This coaching process is not traditional counseling.

While counseling focuses on the past, coaching is very future oriented. I work with clients on setting priorities and goals, identifying your "unique value," and walking with you through the steps of taking action that will enable you to achieve a higher level of success.

Work models are changing. The old model of a traditional 8-5 job is not the only choice. In career coaching, we will explore consulting, free-lance work, franchises and entrepreneurial opportunities as well as the traditional career paths. The correct focus for this can only be discovered by knowing what is unique about you.

Don't be embarrassed regarding "I don't know what I want to be when I grow up." This is a common initial phrase voiced by individuals who are questioning their life choices– even from competent, successful professionals with CEO level positions and half-million dollar salaries. Recognize this is a continuing process. Life experience allows us to ask the right questions; ones we could not have known at 18 or 20-years-old. We find that many people simply realize they do not want to continue living their lives based on the decisions that were made when they were 20-years-old. It's a healthy process, at any given season of life, to draw that line in the sand and take a fresh look at where you are, and where you're going. Changes, often even when unexpected, may offer a new opportunity to redirect in a more authentic and "fitting" manner. Expect that this process will release your best competencies and blend your values, dreams and passions.

What's involved in career coaching with Lou?

"If you want to know your past--look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future--look into your present actions."
  ~Old Proverb

"Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose"

  ~Victor Frankl