1:1 Career Coaching For Tech Professionals
Advance Your Career, Elevate Your Life
Your career is a huge part of your identity, which can disrupt or enhance all the other parts of your life. To us, career coaching is about more than climbing the corporate ladder or collecting more job titles.
We believe in designing your career to align with the flexibility, freedom, and impact you want to have in your professional and personal life.
That’s why we start every coaching engagement by defining what success (in work and life) means to you. When you get clarity on that, we can help you shape your career to support that vision.
Ready to transform your career into one that supports your best life?
We Can Help You:
With our support, you'll be able to make a strong case for why you deserve the next step in your professional journey.
Get Promoted
We’ll share our interview framework for shaping a compelling professional story so you become an unforgettable candidate.
Master Interviewing
We’ll teach you how to build an engaging personal brand, connect strategically, and nurture your professional relationships.
Network Effectively
Identify your strengths, refine your personal brand, and highlight your achievements, making you a standout candidate in the job market.
Change Jobs
Navigate salary negotiations with confidence and proven strategies to ensure you skillfully negotiate for the salary you deserve.
Negotiate Your Salary
Whether you’re currently in a leadership position or an aspiring leader, we can help you with strategic leadership development.
Build Leadership Skills
Our Career Coaching Process
1. Unblock
The first step towards career growth is often the most challenging. Our 'Unblock' phase is designed to help you overcome the mental and emotional roadblocks holding you back. Through personalized coaching, we'll work together to identify and address your unique barriers, whether it's fear of change, self-doubt, career burnout, or comfort with the familiar.
Identify and address your unique barriers
Shift your mindset and build confidence
Define the mental and emotional roadblocks holding you back
2. Clarify
In this stage, we work to clarify what career and life success looks like to you. Through an in-depth skills assessment, we'll uncover your core competencies and areas of excellence, helping you better define your strategic job search. We'll also help you to communicate your achievements in resumes and interviews through engaging storytelling, making you a memorable and irresistible candidate.
Define what success looks like to you
Assess your skills and write your accomplishment narratives
Outline your strategic job search
3. Take Action
We'll work together to set clear, actionable goals that propel you forward. From refining your resume to navigating job boards, applying, interviewing, promotion conversations, and more, we're with you every step of the way. You’ll have a dedicated partner supporting your career development journey, through all the ups and downs. We’re the fairy on your shoulder, ready to answer all your tough questions and be your biggest cheerleader.
Set actionable goals
Resume and portfolio analysis and recommendations
Apply and interview
4. Network
In the 'Network' phase, we focus on building a compelling online personal brand that highlights your newly defined skills, aspirations, and unique strengths. Through strategic networking techniques, you'll learn how to engage with industry professionals, expand your connections, and nurture relationships that can open doors to your next big opportunity.
Refine and work to build your online personal brand
Reach out and connect strategically
Nurture relationships
5. Negotiate And Win
Discussing compensation can feel awkward, but it's a crucial step, whether you’re negotiating for a promotion or a new position. We’ll equip you with our proven strategies to navigate these conversations with confidence and finesse. We’ll support you through the intricacies of job offer and salary negotiations, helping you articulate your value effectively, ensuring you receive fair compensation for your skills and contributions.
Strategies for how to advocate for yourself
Build confidence with negotiation conversations
Guidance on fair compensation for your skills
Who we work with
We Support Talented Humans From Individual Contributors to C-Suite
We often help people going through what we call a ‘mid career crisis’. They’ve worked hard to get where they’re at and are either looking to get to the next level, pivot to what’s next, plan their exit, or dial back in their careers.
Whatever the role, we’re especially passionate about advocating for women and underrepresented communities in their tech careers. We strive to be a driving force in creating a more equitable tech landscape. We care deeply about our client’s success and empowering everyone we work with to thrive in careers and lives they love - your Peak State.
Career Climbers
You’re ready to advance your existing career, but you’re not sure what your next move should be.
Career Re-balancers
Work is burning you out. You’re ready for more flexibility and a more balanced work and life.
Leaders
Human-first leadership that cultivates the very best of your teams, while supporting your growth and development.
A Few of Our Client Success Stories
Become Our Next Success Story
Meet Coach Carrie
For 20+ years I worked as a technical recruiter and leader for top tech companies including Netflix and Google. Now, I’m a tech career career coach and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategist/ally. My mission is to empower women and underrepresented communities to successfully navigate and thrive in tech careers they love.
I advise on networking, interviewing, and salary negotiation strategies that work. I’m an open book - sharing the exact hiring and interviewing processes that I chaired at top companies including Netflix, Google, Verizon, and Intel. And beyond tactical strategies, I help you do the very important inner work of clarifying your future vision, shifting your mindset, unlocking your confidence, and owning your worth.
