Executive Coaching and Career Change Management
For individuals looking to improve one’s own employment prospects, Nancy utilizes her considerable skills in marketing and communications to help you be the most attractive candidate you can be. After all, a job search is about personal branding.
Whether you are a newbie to the working world, a mid-level manager hoping to make a move up or out, or an executive looking to re-frame her story after a job termination, Nancy’s personalized attention can give momentum and focus to your search.
She will help you:
drill down on your core competencies and what you most enjoy doing – ensuring that will have the most clarity on what you’re going after.
see how your skills or experience could be transferrable to another industry and help you articulate that redirection to others to use in networking and interviews.
decide when taking a risk is advisable – or not.
prioritize your experiences in a way that presents your best story.
do an assessment of your web presence, including LinkedIn, and suggest ways to clean up your social media and improve how others find you through SEO optimization.
communicate your most compelling and memorable stories at interviews.
find language in how you might answer difficult or uncomfortable questions.
And on a more hands-on level, Nancy can assist you in writing, editing and designing your print or digital materials.
Here’s what some she helped have to say:
“Nancy has an innate talent for matching people to opportunities and for framing their professional experience in a way that resonates with employers. She not only transformed my resume from a list of tasks into a compelling story about results-driven leadership, she helped me identify what I was looking for and guided me to the perfect position. From start to finish, she is thoroughly invested in your success.”
Alex Wang, Senior Marketing Manager, SANS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE
“Nancy has always guided me to make choices that are not only beneficial to my career, but also to my personal development. Most recently, she coached me through the interviewing process for a high-level editorial communications position in academia—which she also identified for me. I would recommend Nancy to anyone—at any level. Her thoughtful, personalized career advice will help you advance towards your goals and challenge your hidden potential.”
Julie Godsoe, Editorial Director,
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
“Several years ago, I was contemplating a career change from corporate to nonprofit. Nancy’s insights and counsel were invaluable in helping me to appreciate and articulate the value of my transferable skills and experience, setting me on a successful path in higher education marketing.”
Mark Houghtaling, Senior Director, Marketing Operations,
THE NEW SCHOOL
“After I graduated from college, I was having a difficult time focusing my career path. Nancy was tremendously helpful in giving me the tools to strengthen my application materials and interviewing skills. She helped me navigate multiple job offers, and I now have a wonderful job in development!”
Emily Hollingworth, Foundation Relations, CARNEGIE HALL
“When I started searching for a new job and trying to position myself as an editorial rather than administrative professional, Nancy helped me to revamp my resume and come up with an elevator pitch. She changed the way I presented myself.”
Melissa Lee, Student Communications Specialist, TUFTS UNIVERSITY
“Nancy’s help was like a visit from Marie Kondo to my workshop! She gave me valuable advice on honing my résumé, and I have shared her technique of interview preparation with many friends and colleagues.”
John Hoban, Operations Executive,
NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT/MTA
“Nancy has been a fantastic mentor and coach, who combines her expertise in communications with her people skills as a connector to help people move forward in their careers.
“She is organized, strategic, and detail- oriented. Nancy has held me accountable for my own progress, and pushed me to focus on my plans and goals. She has helped me to sharpen the communications I will use in my development and craft my personal story.
“Most importantly though, Nancy is a kind human being who has been instrumental in helping me build and develop confidence in my skills and abilities.”
Nadine Rivellese, Associate General Counsel
CON EDISON
“While looking to change jobs within the residential buildings’ management field, I met with Nancy to discuss strategies for navigating resident board interviews. Nancy helped me to rethink and re-frame the way I present my professional experience to groups of industry-outsiders. I start my new position in a couple weeks.”
John McCullough, Residential Buildings Manager,
WORLDWIDE PLAZA
“Nancy helped me see the forest for the trees when I shifted careers from marketing to fundraising. Her insights into my skill set combined with her line-by-line review of my résumé gave me the tools to build the case for why I'm where I am now as a director of development.”
John Roleke, Director of Development,
ST. JOHN’S PREP SCHOOL
“At a key point of transition in my professional life, Nancy truly listened to where I'd been and what assets I brought to the table, and with her deeply creative, practical but out of the box thinking guided my next career choices in a way that has made for long-term success and fulfillment. It would not have been possible without her breadth of experience and extraordinary personal vision."
Matthew Sussman, Senior Director, Digital Presence,
THE NEW SCHOOL
"I have benefited from Nancy Donner's insight, advice and counsel on several occasions, and in numerous ways. Whether it was recommendations on restructuring my résumé to better align with my career objectives; suggestions for broadening my scope when searching for and considering new professional opportunities; insights on how best to capitalize on job promotions; and, at times, how to move forward when between jobs, Nancy’s ability to analyze a situation, to craft a solution, and to foster confidence and enthusiasm when I may have been at a low point have helped—time and again—to get my head back in the game. Her guidance has always been spot on, most welcome and so very helpful.”
Joe Chiplock, Executive Assistant, ACTOR’S EQUITY ASSOCIATION
“Nancy has a unique ability to utilize her expertise in branding, marketing, and communications to help individuals figure out how to realize and advance their own personal brand. This proved especially helpful to me as I sought to make a career change later in life, a time when many of us are dragging around a lot of experiences that we assume define us professionally. Nancy really helped me to see beyond what I had accomplished and to focus more on what I want to do and how to make that happen. She helped me to understand the importance of framing my experiences—both professional AND personal—in such a way to tie in with my “future profile,” a document that complements my résumé, but tells people where I want to go in my career.”