Programs
Career Coaching for Academic Researchers (Life and Physical Sciences)
Are you clear on your next steps, career-wise? Do you have a clear vision of your path to promotion? Do you feel secure in your marketability, should a change be necessary? Could you easily move to be closer to family, or enjoy better weather or lower cost of living? Or does your CV need some strengthening? Do you truly understand how the research enterprise works?
Academic scientists often find that their mentoring needs to be supplemented outside of the existing lines of supervision, especially when your assigned mentors only have limited availability, as is often the case in academia. Even when you secure time for your official mentoring, it is rarely done in a structured way that covers all the bases, pertinent now and a few years down the road. Importantly, inner work and perspective shift are rarely discussed.
A structured approach is necessary. Through Apta Via Careers, I guide academic researchers in increasing their visibility, strengthening their portfolio, and gaining a deeper understanding of their role in the research enterprise.
Productivity Support for the Free Spirits
Many of us are aware that the rigid structures of traditional schooling or corporate culture are not a good fit. While they provide good support and accountability for a typical person, they frequently hinder others by interfering with the fluid nature of creativity. Intuitively looking for environments where they can make their best contribution, the creative free spirits often join science labs, start businesses, or find success in creative endeavors.
While initially enjoying the flexibility that non-traditional environments offer, we often struggle to create our own structures within the open space provided and we end up spinning our wheels, work expands to fill time available, and important things like family time and recovery fall off the schedule. I offer adaptable techniques and templates specific to academic research, but I also work more broadly with each client to build the exact tools they need, be it for work or home. There is no pre-existing blueprint – each person is unique, with different motivation sources or recovery needs, with different ways to structure information or organize a complex to-do list.
I will guide you in getting to know how your brain works and building the tools you need to stay on track and perform to your full ability, so that the important work gets done and the important personal values and needs are honored.