What The Heck Is Career Coaching?
Career coaching is guidance plus a set of tools to help you discover the work that’s best for you and overcome your inner and outer obstacles to getting it and enjoying it.
Through private, confidential sessions, a trained professional helps you navigate career transitions when:
- You’re seeking your first job
- You’re looking for a change
- You’ve been laid off
- You’ve been fired
- You’re burned out
- You’re returning to work, or
- You’re ready for work that fulfills you and supports the life you want
Because you don’t just need a job.
You need a job that reflects your true value, potential, and genius.
You’ve heard stories (or know from experience) how 40+ hours a week in the wrong work can do immeasurable, lasting damage to your mind, body, and relationships (not to mention your bank account).
Fortunately, being in the right role has an equal effect — its positive impact is widespread and enduring.
When you have a better job, you’ll have a better life.
I’m here to help you get the best of both.
In your private coaching sessions, we’ll cut through limiting thinking and behaviors and build on your strengths, skills, and values through clear, specific actions.
You don’t have to deal with career changes or challenges alone.
Let’s unlock your better life through better work.
Certified Master Coach & Resume Writer
What We Can Work On
Unlock a Better Life
There’s so much more to your life than work. #lifefirst
Let’s identify your best life, then design a career path that fits and supports it, through questions like:
- What if your life wasn’t just the crumbs left over after work?
- How would you define a good day?
- What’s your definition of a life well lived?
- How would you design work to fit into your life and support more good days?
- What are your innate ways of working and work preferences?
- What work is calling you that will fulfill you and support your better life?
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Get Work You Love
You want a new job or promotion.
We’ll create a personal job search or job attraction action plan, working together on topics, as needed:
- Choose your next job target
- Customize an effective and authentic job search
- Craft or update your resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profile to convey your true value and hook target recruiters
- Access the hidden job market
- Interview preparation and proven techniques
- Mock interview practice
- Negotiate offers & salary packages so they’re win-win
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Love the Work You Have
Optimize your work — and your life-work balance — from miserable or merely good to great.
Let’s unpack your possibilities. Successes you can expect:
- Clear old patterns
- Start strong in a new job
- Handle hard conversations
- Boundaries and life-work balance
- Skill-up when you’re over your head
- Realistic and sustainable time management
- Burnout recovery and prevention
- Decide: Should you stay or go?
- Master managing up
- Leadership
- Job-crafting
- Career strategy
- More respect, better pay, and promotions
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Pricing & Packages
60 minutes of dedicated time to address your biggest career hopes and pain points. It’s amazing what we can tackle, discover, and shift in an hour!
You choose the topic. I give you my full expertise, intuition, and focus. By the end of each session, you will know a new skill, approach, or your next action steps.
*Investment may be tax deductible. Check with your accountant.
Prices in USD
Coaching by Single
Session
A one-time, deep-dive strategy session
Single session — $297
Coaching by Monthly Retainer
Weekly or twice-monthly sessions
Starting at $500/month
Minimum: 3 months
Coaching by Prepaid Package
Weekly or twice-monthly sessions
Starting at $1500,
one-time payment
Minimum: 3 months
What My Coaching Clients Say…
“I wish I had started working with Jennifer 20 years ago.”
I wish I had started working with Jennifer 20 years ago. Getting coached by her has been nothing short of transformational.
When I started working with Jennifer, I was recovering from a startup failure that had shaken my confidence. Jennifer is helping me to trust my judgment and abilities in a way I never have before.
That’s deep, difficult work, and Jennifer has been an expert, trustworthy guide in navigating those waters. She’s introduced me to tools and frameworks that are helping to break self-destructive patterns I’ve lived with my whole life.
Because of Jennifer, my relationships with family and colleagues has improved, my effectiveness at work has taken a huge leap forward, and my vision for my career and life has become more clear.
My work with Jennifer is only beginning … I intend to work with her for the rest of my career.
Words just don’t capture how profound an impact she’s having. All I can really say is thank you. Truly and deeply, thank you.
Matt Rho
Managing Director, Investments
“I tripled my base pay”
I went from an assistant to an executive when I started 3 weeks ago as the Director of Operations. I tripled my base pay, will receive bonuses, profit sharing, full benefits, and now have realized my ideal income status (six figures with unlimited earning potential).
During my 8 years in my last position, my responsibilities quadrupled, but my wages and title barely budged. I lived in a state of functional burnout for at least 4+ years and did not have energy for life outside of work.
In a field that I loved and was so passionate about, I had no career trajectory, no health insurance, no recognition for the $360K new revenue stream I created and managed, to name just one example.
Now I’ll probably quadruple my last salary this year!
Work feels playful and fun, I’m re-energized to enjoy life outside of work, I have a flexible schedule, I’m working less, learning more, my boss knows my value and is so appreciative that I’m getting in office concierge acupuncture, daily lunch, and other amazing perks.
In fact, I have more wellness in my life than I ever had during my wellness career.
Thank you, Jennifer. I’m thrilled.
