Learn Why Everyone’s Getting Career Coaches These Days — and Why the Discerning Client Chooses Feroce and its Feroce Flow™ Coaching System
Using our years of gut instinct and the latest scientifically-validated research on the Science of Happiness, our executive career coaches have helped thousands of clients like you find happiness in work and play. You’re not alone!
I’m Cameron Powell, and over the last
decade I’ve become one of the most sought-after career coaches in North America precisely because I have developed a deep, almost intuitive understanding of how you came to be where you are, and how you can get where in your heart of hearts you may already know you want to be in your career: in flow, the state of “being so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter,” characterized by “a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment”, where you lose track of time and work is indistinguishable from play. (from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s groundbreaking Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience).
Discover What You Excel at — and Learn How to Stop Making So Much Effort to “Fix” Your Weaknesses!
Flow can only come from using your true strengths — which must include your passions! — in the service of meaningful, challenging work. At Feroce, we show you how to identify your passions and strengths, help you work through your fear of owning them (and other internal obstacles), and move into a life of peace and happiness. I selected the best career coaches in the United States and Canada because they proved more than able to match my unique approach: Feroce Flow, the Science of Happiness married to the explosive new discipline of Positive Psychology — a discipline no one has embraced as heartily as coaches, and no coaches as much ours.
You’re feeling down lately, right? Not fulfilled. Maybe you have a toxic work situation, or suffer from dealing with an emotionally unskillful boss. Most likely you haven’t enjoyed your work in a long, long time. Is this really all there is? Where is the happiness I thought all my choices and hard work would lead to? Irritable? Or have you gone straight through irritable to just plain sad — disappointed in and angry at yourself? We’re betting your thoughts about yourself, by now, amount to a kind of internal violence.
And that’s bad mojo for making important decisions. Before you choose a career — indeed, before you can intelligently choose a career that’s not going to be like going from frying pan to fire — you need to get to a better place. You want to make decisions from a place of personal power, not weakness — from authenticity and clarity, not desperation, resignation, or despair.
You’re often “stressed” (a word that conceals the underlying emotions, and therefore solutions, and should be removed from your vocabulary!). You dread work, or spend it online or in resumes and useless job sites (we’ll explain why in your free consultation). Your relationships are strained, of course — you’re unhappy! You’re not yourself. You haven’t been yourself since you stopped listening to yourself — to that one true voice, and to what your heart tells you.
You’re not in FLOW – where every person on his or her deathbed most wants to be able to say he or she has been. You’ve been in FLOW before, but the fact that you’re now unhappy shows you didn’t know how to pay attention to what you were experiencing. Have you ever been so absorbed in something that you lost track of time? It didn’t feel like work at all.
“You were born with an inner guidance system that tells you when you are on or off purpose by the amount of joy you are experiencing. The things that bring you the greatest joy are in alignment with your purpose.” Jack Canfield, The Success Principles
That’s FLOW. The job of the career coach is to help you re-discover the experiences that are uniquely capable of bringing YOU (not your spouse, parents, graduate school peers, or anyone else) into a state of FLOW.
“Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.” Confucius
How You Lost Your Way
How did you get to this place? How did you choose such an unhappy path? Makes you doubt yourself, right? — if you could get into such a mess, such an unhappy relationship, then something must be wrong with you — or so you think. It’s exactly such recriminating thinking that steals your power and clarity as you try to make new decisions.
It began with influence — influence from others. You got a bunch of ideas and values and even voices in your head courtesy of others. You know who they are. Pretty soon, you took over, imagining the same values and voices were yours, imagining that if you just made all the safe choices (from your perspective), happiness would somehow arrive. By now you’re probably feeling pretty betrayed. “I’ll be happy when” is a great North American disease. Goals and decisions that begin with “I should” — what you think you ought to do rather than what you feel and know would feel good and right — are symptoms of your difficulty.
What’s Feroce Flow?
Feroce Flow includes guiding people just like you into your internal compass — into feeling your values and feeling what brings you joy, or FLOW. All decisions, including career and relationship choices, are based on values. (These values include your fears). All values are based on feelings, because if you didn’t feel, how could you possibly know what was important to you? (And if you didn’t feel the feeling of fear about change, what could possibly stand in the way of what was important to you?) Coaching aims to get you to feel your values and to find FLOW often enough that your direction becomes as clear to you as feeling the difference between hot and cold. It’s what we call the power of now, intuition, gut instinct — or what we also call executive decisionmaking ability. It’s the thin-slicing popularized in Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. It’s your internal compass. And once you’re past a certain age, you can’t get happily anywhere without it.
