The Next Chapter - move from clarity to aligned action in your job search
This is the flagship engagement. It’s built around the reality that an aligned career move takes 6-9 months and the professionals who get there faster are the ones who have a real strategic partner with them through every phase. This is for the high-achiever ready to make an intentional move (a new role, a step up, or a pivot across industries) and done leaving their next chapter to chance. WHAT’S INCLUDED THROUGHOUT - 12 sessions over 6 months — 2 sessions per month, flexible in length based on where you are in the process - Ongoing Slack support for real-time guidance between sessions STAGE 01 — AUDIT THE STORY (MONTHS 1–2) This is where the real work begins. We uncover the conditioned story — who wrote it, why you've been living it, and what it's been costing you. This is where the Career Static Effect gets named. - Career Static Effect diagnosis — naming what's actually been running your career - Deep identity excavation through assessments, intake, and framework-guided sessions - Separation of what's genuinely yours from what was inherited or conditioned - Foundation established for everything that follows STAGE 02 — REWRITE THE SCRIPT (MONTHS 2–3) With the conditioned story visible, we reconstruct your identity on your own terms. This is where the Career Story Blueprint is built, the authored core that every downstream strategy flows from. - Career Story Blueprint — your proprietary identity document synthesizing who you are, what you want, and what you bring into one cohesive asset - Career Clarity Workbook — structured exercises to outline values, strengths, and non-negotiables, with aligned direction defined and documented - Target role, environment, and company type clarified - The authored foundation established for Stages 03 through 05 STAGE 03 — CRAFT THE NARRATIVE (MONTH 4) Your authored identity becomes your professional presence. Every material built in this stage flows directly from the Career Story Blueprint™ — not from templates, not from job descriptions, but from who you actually are. - Resume rewrite and strategic positioning tailored to your target role - LinkedIn full optimization — headline, About section, experience framing, keyword strategy - Cover letter framework and one tailored letter - Interview narrative development — how to own your story in the room - Outreach and networking script templates STAGE 04 — SEARCH WITH STRATEGY (MONTH 5) With your narrative authored and your target clear, you enter the market with intention, not mass-applying and hoping, but connecting with the right people at the right organizations and showing up to every conversation as someone who already knows who they are. - Job search strategy and target company list built around your authored criteria - Networking-first approach, prioritizing people over applications - Outreach strategy and accountability structure - Interview prep and post-interview debrief support - Momentum tracking and real-time Slack support as things move STAGE 05 — OWN THE STORY (MONTH 6+) An offer is on the table – and this stage ensures the chapter you accept is one you actually wrote, not one you settled for because it was available. - Offer evaluation using the Red/Green Flag Framework, assessed against your authored criteria, not market averages - Negotiation strategy and offer navigation - Final career story wrap-up and handoff - Clear recommendations on what comes next
What's included
Extension options are available at the end of the 6-month engagement for clients who are still in active search or navigating a recent transition.
- Career Story Blueprint — your proprietary identity document synthesizing who you are, what you want, and what you bring into one cohesive asset
- Career Clarity Workbook — structured exercises to outline values, strengths, and non-negotiables, with aligned direction defined and documented
- Resume rewrite and strategic positioning tailored to your target role
- LinkedIn full optimization — headline, About section, experience framing, keyword strategy
- Cover letter framework and one tailored letter
- Interview narrative development — how to own your story in the room
- Outreach and networking script templates
- Job search strategy and target company list built around your authored criteria
- Interview prep and post-interview debrief support
- Negotiation strategy and offer navigation
Meet your expert

Kelly N.
Career Identity & Alignment Coach
Kelly Nash is a Chicago-based Career Alignment Coach, workforce development consultant, speaker, and the creator of Career Authorship™ — a philosophy built on the belief that high-achieving professionals have both the right and the responsibility to take intentional authorship of their career story. Her work sits at the intersection of individual career transformation and organizational workforce development. For professionals, she helps high achievers cut through career static — the interference of borrowed scripts and reactive choices — to build careers rooted in clarity and alignment. For organizations, she closes the human gap between strategic decisions and employee understanding, the space where engagement erodes, talent exits, and culture breaks down. Kelly spent 11+ years at Salesforce, first partnering with Fortune 500 customers on marketing and ad-tech strategy, then building and leading the Customer Success organization's employee experience function. In that role, she designed career development programs, built internal mobility infrastructure, and guided more than 9,000 employees through major organizational transitions. She brings that operator-level experience to every client relationship, grounded in organizational research, structured stakeholder interviews, and over a decade of watching careers unfold from the inside. Kelly's clients have landed roles at Google, LinkedIn, HubSpot, Boeing, and more. Her work has been featured by General Assembly, the International Association of Women, and Thrive Global. She publishes The Career Script, a weekly newsletter for mid-career professionals writing their next chapter. In her free time, you can find Kelly traveling, out in nature, trying new restaurants, or chasing after her toddler.