Career Strategy Audit
Career Strategy Audit A focused strategy session for experienced professionals who need clarity, stronger positioning, and a smarter plan for their next career move. If you are applying but not getting traction, navigating a layoff, considering a pivot, preparing for senior-level opportunities, or unsure how to explain your experience in today’s market, this session will help you identify what may be getting in the way and where to focus next. We will review your current goals, target roles, positioning, job search activity, messaging, and key blockers. You will receive HR-informed feedback, practical recommendations, and a clearer strategy for moving forward. When helpful, this session may also include select AI prompts or follow-up tools to help you continue clarifying your direction, strengthening your positioning, and organizing your next steps after the session. The goal is to help clients move from scattered, reactive, or unsure to clearer, more confident, and more strategic.
What's included
My coaching style is strategic, practical, and direct, with a supportive edge. I help clients slow down, get clear, and make smarter decisions about their next move. I do not believe in generic career advice or one-size-fits-all coaching. I start by understanding your goals, experience, current challenges, and what may be getting in the way. From there, we identify the real issue, whether it is positioning, confidence, communication, leadership presence, job search strategy, interview readiness, or navigating a difficult workplace transition. Clients can expect a mix of honest feedback, HR insider perspective, practical tools, and clear next steps. I often help clients translate their experience into stronger messaging, prepare for high-stakes conversations, strengthen their leadership presence, and use AI thoughtfully to support their career or leadership goals without losing their voice. My goal is for every client to leave our work together with more clarity, stronger confidence, and a practical strategy they can actually use.
- A clearer understanding of what may be working against them in their current job search or career transition
- HR-informed insight into their positioning, market alignment, and next best move
- Recommendations for strengthening their résumé, LinkedIn, networking, interview, or job search strategy
- Practical next steps to help them focus their time and energy more effectively
- Guidance on how to use AI thoughtfully as a thinking partner for role targeting, messaging, research, and preparation
- Select follow-up prompts or tools, when appropriate, to support clarity, positioning, and action after the session
Meet your expert
LeTonya S.
Navigate Career Transitions with a Former Fortune 500 HR Leader
I help experienced professionals and emerging leaders make smarter career moves, strengthen their leadership presence, and navigate layoffs, pivots, promotions, and senior-level job searches with clarity, confidence, and strategy. My perspective is different because I have sat on both sides of the table. For more than 25 years, I led HR, employee relations, labor relations, and talent work inside major organizations including Cognizant, Barclays, Merck, Honeywell, and Warner Music Group. I have supported hiring decisions, reorganizations, workforce reductions, leadership transitions, manager coaching, executive advisory work, and high-stakes employee situations. I know how companies think, how leaders are evaluated, how decisions get made, and why talented professionals often get overlooked or under-positioned. I have also personally experienced four layoffs. That combination is why I founded Exit to Excel. I help mid-career and senior professionals stop guessing their way through career decisions and start moving with a stronger strategy. My coaching blends HR insider perspective, leadership advisory experience, practical career strategy, and AI-powered tools to help clients clarify their value, strengthen their executive presence, prepare for interviews, navigate workplace challenges, lead with more confidence, and pursue roles that align with their experience and goals. My clients are often accomplished professionals, managers, and leaders who have strong experience but are struggling to communicate their value, position themselves for advancement, lead through change, or adjust to how work and hiring have changed. I help them move from scattered and reactive to focused, confident, and ready to play to win.