You’ve heard or read of thin-slicing (in Blink), and you’ve wondered how you too could become able to know or do things others can’t fathom. (Here’s a hint: it starts with what impassions you). You’ve read The Power of Now and you totally get why being in the present is the key to happiness and clarity in decision-making, but you have no idea where to begin. (We’ll show you how easy it is). You’ve heard you’re supposed to do what you love and the money will follow, but you’ve always wondered if anyone really has the courage and cleverness to make it happen (yes; we call them our clients).
Ready to hear more? Ask for a free consultation with a Master Feroce Coach.
Or keep reading and even pick your own coach . . .
Hand-picked to Assure You True Expertise and Experience (Ready to Get Rid of Your Boss?)
Clients love our unbeatable selection of career-change coaches, handpicked from the best coaches all over North America — and they love that I’ve already vetted them for you per my own exacting standards: they’re highly trained, they’re experienced, and, last but not least, they’ve had real, successful careers outside of coaching. That’s what makes a great career coach! There’s also the Feroce Promise: providing you with the right coach, all the time. Your Personal Success Team will ensure one-stop coaching, no matter how often your goals change over time. (Looking for a career-advancement coach or our executive coaches?)
Coaching is still a profession in its youth. No state has any accreditation requirements or other standards of excellence for coaches. But coaching schools are now ubiquitous, and presumably profitable. And so, in ever-larger numbers, people are calling themselves coaches. As you can imagine, none of this guarantees that the coach you find on the Internet has the experience, expertise, and ability that you need. As one of our clients put it when she first wrote us:
I have contacted other career/life coaches and found them very wanting — they are either people who have never really been thru “tough times” or can understand my situation; come up with completely unrealistic suggestions that will not play out in the REAL workplace of today; or are people who have gotten severance package deals when they were laid off a couple of years ago and have decided to have the ‘luxury’ of coaching people – but again have no real practical experience to give me.
Who can guarantee you this experience, both practical and in coaching itself? I can. That’s why I started Feroce Coaching: to provide serious coaching candidates with the best in coaching. I’ve spent the last six years scouring the field for career coaches you can bank on.
The career coach isn’t just for corporate executives, athletes, and celebrities anymore. Because of coaching, thousands of real people now love their careers as they never thought they could.
Career Coaching: The Busy Person’s Way to Get a Great New Career — in 3 Steps
Want a new boss? Through the exploration and priorities-clarification of coaching and state-of-the-art career assessment tools, we’ll help you identify — and then actually begin to work toward — your ideal career environment. We’ve also got the depth of talent to help you identify and start your own business. “I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum capabilities.” Bob Nardelli, former CEO, Home Depot
Discovery: Who Are You, Really?
- We’ll help you to discover your strengths — and we don’t just mean what you’re good at. There’s a more cutting-edge definition of strength that answers the question of why so many people are doing what they do well and still hate it. A real strength is defined by what you do well and enjoy. A real strength comes from a passion. We’ll show you!
- You’ll discover what really motivates you — quite apart from the seemingly inescapable influence of others (family, spouse, society). “Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life” – Harvey MacKay
- Explore your own values – what you consider important. Values are the engine of goals, so don’t put the cart before the horse!
Branding: Define and Position Yourself!
- A successful career must be as well-run as a business: we’ll help you create your own personal brand, your positioning within your target market, so that your strengths, motivations, and values are reflected in your resume, career bio, cover letter, interview strategy, LinkedIn profile, elevator pitch, networking, and more.
- Quantum Leaps. Are you trying to change careers entirely? Would you like a job that you think your resume won’t support? We can show you how to make a quantum leap that is not predicted by your resume or background!
The Search Phase: Job Search or Vetting of Business Ideas
- Who Else Wants a New Career? Clients seeking coaching on jobs, resumes and cover letters, employment, and their careers come to Feroce with one or more of the early warning signs of career trouble, and we work with them all. Do you know how to use social media to get the desirable jobs? Did you know that 70% of jobs are found through networking (online and off), and that the figure for the desirable jobs is even higher? We’ll show you how to work necessities like LinkedIn like a Jedi. Do you know how to get past companies’ automated resume-reading software? We’ll show you how to do all these things so you have an edge on your competition.
