INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT
Assessment-based career clarity for professionals navigating transitions, role changes, or purpose exploration. We combine career-focused assessments with structured coaching to help you make decisions grounded in data about who you are and what energizes you — not just what’s available.
When you know something needs to change — but not what
You’re successful by most measures, but something feels off. Maybe you’ve outgrown your role and can’t see what’s next. Maybe you’re considering a major career shift but don’t want to make an expensive mistake. Maybe you’re returning to work after a break and the landscape has changed. Whatever the trigger, you need more than advice from friends and gut instinct — you need real data about your interests, strengths, and values to make a decision you’ll stand behind.
Who This Is For
- Professionals considering a career change but uncertain about direction
- Leaders in new roles (first 90–100 days) needing structured transition support
- Mid-career professionals feeling stuck, misaligned, or plateaued
- Individuals returning to the workforce after a break
- Professionals who have been laid off or reorganized and want to be intentional about what comes next
- Anyone seeking greater clarity about their strengths, interests, and values before making a major decision
The Assessment Foundation
Career development planning starts with three core assessments — each illuminating a different dimension of who you are. Together, they create a comprehensive picture that no single tool can provide.
| Assessment | What It Reveals |
|---|---|
| Strong Interest Inventory | Career interests and alignment across occupational themes. Shows which types of work environments and activities energize you — and which don’t. The most widely used career interest assessment in the world. |
| CliftonStrengths | Your top talent themes out of 34 — revealing how you’re naturally wired to think, relate, and contribute. Shifts the conversation from “what should I do?” to “what am I built for?” |
| VIA Character Strengths | 24 character strengths across six virtues. Connects your career decisions to your core values and sense of purpose — essential for long-term satisfaction, not just short-term fit. |
For a career transition, we add one behavioral instrument — DiSC (work style and environment preferences) or EQ-i 2.0 (emotional intelligence — particularly valuable for leadership transitions) — to deepen the picture.
How It Works
Discovery Call
A free 30-minute conversation to understand your situation, goals, and what’s driving the exploration. We’ll determine if career development planning is the right fit — or if another service would serve you better.
Assessment Administration
You complete your assessments online at your own pace (typically 60–90 minutes total). We score and analyze the results, looking for patterns across all of the instruments.
Integrated Debrief
A 90-minute session walking through your assessment results together — not separate debriefs, but one integrated conversation about what the combined data reveals about your interests, strengths, and values, and what it means for the decision in front of you.
Coaching & Action Planning
Structured coaching sessions to translate assessment insights into a real direction. We develop a written career development plan with concrete next steps — whether that’s a career pivot, a role transition, or a development plan to grow where you are.
A note on scope. This work is about direction and strategy — the decision you’re facing, the plan, and how to pursue it, including networking and job-search strategy. It doesn’t include hands-on job-search execution like resume writing, LinkedIn optimization, interview rehearsal, or offer negotiation. When you need that, we’ll point you to specialists who do it well.
Packages
| Package | Investment | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Career Clarity | $3,500 | 3 core assessments + 90-minute integrated debrief + 3 coaching sessions + written career development plan |
| Career Transition | $6,500 | Full assessment battery (3 core + DiSC or EQ-i 2.0) + 90-minute integrated debrief + 6 coaching sessions + transition roadmap + 90-day follow-up session |
| Employer-Sponsored | + $2,000 | Either package, sponsored by your organization. Adds a manager alignment conversation, an organization-ready development plan, and a confidential themes-level summary to the sponsor. Your results and coaching conversations remain confidential to you. |
Not sure which package fits? That’s what the discovery call is for — we’ll recommend the right starting point for your situation.
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Common Questions
How is this different from executive coaching?
Executive coaching focuses on leadership effectiveness in your current or next role — how you show up, how you lead, how you develop. Career development planning is specifically about direction — figuring out what you want to do and building a plan to get there. Some clients start with career development planning and then move into coaching once they’ve clarified their path. Others do both simultaneously.
I think I know what I want to do. Do I still need this?
Maybe not — and we’ll tell you that on the discovery call. But many clients who come in with a clear direction discover through the assessments that their assumptions were partially right and partially off. The data either confirms your instinct (which builds confidence) or reveals blind spots (which saves you from an expensive mistake). Either way, you make a better decision.
Can my employer sponsor this?
Yes. Many organizations invest in career development planning for high-potential employees, leaders in transition, or as part of a retention strategy. When an organization sponsors the work, we add a short alignment conversation with your manager at the start and provide a themes-level summary at the close — the direction and development priorities, not the details of your results or our conversations. Those stay confidential to you.
What if I realize I need to stay where I am?
That’s a perfectly good outcome. Career clarity doesn’t always mean career change. Sometimes the assessments reveal that you’re in the right place but need to reshape your role, pursue different projects, or develop in a specific direction. We build a development plan for wherever the data leads.