-Atlantic Career Counseling Association’s Professional Contribution’s Award in 2020.

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“Must Have” Technology Tools for 2021

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Welcome to another Peak-Careers Interview. My guests today are Melissa Venable is a writer and education advisor at Red Ventures and Debra Osborn, Professor and Co-Director of Combined Counseling & School Psychology doctoral program at Florida State University, also known as the Technology Twins. We explore which technology tools career practitioners might want to explore here in this interview.

Today we explore:
— What is your short list of your “must have” technology tools? 
— What are your “go to” resources? 
— Is there an over-use of technology right now?
— Any ideas for tracking your use, preventing tech fatigue, etc.

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Resources mentioned in our interview

Must Haves:

Go To Resources:

Full bios for my guests

Melissa Venable is a writer and education advisor at Red Ventures where she leads the BestColleges.com research initiative reporting trends in online education. Melissa is also an adjunct instructor at Saint Leo University and a certified career coach with a background in career development services. She currently serves as a features co-editor for the National Career Development Association’s Career Convergence web magazine and is an associate editor for eLearn Magazine.

Debra Osborn,Professor and Co-Director of Combined Counseling & School Psychology doctoral program at Florida State University.  She has been a counselor educator for over 20 years and also co-directs the Center for the Study of Technology in Counseling and Career Development. Her program of research includes: identifying predictors of and set practices for increasing positive career outcomes and decreasing negative outcomes; applying career-related theory (especially Cognitive Information Processing theory) in research and practice; designing and using assessments in career services; and exploring the role of technology can play in enhancing and extending services. Debra is a Past-President for National Career Development Association.

Check out their Technology Twins blog at https://technologytwins.com/

Jim Peacock is the Principal at Peak-Careers Consulting and writes a weekly email for career practitioners. Peak-Careers offers discussion-based online seminars for career practitioners focused on meeting continuing education needs for CCSP, GCDF and BCC certified professionals as well as workshops for career practitioners and individual career coaching.

He is the author of A Field Guide for Career Practitioners: Helping Your Clients Create Their Next Move and his most recent book about a near-death experience he had while backpacking in New Zealand in 1983-84, The Adventure of Finding Me in New Zealand. He is the recipient of the 2020 Kenneth C. Hoyt Award from the National Career Development Association and the Mid-Atlantic Career Counseling Association’s Professional Contributions Award in 2020.

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