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TESTIMONIALS

Note: These are not paid actors:-)

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Additional Recommendations Posted on LinkedIn …

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I feel very fortunate to have been referred to Richard very early in my most recent career transition. Richard always had my best interests in mind. His thorough process and personalized support allowed me to focus my efforts, present myself optimally, and negotiate the best deal. His value add was most definitely worth the investment. I can’t thank him enough for assisting me to land so quickly!

Ira G, CFO

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When I found myself ready to make a career change I was fortunate to get introduced to Richard. We worked together for a few of months, putting together my transition plan, formulating strategies to speed up my results, and discussing options for handling recruiters /networking/ interviews/etc. Richard was very helpful and I was happy to land a great new position in a timely manner. I recommend Richard as a “job search mentor” for executives in transition.

Jardon B, COO

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Richard Kirby helped me take a “rifle” approach to finding a more challenging position. I was working while trying to create options and I was scattered. Richard helped me take my networking skills to the next level; making the most of each interaction. He combines this with key metrics to monitor my progress and a strong system of accountability — his total package is truly unique!

Rebecca H, CFO

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Richard helped me achieve my career goal of securing new employment and increasing my earning potential by 20%. He was helpful, professional, responsive and extremely effective.

Frank W, President (This is from earlier in his career as an engineering manager. Five years later he was a President.)

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Tapping Richard’s experience to review and update my career strategy was an extremely effective and eye-opening endeavor. His methodical approach helped me better define my goals in synch with my unique motivational profile and current stage of my career. His executive coaching helped me surface executable options and produced immediate positive impacts. Together, our joint exploration of my aspirations and qualifications greatly enhanced my personal brand strength… which resulted in higher quality opportunity discussions with organizations I was interested in and beyond! I highly recommend you put Richard to work for you no matter what your career stage or success level.

Dino P, Group Vice President – Sales

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Richard is a personable, savvy and high integrity career coach. Richard was instrumental in strengthening my resume, interviewing, and personal brand skills, and helped me obtain my current position as President & CEO of Gerber Life Insurance.

Wes P, President and CEO (Former Marketing Consultant)

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Rick P, CFO/EVP

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Working with Richard had a huge impact on my life. Richard coached me on how to present myself, connect with people and create a network of relevant professional contacts. He prepared me for different kinds of interviews and helped me eventually find a great position in a leading industry company.

Odelia L, Director of Product Management

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Richard is a networking rockstar and knows how to coach others to take a “rifle” approach to networking in a job search and beyond. I had the pleasure of first working with Richard several years ago while I was still based in Chicago and consider him a trusted advisor and friend today. Having worked with Richard on many executive issues, I have come to deeply respect his insights. His strategy not only had a positive impact that helped land a new position but is something I use on a weekly if not daily basis.

Kurt U, Chief Marketing Officer

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I was looking for a 2nd career, but didn’t know where to begin. I received great help and guidance from Richard Kirby to find what I believe is the perfect fit both career-wise and company-wise for me. I don’t believe I would have found the home I currently have without him or his methodologies.

Christina B, Account Manager

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Working with Richard really helped prepare me for a career transition and provided me with the tools I needed to make the most of the change. It was a great experience and led to a successful result.

Robert D, Managing Director

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Richard was a huge benefit to me during my recent career change in two main areas. First, he kept me accountable for staying on track and doing the things I needed to do to increase my marketability for prospective employers. Second, he helped with salary and benefit negotiations by advising me on when to push for more and when to be satisfied with an offer. I would highly recommend Richard to anyone considering a career change.

Todd S, Architect

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Richard is a true professional who understands his clients needs quickly, and is able to adopt a unique approach to maximize their results.

Scott R, Eastern US Sales Director

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Richard Kirby is an exceptional career coach. He has developed a program that provides structure, direction, and logic to a career change or job seeking effort. His firm is structured to provide maximum one-on-one coaching and he brings to the table many years of expertise in this field. He will instill in you the confidence to market yourself. He turns you into a sales person – good sales people plan their work and work their plan. The key to his success is his plan. I would recommend Richard to anyone who is looking for professional, dead-on expert coaching to advance their career requirements.

Mark K, South Area Business Manager

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(Georgia Tech Graduate Career Symposium) Thank you Richard for a practical and effective program on Networking, our Georgia Tech graduate community is a tough audience and many students are skeptical of the job market and networking in general. Your program received great reviews from our Masters and PhD students-thank you for sharing your expertise as an Executive Coach and Career Consultant!

Robbie O, GT Career Center Counselor

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I witnessed a pivotal transformation in my relative’s job search due to the coaching and guidance he received from Richard Kirby. Richard’s services made the search more effective and lowered the stress of the process. For anyone who is currently employed and unhappy, or is in transition I strongly recommend that you contact Richard. He is worth gold.

Manola R, Independent Consultant

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In preparing for a recent interview, I called upon Richard for interview coaching and career planning advice. Having selected him somewhat randomly from my LinkedIn connections, I was unsure what to expect. I was very pleased with Richard’s professional services and the outcome of our engagement. He provided support and advice via telephone – and a live video mock interview via Skype. Although I felt confident in myself, it was reassuring to get his feedback and a few tips and techniques to help me through the process. The outcome was a new executive level job that fits my background and goals perfectly. I would highly recommend Richard to anyone seeking interviewing coaching or career counseling.

