You’re Not Broken. You’re Just Ready for Alignment

If you’ve ever looked around and thought, “How did I end up here?” you’re not alone. Many people spend years chasing the next title, degree, or paycheck only to realize they’re still not fulfilled.

At Conscious Career Lab (CCL), I help people at every stage, from high school students choosing a major to mid-career professionals craving change, discover work that truly fits their unique design.

You are not the problem. Misalignment is. When your career aligns with who you are, everything changes: your energy, your confidence, and your sense of purpose.

Why Conscious Career Lab Exists

After spending more than a decade in corporate recruiting and sixteen years coaching people through interviews, I began to notice some clear and costly patterns:
– Capable professionals in the wrong roles, such as people-leaders who would thrive more managing systems, projects, or processes than teams.
– Brilliant and driven individuals stuck in the wrong environments, leading to burnout, low motivation, and a damaged professional self-image.
– Students changing majors halfway through college or near graduation, realizing too late that their chosen field wasn’t what they imagined. This often resulted in wasted time, unnecessary debt, and lost opportunity cost.

What I saw again and again was this: people weren’t failing because they lacked ability or ambition. They were struggling because no one had ever helped them align their work with their design.

And when people spend too long in roles that don’t fit who they are, they start to shut down the strongest parts of themselves just to survive. They silence their creativity, hide their natural energy, or force themselves into a box they were never meant to fit into.

That realization became the heart behind Conscious Career Lab. My mission is to help you stop guessing and start building a career that fits the person you were created to be.

What “Career by Design” Means

At CCL, I use the Career Direct® Assessment, a powerful tool that examines all four dimensions of your design:
1. Personality: how you naturally think, relate, and approach challenges
2. Interests: what captures your curiosity and keeps you engaged
3. Skills: what you do well and what drains your energy
4. Values: what matters most to you in both work and life

When these four dimensions align, clarity replaces confusion. You stop fighting against yourself and start flowing with how you were made to work and thrive.

This process gives you direction that lasts, not only for your next career step, but for your long-term sense of purpose and fulfillment.

Who I Work With

Students and Parents
If you’re a high school or college student, or the parent of one, you don’t have to choose a major in the dark. My Educational Consulting sessions help you identify which careers and learning paths best fit your natural design. This guidance saves years of trial and error, unnecessary debt, and future career dissatisfaction.

Professionals, Career Changers, and the Burned Out
If you’ve been laid off, feel stuck, or are simply unfulfilled by your current work, you’re not broken. You’re misaligned. Through Career Design Coaching, we uncover what’s missing, identify environments that fit your design, and create a path forward that restores your confidence and motivation.

What You’ll Find Here on the Blog

This blog is your space for practical guidance, mindset shifts, and tools for career clarity. You’ll find topics that help you:
– Discover work that aligns with your personality, values, and strengths
– Make confident choices about education, majors, or career pivots
– Recover from career burnout and reignite your purpose
– Learn how to evaluate job fit and company culture before saying yes
– Build a fulfilling, sustainable career without losing yourself in the process

The goal is simple: to help you move from confusion to clarity, frustration to fulfillment, and burnout to breakthrough.

Your Next Step: Start with Self-Discovery

If you’re new here, begin by exploring these foundational posts:
1. Stop Guessing Your Career Path: How to Find Work That Fits Your Design
2. Before You Pick a Major: What Every High School (and College) Student Should Know
3. From Burnout to Breakthrough: Reclaiming Joy and Direction in Your Career

Or, if you’re ready to take the next step, book a free Discovery Call to learn how we can use the Career Direct assessment to uncover your design and chart your next move.

A Final Word from Me

Maybe you’ve done everything right and still feel like something’s missing. That doesn’t mean you’ve failed. It means it’s time to realign.

You were designed on purpose, for a purpose.

At Conscious Career Lab, I’m here to help you uncover that design and walk confidently in it. Welcome. You’re exactly where you need to be.