Commencement

Academia was supposed to be a calling.

Academia was supposed to be secure.

Now that the bottom is falling out, not only are you losing a career.

You’re losing an identity.

What’s next?

Not just a transition, a commencement

Most career coaching for academics treats the transition as a logistics problem: convert the CV to a resume, optimize LinkedIn, learn what to say in interviews.

Those things matter, but they aren't the hard part.

With Commencement, the aim isn’t just transition—it’s transformation.The program is designed for people leaving academia who want more than tactics. It’s for people who want to discover how they want to be in the world so that they can strike out on an aligned career path.

Commencement adapts twelve-step architecture used for recovery from ill-serving patterns and applied it to the unmanageability of academia: the perfectionism, the deferred life, the years spent proving your worth to institutions that refuse to recognize it.

Admission

Naming what's actually true about where you are, without academic hedging

Inventory

An honest accounting of your skills and your patterns. How you show up, what you bring, and what it's costs you.

Release & Repair

Letting go of what you can't control, repairing your relationship to self and others, and showing up as your truest self.

Integration

Daily practices to keep you oriented to your values as you do the practical work of resume, LinkedIn, networking, interviews

  • Six weekly one-on-one sessions, each with a clear focus and homework between.

  • A framework you can keep using long after the job search ends.

  • Practical advice for resume, LinkedIn presence, networking, and interviewing

  • Support for the parts other coaching programs leave out: identity, grief, boundaries, worth

The work includes

$3,199

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  • “You said ‘transformation,’ and I think that's what this was. Inward changes that needed to happen first, more than this career transition thing.”

    Former Client

  • "Our conversations challenged me to explore how my academic thinking and qualitative research skills can be applied beyond the university and how to frame my insights and skills in ways that resonate in industry settings."

    Former Client

  • "I've always felt like I should be able to control everything, and so I do have to let go and learn to accept some things for what they are. You've challenged me in that way, and I appreciate that."

    Former Client

Your education was not wasted.

What comes next just needs a different foundation.

This isn't graduation. It's commencement. If you're ready to stop treating this as a problem to be optimized and start treating it as a beginning to be lived, let's begin.

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No pressure. Just a conversation to learn about where you are, where you want to go, and how I can support you getting there.