Career Coaching
Navigate your career with greater clarity, intention, and confidence.
Harken's career coaching is for GTM professionals deciding what comes next, working through a transition, or conducting a search. The work considers the whole career, including direction, positioning, relationships, decisions, and execution.
Career context
A career decision is rarely just a job decision.
A role change can raise practical questions about compensation, scope, and timing. It can also surface deeper questions about identity, ambition, values, risk, relationships, and the kind of work you want your career to become.
GTM careers add their own complexity. Titles and mandates vary widely. Market conditions shift. Functions overlap. Performance is highly visible, and the experience that made you successful in one environment may translate differently in another.
Career coaching creates room to understand what matters, make informed choices, and move through the process with intention.
Areas of leverage
Where Harken's career coaching can create leverage.
Career Direction
Clarify what you want from the next chapter of your career and identify the environments, responsibilities, and tradeoffs that fit.
Professional Positioning
Develop a coherent account of the value you create, the evidence behind it, and the opportunities where it is most relevant.
Networking Strategy
Build and activate relationships through purposeful outreach, useful conversations, and consistent follow-through.
Interview Preparation
Prepare to communicate your experience clearly, explore the real mandate, and respond thoughtfully under pressure.
Job Search Execution
Create a focused search plan, maintain momentum, learn from the market, and adjust the approach as evidence emerges.
Opportunity Evaluation and Negotiation
Assess fit, risk, leadership, resources, economics, and expectations before making or negotiating a decision.
Career and Role Transitions
Navigate the personal and professional shift into, out of, or between roles with a clear plan for what comes next.
The focus of career coaching
A stronger decision process for the person making the move.
Career coaching helps you connect the practical work of a transition to the priorities, assumptions, and choices beneath it. The work may help you:
The Harken Coaching Framework
A practical framework for career decisions and transitions.
Gain Clarity
What matters most in this decision? What evidence do you have? Which assumptions require examination? What would a good outcome make possible?
Take Ownership
Which choices are yours to make? What tradeoffs are you willing to accept? Which conversations, commitments, or changes require your attention?
Make Progress
Turn the decision into specific action, learn from each conversation and market signal, and adjust as new information emerges.
Across the career journey
Career coaching can meet you at different moments.
You do not need to be actively searching to benefit. The work can begin before a transition, continue through a search, or support the move into a new role.
- Exploring whether it is time for a change.
- Defining the next role or career chapter.
- Preparing for an internal opportunity or promotion.
- Re-entering the market after an unexpected transition.
- Building a deliberate search strategy.
- Evaluating competing opportunities.
- Negotiating scope, resources, compensation, or terms.
- Entering a new role with clear priorities and expectations.
In their words
I cannot recommend Scott enough to any leader going through a major transition. When my career was upended by a cross-country move, a brand-new industry, and a sudden reorganization that left me without my original boss, Scott was an anchor. He has an incredible gift for asking the right questions at the right time. His frameworks helped me transition from an emotional, defensive mindset to a calm, empowered leadership stance. Because of his mentorship, I was able to navigate immense uncertainty with confidence and in total alignment with my values. If you are looking for a coach who can deliver true insight and lasting impact, Scott is the best.
Jennifer D.Global Brand Strategy & Marketing Leader
Start with a conversation
Clarity about the next move can emerge through the conversation.
Bring the question, transition, or opportunity you are working through. The first conversation focuses on your situation and whether coaching could be useful.
Schedule a Good TalkNo charge. No obligation. A thoughtful 30-minute conversation with Scott.