Career & Lifestyle Change for a Sustainable Future

Welcome all career transitioners! This is an open, interdisciplinary course designed to guide individuals or groups through a customized, 4-phase process for new-age career innovation in the context of a changing world. It is strategically focused on integrating your personalized career /life balancing strategies with the support of certified master coaches, while bringing insights on issues and professions as they are emerging in the Global to Local Economy. The course will include discussions focused on the new Age of Sustainability which is currently influencing all sectors including education, business, policy, environmental sciences, technology, global markets and communities. The truth is, we are all learning, jobs are changing, and leadership requires new approaches to foster innovation through collaboration with others who may bring their talents to enhance your results, and vice versa. As you join the course, you will be joining a community that wants to help you succeed even while YOU set the objectives and define what that means to you and your situational needs.

Why take this course? As Career Consultants, we know there are many resources online, but they are often fragmented, rather than offering you a clear "map" to navigate through a step by step process. While there are lots of "do it yourself" courses, careers require relationships! The most elite schools of business offer individualized executive coaches, but this comes at a very high price. And dare we say, whether you are in school or working in an organization, the "learning objectives" and "deliverables" are defined by somebody other than YOU.

Because we are committed to YOU as the central creator of your own goals and learning objectives, we have integrated the principles and practice of entrepreneurship so that YOU are the CEO of your own career process. Just like any organization, there is a mission statement, strategic plans to pro-active process, resources to utilize for effective project management, plus team talents with whom you will exchange to achieve mutual results.

What are your own talents? What do you want for your LIFE as well as your job or career? How do you define "success" for yourself, your family, your community? What do you want others to say about your impact? How may you create the story you intend to be the narrative of your life and legacy? It is simple and complex at the same time.

Our coaches are here to walk you through the proven 4-phase process i.e the 4 C's:

As a result of collaborative engagement in the course, participants will be able to:

CLARIFY your passion, purpose and profile combining multiple assessments (values, interests, personality traits, skills, leadership and learning styles, unique strengths).

• Outline and articulate your long-term life, learning and legacy goals.
  

• Research mission-aligned competencies, educational resources, organizations, experts, opportunities and challenges (SWOT).

COMMUNICATE strengths verbally, in writing, and digitally with awareness of how each venue must be adapted while remaining cohesive for your overall narrative. Participants will develop specific deliverables that will later be components of a professional portfolio (short bio, photo or logo, resume, cover letter, exhibits) These may be translated to web- based versions for professional branding, job search or entrepreneurial purposes.

• Design individualized 1-year strategic action plan, with achievable milestones, specific timelines, resources and deliverables to achieve goals

• Practice inquiry and dialogue skills through informational to professional interviewing improving verbal and personal presentation as may be appropriate for the type of project, position, organization, and cultural context for your project.

• Develop a Board of Advisors through adaptive communications with various "stakeholders" to gather a variety of perspectives for personal project , research, enterprise or endeavor

COLLABORATE on a 100-day Project applying time, team and interdisciplinary project management principles to build new skills, expand opportunities, prove results .

• Practice team collaboration and leadership relevant to interests, to maximize talent development and demonstrate results.
• Prepare presentations for meetings, performance reviews, team deliverables as appropriate for your selected project, that may do "double duty" as a proof of accomplishment.

CREATE the CHANGE you want to see in your world. Contribute also to sustainable solution proposals, entrepreneurial designs, viral videos, write a book, develop a new business or any other innovation with partners to solve a problem, considering 3-E’s balances of Economy, Environment, Equity – to benefit yourself and others in the changing marketplace.

• Creatively produce storytelling, exhibits, videos, podcasts and/or professional portfolios using contemporary presentation media.
• CareerEcologia Talent Gallery: Participants who complete the course and produce a professional portfolio will have opportunity to be featured so we can market YOUR niche expertise to potential clients, recruiters and organizations seeking polished professionals.
• CareerEcologia Sustainable Solutions Series -- consider creative contribution as a writer, educator, artist, group leader, producer or presenter!