RECOGNITION | RESPECT | RELIEF

Helping Financial Services Professionals Earn What They Deserve With Strategic, Customized Career Coaching

Stop the Search

Stop the endless job search applying with your resume or CV online that gets you nowhere and keeps you frustrated and directionless. Instead, get a customized career coach plan that will honor your background and speed your job search faster than you thought possible.

It’s Not Your Resume

There is a process to succeed based on career evaluation, refining your LinkedIn profile, and cracking interviews, often overlooked. A powerful resume is just 20% of this process. Learn to master your job search with an expert career coach. It’s about having a strategic plan.

Access Hidden Jobs

Access 70% of all jobs never posted online. Get your own informational interviews to bypass the competition and penetrate your target companies. Learn to get on the inside with an expert networking career coach. Get your resume directly to a hiring manager.

Ace Interviews!

An interview is not about just questions and answers. Create a connection through your storytelling ability with your interviewers to set the tone for your future working relationships. An expert interview career coach shows you how to carry your story from your resume forward.

About Me

As a former investment banker from Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse, now a Career Coach, I bring 15+ years of Wall Street experience into play for my financial services clients. As a career coach for mid to senior-level professionals, I am known for helping my clients land jobs faster.

My proven career coach system yields results. When you work with me, you’ll learn to bypass the online abyss, skip the job board circus, and put your focus, energy and resources to play at top speed.

I’m committed to supporting clients gain stability, increase confidence, and land a job they love. I enable my clients to step up into a new title, to level up into a higher compensation tier, and to earn what they deserve while pursuing a long term, stable career.

When you work with me, your personal career coach, you access my wisdom, strategy, support, and guidance - directly. No middleman. I work 1:1 with all my clients.

I work with every type of job seeker, from Wall Street and Fortune 500 companies to startups.

My clients come from Google, Goldman Sachs, Amazon, JP Morgan, Verizon, PayPal, MasterCard, Fidelity, and a host of smaller firms.

Together, we build a strategic customized career plan. We focus on career direction resume, LinkedIn Profile, networking, interview preparation, and so much more. I leverage my personal network, 16,000 LinkedIn 1st connections, and 10+ million LinkedIn 2nd connections to get clients access to the hidden job market.

I have walked in your shoes. I rose through the ranks of Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse with a salary in the top 5%. When I was laid off due to a severe recession in 2007, I was devastated. I picked myself up, transformed my anxiety and anger into action, and landed a new position quickly. From that point on, I dedicated my life to make sure that no high performing professionals would be left as I was - without support, without a plan, and without an identity.

You are more than your resume. You are more than your experience - leverage both to level up.

About Me

As a former investment banker from Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse, now a Career Coach, I bring 15+ years of Wall Street experience into play for my financial services clients. As a career coach for mid to senior-level professionals, I am known for helping my clients land jobs faster.

My proven career coach system yields results. When you work with me, you’ll learn to bypass the online abyss, skip the job board circus, and put your focus, energy and resources to play at top speed.

I’m committed to supporting clients gain stability, increase confidence, and land a job they love. I enable my clients to step up into a new title, to level up into a higher compensation tier, and to earn what they deserve while pursuing a long term, stable career.

When you work with me, your personal career coach, you access my wisdom, strategy, support, and guidance - directly. No middleman. I work 1:1 with all my clients.

I work with every type of job seeker, from Wall Street and Fortune 500 companies to startups.

My clients come from Google, Goldman Sachs, Amazon, JP Morgan, Verizon, PayPal, MasterCard, Fidelity, and a host of smaller firms.

Together, we build a strategic customized career plan. We focus on career direction resume, LinkedIn Profile, networking, interview preparation, and so much more. I leverage my personal network, 16,000 LinkedIn 1st connections, and 10+ million LinkedIn 2nd connections to get clients access to the hidden job market.

I have walked in your shoes. I rose through the ranks of Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse with a salary in the top 5%. When I was laid off due to a severe recession in 2007, I was devastated. I picked myself up, transformed my anxiety and anger into action, and landed a new position quickly. From that point on, I dedicated my life to make sure that no high performing professionals would be left as I was - without support, without a plan, and without an identity.

You are more than your resume. You are more than your experience - leverage both to level up.

I have helped hundreds of professionals get the jobs they deserve. I serve executives in the financial services, FinTech, and IT verticals.