Ready to transform your career? I’ll be your secret weapon and biggest cheerleader as you land that promotion or new job you’ve been dreaming of!
Your Peak is within Reach
At Peak State Coaching, we collaborate to create sustainable career practices that will transform the way you show up in your professional life. Our coaching focuses on creating immediate impact, behavior shifts, and long-term change in your tech career.
Peak State Signature Coaching
$3,333
Or $1111 monthly
3 months of customized one-on-one coaching focused on your personal and professional potential
✓ Leverage self-awareness and emotional intelligence to improve organizational communication
✓ Identify your strengths, refine your personal brand, and highlight your achievements to become a standout candidate no matter the job market
✓ Address self-limiting beliefs and behaviors that stand in the way of transformational growth
✓ Master the art of interviewing, shaping a compelling professional story that makes you an unforgettable candidate
✓ Develop strategic networking skills to build and nurture professional relationships effectively
✓ Navigate salary negotiations with confidence, ensuring you skillfully advocate for the compensation you deserve
✓ Cultivate resilience and strategies to combat stress and overwhelm in the fast-paced, high-demand environments
✓ Develop greater leadership competency and executive presence, whether you're currently in a leadership position or an aspiring leader
✓ Discover and develop your deeper purpose and passion – learn how to incorporate them into your career for greater fulfillment
Career coaching may be considered part of your professional development. Check with your employer on employee development benefits for performance or leadership coaching reimbursement. These can often be covered via Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) or Health Savings Accounts.
Ready to Transform Your Career?
Schedule a Discovery Call
Career Coaching is an Investment in Your Future Earnings
If our coaching helps you negotiate or land a new job at even a 5% increase on a $100,000 salary, that's $5,000 more per year, and you’ll recoup your investment in our program.
On average, our clients range between 25% and 100% pay increases through our program.
And remember, career coaching isn't just about immediate gains.
The skills and strategies you learn will serve you throughout your career.
If our strategies helps you negotiate better or secure higher-paying positions over the course of your career, the ROI could be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars!
Frequently Asked Questions
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Peak State Coaching may be right for you if you're a tech industry professional ready to invest in yourself. You may suspect you deserve more or even need a little convincing, and we'll be here to cheer you on as you overcome barriers, tell your professional story confidently, and achieve your career dreams. For real. Our approach synthesizes decades of industry intel, tried and true strategies from Coach Carrie, and a human-centered approach to pursuing the life and career you dream of. We want this to be a good fit for you — check out our blog for more information.
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We want coaching support to be as accessible as possible, so we offer monthly payment options to make the cost more manageable.
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Check this out — our clients have experienced significant increases in their job offers and compensation plans, resulting in 30% to 100% pay increases. Considering the short-term cost of coaching compared to the potential compensation improvement makes it worthwhile.
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You’ll select a time that works best for you for a live video call. Although I have an AI notetaker on our calls capturing all the juicy nuggets, I encourage you to take notes, and utilize the templates and exercises I’ll share with you as you take action toward your goals.
We take a holistic approach to life and career coaching. You’ll get the most out of the program when you are present, open, honest, and committed to taking action. We know you’ll get great results as long as you’re in it to win for yourself.
We review your desired outcome and if you’re unsure of what that is, that’s okay, we can start there. As we build a plan, we’ll check in on how you’re doing and make any adjustments so you stay on track.
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We recommend meeting weekly or bi-weekly to get the most out of coaching and maintain momentum towards your desired outcomes.
Calls are typically 45 minutes to an hour, and include exercises or homework for our next session to help you make incremental progress.
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We do not offer refunds as coaching clients who commit fully to our program, do the work, and apply the concepts can expect to see results.
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You'll have lifetime access to the session notes and summaries, your personal folder of resources, and the templates we utilize in your sessions. These resources are meant to be built upon, and you may find them useful long after our coaching sessions!
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I do! I offer many free and lower-cost options that are a great way to move you closer to your goals until you're ready for coaching.
Check out the free resources on my website.
Drop in for an hourly, a la carte strategy coaching session.
Sign up for a one-time High Impact Day for mastering interviews. We'll do an 8-hour deep dive, one-on-one, to get you ready to shine at interviews.
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We do not have a waitlist at this time. Once you apply and share a bit more about yourself, you’ll book some time for us to connect for a Discovery call over a video. Not ready to apply? That’s okay, let’s start with a chat. Schedule some time to meet here.
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No. Although Tech is the industry I have expertise in, our coaching method works for any industry or sector you may be in. We have worked with clients from supply chain to sales roles at non-tech companies. The coaching strategies we leverage make an impact no matter your industry.
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