ABOUT
Life isn’t about finding yourself, it is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
Career Storybook provides support, community, educational programs, and resources. We help individuals discover and find careers aligned with their strengths, interests, and values. To the degree that you can match your strengths and interests with current and emerging opportunities, you will be successful. And to the degree that you are in alignment with your strengths and values, you will be happy and successful.
Career Storybook serves the recently unemployed, the underemployed, career changers, and entrepreneurs. We offer programs for early- and mid-career and retirees. We help you with job readiness, interview preparation, and support for finding and securing opportunities. In addition, we help you succeed once you get a job with organizational success and soft skills programs.
We work with schools and school counselors to offer our programs to young adults. Contact us to discuss programs for your school.
“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra
ENGINEERED FOR ENGAGEMENT
Our programs are designed for participant engagement.Without engagement, there is no growth.
PERSONALIZED LEARNING
Our programs develop you as a person, professional, or effective citizen while meeting your goals and interests. This is meaningful learning experiences, and what is meaningful is motivating.
MENTORED SMALL GROUPS
Mutual accountability drives creativity, problem-solving and productivity. Mentors guide while your group sustains your attitude and altitude.
BLENDED DELIVERY
We use the best of both mediums: Online programs provide you the flexibility of time and place while saving travel time and costs. Face-to-face or video meetings permit complex conversations, rewarding activities, and relationship development.
INTERACTIVE PROGRAMS
Learning should be a positive learning experience. We use a variety of strategies to keep you engaged and practice your skills: Problem-based projects, role plays, case studies, gamification, and fictionalization.
Engagement means you will have a more positive learning experience, with a more long-lasting impact. Our programs are self-directed with weekly real-time meetings. We use interactive strategies in mentored small groups that meet your personal learning goals. If you’re not engaged, then you’re not learning and growing.
VISION, MISSION, VALUES
VISION
Career Storybook brings the power of professional career coaching down-market to serve the recently unemployed, the underemployed, and those transitioning to new careers or retirement. Our success is measured by our participant’s personal transformation.
MISSION
Career Storybook uses education and communications programs to educate, empower, and engage individuals and organizations. We work to increase career alignment and fit and improve the economic vitality of our clients. We educate and support independent mentors with our platform of services. These programs are developed and delivered to individuals and organizations as learning communities using online and in-person delivery.
WE SERVE THREE CUSTOMER SEGMENTS
- The recently unemployed, the underemployed, and those transitioning to new careers and retirement.
- Coaches, counselors, teachers, program designers, and mentors, who share our organizational values and who wish to offer their knowledge and experience through Career Storybook.
- Organizations (public, private, and not-for-profit) that share our vision, mission, and values.
VALUES
We promote career alignment with strengths, interests, and opportunity as necessary for a satisfying and rewarding career. These criteria support the wellbeing of the individual and the environment providing foundations for social and economic vibrancy.
Growth Mindset
A growth mindset is a healthy mindset. Education grows minds, builds hearts, and deepens perspectives. Education advances civilization. We nurture open-minded independent thinkers. Diverse views produce better outcomes.
Integrity
We support those who would raise the level of individual responsibility, honest expression, transparent reporting, and verifiable evidence. We keep our commitments; credibility is our currency.
Balance
We strive for balance in views and perspectives, recognizing that nuanced and finely-crafted solutions reflect the intelligence of the community and produce the best outcomes.
Compassion
Empowerment
We educate, empower, and engage our participants, supporting self-advocacy, confidence, and mutual respect. Dignity is necessary for health and a fully realized life.
Inclusiveness
We support the creation of vibrant opportunities for the many. Advance social, civic, and economic participation for all. We value diversity and inclusion.
Code of Conduct and User Terms
In short, Behave Appropriately.