Make your next career move with your EYES WIDE OPEN.

1:1 career strategy for when "something's off" has gone on long enough.

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You have more options, leverage, and agency than you might realize.

I'm not here to talk you into quitting, but I do want to help you see your situation clearly enough to make the call yourself. Staying is a valid decision. So is walking away or changing fields entirely.

It can be hard to see any of that clearly when you’re in the thick of it. Together, we will sort out your situation, explore your options, and weigh the tradeoffs, so you can make a call that’s truly yours.

The best choice for you is the one you can stand behind.

Recognize yourself here?

You went into your line of work to make something good, now it’s all about that sweet, sweet shareholder value.

You often fantasize about running away to live in a cave, and never working on a computer again.

You feel trapped by “golden handcuffs” or a desire to serve “the mission” at your own expense.

Your job is fine but it isn’t fulfilling. What you really want is to do something actually meaningful without torching your income.

You’re ready for something new after devoting 20 years to your field, but you can't see the throughline to what's next.

You're carrying out decisions you'd never make if they were yours.

You've tried better boundaries, managing up, and just riding it out. None of it makes a difference.

You’re being asked to build things you know will make the product worse for the people using it.

You left (or got pushed out of) the industry you thought you'd retire from, and it feels like starting from scratch.

The version of success you were chasing at 25 has lost its hold on you now that you’re 45.

HOW THE WORK UNFOLDS

Think of this as a research project for your life.

Collaborative inquiry over quick fixes. 

Some people arrive already deep in the questioning. Others have been sitting with a growing sense that something isn't adding up. Our work is tailored to wherever you are, but the guiding principles are the same. And because real life doesn’t pause while you sort this out, we’ll adjust our work as needed.

1) RESEARCH

We start by gathering the data on your situation: your experiences, career through line, current tensions, motivations and goals.

We’ll identify what's structural and what's in your control, and how well aligned your work is with what who you are and what you care about.

We’ll use exercises and frameworks where they fit, and keep pulling the threads until the possibilities come into focus.

2) ACT

Reflection and analysis only take you so far.

At some point, sitting with the questions stops being useful and you have to test your thinking against the real world.

You'll take deliberate action to put your ideas to the test and narrow your options.

The goal is to learn just enough and maintain a balanced pace without committing too soon.

3) DECIDE

By the end, you’ll have a framework for weighing your options that’s grounded in data, while trusting your own judgement to act on it.

Maybe you decide to stay, go, or build something on your own terms. Or you’ll have a stronger sense of what to explore next on your own.

Either way, it's a direction you can trust and feel good about, because you're the one who chose it.

WHAT I OFFER

Sliding scale pricing available upon request

STRATEGY SESSION

$300

50 minutes to work through a decision that can’t wait, or a second pair of eyes on the thing you can't stop thinking about.

WHAT YOU’LL GET

  • A clear read on your situation

  • A decision on the question in front of you

  • A plan for next steps that you can act on right away

STRATEGY PACKAGE

$1200

For questions bigger than one conversation. Three sessions over 6-8 weeks to assess your situation, weigh your options, and make progress on a specific question or decision.

WHAT YOU’LL GET

  • An inventory of your values, priorities, goals, must-haves, and real-world constraints

  • A framework to assess your options

  • A decision or a plan to reach one that you feel good about

WAYFINDING PACKAGE

$2400

For figuring out what’s next when you know it’s time for something new. Six custom sessions over 3-6 months, with time to work through a complex situation or big transition.

WHAT YOU’LL GET

  • Everything in the Strategy Package, plus:

  • A space to explore your options

  • Language for what connects your past work to what’s next

  • A decision you can stand behind

  • Collaborative support through the change

What your engagement includes:

An in-depth questionnaire to kick off our work with a shared context about you, your situation, and your goals

A PLAN WITH NEXT STEPS TO implement

resources, frameworks, & exercises to complEment our work

RECEIVE EMAIL SUPPORT & PRIORITY SCHEDULING (PACKAGE CLIENTS)

A SESSION recording and transcript (WITH CONSENT)

Sliding scale pricing & payment plans at no extra charge

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Since 2020, I’ve supported hundreds of people with existential career decisions. Different industries, different roles, same underlying dynamics. You won’t be the first person to sit across from me with the questions you’re carrying. The specifics of your situation matter, but the patterns underneath don’t change much from one field to the next.

