I am a career coach, advisor, mentor, and career readiness strategist who helps students, recent graduates, alumni, attorneys, executives, and professionals at moments of transition clarify who they are, articulate the value they offer, and translate their experiences into meaningful career opportunities.

My approach is grounded in a simple belief: career development is fundamentally a human endeavor. People rarely move forward because they received one more generic tip or revised one more line on a résumé. They move forward when they gain clarity about what matters to them, recognize the strengths and competencies they have already developed, build relationships that expand their perspective, and take purposeful action toward a realistic next step.

I provide individualized coaching and advising across the full career development process, including career exploration, professional identity, résumé and cover letter development, LinkedIn and personal branding, networking, informational interviewing, interview preparation, job search strategy, career transitions, workplace communication, salary negotiation, and the responsible use of artificial intelligence. Just as importantly, I help people manage the emotional side of career development: uncertainty, rejection, self-doubt, impostor syndrome, loss of confidence, and the fear that often accompanies a first job search or significant career transition.

My advising is practical, candid, and deeply personalized. I do not begin by asking, “What job do you want?” I begin by helping individuals understand their values, interests, strengths, curiosities, constraints, motivations, and lived experiences. From there, we identify patterns, explore possibilities, test assumptions, and develop an actionable strategy. The goal is not merely to secure the next position. It is to build the self awareness and career management skills required to navigate a lifetime of professional transitions.

A central part of my coaching philosophy is the VICC framework: Value, Intent and Credibility, and Confidence. VICC helps individuals identify the distinctive value they bring, approach opportunities with genuine intent, establish credibility through preparation and action, and communicate with confidence rather than arrogance. This framework reflects the larger philosophy behind my book, Spilling The Career Tea Book, which translates the unwritten expectations of the workplace into practical, learnable skills. The book extends career coaching beyond applications and interviews to encompass communication, critical thinking, professionalism, resilience, digital fluency, personal branding, career competencies, and AI readiness. 

I also use the SOLVE Method to help individuals approach complex professional decisions with structure and critical thinking. Rather than immediately reacting to a career problem, individuals learn to define the issue, examine relevant information, consider options and tradeoffs, and move toward an intentional course of action. Together, VICC and SOLVE help people connect self awareness with execution: understanding what they offer, communicating it credibly, and making better decisions about what comes next.

My advising experience spans different populations and career stages. I have helped students and recent graduates translate academic, cocurricular, athletic, volunteer, and part time experiences into language employers understand. I have supported alumni and mid-career professionals navigating reinvention, workplace dissatisfaction, job loss, and career pivots. My legal and executive background also enables me to work credibly with attorneys, organizational leaders, and experienced professionals confronting questions of advancement, leadership, professional identity, and long term direction. My résumé materials describe a background that includes career advising alongside more than 30 years as a practicing attorney, managing partner, chief legal officer, mentor, and executive advisor.

At Fordham, my work extends beyond individual appointments to the creation of coaching environments and developmental ecosystems. I connect career advising with mentoring, alumni engagement, experiential learning, professional development, and digital community building. The objective is to ensure that a coaching conversation does not end with advice. Whenever possible, it should lead to a relationship, experience, resource, opportunity, or accountable next step.

That philosophy informs initiatives such as RAMS Helping RAMS, Fordham Studio which combines individualized guidance, alumni access, job-search strategy, competency development, emotional readiness, and ongoing accountability. Its career launch model addresses communication, teamwork, critical thinking, professionalism, leadership, technology and AI fluency, networking, interviewing, personal branding, resilience, and employment outcomes. 

I have also envisioned career coaching as a developmental progression that should begin in the first year, not when graduation becomes urgent. Through the RamVantage concept, career exploration begins with identity, purpose, belonging, core competencies, peer and alumni relationships, AI literacy, and manageable milestone based activities. Students then advance toward industry exploration, job shadowing, experiential learning, leadership, executive mentorship, capstone work, and first-destination outcomes. 

Technology supports this work, but it does not replace the human relationship at its center. I use platforms such as PeopleGrove and RamConnect to extend coaching into mentoring, peer communities, alumni connections, experiential opportunities, milestone tracking, and sustained professional networks. My philosophy is that a platform becomes valuable only when it helps people form relationships, take meaningful action, and recognize their own development.

My coaching style can best be described as:

• Human-centered: I listen for the person beneath the résumé and the concern beneath the question.
• Strengths-based: I help individuals recognize value they may be overlooking or communicating too modestly.
• Practical: Every conversation should lead to an action, experiment, introduction, resource, or decision.
• Relationship-driven: I teach networking as authentic relationship-building, not transactional outreach.
• Employer-informed: I help individuals understand how their experiences will be interpreted by recruiters, hiring managers, colleagues, and institutional leaders.
• Developmental: I focus on skills and habits that remain valuable beyond the immediate job search.
• Technology-enabled: I incorporate AI, digital tools, platforms, and data without losing the importance of human judgment.
• Emotionally aware: I address confidence, resilience, rejection, ambiguity, and professional identity as essential parts of career readiness.
• Candid and encouraging: I provide honest feedback while helping people recognize possibilities they may not yet see in themselves.

Ultimately, I help people bridge the distance between experience and value, uncertainty and direction, potential and action. My work is not limited to helping someone land a job. It is about helping that person develop the language, confidence, relationships, competencies, and decision making ability to build a meaningful next chapter.