- Learn How You Too Can Start Your Own Business. Most of our career coaches, and all our business coaches, have real experience conceiving and starting up their own businesses. And they are highly sought-after entrepreneurial consultants in their own rights. So many of them are perfect for the person who wants to be his or her own boss, whether full-time or just part-time to start. We can help you get where you want to go.
- Map Out the Retirement You Deserve. Boring retirements should be outlawed. How tragic, to work so hard and long only to let passion and excitement wither away, or to leave adventure and learning to others. Let our career or retirement coaches help you re-discover your long-buried passions and lead you to the excitement and fulfillment you’ve been longing for.
A Note from the Head Career Coach
I’m Cameron Powell, founder of Feroce, Head Coach, and career coach. I’ve successfully navigated several careers myself: public speaker, attorney, executive, entrepreneur, writer (published and unpublished, small-scale and big-time), and more. I have mastered the art of personal reinvention, but, more importantly, I have maintained my personal integrity and work-life balance, managed my time well, and pursued an ethic of excellence and personal fulfillment. I spend my days aligned with what I love — in nature and creating — writing, skiing, coaching, building businesses, consulting, speaking, yoga, hiking . . . (Winter clients know that between 10a.m. and 3p.m. I’ve blocked out my schedule for skiing). In a few short years, I went from being where you are today to managing to create exactly the life and career I want — many clients do it faster! But I want to get you yours.
I have coached many clients over the years on how to start looking for the career that gives them meaning and passion. If you’re interested in working with me, just ask (in the free consultation form). But now, let me tell you about the career coaches I’ve spent the last six years finding. I’ve worked hard to eliminate your risk of picking a coach: the coaches I proudly feature on Feroce are all highly credentialed, experienced, and top-notch; you can’t go wrong!
Or, if you’re not sure how you’d pick your own coach, go straight to the free consultation form below and I’ll personally select the best fit for you.
Our Career-Change Coaches
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Mino Sullivan has many years of experience as a recruiter and executive coach. She has served as a charter board member of New England Women’s Business Owners and on the Board of Directors of the Smaller Business Association of New England (SBANE). From 1980 to 1990, she was President of The Sullivan Group, an executive search firm serving closely held technology-based New England companies. She later joined Management Recruiters of New England, and as Vice President of Internet Recruiting, was awarded the company’s top honors for performance, leadership and dedication. She has founded 3 businesses, and brings the interpersonal, analytical, and implementation skill-sets necessary to smooth your transition. She is certified by the Executive Coach Institute, and is a RSP-Trained Retirement Coach and 2young2retire facilitator. |
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The rules for work are changing. We’re being judged by a new yardstick; not just by how smart we are, or by our training and expertise, but also by how well we handle ourselves and each other. –Daniel Goleman Wanda Ropa is a Master’s certified career coach from the College of Executive Coaching who will fundamentally improve your career advantage and help you discover how to leverage your current experience and skills. She is an expert on careers. If the Guinness Book of World Records measured careers, she’d probably have the record for the number of diverse careers; anything is possible with the right tools and resources. From therapist, to certified coach, from the clinical world to the corporate jungle; in HR, training, consulting, sales, marketing, branding, successfully running multiple businesses, with many roles in between, Wanda discovered that the most common factor in becoming successful in your career is leveraging your natural strengths and talents and matching an occupation that allows you to shine! Currently, she is involved in 3 major start-ups as chief strategist and partner, running a successful coaching and consulting practice, and in the process of launching innovative programs and tools that leverage neuroscience, psychology, and creativity to shift individuals to achieve guaranteed success. Wanda entered the business world as a headhunter specializing in technical and executive search. Armed with the secrets recruiters don’t tell you, Wanda established human resources departments, trained hiring managers how to interview, launched one of the earliest Internet recruiting sites that was later acquired by CareerBuilder.com, recruited, interviewed and hired over thousands of candidates for entry-level through the executive ranks, developed career expos, facilitated job search and career workshops, and personally coached thousands of individuals to be successful in their careers. She has over 25 years in organizational consulting, executive coaching, training, and human resources across diverse industries, including manufacturing, IT, telecommunications, media, call centers, biotechnology, health care, and financial arenas. She can help you create your personal brand, so you begin to stand out for your unique abilities as an employee, a business owner, an executive, or anything in-between. The big question: If all of us are born with creative talents, what distinguishes the men and women who are recognized for their creative achievements in diverse fields, such as science, engineering, marketing, art, music, manufacturing, literature, poetry, architecture, to name a few? The differences lie in how they uniquely respond to life’s stimuli and triggers, based on the resources and tools they