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Career strategy for rising professionals, from a former corporate HR insider who's helped hundreds of people land better jobs, negotiate bigger salaries, and build careers the system never told them were possible.
“I got a job at my top-choice company, negotiated a 30% salary increase, and found a healthy, supportive work culture with opportunity for growth!” — “My favorite part of working with Janel is her beautiful combo of woo-woo and Jersey-spice.” — “She’s not only your Career Coach, but she is a human being!” — “I now feel confident in where I want to be, something which at the time of starting with Janel felt impossible and out of reach.” — “One of the greatest skills learned from working with Janel was how to get clear with myself.”
You did everything right, and it still feels wrong.
The degree. The internships. The promotions, the performance reviews, the LinkedIn headline you rewrote eleven times. You held up your end of the deal, and somewhere along the way the deal changed. That feeling is systemic, it has a name, and once you see it that way, you can actually do something about it. I spent ten years inside corporate HR at NBCUniversal, Stitch Fix, and Tinder, sitting in the rooms where hiring, promotion, and layoff decisions get made. Now I use everything I learned in those rooms to help you make your next move: a pivot, a raise, a renegotiation, or something you build yourself.
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I know because I've been there.
Hi, I'm Janel.
I started my career in corporate HR because I was fascinated by a simple question: why do some talented people rise while other talented people stall? Ten years at NBCUniversal, Stitch Fix, and Tinder gave me the answer, and it had very little to do with working harder. The people who rose weren't the most qualified. They were the ones who understood how the system works.
Now I use everything I learned in those rooms to help rising professionals make their next move — through Going Places, Going Up, and the frameworks I built from a decade of watching careers succeed and stall from the inside.
Meet Janel →Maybe You Don't Need a New Job.
Maybe you need a new definition of success. Because not every career crisis requires a dramatic resignation letter.
Sometimes the next chapter looks like:
- Redesigning your current role
- Negotiating for what you actually need
- Exploring a portfolio career
- Building multiple income streams
- Creating more flexibility
- Reconnecting with what matters
The goal isn't to escape your career. The goal is to build one that actually fits your life.
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Real career stories in the time it takes to ride an elevator. Rising professionals, founders, and people with jobs you didn't know existed.
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Keynotes and workshops on the modern career crisis, career mobility, and getting visible for your ideas. Booked by companies, universities, and national organizations.
Bring Janel inThe frameworks work. The results are the receipts.
Clients have landed roles at their top-choice companies, negotiated salary increases of 30%, pivoted from nonprofits into venture capital, and built portfolio careers on their own terms. Pivot with Purpose, Janel's group program, generated over $200,000 in revenue through word of mouth alone, without a single paid ad.
“I now feel like I can really achieve some pretty crazy dreams if I have the process and the work behind it.”
“I now feel confident in where I want to be, something which at the time of starting with Janel felt impossible and out of reach.”
“I got a job at my top-choice company, negotiated a 30% salary increase, and found a healthy, supportive work culture with opportunity for growth!”
“One of the greatest skills learned from working with Janel was how to get clear with myself.”
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Real career stories in the time it takes to ride an elevator. Janel catches rising professionals between floors and gets the story LinkedIn never tells.
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Burnout, a bad boss, a promotion that came with more meetings and less meaning. Every career crisis has an origin story, and yours determines your way out. Take the two-minute quiz and get a plan matched to your actual situation, from someone who spent a decade on the other side of the hiring table.
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