THIS IS WHAT CLIENTS SAY ABOUT ME
Gina is a very professional and seasoned coach who knows how to customize and use the right tools to prepare executives for their next career move by focusing on individual needs. Her methodology and approach help clients leverage their strengths. She is also always available and encourages her clients when their confidence wavers. She is bold and effective. I highly recommend anyone who is willing to make a career move work with her!
From our first meeting, I knew Gina was the coach for me. Gina’s highly logical, well-structured program gave me confidence, helping me align and translate my skills and experience into a viable “package” leading to new, exciting opportunities. When the time was right to apply for jobs, I was fully confident and positioned well enough that I quickly found myself a finalist for three attractive and challenging leadership positions. I have just signed an offer letter to serve as Executive Director for a tremendously exciting organization that I would simply never have found without Gina. It is hard to convey how grateful I am that I met the remarkable Gina Riley. Thanks, Gina, for a job exceptionally well done!
Gina got to know me in a short amount of time and had the ability to look at my career with the big picture and transferable skills in mind. She helped me build up my resume, my story, and my confidence to position myself to land the high-impact job I was seeking. This was unquestionably worth the investment.
There are people and businesses that are in it for the money. This isn’t Gina. She’s in it to build a business and a brand; yours and hers. With a background as an HR professional, an Executive Recruiter, and a Career Transition Coach, she brings a unique perspective with the ability to see opportunities from multiple viewpoints. When she takes on a new client, she is personally committed and fully invested in you. She is curious and seeks to understand and challenge you to do the work to unlock your value proposition. Investing in Gina is one of the best investments I’ve made in myself.
Before working with Gina, I dreaded the question “Tell me about yourself.” Through the work that we did, Gina brought an external perspective to help break down and explain the arc of my career in an authentic way. My sessions with Gina enabled me to articulate my highlights and leadership style. The YouMap helped me gather the talking points I needed to be able to answer that dreaded question and describe my unique value proposition.
Gina provided the right balance of pushing and pulling when needed. The YouMap was exceptionally helpful to blend a simplified branding statement that represented me as a whole person. Working through bit by bit through my career story helped remind me of the details behind my accomplishments and weave everything together for my narrative with tangible examples to explain during interviews.
The trifecta! Gina provided a process and structure that helped me leverage my superpowers, clarify my career story, and understand the interview process that helped me land my new opportunity.
It was astounding to go through the YouMap process. Gina’s coaching helped me identify my strengths and capture my values through my past experiences and accomplishments, which I would have missed seeing if without this process. From there, I was able to confidently present my true self with a leadership mindset when facing any interview question. Gina’s interview prep method helped me structure what I was good at and helped me capture the pride and excitement I have about my expertise. I’ll be able to use these methods throughout my career.
Gina is sneaky in how she helps build up your confidence. After 25 years with the same company, I was having trouble articulating my value. Before I knew it, I had the context and language to confidently relay my stories in interviews. Her program gave me the focus to methodically get things done and make a successful career transition.
With my diverse background of being a three-time small business owner, a decade in the world of fashion, and finishing up a Master’s degree to make a career switch, I needed help finding the common thread to tell a cohesive story. Gina helped me clarify and bring forward who I am and what I bring to the table in a compelling way. In fact, the GM who hired me said I was the best interviewee he’d ever seen, which I attribute to the prep I did with Gina.
With her connection to executive search and solid interview prep expertise, Gina helped me anticipate questions and understand why they would be asked, so I could develop meaningful, authentic responses. With a bubbly, positive approach, Gina made interview prep fun and her supportive coaching put me in the right headspace to land my first VP role.
Working with Gina made sense because I found I needed to change and reset my job search approach. She drew out and helped me stitch together my career results, pride points, and up-leveled my storytelling. I liked seeing my whole story synthesized. In addition, Gina brought me the accountability I wanted to help keep me on track and reach my career transition goals.
As a tenured leader in healthcare, I came to a point in my career where I began question my abilities and organizational impact. When I worked with Gina, the absolute game-changer was going through the YouMap® process, giving me confidence and language to communicate my strengths, help me succinctly articulate my unique skills, and how to direct them towards my next opportunity. I also experienced a 180-degree turn-around on my resume, which is now full of quantifiable results I deliver on as a leader and manager of people.
Together, we redesigned my personal brand and put those concepts clearly into writing. Throughout the process, Gina was truly my personal advocate. She was responsive, professional and invested. It’s as if she already knew me and my skills better than I did. I walked away thinking, ‘she gets me!’. I highly recommend working with Gina!
Navigating the job search process was a challenge with my unique career path. Gina helped me tell my story in a cohesive way which resonated and showcased my skills, and helped me secure my dream job! She’s got so much more than I expected – she’s got the entire package. I owe Gina a debt that could never be re-paid. If you are wondering, “Should I hire Gina as a career coach?” – check out my full endorsement on LinkedIn.
As a result of the work I did with Gina, I became very clear on both my strengths and my values, which enabled me to understand how I’d outgrown my current company, use it as fuel to target a good match moving forward, and to prepare the right questions for the interview process. Because of the YouMap and interview prep work we did together, I was able to make a smarter career choice and have excitement about seeing where my career goes from here!
Gina brought a perspective that challenged me in a much-needed way. Her objective and caring approach guided me to understand my driving strengths and helped me internalize my unique value in a powerful way. I now have a stored record of my accomplishments and find it seamless to communicate my transferable skills in a way that is new for me. Gina also helped me see the value of my professional relationships which led to re-kindling old connections and developing new ones authentically and organically. All of this led to an opportunity where I can make a real impact.
Gina is an enthusiastic and compassionate coach, bringing curiosity, sense of humor, and deep listening to the table. She walks clients through their journey unlocking and connecting familiar dots in new ways. She helped me harness my personal network and build a robust story that could be configured for nearly any opportunity. She’s a creative and tireless advocate who is in it for the right reasons. It all adds up to her being, simply put, a terrific career strategist.