Career Coaching
CAREER COACHING
Your next chapter, chosen on purpose.
Decide where you land next.
Career coaching for professionals deciding where their experience takes them next: a bigger role, a new field, or a well-planned exit. Together we turn the crossroads into a decision you can trust, backed by your Birkman report and a plan for your first ninety days.
Sound familiar?
Which of these sounds familiar?
You've outgrown the role, and the paycheque keeps finding reasons for you to stay.
You've applied to role after role you know you can do. The silence is starting to feel personal.
The reorganization kept your job and took your certainty.
You’re standing at a fork, and both roads cost something.
Two starting points
Where are you starting from?
Advance where you are
- Clarify the next role and what it actually requires
- Build the positioning and proof to be chosen for it
- Navigate the politics without losing yourself in them
Switch to what's next
- Name the destination before you resign the present
- Translate your experience into a new sector's language
- Move in stages, with income and identity intact
Research findings
Transitions land better with support.
Three studies, three kinds of transition: a job search, a career move, a leadership role. In each one, the people who had support came out ahead of the people who went without it.
53% vs 29%
re-employed within four months when the search came with structured support, against 29% for those handed a tips booklet alone. Two randomized trials, 1,801 job seekers.
Vinokur, Price & Schul, 1995
+38%
higher monthly earnings two years on, in a randomized controlled trial of career coaching against standard employment services alone.
Bond et al., 2022
96% vs 80%
of coached leaders were still in their organization one year later, against a control group, and independent observers rated their leadership stronger across every competency measured. Records, not self-report.
Reyes Liske & Holladay, 2016
+ Sources
- Vinokur, A. D., Price, R. H., & Schul, Y. (1995). Impact of the JOBS intervention on unemployed workers varying in risk for depression. American Journal of Community Psychology, 23(1), 39–74; and Vinokur, A. D., Schul, Y., Vuori, J., & Price, R. H. (2000). Two years after a job loss: Long-term impact of the JOBS program on reemployment and mental health. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 5(1), 32–47.
- Bond, G. R., Al-Abdulmunem, M., Ressler, D. R., Gade, D. M., & Drake, R. E. (2022). Evaluation of an employment intervention for veterans transitioning from the military: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 210(5), 321–329.
- Reyes Liske, J. M., & Holladay, C. L. (2016). Evaluating coaching's effect: Competencies, career mobility and retention. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 37(7), 936–948.
Study populations differ; the figures describe study results, not promised outcomes.
The offer
A decision partner for what comes next.
Career coaching with Jonathan starts with your decision: what you actually want next, what it will cost, and what you are willing to do about it.
No résumé mill, no job board, no guarantees of offers or promotions. You bring the experience. Coaching brings the clarity, the courage, and a plan with dates on it.
Your coach
The coach in the chair has made the turn himself.
I know the crossroads from the inside. I led a multimillion-dollar organization with multiple departments before rebuilding my working life around coaching, and I have sat where you are sitting: successful on paper, restless underneath, doing the math on a Sunday night.
Today I coach career decisions every week.
A career is a life, told in chapters.
My Master of Arts in Executive and Organizational Coaching is from Royal Roads University.
Client words
What clients say.
I had the pleasure of working with Jonathan as my career coach, and I can't recommend him enough. What surprised me most was that our sessions weren't just about career strategy — Jonathan helped me shift the way I see myself. He has this quiet way of reminding you to focus on your own wellbeing, to stop comparing yourself to others, and to trust that you are already enough. I walked away from our time together not just clearer on my career direction, but more grounded and confident in who I am. If you're looking for a coach who brings both practical guidance and real human depth, Jonathan is 100% the person to work with.
Start here
The Career Strategy Intensive
$500 · 90 minutes
One working session built around your Birkman report, interpreted for career discernment and goals. It ends with a decision map: stay and advance, move, or leave. You leave with your positioning stated in one paragraph, your first three moves named, and a 90-day plan.
The Intensive is booked on that call, so your Birkman is ready before we meet.
The path
How it works.
Book a discovery call
Thirty minutes, free. We name the crossroads and decide together whether coaching is the right tool.
Take the Career Strategy Intensive
Ninety minutes, $500, including your Birkman report. You leave with the decision map and the 90-day plan.
Walk it out over three months
The Next Chapter engagement: biweekly sessions through the transition, priced by scope in a proposal with three options.
Strictly confidential.
For organizations
Transition support your leaders can trust.
HR leaders bring me in when a valued leader is at a crossroads: a promotion that needs preparation, a role that has stopped fitting, a dignified exit, a final chapter designed before retirement. The work is confidential to the individual. Sponsors receive only what the client consents to share, and engagements are priced by scope.
Proof
Turns like yours.
A marine professional, injured and out of his industry, mapped his return to sea-going work, step by step, until he was back in it.
A physician designed her final chapter: a staged move from full practice toward retirement, with the work honoured and the ending chosen.
And the coach's own turn: from leading a multimillion-dollar organization to a coaching practice, made deliberately, in stages.
