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5 Tips for Taking Advantage of This Time of Transition
So you’ve found yourself downsized and let go from your company. You are treating your job search as your full time job and now have some free time when you are not focused on the job search. After all, now you do not have the commute [...]

So you plan to retire when? Here is some concerning news about current business realities, taken from a recent article from the Motley Fool.
You probably won’t be retiring when you expect to retire.
Your first thought when reading this may be:  “So what? I’ll just end up working longer than I now plan. I had already [...]

Finding your retirement nest egg short?  Looking for some ideas for skills to learn to move forward?
Many are doing whatever it takes to start a second career.
Check out the latest NY Times article on refining skills to restart earnings
Cheers to your success!

Remember all those business books we read, such as Tom Peter’s In Search of Excellence? Many of those books reflected a few key themes:

A bias for action, active decision making-”get on with it’
Be close to the customer-learn from the people served by the business
Entrepreneurship-foster innovation and nurturing ‘champions’
Productivity through people- treating rank and file employees [...]

What a great telecall we had Tuesday evening on the topic:
The Truth About Surviving a Downsizing After Age 40.
If you are a professional who is facing a downsizing (or thinks you might be soon), you’ ll want to listen to the recording and learn

6 things you absolutely must do to rebound from the situation [...]

What do Ellen DeGeneres, Madonna, Jamie Lee Curtis, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Sharon Stone, Eve Plumb (Jan on “The Brady Bunch”), Joan Jett, Holly Hunter, Belinda Carlisle, Annette Bening, Andie MacDowell and Anita Baker all have in common? They all have turned 50 in the past year or so.
Recently, I have seen myriad magazines and articles [...]

My coaching experience with Diana has yielded amazing business and personal development growth via the knowledge, tools, processes, problem solving, and weekly reviews.
I describe Diana as authentic and always providing a safe environment for our sessions. She has taught me to celebrate my successes as I navigate forward to establishing my own business and serves [...]

As a direct result of my coaching with Diana, I was able to successfully create a new career path for myself and landed my dream job…in only a few months! I know that I could not have been successful with this venture without her coaching.
Diana is a wealth of resources, experience, and coaching wisdom.  Her [...]

You may have been out there for a while researching career change, transition or early retirement. If you have been reading up on it, surfing the net, talking to anyone who will listen, you may have been told you need a guide or coach. False, false, false! You absolutely, positively do not NEED a coach, [...]