Life Designing for Career Construction
Gain Clarity, Control, Direction, & Purpose
WHAT WE DO
We help our clients address complex career/life transitions and challenges that cannot be addressed using traditional career theories and techniques. Using post-modern career interventions, we focus on the power of story to help clients design and re-design themselves in the ever-changing world of work that characterizes the 21st century. We teach you how to construct, narrate, and voice your own story. Sometimes, we need to show you how to deconstruct a story that no longer works for you. The end result is a new story/chapter you can use to address and navigate your current career concern, challenge, or transition. Use the techniques we teach you to address future issues and design the life you want to live.
YOUR STORY AS A PICTURE
HOW WE DO IT
We use narrative psychology and storytelling techniques to help individuals, explore, define, and implement their career related needs, values, interests, and aspirations. We have extensive training and experience in using qualitative assessments such as the Career Construction Interview to help individuals explore who they are, where they have been, and where they are going. Schedule a free 15 minute call with Kevin to learn more about yourself.
In today’s world of work it is important that you are able to articulate your skills and story to others. You need to create your own brand, one that is unique that you can use to sell your unique talents and services to potential employers, customers, and clients.
HOW WELL DO YOUR KNOW YOUR STRENGTHS?
WHO WE ARE
Create Your Why provides career coaching, guidance, and training to help individuals navigate career/life decisions, transitions, & challenges. Founder and CEO, Dr. Kevin Glavin, is a Licensed Professional Counselor, who has spent the past 20 years studying and practicing career counseling, guidance, & development. Kevin has worked with numerous companies, universities and government institutions, including Saudi Aramco, NASA, Singapore Ministry of Manpower, Japanese Institute of Career Development, Australian Catholic University, & the University of Colorado Boulder. He has served as president of the Ohio Career Development Association & Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Employment Counseling.
MEET OUR FOUNDER – KEVIN GLAVIN
Kevin teaches career counseling for Nova Southeastern University, FL, USA. He holds a PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision, as well as degrees in Business Information Technology and Math and Economics. Schedule a 15-minute call with Kevin to see how he can be of use to you as you navigate the dynamic, uncertain, and unstable nature of work in the 21st century.
USE OUR SOFTWARE TO CREATE YOUR WHY
WHO WE WORK WITH
Many career practitioners do the same thing. They measure VIPS (Values, Interests, Personality, & Strengths), then set goals and create action plans. They often miss the one thing that ties everything together, making clients unique and memorable, and that is the client’s story. Your story is empowering and impactful. As Maya Angelou said, “People forget what you said – but they will never forget how you made them feel.”, and stories make people feel. What’s your story?
TESTIMONIALS
Kevin – A Career Construction thought leader. Thanks for all you have taught me.
Mark SavickasProfessor Emeritus (Department of Family and Community Medicine) and Chair Emeritus (Department of Behavioral Sciences) at the Northeast Ohio Medical University.
NCDA is privileged to have Kevin as a keynote speaker and workshop presenter for various association events. His relevant knowledge, engaging personality, and charismatic nature make him a perfect presenter for our career development practitioners and researchers. I highly recommend Kevin as a leading professional in the career development industry.
Deneen Pennington Executive Director National Career Development Association
WSG is privileged to have Kevin as our Principal Trainer for Career Construction Training in 2018. Having trained 12 of our Career Practitioners and Practice Leaders, he demonstrated strong practice and expertise in his career development domain. His training methodology, personality and nature makes him a perfect presenter and trainer for career practitioners. We highly recommend Kevin as the leading professional trainer for the career development industry and Career Construction and Life-Design training.
Jeremiah WongCareer Practitioner Capability & Professional Development (Senior Manager) – Workforce Singapore
We recommend Dr. Kevin Glavin as a speaker and a trainer for Life Designing for Career Construction. Dr. Kevin Glavin was invited by the Japan Industrial Counseling Association in September 2016 to deliver lectures and conduct live demonstrations of the Career Construction Interview at Rissho University, Tokyo. We have since published these demonstrations and lectures in the book: “From Introduction to Practice of Life Design Counseling.” This book, and its teaching, are widely read by Japanese career Counselors.
Shujiro MizunoDoctor of Education, Former Director, Japan Industrial Counseling Society, President of Japan Peer Mediation Society
Thank you!!! Thank you!!! At first glance the evaluations looked incredible. People’s feedback on you, the presentation and the Life Designing model and Career Construction Interview were outstanding. Everyone at work is buzzing with excitement and talking about the model’s potential usefulness with our students.
Linda Brandt, Psy.D.Counselor/Professor Moraine Valley Community College
This class changed my life! The digital story telling component of the class was such a profound exercise, and I truly appreciated the opportunity to explore my story and likewise provide the space for others to do the same. I learned so much about myself.
Workshop Participant
Our brains are hard wired to tell and listen to stories, a legacy from the time when there was only the verbal word to pass down traditions until the invention of the written word. The Career Construction Interview is like setting a caged bird free and for many people, the first time to hear their own stories in their own words in their own voice.
Workshop Participant
Magical day. As we watch and listen to stories after stories from each other, we also took the time to engage, question, probe and reflect content and feelings to each other. The last day had us focus on our micro-skills, which is the formative and fundamentally important for any coaching or counselling session. Kevin led us to into multiple digital storytelling and gave space for us to the share our stories and had the class flex their micro-skills muscles to derive our career themes. It is also a session where we got to know our colleagues a lot better – from their career direction and themes, contents, motivations, and what made them who they are today. I look forward to deploying these to help my clients.
Workshop Participant
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