Below you will find a list of recommended coaches. These are colleagues that have a proven ability to move clients forward. Each has a different focus, so check out their backgrounds based on your needs. You can read more about finding the right coach on my blog. Don’t forget to ask for references!
Steve McClatchey
Steve McClatchey is the New York Times best-selling author of Decision. His focus is on helping people improve performance and achieve outstanding results in the areas of Leadership, Performance, Personal Growth, and Work/Life Engagement. More on his background – https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevemcclatchy.
Lisa Gates
Lisa Gates is an executive and professional development coach, and LinkedIn Learning author focused on negotiations. She focuses on helping people through obstacles, crafting a plan, and teaching them how to negotiate it. More on her background – https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisagates.
Melanie Buford
Melanie Buford is a career and leadership coach specializing in personality assessment and career design. Melanie has experience as a university instructor and has published several articles on the impact of personality, generation, and identity on career decision-making. More on her background – https://www.linkedin.com/in/mebuford.
Andy Cahill
Andy Cahill is a transformational coach helping individuals and teams achieve their full potential in service of a more creative, more equitable, more empowering world. He works with leaders, artists, entrepreneurs, and aspiring change-makers to build a life of purpose. For more on his background, visit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/
Alicia Reece
Alicia Reece is a Certified Professional Coach and HR Consultant with a focus on positive psychology and specialization in emotional intelligence. She has over 16 years of global diverse experience in Fortune 500 organizations across high technology, manufacturing, and consumer goods industries. She spent nearly a decade with Cisco, a Fortune 50 IT company, as a Professional Coach and in various HR leadership roles. Currently, Alicia is the Principal and owner of The Reece Group, a coaching and consulting practice that enables organizations, groups, and individual professionals to advance their career, life, and leadership goals. More on her background – http://www.linkedin.com/in/aliciadreece
Shannon O’Brian
Shannon O’Brien is a coach focused on encouraging holistic health, career success, and proactive citizenship through advising, educational programs, and media. More on her background – https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannonwholeu/
Debra Ann Hotch
Debra Ann Hotch’s coaching sessions offer the opportunity for a back-and-forth dialogue to articulate your career history and envision your career future. She will help you read between the lines of your story to help you move forward in alignment with your career goals and desires. She feels that your story may or may not be a linear progression. Her theory is that we often find rewards in reaching back in time to connect with meaningful interests and desires and that it is also essential to consider how your career fits with the rest of your life. For more about Debra, visit- https://www.linkedin.com/in/debra-ann-hotch/
Lynette Correa-Velez
Lynette Correa-Velez, M.Ed., (she/her/hers/ella), is the Assistant Director of Career Development at Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) located in Chicago, IL. As a trained Career Coach with over 17 years of professional experience in career coaching and workforce development, she has trained over 20,000 multicultural and inter-generational learners in over 20 21st-century career readiness topics. Lynette identifies as a Puerto Rican, a first-generation high school and college graduate from Boston, MA. Lynette has received over 13 awards and honors for her passion in co-empowering individuals and groups, both in-person and virtually, through organizational partnerships. She is a member of NACE, Chicago Career Professionals Network, NCDA, SHRM Chicago, ALPFA National, NASPA, ATD-Chicago, HACE Chicago, International Coaching Federation-Chicago, SEED Council at Francis Parker School, and Co-Founder of the Zoom show, “The Career View.” As a life-long social and racial justice advocate, she career coaches with a diversity, equity, and inclusive (DEI) and intersectional lens; where she is now a 3rd-year doctoral student in the Diversity and Equity in Education with an emphasis in Human Resource Development (HRD) program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She has her M.Ed. in HRD with a focus in Management of e-Learning for Workplace Learning & Training from UIUC, and her B.S. is in Business Management & Human Resource Management with a Minor in Psychology from Lesley University located in Cambridge, MA. She is a trained Career Coach from the Career Coach Institute. Lynette lives and works (now remotely due to conditions surrounding COVID-19) in Chicago with her husband and 4 y.o. son. To schedule a group or individual career coaching session with Lynette, please reach out to her via https://linktr.ee/lynettecv or LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/lcorreavelez/
Jackie Savoy
Jackie Savoy is a career & life coach/advisor with a background in higher education and career transition services industries. She has worked both domestically and internationally. More on her background – https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackiesavoy.
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