Alumni Career Coaches

Chris brings a unique blend of fresh content, humor, energy, and engagement to help her clients transform. She incorporates wellness strategies to change their habits, increase their well- being, and produce longer, more vital lives.

Susan specializes in clients that are looking for a change but not sure which direction to go, or don't know how to do the job search because they have no clarity surrounding the perfect job. She helps clients gain clarity, discover and define their personal brand, and network to that next job.

Debby believes that a career path should allow leverage of natural talents and abilities, as well as values and skills developed over time. Debby helps clients create individualized career roadmaps and build decision-making confidence. Some of the topics clients tackle in coaching with Debby include self-promotion, career management, communication skills, career transition, executive presence, management skills, public speaking and leadership.

John’s expertise is recruiting and placing professionals across functional disciplines and industries.  He guides his clients through the job search process, prepares clients for job interviews and assists with networking and mentorships.

Lauren’s goal is to strengthen a client's awareness of his/her inner resources and work together to focus on increasing performance in key areas.

Angela has worked in and hired for entry-level positions across Hollywood. In an industry where most jobs are filled through internal referrals, she believes that it’s crucial to impress not only the recruiters, but those in the actual departments that are hiring. After successfully helping numerous clients, she is eager to share her services with the Duke community.

Liz believes that everyone deserves to land a job they love. With nearly a decade of experience helping job seekers, she works to make the job search process an empowering and delightful process.

Katy works with individuals looking to improve career performance or seeking a complete change in career direction.  Her expertise is assisting clients define their purpose and passion to improve decision making processes.  Katy works to provide short-term actions to re-align and re-focus criteria necessary to make better informed decisions.

Kristi works with clients to transition to new roles, move up in their current careers, and increase their contribution to an organization. She uses a variety of assessments to help customize her work with clients and to meet their specific goals and needs.

Brian specializes in coaching the "Next Generation" of young professionals, first-time managers and their teams. Because there is no cookie-cutter manual for success, he works with these individuals and their companies through an intentional process of business coaching and consulting to create opportunities for them to discover their abilities, develop their skills, and ultimately deliver results.

Dale is a life and career coach for adults, adolescents, and business groups. She prepares and coaches individuals to succeed in school and career by providing motivational workshops and presentations, HR consulting for supervisor development and team building, empowerment coaching and training for physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual wellness.

Lawrence specializes in helping individuals make the transition from management to leadership in middle to senior level positions. He uses a variety of approaches and assessments to help clients make gains in confidence, satisfaction, and performance. 

Rachel believes that people are at their best, when they are motivated, engaged and excited about their endless possibilities. She helps clients get what they want, whatever it is.

Hillary helps clients gain acceptance to MBA schools by providing inspiration and advice to better market themselves to the schools of their choice.

Kristin works with each client to develop unique action plans and capture key learnings and “a-ha’s” that help them discover greater purpose, productivity and well-being.

Bin works with creative and inquiring minds who want to build up their career based on their own strengths and dreams. He helps clients clearly define needs and works with them to provide guidance to solve problems.

Cassandra brings her years of experience as a global C-suite executive to coaching her ideal clients: talented, driven women who are looking to move into higher levels of leadership and make greater contributions to their organization, while still living an amazing life.

Paula’s expertise is working with individuals throughout career transition. She supports her clients in career strategy, search strategy, interviewing skills, compensation negotiation, assessing opportunities, and reference checking.

Paul offers a directed advisory process that helps clients change, improve skills, and face the challenges of a tumultuous workplace. He provides a special focus on leadership, team-building, decision-making, strategic planning, communication, and crisis management skills.  Paul creates individualized programs to help clients take a pro-active approach to managing their careers.

Karen specializes in supporting individuals with career transition, career optimization and/or quality of life issues.  She is dedicated to helping clients achieve their immediate goals as well as helping them cultivate and leverage their strengths. With her clients, she seeks to achieve increased mental energy, better stress management and a more satisfying and fulfilling life.

Ann is an executive and personal coach who specializes in working with women. She works with clients to develop even better work-life balance and to create positive, thriving relationships with their partners and children.

Marsha specializes in working with entrepreneurs and mid to executive level organizational leaders to assist with goal attainment, leadership strategies and confidence building.  Marsha is hired by individuals and organizations to clarify goals and to define actions to work through obstacles and to accelerate personal growth.

Molly's expertise is working with individuals throughout career and life transitions. Molly provides organizational, life and clinical coaching. She supports her clients in career strategy, search strategy, interviewing skills, compensation negotiation, and assessing viable opportunities.

Heidi has a diverse background and education that makes her comfortable working with a wide range of people. Her specialty is helping people transition by articulating their value to the new, intended audience.