My clients are experienced professionals who come from tech, academia, government, civic tech, nonprofits, research, design, consulting, and all the in-between jobs that aren’t easily described.

All of which is to say:
bring the complicated version.

What Clients Say

  • “Amy created a safe, grounded space. Her thoughtful, incisive questions helped me separate external pressures from what I actually want out of my career, and move forward intentionally rather than reactively.”

    — Claire, Research Lead

  • “Amy gave me the tools and support I needed to focus my goals, overcome my uncertainty, and make some tough career decisions. I overcame my uncertainty and confusion, and had a concrete plan to put it into action.”

    — Kirsten, Senior Product Designer

Hi, I’m Amy! (she/her)

I offer a different kind of career strategy for people who’ve tried the obvious things. You need a clear read on your environment and a deliberate process for figuring out what to do about it. Rather than prioritize immediate action, we start with a generative deep dive into your values, priorities, goals, and trade-offs so the path forward is realistic and rooted in what actually matters to you.

I’ve lived this work.

Fifteen years across a range of organizational environments means that I know how these places operate, not just how they claim to.

I’ve studied this.

As an anthropologist, I’m wired to see the relationship between individuals and the systems they’re inside of. I work at the level of the individual in context, paying attention to how your identity and lived experiences interact with and are shaped by the institutions and social structures around you.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

  • Consider me your personal sparring partner in crime. I lean strategist because the work I love best takes a multidisciplinary approach to helping people think through their situations and make decisions intentionally. My methods draw from coaching, strategy, research, design, psychology, intersectional feminism, and the social sciences.

  • This is a confidential and non-judgmental collaboration that is shaped by your agenda. I draw on the ethics codes of both the International Coaching Federation and the Society for Applied Anthropology.

  • You'll come away with a real read on your situation and options, and a decision you can stand behind (or a plan for how to get there). You'll develop practices to support you in the future, and more trust in your own judgment. What I can't do is do it for you. I bring the questions, the structure, and the outside perspective, but it works only because you make it happen.

  • Absolutely. If your situation is nagging at you enough to be reading this, that's usually a strong signal. It has to be the right time for you to benefit from an engagement, but reaching out doesn’t commit you to anything.

  • This is a 30-minute Zoom call to see if I’m the right person to support you. You tell me what's going on and what you're working toward, and I'll share more about the process and answer any questions you have. There’s no prep required and zero pressure (I detest salesiness as much as you do). If I'm not the right person, I'll say so and point you to someone who is.

  • 15 years inside a range of organizations, 6 years of 1:1 career strategy and coaching, a Master’s in Applied Anthropology from The University of Memphis, and an ICF-accredited Certificate in Professional Coaching from NYU. Plus a long track record of writing, speaking, and podcasting on work, meaning, and the systems we're inside of.

  • Yep! As a lifelong personal-growth nerd, I’ve done a lot of deep inner work over the years to build a life on my own terms. I've developed a practice of self-understanding and self-advocacy to help me through my own versions of what you're facing, and I got crucial support from a few coaches along the way. Everyone needs someone in their corner, including me.

  • Many of my clients have been neurodivergent and so am I! The way your brain works is part of how you process information, prioritize, and make decisions, and any process worth its salt accounts for that.

  • Often, yes. Career transitions are the core of my work, but the same tools travel well beyond that. If you're weighing something that involves strategy, writing, speaking, or positioning, it's likely in range. Tell me what you're working on, and I'll be honest about whether I'm the right person for it. I have a roster of people to send you to if not.

You need more than time to think. You need a better way to think about it.

If you think this might be for you, let's find out. The next step is a conversation to discuss what it would look like to work together, and if I'm the right person to help. If not, I’ll point you to someone who can. 

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