What does working with you actually involve?
I typically work with clients through 3 phases: Identify, Secure, and Excel. Which phase we find ourselves in depends on the specific client and their specific career goals. Frequency and cadence of sessions depends on what goals you wish to accomplish in your career. Mechanically: You book sessions with me on a session-by-session basis. I set you up with an interactive portal through which I send you exercises. Typically, you receive an exercise each week, complete it between sessions and then discuss it with me in the next session and then the cycle repeats.
What is the most annoying thing you will say when we work together?
It depends.
How many sessions do I need?
It depends. Specifically it depends on the career goals you establish with me. I typically work with clients through 3 phases: Identify, Secure, and Excel; frequency depends on which phase and your specific availability and need. Within the ‘Identify’ phase we typically meet weekly. In the ‘Secure’ and ‘Excel’ phases, we meet ad hoc at your request. These frequencies are all specific to each client and depend on: the speed at which you complete the exercises, how long it takes us to analyze each exercise, and any other career issues we tackle along the way (e.g. applying to new jobs, responding to executive search conversations, negotiating offers, navigating conflicts / opportunities in your current work).
Do I need to work with you across all 3 phases?
No. In fact, I want you to feel confident in navigating your career to achieve happiness and satisfaction. Which means we can work modularly. The vast majority of my clients need help with the “Identify” phase. I always say that this where my clients get the most value from working with me.
What do you charge?
I operate on a sliding scale. Not everyone who needs my services can afford them. I calibrate a benchmark rate and then offer the majority of my clients services at that rate so that I can take on a small group of low/no-fee clients.
Why do you call yourself a strategist?
Strategy answers the question: what do I do in a given situation? To answer the question, you actually need a rigorous process. When I worked in strategy consulting, we helped clients understand their competitive environment, their capabilities, and clarified their strategic objectives to help them figure out what to do next on multiple time-horizons. In a career oriented around happiness and satisfaction, you need similar tools at the same level of intellectual rigor to develop the clarity you need to build the kind of career you want. I run a rigorous, discovery-oriented process to help you develop the skills you need to have clarity regardless of the specific career situation you find yourself in.
Why can’t I do this with AI?
You absolutely could, but I would encourage you to think deeply about what you need and whether AI is the right way to fulfill that need. The critical differences for me come down to two issues: objectives and skill development. I have one clear objective: I want to help you find careers that bring you satisfaction and joy. If I do my job correctly, you develop the skills and confidence to successfully navigate your career independently, and you engage with me on your own terms as your career evolves. At this moment, the stated objectives of all the frontier labs are to drive adoption of these tools. They are designed to be engaging and to keep you using them. The easiest way to engage you is to tell you what you want to hear whether that is confirming or adversarial; but it isn’t always what you need to hear. I will always tell you what I think you need to hear and, because we work session-by-session, if that is not useful to you, you have the freedom and control to do with that as you please. I take a skill-building approach to the work that I do. Namely, I believe that if you are unable to find happiness and satisfaction in your career, it's because you have not acquired the necessary skills. These are skills that are often easiest to acquire relationally; that is, you need to work with a person (or people) to develop them and you need to practice them. All learning requires some friction. Tools that reduce or ellide this friction do not serve your purposes in this process.
What does working with you actually involve?
I typically work with clients through 3 phases: Identify, Secure, and Excel. Which phase we find ourselves in depends on the specific client and their specific career goals. Frequency and cadence of sessions depends on what goals you wish to accomplish in your career. Mechanically: You book sessions with me on a session-by-session basis. I set you up with an interactive portal through which I send you exercises. Typically, you receive an exercise each week, complete it between sessions and then discuss it with me in the next session and then the cycle repeats.
What is the most annoying thing you will say when we work together?
It depends.
How many sessions do I need?
It depends. Specifically it depends on the career goals you establish with me. I typically work with clients through 3 phases: Identify, Secure, and Excel; frequency depends on which phase and your specific availability and need. Within the ‘Identify’ phase we typically meet weekly. In the ‘Secure’ and ‘Excel’ phases, we meet ad hoc at your request. These frequencies are all specific to each client and depend on: the speed at which you complete the exercises, how long it takes us to analyze each exercise, and any other career issues we tackle along the way (e.g. applying to new jobs, responding to executive search conversations, negotiating offers, navigating conflicts / opportunities in your current work).
Do I need to work with you across all 3 phases?
No. In fact, I want you to feel confident in navigating your career to achieve happiness and satisfaction. Which means we can work modularly. The vast majority of my clients need help with the “Identify” phase. I always say that this where my clients get the most value from working with me.
What do you charge?
I operate on a sliding scale. Not everyone who needs my services can afford them. I calibrate a benchmark rate and then offer the majority of my clients services at that rate so that I can take on a small group of low/no-fee clients.
Why do you call yourself a strategist?
Strategy answers the question: what do I do in a given situation? To answer the question, you actually need a rigorous process. When I worked in strategy consulting, we helped clients understand their competitive environment, their capabilities, and clarified their strategic objectives to help them figure out what to do next on multiple time-horizons. In a career oriented around happiness and satisfaction, you need similar tools at the same level of intellectual rigor to develop the clarity you need to build the kind of career you want. I run a rigorous, discovery-oriented process to help you develop the skills you need to have clarity regardless of the specific career situation you find yourself in.
Why can’t I do this with AI?
You absolutely could, but I would encourage you to think deeply about what you need and whether AI is the right way to fulfill that need. The critical differences for me come down to two issues: objectives and skill development. I have one clear objective: I want to help you find careers that bring you satisfaction and joy. If I do my job correctly, you develop the skills and confidence to successfully navigate your career independently, and you engage with me on your own terms as your career evolves. At this moment, the stated objectives of all the frontier labs are to drive adoption of these tools. They are designed to be engaging and to keep you using them. The easiest way to engage you is to tell you what you want to hear whether that is confirming or adversarial; but it isn’t always what you need to hear. I will always tell you what I think you need to hear and, because we work session-by-session, if that is not useful to you, you have the freedom and control to do with that as you please. I take a skill-building approach to the work that I do. Namely, I believe that if you are unable to find happiness and satisfaction in your career, it's because you have not acquired the necessary skills. These are skills that are often easiest to acquire relationally; that is, you need to work with a person (or people) to develop them and you need to practice them. All learning requires some friction. Tools that reduce or ellide this friction do not serve your purposes in this process.