possess. Coaching Approach & Tools I believe work is meant to be fun, easy, and effortless. Using a creative style, I bring real world experience navigating the myriad of challenges and opportunities present in the workplace in the corporate arena, the health care environment, the industrial world, and the entrepreneurial universe. My mission is to act as a catalyst to help you move forward on your goals. One of my tools, the StrengthsFinders™ Profile, identifies your top 5 natural born talents. My StrengthsFinders™ Profile reveals my top 5 strengths: Self-Assurance - These people feel confident in their ability to manage their own lives. They have an inner compass that gives them confidence in their decisions. Activator – Turns thoughts into action. In fact, these individuals believe that action is the best device for learning and help you translate your ideas into reality. Ideation – Fascinated by ideas. Able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena. They are great for brainstorming. Strategic – Create alternative ways to proceed. Faced with any given scenario, they can quickly spot the relevant patterns and issues and develop strategic plans. Learner – Great desire to learn and to want to continuously improve. In particular, the process of learning, rather than the outcome, excites them. They learn, extract the useful applications, and resynthesize this knowledge and wisdom. These are perfect strengths to be your career coach. Would you like to find out your top 5 strengths? Ask for a free consultation. During collaborative coaching sessions, we will identify your core strengths and talents using my own powerful tools, including a revolutionary new integrative approach called The Success Activation Model,™ along with Feroce’s own Strategic Life Planning Process: the Creation of the Future Self, as well as one or more of the following assessments and techniques based on your needs to shift you into career success:
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I’m Career Coach Wendy Billie. As a former in-house coach with a major Fortune 100 company, I have a great deal of experience in helping clients navigate their careers aligning to their talents, values, and vision; truly taking a holistic approach to career success and enjoyment. That’s why I was approached by Feroce’s Head Coach to share my skill set as a career coach. I have also been privileged to provide advice and career counseling to MBA students at the University of Minnesota and Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. I work with clients on all of the following:
I have a master’s degree in Human Resources, which provides me with a great background from which to give you with resume advice, negotiating skills, and interviewing advice that will make you you shine as the ideal candidate. I used the coaching process you are about to embark on when I decided to leave a high-paying job as a traveling therapist and again when I left the corporate world to become an independent coach. Career coaching has been a true passion of mine and a way to continuously challenge others and myself to live an authentic life. Are you ready to be who you truly are in the world of work? Request a free consultation “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot |
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A Soulful Yet Strategic Approach To Finding The Right Career I’m Laura Svolos, a Certified Professional Coach who specializes in helping people to find a more fulfilling career and to navigate the transition skillfully, methodically, and strategically. I also help individuals with their resumes, cover letters, and talking points for interviews. I believe that finding the right job is a process that begins by knowing oneself. So my coaching begins with a self assessment process in which I use a variety of assessment tools to help you gain clarity about your:
This self assessment process ensures you are laying the right foundation for finding a fulfilling job. It also pays off down the road during the interviewing stage because people who are comfortable with who they are and who know themselves well tend to do better in interview situations. So you know yourself but can you stay true to your self? Once we discover your ideal job, my career coaching helps you to navigate the transition and most importantly, stay true to your self. This is where it can get tricky because many of us might find the career that makes our soul sing but our egoic/logical mind stands in the way. It stands in the way by wearing all the usual guises of fear-based thinking. And because your ego knows you better than anyone, it knows the soundtrack that will most likely keep you stuck.This is where my coaching can help you to stay the course by gaining mastery over your little self (your egoic mind) so you can let your big self (your Spirit) guide you to the job that will make you want to jump out of bed in the morning. That said, I understand that following the path of your Spirit has to yield enough income to meet your financial goals. So my coaching is very grounded in reality. I’ll help you navigate the transition to your dream job skillfully, methodically, and strategically. Selected Background My coaching draws upon my communication skills (I hold a master’s degree in journalism from a top ranked journalism school); my spiritual training (I studied Eastern spiritual wisdom and was ordained a Swami of Kriya Yoga); and my strengths as a strategic, analytical, and intuitive thinker. I also draw upon 22 years of professional experience spanning industries such as politics, entertainment, journalism, and not-for-profit. I have managed communications, fundraising, and marketing departments; have successfully launched a consulting business in which I grew and eventually sold; and have broken into two notoriously nepotistic industries without any contacts. On a personal note, I derive a lot of satisfaction from helping clients find a job that they are passionate about because this has been my path. At the age of 29, I left an unfulfilling job in the film business and took some time off to re-evaluate my life and my goals. I wanted to do something more meaningful with my skills. But I didn’t want to just jump into something that sounded interesting and find out later that it wasn’t the right fit. So I consulted with a career counselor (as there weren’t coaches back then). As a result, I started a new career in nonprofit. After three months in an entry-level position, I was promoted to the director of the department. I spent another 10 years in nonprofit and for six of those years, I owned a successful nonprofit consulting firm. I believe I was successful because this career was a bull’s eye match for me in terms of my values, strengths, and skills. So I am passionate about what I do as a career coach because I know from personal experience that it works. |
