Helping young professionals earn bigger salaries and the promotions they deserve 💪 | $100k salary at 27 | CEO of AIC Connect | 1st exec role at 36 | Career coach 💼

By 2030, Gen Z will make up a dominant portion of the global workforce. Yet, a massive disconnect exists between this generation’s expectations and traditional corporate structures.

I sit right at that intersection.

As a Career Coach, I work directly with ambitious Gen Z professionals every day. I help them navigate their early careers, translate their skills, and overcome workplace anxiety.

Because of this face-to-face work, I get to see real-time insight into what actually drives engagement, retention, and performance in the modern workforce. I don't have to guess what young talent wants; I hear it directly from the horses mouth.

I use this unique dual perspective to help two distinct groups:

1. For Organisations & Leaders (Speaking, Consulting & Workshops)

I help forward-thinking companies future-proof their culture.
Through keynote speaking and change management workshops, I assist leadership teams in:

- Decoding Gen Z - Moving beyond stereotypes to understand the psychology of the emerging workforce.

- Retention Strategy - Creating environments where young talent wants to stay and grow.

- Intergenerational Communication - Reaching across the divide between Executive leadership and early-career professionals.

2. For Young Professionals (Coaching & Mentoring)

I continue to champion the next generation through 1:1 and group coaching.
I help you:

- Build confidence and combat imposter syndrome.

- Navigate corporate politics and advocate for your worth.

- Design a career path that aligns with your values.

📖 Coming Soon: My new book on creating a career that 'just works' for you, where I explore these themes in depth, offering a roadmap for both anyone navigating a career.

Corporate & Speaking Inquiries: DM me or contact me via my website to discuss engagement.

Gen Z Professionals: Jump on my website and book a FREE 1-on-1, or check out all of my other free tools, templates, courses and blog articles.

www.dandevries.com

Daniel de Vries

Skilled but restricted by self-doubt & overthinking?

🔱 Minotaur Mastery is a personal development brand rooted in myth, philosophy & real-world fear mastery. Designed to help you go to war with yourself & a degenerate society fighting to keep you weak.

🎙️ Minotaur Video Exemplar helps you:

	•	Find your voice
	•	Build your brand & presence
	•	Lead your mission with purpose

Most fear speaking. I did too until I quashed it by making videos.

Go from silent and stuck to bold, visible, confident, impactful & dangerous with a camera, message & mission:

🎥 Make powerful videos with confidence (even if you hate being on camera)
🚀 Build a personal brand rooted in truth, not hype
🏛 Become a role model in your field, family or community
🧭 Lead movements, not just chase followers


🏛 Batley Entrepreneurship Club is a local play. A grassroots project reviving a “forgotten” town through events, startups, storytelling & community vision.

Reimagining what it means to build from street to startup, real estate to reinvention, turning a Northern town into a blueprint for bottom-up regeneration powered by community, creativity and entrepreneurship.

🧱 My Background

I qualified as a UK lawyer in 2015. But I had issues:

	•	Fear of speaking
	•	Fear of failure
	•	Fear of being seen

I worked my way up the corporate ladder from paralegal to senior management to becoming a consultant to launching my own law firm in 2018.

But I hated the legal career and lifestyle. So I left.

Since then, I’ve explored and tested dozens of business models, creative ventures and various projects of all shapes and sizes across the spectrum.

This led me to work with Saudi firm Qadr Financial, which included various work streams:

	•	Startups raise investment
	•	International companies enter Saudi
	•	Structure and launch VC funds
	•	Deliver Shariah-compliant real estate projects
	•	M&A and cross-border investment

But my deepest work comes from using my own transformation of conquering fear of speaking, self-doubt, shyness and social anxiety to escape a career I hated, find clarity & leadership to help others do the same. 

My philosophy centres on simple principles:

Master yourself
Build your brand
Become a role model
Transform your world

🔨 Build people
🏗 Build towns

Preserving human connection in a disruptive AI age.

Whether you’re a founder, builder, creator, aspiring leader or professional the goal is the same:

Think critically
Evolve internally
Contribute externally
Ascend spiritually

📩 Message me to work together

Zulfaqar Faraz

Day 21 Minotaur Ramadan Challenge
 
Nearly gave up yesterday due to low mood.
 
Just craved junk food for the dopamine hit.
 
Stayed away though...finishing the mission has weight to hold on.

Ex-Lawyer | Building People. Building Towns 🇬🇧 | 🏛 Batley Entrepreneurship Club | 🔱 Minotaur Mastery | Make Videos ▶️ Build Brand ▶️ Become A Role Model ▶️ Transform Your Community

Not only a phenomenal story for AI and brand building - this guy has regularly spoken up about Palestine.

You can imagine the hate he will have gotten in return, so to still do this is extraordinary.

Also emphasises why we need to build more proper tech brands and companies.

The impact on changing lives is huge, as well as changing society.

But the influence that also comes from it puts it on another level.

Think of your brands as more than just profit generating enterprises.

Because they are so much more than that.

Especially at a time when we need to realign focus of brands legitimately uplifting humanity as opposed to destroying it as long as it makes a profit.

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$400M raised at a $9B valuation just 6 months after a valuation of $3B.

The rate of change in AI is ridiculous.

But what is clear now, is that AI cannot be ignored.

Spend 30 minutes a day playing with AI other than ChatGPT and chatting to LLMs.

Actually build something.

Whether you are an employee, business owner or side hustler, these are the skills you need to focus on:

- Your craft
- AI
- Problem-solving
- Communication
- Visibility

We will be running an AI venture builder post ramadan, register your interest:

https://lnkd.in/eGrtMHjh

Vibe coding is a future-proof skillset.
 
We're already seeing jobs emerge for this, which will increase exponentially.
 
What does that even mean?
 
It means being able to build things with AI, without being a developer, coder, engineer etc.
 
A dream for the creative people.
 
But vibe coding alone isn't enough.
 
The people who will thrive in the next decade will stack four skills on top of their existing expertise:
 
- AI & Vibe-coding
- Problem-solving
- Communication
- Visibility
 
Batley Entrepreneurship Club is positioned to help with all of this.
 
Send a DM to learn more.

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