Dr. Joe H, IT Executive

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Richard is a recognized expert in his field and has an incredible work ethic. He is driven to achieving a significant return on investment for his clients in helping them “Get paid what you’re worth”. He has formulated his own proven strategy to success for his clients and has the charisma and training skills to effectively lead his clients to the desired result.

Bob R, Senior Sales Manager

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Working through a job loss is a stressful thing, especially when it is unexpected. Richard helped during my time of unemployment in two significant ways. First, he helped me focus my job search energies in ways that seemed counter-intuitive, at first, by updating and enhancing my resume and online profiles, and developing contacts through one on one meetings. Online job searching and submitting applications through corporate web portals needed to be secondary. Second, he was laser-focused on the benefits of expanding your personal network of connections and contacts and face to face meetings because that was the surest way to find your next job opportunity. I was skeptical, but continued to expand my connections and contacts, and forced myself to get out and meet frequently with these contacts. The final, successful result was that I was recommended by one of my early contacts for a great position, and I was interviewed, hired, and started the new job within 5 days of the recommendation. From initial connection with this contact to final recommendation took just over 4 months. Richard’s advice is what got me to change my thinking about how to search for a new job, and to go out there and actually land a new position. I highly recommend him.

Don Z, Data Analyst

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I have known Richard for many years and know him to be a real professional in his field. He is a person of high integrity that truly cares about his clients. He wants to see each person reach their potential and Richard puts his “all” into helping. I have met several people over the years that have used Richard’s services and they say he helped them reach their potential. When you first meet Richard you see him as a patient and understanding person that has your situation and needs at heart.

Chris W, President and Owner of a Small Business

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I had the pleasure to work with Richard for my career search and was able to learn a lot from him about career advice and strong network skill. Richard has a deep knowledge of the subject, great coaching skill and strong network background that will allow him to provide the best career result.

Peng X, Senior Financial Modeling Analyst

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Some thumbnail examples of client results

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During Richard’s first year of career consulting in 2002, Richard was able to help…

– A client who had worked his way up over 15 years to CFO of a $100MM private company on his own…. With Richard’s strategic support throughout his job search in a Quantum Leap^TM Executive Program, he landed a CFO role with a $1.2B public company despite no experience with public company Sarbanes-Oxley reporting or other public company demands. He doubled his income within two years and after a few years transitioned to a better CFO role in a bigger company, where he worked until he retired.

– A client who was in a marketing consulting role who previously had roles in smaller companies…. With Richard’s strategic support throughout his job search in a Quantum Leap^TM Executive Program he landed his first ever President position which immediately increased his income over 50% and this led to his election as Chairman of the Board, retiring there many years later.

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– A client who was in sales management for a struggling company and wanted to get out of Corporate America…. With Richard’s strategic support in a Quantum Leap^TM Custom Program he started his own solo business consulting career and replaced his $120K sales income with a $300K consulting practice within a couple of years.

In subsequent years, a few exceptional and notable results included supporting

– A finance executive on/off the bench at a Venture Capital firm who was able to land a permanent CFO role at a Fortune500 company where he grew his income substantially for over eight years before retiring. (Quantum Leap^TM Executive Program) The exceptional part was that he was able to negotiate his original job offer up 50% with two phone calls.

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– A client who was a State Operations VP for a top two beverage company…. With Richard’s strategic support throughout his job search in a Quantum Leap^TM Executive Program he landed a VP of Strategy role at higher pay within two weeks of leaving his current job. The exceptional part (besides having a new job lined up before he even left his current job) was that because he knew the downsizing was coming and engaged us in his search proactively he was able to negotiate an accelerated pension buyout and increased months of severance during RIF discussions with his employer.

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– A Merchandising VP who was able to land a similar role. (Quantum Leap^TM Custom Program) The exceptional part was that she was able to land this within three months. She had been job searching on her own for three years beforehand, draining all of her savings and home equity.

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– A mid-level staff operations manager at a Fortune500 company who was able to land his first ever Vice President of Operations role at a similar Fortune500 company making far more money. (Quantum Leap^TM Executive Program) The exceptional part was that he was able to build a spreadsheet that specifically quantified the potential value of his golden handcuffs future stock options with his long time employer… and get a lump sum payment up front to make him “whole” when accepting the VP role with his new employer.

– An Operations Manager who was in his mid 20’s negotiated for a 20% salary increase in his current job. (Quantum Leap^TM Custom Program) The exceptional part was he had no prior negotiation strategy or skills until we helped him and when he got the raise his manager asked him “How did you come to be such a good negotiator at your age?” He just smiled.

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How were these results possible?

They were possible because Richard primarily works with clients who are smart and highly motivated to get ahead in their careers. Also, his clients recognize that unlike investing in an MBA program of $100K or $150K that demands two years of their lives and will likely have a break-even at ten years or beyond, they could summon up the self-confidence to invest in themselves in a more strategic way. That investment gave them an advantage over their job market competitors and produced typical ROI’s of 3X to 5X in their first year of new employment.

While their competition took the “road more traveled” and used the DIY trial-and-error approach of the masses, Richard’s clients became more committed, more focused, more effective, and more marketable. Then, equipped with new knowledge and proven strategies, they went out and successfully marketed themselves while receiving precise step-by-step mentoring that kept them on course, was adjusted as needed to improve progress, and helped them negotiate and close their best career deals.

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Ready to Achieve Your Career Goals?

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