Alexandra Levit is a nationally recognized business and workplace author and speaker.

A syndicated columnist for the Wall Street Journal and Metro US, Alexandra has authored several books, including the bestselling They Don't Teach Corporate in College, How'd You Score That Gig?, Success for Hire, MillennialTweet: 140 Bite-Sized Lessons for Managing the Millennials, and New Job, New You.

Interview Topic: “New Job, New You”

• How to uncover whether it’s a career change is what you truly want or you’re just fed up with your current job
• The different motivations for making a career change and how the different motivators affect your career change strategy
• How to test drive new careers without making a firm commitment
• The No1 thing that stops people changing career and what you can do to address it.

Nick’ William’s  expertise lies in helping people transform their loves and passions into profitable businesses.

A sought after international speaker and broadcaster, he is the author of the best selling of The Work We Were Born To Do and has traveled the world inspiring people to make their living doing what they love.

Interview topic *The Work We Were Born to Do*

• Understand what is meant by the Work We Were Born to Do
• What makes resistance the biggest dream killer
• Identify what your voices of resistance are to making the career change?
• How your beliefs about work may cause you to feel stuck
• Three strategies that you can implement so that you become more inspired to make changes to your career
• Why taking baby steps may be better than taking a big leap
• The mistakes that people make when seeking to make changers to their lives – what you can do to avoid them
• Discover a proven strategy for rediscovering your authentic self
• What is a renaissance soul and how your understanding of it can help you create your ideal work conditions.
• The one thing that stops people creating their ideal life

Denise Taylor is a chartered psychologist, registered guidance practitioner and author of 3 career books including the forthcoming 'now you've been shortlisted'. 

Her first book, 'How to get a job in a recession' was written following her involvement on the ITV Tonight programme helping unemployed graduates get a job. 

Interview Topic:  *Changing Careers In A Recession*

• What the key differences are between changing career now and in a more buoyant market
• The seven steps for making a career change
• The three factors that can affect the quality of your job applications
• What steps you can take to ensure that you have the edge over other job applicants
• The importance of expanding your social and professional network. Including the actions that you can take to make it happen.

Carrie Wilkerson is the voice of experience. From corporate life to teaching high school to direct sales, she has 'been there and done that' professionally and personally.

An 'overnight mom' to 2 toddlers through adoption, her priorities instantly changed and so did her workplace. She's now built several businesses and coached others to do the same while overcoming extreme debt, losing 110 lbs and having 2 more children, for a total of 4, ages infant through 12!   

As "The Barefoot Executive," Carrie and her network of experts have quickly become the definitive resource for work at home professionals

Interview Topic: *So You Want To Start Your Own Business – What Are Some of the Pitfalls and How to Overcome Them*

• Why connecting with why you want to start a business is so important
• The four mistakes that people make when starting up their business
• The obstacles that get in people’s way and even prevent them starting their own business. What you can do about this.
• Why looking at your current skill set is so important when you first get started
• The different types of business models that you can adopt

Valerie Young:

After a successful but unfulfilling 7 year stint as a marketing director in a Fortune 200 company, Valerie Young has spent the last 15 years as the Dreamer-in-Residence at ChangingCourse.com – an online resource she launched to help other people take the leap from having a boss to being their own boss. Valerie is also an expert on how people can turn their interests into income so they can start profiting from their passions

Interview Topic: *How To profit From Your Passion*

• The Fundamental question to ask yourself before you embark on a career change
• How to reconnect with the things that you are passionate about and love doing
• What steps you can take to turn your passion into a viable business
• How the way you think may be sabotaging and limiting the business options available to you. What you can do about it.

Debra White: Debra’s unique combination of real-world business skills with people development experience makes her an inspirational catalyst for positive change and growth
Debra has significant marketing and management experience gained as a European broker manager and as head of a global business. She integrates this practical business background with the resources of an MBA and professional training in marketing, Coaching and HR.  She works with a range of clients including multinationals, academic institutions and entrepreneurs.

Interview Topic - * Must Have Relevant Experience – Discover Well Proven Ways To Develop The Experience You Need *

• How to do an audit of your skills audit  - so that you are clear where your skills are
• The steps to take to create a development plan for your self to acquire the experience you need
• The 10 ways that you can acquire the valuable work experience you need

Simonne Gnessen is founder of Wise Monkey Financial Coaching and co-author of Sheconomics, a new book that provides practical solutions to women’s money problems while also tackling their emotional relationship with money. Simonne has worked in financial services for more than 18 years, including 10 years as an independent financial adviser.

In 2002, feeling constrained by the traditional model of financial advice, Simonne broke new ground by designing a completely different type of service - one focussing on empowering people in money matters without selling any financial product.

