Career Change & Personal BrandingBlog

A couple weeks ago, I gave a TEDx talk (video post pending) about how to reshape the story of your career. One of the topics I touched on in my talk was about the tendency for people to resist change.  I talked about how this dynamic exists not only in our careers, but also when […]

Many of my career transition clients ask me about how best to leverage LinkedIn, especially when you’re proactively looking for a new opportunity.  I seek LinkedIn as being the most important professional social media network that you absolutely must be on if you’re someone who cares about maintaining a strong professional profile and network.  This […]

When I decided to leave my full-time job to run my own, independent career consultancy last year, it marked the end of my 10-year run in the corporate world.  I went from working within for-profit companies in fast-paced, dynamic, organisationally complex business environments to a 1-man operation building my own business one small step at […]

A couple weeks ago, I was at a business school here in the UK coaching an MBA student on the topic of preparing for a brand case interview, and she asked, “What’s a great ad that you’ve seen lately?”  I found myself struggling to come up with an answer because to be honest, very few […]

I’d never heard of Blue Monday until yesterday when someone in my family mentioned it to me for the first time.  As I look around, I can definitely see exactly where this term came from.  As I write this, I’m on my way back from a client meeting, riding home on the Tube during rush […]