Who I Work With

Financial Services Industries

  • Buyside
  • Sellside
  • Private Equity (PE)
  • Venture Capital (VC)
  • FinTech
  • Investment Banking
  • Commercial Banking
  • Wealth Management
  • Private Banking
  • Prime Brokerage
  • Asset Management
  • Investment Management
  • Hedge Funds
  • Alternative Asset Management
  • Crypto & Blockchain

FinTech Industries

  • Business Analyst
  • Financial Analyst
  • Business Development
  • Strategy & Operations
  • Account Executive
  • Blockchain Experts & Developers
  • App Developers
  • Quantitative Analysts
  • Product Owners
  • Cybersecurity
  • Risk Control
  • Compliance
  • Data Scientist
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • FP&A

IT Professionals

  • Quantitative Analyst
  • Quantitative Researcher
  • Business Analyst
  • DevOps
  • Product Manager
  • Project Manager
  • Program Manager
  • Data Engineer
  • Software Engineer
  • Solutions Architect
  • Developer
  • UX/UI Designer
  • Security Engineer
  • Information Security Officer
  • Cloud, Cyber & Risk Operations

Customized Plan

Feeling secure about your job search is all about having a concrete and actionable plan. I will provide you with the clarity on your career direction based on my expertise of having led hundreds of clients into well-fitting, long-lasting careers. I will also design a customized 5 to 7 step plan based on your unique skills, target industry, previous experience and future goals and be with you every step of the way as you turn this plan into success.

Process of Application

Once you get into the right direction and have a plan in place, we will then work on the process of application. This involves crafting your resume specific to your career direction, rather than pumping it up with keywords, so that it immediately clicks with your target employer and at the same time reflects who you truly are (and makes you feel proud about it!). Secondly, I will optimize your LinkedIn profile to make it come alive and be easily searchable for your target organizations.

Interviews – Informational and Formal

My unique expertise lies in helping you land informational interviews based on my extensive network of high-level contacts across organizations so that you gain a key advocate on the inside. I also not only help you prepare for these informational interviews but also for formal interviews so that you develop the skill to connect with each of your interviewers in an atmosphere of dialogue and engagement based on your personal history.

My Clients

My Clients

David Robles

Mike helped me land my dream job with Google!

After 23 years with the same company, I needed a change but didn’t know where to start. Mike helped me explore other careers by setting up coffee chats with friendly professionals.  We then analyzed those conversations to understand what really appealed to me.  From there, we recreated my resume and my LinkedIn profile to best promote my value and experience.  His patient guidance helped build my confidence, throughout the rest of the process.

Terri Harris

Michael is a master at interview preparation and helped me pivot from SunTrust to Navy Federal Credit Union with more responsibility.

He showed me how to customize my answers to typical and non-typical questions given the company personnel with whom I was speaking. He taught me that some interview questions have hidden questions. He taught me appropriate answers. He pumped me up and showed me how to dialogue with the interviewer.

Marshall Burroughs

Within 2 months of working with Mike, I moved from Wall Street to Salesforce. If you need to pivot, he is your guy.

I was a very successful sales trader for 20 years. However, the landscape of Wall Street had changed, and my next move was probably not going to be the same role since fewer and fewer exist. Mike and I worked on identifying all the different types of possible jobs and industries I would fit.

Hiten Rawal

Mike helped me get to the greatest company in the world, Amazon (AWS)! Mike helps you figure out your career direction so you save time.

I knew I wanted to network with professionals that had certain technical certifications. Speaking to these professionals at the right firms would help inform my job search. Mike arranged coffee chats. Mike saves you time, a commodity sometimes more valuable than money.

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Some of My Latest Blog Posts

Resume Tear Down

Resume Tear Down

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Aesthetics and content rule the day since the average reader will spend no more than 12 seconds on your resume.  Clear and crisp.  5 reasons why this resume simply works. Tag Line Business Intelligence Executive | IT Strategy and Execution. You know exactly how to...

So You Tried the Startup Thing

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This article discusses the job seekers' buyer’s remorse from having left a large financial services company and moving to a startup (loosely defined). After 6+ months there, you may fear you may have made an error. How will it look if you change jobs now, after this...

Tell Your Story!: Advice from a Job Coach

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As a job coach, the following quote comes to mind: "The best arguments in the world won't change a single person's mind. The only that that will do that is a good story.”  Richard Powers Whether you are in a formal interview and get the dreaded “Tell me about...

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