I went to see Jim Gaffigan at The Chicago Theatre last week. If you ever get the chance to see him, go. He’s hilarious. At one point he says, “I struggle with doing nothing. Should I sit down and do...

It’s not empathy. It’s not collaboration. It’s not even authenticity. It’s kindness. A few months ago, I was driving into Chicago, listening to NPR, half paying attention, when a segment about kindness made me turn up the volume. I expected...

Recently I had a client ask me to review their resume. She was focused on having a resume that would play nice with the AI and ATS tools that companies were using to source candidates. Made sense. The resume was...

I am currently working with a client who has led many large-scale infrastructure application projects and a couple customer-facing application projects. The deal is that she loves customer-facing projects and, in her current job search, wants to focus her conversations...

Over the 25+ years as a recruiter and career coach, I have easily prepped 1000’s of people for interviews and worked with 100’s on their leadership presence. One of the biggest communication problems I encounter in interviews, leadership meetings, and...

I’ve been reading a wonderful book by Dr. Lisa Miller called The Awakened Brain. Dr. Miller earned her B.A. from Yale and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a clinical psychologist, a professor of Psychology and Education at...

I was scrolling through the comments in my coaching community. Someone had mentioned that they were reading Atomic Habits by James Clear. If you’ve read the book, you know the premise: big change happens through small, consistent actions. So, in the community,...

It’s January 2026 which means it is the perfect time to begin your Career Transformation by entering your Career Alchemy Vortex. Your Career Alchemy Vortex is the space where effort and ease meet — where what you want and what...

My birthday is December 26th. It falls in that space between the holidays, after the gifts and gatherings, but before the noise of New Year’s celebrations and resolutions. This year, during this birthday in-between time, I realized that I was...

Career Alchemy Academy is built on three core pillars designed to help you reconnect to who you are now … and create a career that reflects that truth. Pillar 1: Your Career Alchemist Vision This is where clarity begins. Inside this pillar,...