I'm happy to introduce Feroce's hand-picked career coaches.  I have looked for career coaches all over North America, and I can tell you that the breadth and depth of the Feroce coaches' experience is unparalleled.  If you can't decide on which coach to ask for, that's okay too.  Just ask for your free career coaching consultation and we'll talk to you about your goals in greater detail and suggest a coach we think would be right for you.  To see just some of the many powerful tools that are included at no extra cost in your coaching, see our Strategic Life Planning Process:  The Creation of the Future Self.  Some coaches also use sophisticated career assessments.

Did you know your career coaching could be tax-deductible?

Our Action-Packed Career Coaches

Mino Sullivan, Career and Retirement Coach

Wendy Billie, Career Coach

Wanda Ropa, Intuitive Career Coach

Anne Angerman, Career Coach

C.J. Liu, Career Coach

Will Wiebe, Career Coach

Cameron Powell, Career Performance Coach

Mino -- Career and Retirement Coach

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.

Wendy -- Career Coach

I’m Wendy Billie, career coach with Feroce.  As an in-house coach with a major, Fortune 50 company, I have a great deal of experience in outplacement -- helping clients to figure out their next career move -- as well as in helping clients get to the next level in their current careers.  That's why I was approached by Feroce's Head Coach to share my skill set as a career coach.  I have also provided advice and career counseling to MBA and undergraduate students at the University of Minnesota.

I work with clients on all of the following:

Career tests and assessments:  Before you begin to reinvent yourself, discover who you are as it relates to work and life.  I use my own powerful assessments as well as Feroce's Strategic Life Planning Process, "The Creation of the Future Self."
Identifying your values to enable you to make a sound career decision.  Is it really a career transition you desire or is life telling you something else?
Identifying the roadblocks you will encounter with your career transition.  Hot off the press:  Change is not simple!
Challenging you, holding you accountable, and never losing sight of the ultimate goal.

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.  I took steps to reinvent myself a few years ago because I was stuck in my career.  I left a high-paying job as a traveling occupational therapist, and I sought out a coach, read books, took career tests, and discovered who I was as my identity related to career.

I used my skills and life learning in my own reinvention process.  I am now in a career that fits me and pays even better than the one I worried about giving up.  Career coaching has been a true passion of mine and a way to continuously challenge others and reinvent myself in the process.  Why consider me as your career coach?  Read my bio.

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

Wanda - Intuitive Career coach

Wanda Ropa is a Master’s level certified experienced intuitive career coach who helps individuals, groups, teams and organizations find the right solutions in the workplace. With over 20 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 has coached many individuals in careers from A-Z.  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.  Check out Wanda's Coaching Blog.

Wanda has been successful in many diverse careers: nurse, therapist, teacher, consultant, trainer, entrepreneur, executive coach, and project manager.  She also held executive and leadership roles in human resources, sales, marketing, advertising, e-commerce, and more.  She 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!

“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

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 an intuitive creative style, I bring “real world” experience navigating the myriad of challenges and opportunities present in the workplace in the corporate arena, the healthcare 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 StrengthFinders™ Profile, identifies your top 5 natural born talents.  My StrengthFinders™ Profile reveals my top 5 strengths:

Self-Assurance - These people feel confident in their ability to manage their own lives.  They possess an inner compass that gives them confidence that their decisions are right.

Activator - Can make things happen by turning thoughts into action. In fact, guided by the Activator theme, these individuals believe that action is the best device for learning.

Ideation - Fascinated by ideas. They are 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.

Learner - Great desire to learn and 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, the 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 increase communication, leadership, and emotional intelligence skills:

Strengthfinders™ Profile – identifies your top 5 natural born talents
I Speak™ Communication Assessment – quickly and easily provides you with your communication style and how to adapt to the other 3 types. It's based on Carl Jung’s theory of psychological types. Appreciate Inquiry – in-depth review of your peak performance periods

Strong™ and MBTI™ Career Report
Strong™ Interest Inventory
Myers-Briggs™ Type Indicator
Thomas-Kilmann™ Conflict Mode Instrument
FIRO-B™
CPI-260™Coaching Report for Leaders
Multi-Rater 360™Assessments
BarOn™ Emotional Quotient Inventory – emotional intelligence instrument

All assessments may be taken online or in paper and pencil format.
 

Anne Angerman - Exclusively Career Coaching

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:
 

Develop and put into action an individualized strategy to meet your life goals and aspirations
Take more action that improves your life
Understand yourself better and know yourself at a deeper level
Clarify where you are going in your life
Learn why you have been unsatisfied with present vocational situation
Looking at your personal vision
Set up goals and a plan for you to follow
Market yourself

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.

Read Bio.  Read How I do career coaching.

C.J.

C.J. Liu is a career coach who has worked with individuals, groups, teams, and organizations.  As a former CFO and marketing and strategic consultant, she has over 20 years of business experience in a variety of industries and functional areas.  This extensive business background enables C.J. to quickly understand the breadth and depth of many career-related issues.  Before joining Feroce Consulting, C.J. served as an in-house executive/business coach at Microsoft.

C.J.’s goal is for each client to feel alive as they make career choices that allow them to reach their full potential, follow their personal dreams and ambitions, and feel an inner sense of meaning and purpose.  C.J. has an intuitive approach that is grounded in practicality, which means that she offers helpful tools, strategies and action plans, but also deep listening, cheerleading, and heartfelt support.

For professionals interested in career transitions, C.J. matches her approach to each person’s unique needs.  This can result in a week-by-week determination of what to cover, or a more formalized structure.  For those who enjoy structure, C.J. offers a three-phase process.  Phase I is about clarifying your interests, skills, and life goals outside of work, so that you can develop a clear vision of what you want in your next job and your life.  Phase II helps you take your vision and construct a game plan and strategies to determine potential areas of interest.  In Phase III, we focus your attention on one or two key areas and on a formal job search.  During this phase, C.J. will review your resume, provide interviewing tips, and address any roadblocks that arise. For more information, please read C.J.’s long bio.

Will - Transitional Career Coach

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 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.

Will’s 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?
Who is designing your life?
What brings out the best in you?
What needs to change?
What are you waiting for?
What is your passion?
How do you feel?
Where might you find the answers?
How can you align with your values?
What can you do to move yourself forward?
What’s next?
Imagine if….
 

Cameron - Career Performance Coach

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