K. B.
Real Estate Developer’s Director of Operations
“I’ve overcome 30 years of trauma + drama”
In just 6 months working with Jen, I’ve overcome 30 years of trauma + drama as an overworked, underpaid employee and freelancer.
Yup! Even when working for myself, I nearly always created the same stressful, unsustainable work situations I felt trapped in as an employee.
Being in Jen’s orbit has encouraged me to define and refine the work I’m here to do AND recognize how valuable I am to others, just as I am. It turns out my “quirks” that some people criticize are uncommon marketable skills to others (who happily pay a premium to have me on their team).
My inclinations to nitpick, daydream, and tumble down internet rabbit holes are seen by my clients as “exceptional attention to detail”, “creative genius”, and “stellar research skills” — go figure!
Can you imagine that after 30+ years of being mocked, teased, or punished for being myself, I now feel free to be me? I expect to be appreciated and rewarded for it, too, and whattaya know, I am. I’d given up on work getting any better, but smack dab in the middle of midlife (and the pandemic), here it is.
Thanks to Jen Shryock, I expect my future work to be more fun than my past work and pay way better, too. Here I’ve been anxious that I may never get to retire, and now I’m not sure that I’ll want to ?
Crys Wood
Online Content Copywriter
“Jennifer gave me the language, confidence, and space to decide what I wanted in my upcoming career”
With my stunted professional growth and a military retirement on the horizon, I looked to Jennifer. She gave me the language, confidence, and most importantly, the space to dig deep and decide for myself what it was I wanted in my upcoming career.
Instead of searching job openings, Jennifer helped me give myself permission to first decide what I wanted. Then I marketed myself to the job I wanted, not just the jobs I could fill.
My new social worker role is equal parts comfortable and challenging. This feels like the recipe for a long-term engagement!
If you find yourself standing on the precipice of a pivotal moment in your work life, Jennifer is a North Star.
Melissa DeMarino
Social Worker
“I now carry with me a set of ‘life tools’ I am blessed to possess”
In addition to the professional assistance I received in regards to my resume and social media, I began working with Jennifer as a life coach. The knowledge, resources and new found perspective I have gained during this process will carry with me for the rest of my life.
In my opinion, Jennifer has a natural gift, skill-set, and propensity in this field. Jennifer has a true gift for listening and creativity for which I am grateful.
Thanks to Jennifer’s coaching skills, I now carry with me a set of “life tools” I am blessed to possess. They will help me tremendously in all areas and aspects of my life.
I would highly recommend Jennifer Shryock as an astute professional and gifted life coach.
Heidi Foley
Certified Public Accountant
“Jennifer’s excellent coaching helped me achieve the clarity I so desperately was seeking”
At a point in my life when I was feeling a lot of uncertainty around my profession and future endeavors, Jennifer’s excellent coaching helped me achieve the clarity I so desperately was seeking.
Her talents truly are endless! I can’t tell you enough about how much I appreciated her compassionate insight, wisdom, and advice.
The process we went through during our sessions absolutely helped me grow! I learned about myself, discovered themes, and charted a new direction to create a fruitful and fulfilling career.
Not only did she help provide clarity and direction, but she also provided ACTIONABLE steps to achieve my goals. That was priceless!
I feel rejuvenated, encouraged, and know the future is bright, all thanks to Jennifer!
~Stacey Targee
“I am on my way to living the dreams that have tugged at my heart for years”
Jennifer works magic by helping you find your dreams and weave them into a viable future. She helps you connect to your center, a grounding process that resets all the stuff that gets in the way of becoming one’s’ best self.
I can truly say I am on my way to living the dreams that have tugged at my heart for years.
~Cheryl Wipper
“I was in a state of paralysis”
Before I had my first session with Jennifer I was in a state of paralysis when it came to branding.
On some level, I knew who it was that I served and what I offered them, but I couldn’t clearly and succinctly articulate it.
Jennifer helped me verbalize what it is that I do through a series of thought-provoking questions. I look forward to working with Jennifer as my brand evolves.
~Ciera Shae
“I know that coaching works, but…”
I know that coaching works, but I have not been coached like Jennifer did, where a clean pain of fear was embraced like that.
Thank you so very much, Jennifer, for your amazing coaching abilities. I will be forever grateful to have had you guide me through this. It saved my summer!!
~Linda Hannett
“With Jennifer I am always inspired and grounded!”
Jennifer has a fearless magic that supports and allows exploration, discovery and play.
It’s not just her commitment to personal growth and courage that creates this atmosphere but her absolute confidence in others to uncover their own underlying truths.
With her I am always inspired and grounded! While I am positive her skillful methods are of value to anyone lucky enough to work with her, she is truly a coaches’ coach.
~Elsa Katana
“Jennifer was full of creative ideas and helpful insights”
Jennifer helped me focus in on the effective presentation and promotion of my editing business.
From honing in on my ideal clients to teasing out the benefits of my services to improving the impact of my website, Jennifer was full of creative ideas and helpful insights.
She is knowledgeable, professional, and fun to work with. I highly recommend her for business as well as personal promotion.
~Marge Hulbert, Writer, Editor & Book Coach
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