Got multiple career ambitions?

Nearly 70% of the active, stealth, and passive job seekers I support are weighing multiple viable career paths. For these professionals, the challenge isn’t just selecting a direction. It’s engaging in thoughtful career exploration, assessing personal and market fit, and integrating those insights into a cohesive story that positions them for the future they want to pursue.

Whether mapping executive next steps, considering mid-career functional pivots, or laying the foundation for long-term career success, clients in the Career Integration Program tackle questions of qualifications, transferable leadership skills, and long-term aspirations both before and throughout the development of their résumé and LinkedIn assets. This process requires compressing, prioritizing, and synthesizing complex ambitions into a single narrative—one that signals intent, adaptability, and strategic focus, rather than indecision.

Most conventional job search advice oversimplifies this process, urging professionals to “pick a lane.” That approach ignores the multi-dimensional reality faced by those whose experience spans industries, functions, and evolving goals.

The Career Integration Program moves beyond siloed résumé writing. It provides a research-backed system for developing a unified, multi-directional leadership brand—built on proof, not promise—that clearly conveys your distinct value on LinkedIn, on paper, and in key career conversations, while enabling multiple potential next steps that remain both coherent and credible.

Why is ‘integration’ part of this program’s name?

Whether you're pursuing adjacent roles, aspirational moves, or a direct next step, the Career Integration Program helps unify your story without limiting your direction.

Whether you're pursuing adjacent roles, aspirational moves, or a direct next step, the Career Integration Program helps you unify your story without limiting your direction.

Before LinkedIn, it was possible—advisable, even—to tailor each résumé to the opportunity at hand. Résumé customization is still important, but today, you only get one LinkedIn profile—and it’s public. You can’t rewrite your entire profile every time a new opportunity arises, and if you have multiple aspirations, you may be targeting varied opportunities at the same time. Maintaining several versions simply isn’t sustainable. That’s where the real value of this program comes in.

The Career Integration Program is named for this challenge: integrating multiple viable career paths into one credible leadership brand. You’ll develop a résumé, LinkedIn profile, and messaging strategy that work across platforms, audiences, industries—and, most importantly, the two or three career directions you’re considering.

And while most résumé writers and career coaches encourage focus, the real challenge is more complex: how do you remain flexible while sounding intentional? How do you position yourself for multiple futures while honoring the depth of your experience?

The work we do here pulls triple duty:

  1. Researching real-world role requirements: We analyze market signals (e.g., job descriptions, industry articles, investor reports) to surface what hiring leaders actually seek across your target roles. Then we help you assess both your fit and your appetite for those demands.

  2. Identifying shared themes across multiple paths: We extract the throughlines—competencies, context, results—that show up across your possible directions. These patterns become the foundation of your narrative.

  3. Building a unified narrative that flexes: From résumé to LinkedIn, we shape a cohesive story that holds up under scrutiny, signals credibility in multiple directions, and holds the best chance of working for both ATS and human readers.

This is the work behind the work. When clients go through this process, it often answers questions they didn’t know how to ask, settles persistent uncertainties, and unlocks possibilities they couldn’t previously name.

Not sure this is the right path? Explore alternatives.

The Resume Readiness Package is ideal if you’re pursuing a single, defined direction. It focuses on a single target role or functional area, helping you refine positioning, craft a market-aligned résumé, and present a credible, future-facing narrative.

The Career Explorer Program is designed for professionals who aren’t fully decided, or who want to explore multiple sectors, functions, or role types before pinpointing the next move. Using the same structured methodology as the Career Integration Program, it combines career analysis, narrative development, and research to surface new possibilities and test-fit emerging directions.

Returning clients connect through the Active & Returning Clients page.

Bonus: Reverse-engineer your career

This program isn’t just about what comes next—it’s also about what comes after that.

Because we begin with research-backed career analysis through the Job Description Analysis (JDA) methodology, many clients use this program to reverse-engineer their way into the long-term roles they truly want. The process connects present decisions to future ambition, helping clients see each move as part of a larger arc of career design.

Case Studies:

Across nearly three decades, I’ve worked with more than 2,700 professionals at every stage of their careers. It would be impossible to capture every story here, but what follows is a small collection representing those journeys—leaders at vastly different points, navigating questions that are as distinct as spring and autumn sunsets.

Their backgrounds, ambitions, and timelines were all different. What they shared was a deep curiosity about what’s next and a willingness to dig in and figure it out. Many were purposefully architecting their careers for the first time, choosing exploration over inertia—determined to steer, not drift.

 

  • After selling his company for $1.7B, a co-founder navigated the next step—board service, private equity advisory, or a new CEO role. While publicly shepherding integration, we privately used JDA to clarify his best path and craft his 20-year leadership story. He now leads a second company as CEO, manages an advisory practice, and holds three board seats.

  • A senior director of demand planning questioned whether to pursue sales leadership. Together, we completed three JDAs that revealed her strongest path toward Chief Revenue Officer or Chief Commercial Officer, guiding her away from the sales track. Today, her long-term vision—supported by a strategically crafted written narrative—informs every career move she makes.

  • A humanities PhD candidate saw limited futures on the tenure track. We completed a range of JDAs, surfacing where her skills matched market needs. That clarity led to roles in content strategy, donor relations, and corporate communications—and steady promotions within private equity and higher ed.

Since I developed the JDA methodology in 2009, hundreds of professionals have used it to shape thoughtful, intentional trajectories—many now sitting in the leadership roles they envisioned years ago. The process doesn’t just produce a résumé; it helps you build a compass—one that keeps you aligned with your long-term vision while staying responsive to near-term opportunities.