Valerie Sutton: Creating ‘Career Consciousness’ and Aligning Your Career Path with Your Unique Identity

Valerie Sutton is a thought leader in career theory, coaching, and leading teams. Creating “career consciousness” with clients is her passion. A seasoned career coach with specialization in the MBA and education sectors, she has successfully overseen offices catering to over 900 students on an annual basis and is a LinkedIn Learning Instructor. Valerie’s prior experience includes the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

We talk with Valerie about her own career journey and the lessons she learned along the way, her time as head of career in universities and her transition as a co-founder, her advice for early career professionals who are looking to start out in their careers, her motivation to be involved in volunteering projects, her thinking and recommended strategies around networking, what she wishes employers could change, and her most exciting projects for the future.

Links from the episode:   

• Valerie’s homepage ‘Career Solution by Valerie’
•  Valerie’s courses on LinkedIn Learning
• Valerie’s LinkedIn Profile

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