Melanie Erickson MA's Linkedin Analytics

What do 20 years of building sales bootcamps in Silicon Valley, 10 years as a Reiki Master, and an MA studying career change get you? DOROTHY'S RUBY RED SLIPPERS Or at least that jaw-dropping moment when you realize you've had the power all along to change your life and never knew it. It took a Master’s Degree earned researching dozens of mid-life career-changers plus many years into teaching thousands how to sell multi-million dollar deals at the C-Suite to realize three things: (1) Everything we’ve been taught about career change is wrong (2) The strategies and skills I developed/taught in Silicon Valley comprise the secret handshake only the privileged few are taken under wing and taught in order to get what they want in business (3) These could be used for absolutely anything What if you could click your ruby red slippers three times and do any of the following: [] Switch careers while spurning all conventional career advice [] Get a job at a cool company that had no openings and wasn’t hiring [] Move from a terrible boss to one you trust without political blowback [] Hire staff during a CEO-mandated hiring freeze across the company [] Hire an outside vendor to assist with a project after being told there was no budget [] 25% bump in comp package during company-wide moratorium on pay increases [] Workload reduced and approval to work on a new project of interest in a different group [] Only non-executive selected to speak at a company-wide conference I know these skills and strategies can work for any of the above scenarios because I used them to do every single one of them. So can you. And for pretty much anything else you want. Seriously, I'm not special. It’s ALL learnable. My passion is helping high-functioning professionals like you right here on LinkedIn click the heels of your own ruby red slippers to: [] RECOVER YOUR MOST POWERFUL STRENGTHS you’ve been taught to ignore: Your Inner Compass and the Courage to follow it [] OPEN DOORS INCLUDING THOSE YOU CANNOT SEE, using backing and support from those with the social, political and financial capital to help you advance your goals in work and in life [] CREATE YOUR OWN BREAKS to make up for the ones you’ve never been given As a steppingstone along this path, I’m writing an eBook on the Power of our Inner Compass at Work. If you'd like a copy when it’s finished, shoot me a message until I figure out how to make it easier to request one and I'll add you to my spreadsheet. Jan 15, 2024 release.