What I Do

With more than 200 clients across sectors and over 1,800 professional coaching hours, I offer a range of opportunities for you or your institution to stand out.

MY CLIENTS
My clients represent a range of fields, including museums, arts and culture, education, non-profit, federal service, and the corporate sector. Individual clients are mid-career professionals making a career transition or rebounding from a job loss, senior-level colleagues looking to advance to the executive suite or manage career transition, or emerging professionals looking to get a start in their careers. Other clients are organizations addressing staffing, talent development, or culture issues. Check out what some clients have to say.

HOW IT WORKS
Our work together will vary depending on you and your specific area(s) of need. We’ll start with a complimentary 30-minute phone or Zoom call, in which we will explore where you are, where you think you’d like to be, and some possible options for taking action to get you there. After that, if you decide it’s a right fit, we will set up a plan for working together. Coaching sessions typically take place via Zoom or phone unless otherwise arranged. Fees vary based on the type and length of the working relationship we establish together. Please see below for details on various services and packages.

WHAT I OFFER INDIVIDUALS
You are a mid-career, senior-level, or emerging professional looking for a job, striving to succeed at work, or managing a career transition. Maybe you are approaching retirement and wondering “What’s next?” Purple Cow can help you:

• Identify your strengths, skills, passions, and values so you have greater clarity about who you are as a professional
• Improve your career communication tools (e.g. your résumé/CV, cover letter, interviewing, personal brand, online presence, and networking)
• Increase your self-esteem and self-confidence, especially critical during career transition
• Take strategic, positive action toward new focus, new work, a new career, or staying professionally engaged during career transition.

HOW MUCH IT COSTS*
Fees vary based on the type and length of the working relationship we establish together. I have several options available to best meet your needs. Typically, payment is made in advance, but I am happy to discuss an alternate fee schedule with you. Payments are made via PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle unless otherwise pre-arranged.

*Recently laid off? Working in education, federal service, museums, or other non-profits? Let’s talk about options.

For individuals, I offer customized individual coaching/advising services and multi-session coaching packages:

MULTI-SESSION COACHING/ADVISING PACKAGES
Multi-session packages are designed to provide you with focused support over a limited period of time, to include self-discovery, step-by-step approaches, and concentrated tips to help you work through a specific career-related or workplace issue or challenge. Typically, sessions are weekly or bi-weekly. Multi-session coaching/advising packages provide a cost benefit over single coaching sessions or services.

• 3-Session Coaching/Advising Package: $525 (equiv. $175/session)
  These 60-minute sessions are for clients who are looking for specific guidance on career-related challenges, including job search, preparing application materials (résumé/CV, cover letter), and/or interview prep. We’ll identify strengths and barriers, explore options, and practice using new tools and strategies so you can move forward with confidence.
• 5-Session Coaching/Advising Package: $800 (equiv. $160/session)
  These 60-minute sessions are for clients who need to get “unstuck” or are in a career-related transition, or for organizational leaders in search of clarity about people- or culture-related challenges. We’ll identify strengths and barriers, explore options, and practice using new tools and strategies so you can move forward with confidence and courage. We’ll explore how individual strengths, passions, and values align with the work you are doing, are meant to do, or align with your workplace culture.
• 10-Session Coaching/Advising Package: $1,500 (equiv. $150/session)
  These 60-minute sessions offer comprehensive and sustained support as you work from a “stuck” place of indecision or lack of direction, through self-reflection, to clarity and confidence, and action steps toward career happiness or leadership and organizational effectiveness.

INDIVIDUAL COACHING/ADVISING SESSIONS AND SERVICES

• 60-minute Coaching/Advising Session: $195
  A brief email exchange to get familiar with the specific career- or workplace-related issue you are experiencing, followed by a 60-minute session to gain immediate clarity around the issue
• Résumé/CV or Cover Letter Editing: $195
  A brief email exchange review of your existing résumé/CV or cover letter, followed by editing, and concluding with a 60-minute session to review the revised document
• Interview Preparation: $195
  A brief email exchange to get familiar with the position and organization, followed by a 60-minute session guiding you through improved interview techniques so you land that job
• Presentation or Public Speaking Preparation: $195
  A brief email exchange to get familiar with your presentation goals, followed by a 60-minute session guiding you through improved presentation or public speaking techniques

WHAT I OFFER ORGANIZATIONS
Your staff and your direct reports are smart and hard-working, but you can use some guidance on culture alignment, goal setting, projects, team dynamics, and strategic initiatives to help your people and your organization shine. Purple Cow can help you:

• Improve your workplace culture for shared success
• Build on staff strengths, skills, and passions to foster leaders at all levels
• Improve your team dynamics to improve process, efficiency,  and deliverables
• Manage your projects, programs, and initiatives to support institutional goals
• Improve communication up, down, across, and outside your organization
• Provide outplacement coaching for staff who are being separated from the organization

ORGANIZATIONAL COACHING/ADVISING SESSIONS AND SERVICES

• Organizational Culture Analysis. Working with you, your leadership team, and your staff to identify workplace staffing or culture issues and root causes, conduct in-depth analysis, and help you arrive at shared vision, strategic direction, and human capital improvement
• 1:1 Staff Coaching. Exploring staff challenges, targeting key areas, and offering focused attention and resources, including individual development plans to help get them “unstuck” and build on their innate leadership strengths
• Professional Development Workshops and Retreats. Facilitating focused, interactive, outcomes-based retreats and workshops to help you communicate key organizational goals and shared vision, and build robust staff engagement
• Team Dynamics Workshops. Helping your teams identify their respective and collective roles, building trust, addressing conflict, and arriving at shared commitment to team goals.
• Project and Program Management. Providing structure, procedures, outcomes, accountability measures, and evaluation tools to help your programs and projects come to life with success
• Outplacement Coaching. Offering concrete support for staff who are separated from the organization, helping them better manage the transition by communicating skills, passions, and values, mapping out their job search strategy, building professional connections, recrafting their résumé/CV, updating their LinkedIn profile, and preparing for interviews.

HOW MUCH IT COSTS*
Organizational fees vary based on the type, complexity, and length of the working relationship we establish together. First, let’s talk about what your organization needs. Working with you, your leadership team, and your staff, we will identify workplace staffing or culture issues, and help you arrive at shared vision, strategic direction, practical action steps, and positive change. Sessions may be in-person, by phone, and/or Zoom, depending on your location. Typically, full payment is made in advance, but I am happy to discuss an alternate schedule with you. Payments are made via check, PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle unless otherwise pre-arranged.

*Are you a museum or other non-profit? Let’s talk about options.

Please contact me to learn more about how Purple Cow can help!