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I’m Anne Angerman, and through career coaching, I’ve coached hundreds of clients to help them to find new directions. I specialize in and focus exclusively on career coaching. I will help you:
What do I want to do when I grow up? I hear this frequently from clients. For some people, they know at 16 what they want to do; others search a whole life time to find career satisfaction and clarity. Why is it hard for some? Much goes back to our family background, expectations from others, the values and systems that influence us. We have found from research that it is important to have a career “vision” and to look to certain factors to help us make a choice. These factors are: Abilities, Skills, Interests, Personality, Values, Family of Origin, Vision and Goals, Career Cycle (or, Where am I in my life?) What are Abilities, Anyway? Abilities are our permanent set of talents and natural strengths. They stabilize in a person’s life at about age 14 and are virtually the same throughout the person’s working years. Abilities implicate the ways we learn, communicate, make decisions, and use our creative and mental talents. The Illuminating Power of Assessments Our research has shown us that utilizing assessments to understand you at a deeper level will be very helpful to our work. All assessments are taken online and will be discussed on the telephone. Our “golden” assessment, which has given much clarity to many people, is The Highlands Ability Battery. The Highlands, as it’s called, is a 3½-hour test, taken online, that reveals those innate abilities of a person that are formed by the age of 16. It also reveals an optimal work situation, compatible work roles, artistic abilities, and learning styles. Other assessments utilized are the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the Strong Interest Inventory (SII). The Myers Briggs reveals information about a person’s personality, temperament and compatible careers. The Strong Interest Inventory is a short test revealing information about a person’s interests. Participants receive a computerized report with different career suggestions and fields to explore. |
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I’m Bradley Foster, an experienced executive, career and transition coach known for my keen insights, clear perspective and intuitive interventions which have helped hundreds of my clients reach a deeper understanding of themselves, set their sights on their goals and move forward on a path that is truly theirs. I have experience coaching mid-career executives of Fortune 500 companies, CEO’s and lawyers in leadership and communication skills that have helped them excel both personally and professionally. I bring a balanced perspective, creativity and judgment to my client. I strongly believe in producing actionable steps and practical outcomes for my clients that they can do something with. I am also experienced helping people re-enter the work force after a hiatus or helping students get a start in their work life. Process: Integrative Approach: |
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I’m Will Wiebe, and I coach individuals, groups, teams and organizations. I am a certified career coach, a member of the International Coach Federation, and was the inaugural Lead Career Coach for VocationVacations (a company dedicated to enriching people’s lives by allowing them to test-drive the occupation of their dreams). I’m also a successful speaker, professional facilitator, and team effectiveness trainer. My Approach: My creative approach to professional career transition coaching develops a powerful alliance between individuals, groups, teams and organizations. This life-giving alliance empowers you to explore and discover your rich interior self. My approach will guide you to produce extraordinary results in your life, career, business, or organization. Through this coaching process, you will deepen your learning, improve your performance, and enhance the quality of your life. I’ve been guiding individuals, businesses, and organizations to clarity, alignment, change and transformation for 25 years. Powerful Questions – Remarkable Results: What is inspiring you to live? |
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LaVonne works with her clients to embrace change and jump start their careers. LaVonne will help you to go from the present into the future with empowerment, focus, ease and enthusiasm. You will learn how to enhance your communication skills, strengthen your leadership abilities, and create strategies for achieving your goals. Your focus will become clear; your path will become real. LaVonne’s background as Human Resources Program Manager, focusing on diversity and recruiting, has given her lots of experience and a deep understanding of the challenges that women, people with disabilities, and minorities may have in a corporate/professional environment as well as personally. LaVonne will work with you to develop the tools that will help you to be successful. She works with clients to:
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