About Your Career Escalator
The Program Coaches and Creators
Suzanne Blake
Career Confidence Executive Coach
Holding a Masters in Counseling Psychology, Suzanne is an award winning coach that for over 30 years has helped clients ranging from recent college graduates to executives secure rewarding and profitable positions. Some of her clients started successful business after working with her.
Prior to founding her own coaching practice, Blake Coaching & Consulting, Suzanne worked in Human Resources where she oversaw recruiting, interviewing, selecting, and onboarding candidates. She also provided career coaching.
This experience served her well when she started Blake Coaching & Consulting. She shares her extensive network, wisdom, strategic planning skills and business expertise to accelerate her clients’ success in securing their next ideal career move.
She has helped hundreds of seasoned and emerging leaders expand their capabilities, make decisions using focused strategic thinking, build confidence and self-awareness, enhance collaborative relationships. Many clients reported that they are able to achieve personal and professional goals with more ease and greater consistency. They specifically appreciate her a unique ability to quickly zero in on the root causes of problems and identify creative and sustainable solutions
Leveraging the latest research in neuroscience and mindfulness, she helps her clients rebound from career setbacks, develop a positive mindset, increase confidence and resiliency, and carefully select and secure the most optimal next step in their career journey.
Dr. Jacqueline Vorpahl
Psychologist & Mindset Coach
Dr. Jacqueline Vorpahl is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Massachusetts. She has over 25 years’ experience working with individuals expressing dissatisfaction, stress, anxiety, unhappiness, and a lack of meaning in their life. She has helped thousands of individuals and families to overcome their obstacles, face their setbacks and develop internal resources that bring contentment. She is passionate about empowering people who have encountered a toxic workplace and career setbacks.
She uses evidence-based practices, mindfulness compassion focused coaching, infused with new technologies based on the latest research in neurosciences. She is the creator of “Chilloutz®”, an award-winning mindfulness app for children.
As a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Dr V (as she is referred to by her clients) launched Behavioral Health Programs at the North American Indian Center of Boston, Native American Lifelines and at the Wampanoag Tribe of Gayhead. She served as a long-time member of the National Suicide Prevention Committee for Native Americans. She currently provides cultural humility trainings for mental health professionals across the US and runs parent training programs for Massachusetts tribal communities.
Why This Program?
Our aim in developing this program is to create a safe and supportive community where women (or those identifying as women) can support each other to restore their emotional sturdiness, feel good about their strengths and be able to effectively communicate them, and enjoy going to work each day.
Another important reason for creating this program has become a very personal mission for us: mistreatment or bullying in the workplace. A lot of media attention has focused on online and in-person bullying affecting younger, school-aged children. Similarly, much needed attention is being paid to rampant sexual harassment in the workplace that has roots going back as far as the 1950’s. These are all toxic behaviors that must be addressed. However, we strongly believe that not enough focus is being placed on what may be the similarly damaging effects of bullying, mistreatment, and discrimination in the workplace today. In a recent survey, almost half of the US workforce reported being the target of mistreatment, bullying or discrimination. These numbers are alarming and often lead to burnout, anxiety, depression, or other negative health issues. Work from Home (WFH) has only exasperated this condition.
Research has also shown that on the whole women are subjected to a hostile work environment more than men. In our private practices we have coached countless clients ‒ primarily women ‒ to rise above the negativity of the demeaning, belittling, and destructive power of bullies, drawing from our background in coaching, psychology, HR leadership, career management and personal experience.
After talking about the struggles our clients were facing, we decided that we needed to create a program that would easily be accessible to many more women. We wanted to offer a safe environment of support, compassion, and actionable solutions. By going through our program, you will learn to better manage your current situation while at the same time strengthening your emotional resilience. This will lead to an improved sense of self and an increase in self-confidence. Lastly, we will coach you through the process of objectively evaluating your current workplace situation to determine options that would work best for you.
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YCE Career Coaching Program:
- Assessment and Awareness
- Create awareness of your current work environment and its effect on you
- Assess and if needed enhance your emotional resilience
- Identify your mental strengths & weaknesses
- Assess your professional strengths & weaknesses
- Learn of to identify toxic workplace behaviors and subtle bullying tactics
- Articulate your ideal workplace setting (colleagues, type of manager, job activities, etc)
- Objectively Evaluate Next Steps
- Evaluate the pros & cons of staying with your current employer
- Evaluate the pros & cons of looking for opportunities elsewhere
- Learn to effectively manage the fears and hesitations associated with either step (Learn about “Your Inner Critic”)
- Appraise what skills, experience, and talents you have that might be of interest to a prospective employer
- Take the Next Step
- Learn of to effectively tell your story to ace your next interview
- Learn simple, yet effective techniques on how to calm yourself in stress inducing situations
- Leverage job search technologies, social media, recruiters, and other contacts
- Get assistance in writing compelling resume and cover letters
- Learn how to negotiate compensation, benefits and employment agreements with ease
One of Many Sucess Stories! This could be you...
Chelsea, an Account Executive, was being bullied by her much younger boss who appeared threatened by her. He continually called her out in meetings and openly criticized her work. When Chelsea asked for explanations, ways she could improve or made suggestions he would be dismissive, snarky, or sharp. She began to doubt herself, couldn’t sleep, developed a stress-induced foggy brain, which led to her making errors and missing a deadline.
Initially, Chelsea reached out to us to work on her time management and organization skills. While working with us, Chelsea’s perspective shifted as she realized she was the target of bullying. She regained her confidence and through coaching learned how to effectively neutralize some of the bully’s attacks.
After careful deliberation, Chelsea eventually left the company and secured a Senior VP leadership position. With the insight she had gained with us, she quickly recognized the bullying behaviors of a member of her team which was threatening the trust and effectiveness of her entire team. Again, she called us to work through this similar but different bullying situation. Together we developed effective strategies to turn the bully into a contributor and thereby strengthen the team.
Write your own success story by contacting us today!