 Interview Topic - * Managing Your Finances During Your Career Change*

• The three stages for planning your finances so that you can make your career transition
• The value of having a cash cushion
• Three financial obstacles that might stop you from changing career and how you can overcome them.
• Common mistakes that you may be making with your finances and how to avoid them
• How to take better control of your finances
• The emotional barriers that prevent people from making the most of their money

I'm Sonya Welch-Moring and like many of you, I've been moving through a big Life-Transition which has forced me to think deeply about what shifts I want to make in order to create more abundance in life and business, I've learned a lot in the process and now I'd like to share that with you.

For over fifteen years I worked as a People Developer, coaching, facilitating groups through change and mediating clients in dispute.  It was great, I was good at it and along the way I gained an MSc in  Human Resource Development, a Master NLP and coach certification training

Interview Topic:  *Feeling Stuck – How To Stop Feeling Stuck and Keep On Track For Finding A Career You Love*

• Why you may be stuck and not making the changes that you need to land work that you love
• The emotional barriers that career changers face and what you can do to ensure that they do not stop you in your tracks
• Proven strategies to help you tackle your feelings of being stuck

Susan Britton Whitcomb: “America’s Career and Life Coach,” has helped thousands of job seekers find the clarity and confidence to claim career success and significance. Founder and Director of TheAcademies.com—the career practitioners' go-to resource for world-class credentialing programs—she has trained hundreds of certified career coaches and authored many best-selling books, including Résumé Magic, Interview  Magic, Job Search Magic, 30-Day Job Promotion, and The Twitter Job Search

Interview Topic:  *How To Build A Network In a New Industry or Profession using Twitter*

On this call discover:

• The one thing many career changers try and avoid doing but when done reaps valuable rewards.
• Three tips to consider if networking fills you with dread
• What is Twitter and how to get started
• What opportunities can twitter create?
• Common mistakes people make when using Twitter and how you can avoid them
• Twitter job search resources

Louisa Jewell is a consultant, facilitator and speaker with over 14 years of experience working with organizations in the area of management training, employee retention and career development.

In November of 2007 she co-founded a project to research and study happiness at work at www.whydidyougo.com.

Interview topic: *The Science of Well Being and Happiness*

• The relevance of the science of well being to your career change
• How being in a job that you hate can affect your well- being.
• How an understanding of positive psychology can help you to remain resilient as you change career.
• Discover the steps you can take whilst transitioning into your new career to maintain your psychological well-being.
• What are the two different kind of strengths? Plus the actions you can take to identify and be clear of your strengths. 

Christina Merkley is The SHIFT-IT Coach. Creator of the SHIFT-IT System®, she guides individuals, partners and conscious companies in defining and getting what they really, really want.
A teacher of Law of Attraction, she is also an expert in visual meeting techniques, strategic planning and visioning: having worked for such notable companies as BBC, Readers Digest Funds, eBay and Stanford University. After a move from San Francisco, she now lives in charming Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - where she maintains a vibrant coaching, facilitation and training practice

• Please note that this expert interview follows a different format to the previous calls – Christina will be coaching someone who is going through a career change on the call. The call will last approx 80 minutes.
• Christina, has kindly donated two of her visual coaching maps which form part of her “shift it” coaching process. The first is called  a “magnetism map”. She will be demonstrating how you can use this tool to help you focus on creating a vision for your career change.
• The second map is called “flip it”, Christina, will be showing you how to use this map to help you become more aware of the possible resistance that you might be feeling towards your vision, such as doubts, and uncertainties.
• During the call she will arm you with a strategy for helping you to recognise and start to shift these feelings of doubt, fear and uncertainty

FRANCES WILLIAMS
CEO, Interims for Development/Editor, ReConnect Africa.com

Frances Williams is the founder and Chief Executive of Interims for Development, an award-winning UK-based Human Resources, Careers and Training consultancy for Africa. Frances is also the publisher and Editor of ReConnect Africa (www.reconnectafrica.com), an online magazine and website providing essential information on careers and business for African professionals in the Diaspora. 

Mrs. Williams has over 20 years’ experience in Human Resources management, Business and entrepreneurship consultancy and training in the UK and Africa.  Based in London, Mrs. Williams is a writer and coach and develops and runs training programmes across a range of management and entrepreneurial skills

Interview Topic: *When Life Changes Your Career*

• The different life events that can impact your career and the challenges that they bring (be it health, bringing up children or caring for relatives)
• How you can recognize the change in your life and the importance of accepting it
• The obstacles that women face when deciding to change their career to suit their new circumstances
• Practical steps and strategies that you can take to reclaim your life and your career.

Shelly Rubinstein
Chartered Occupational Psychologist
Shelly founded Impact Consulting in 1994. She draws upon over twenty years of high-level commercial experience and has led change programmes across a vast number of public, voluntary and private sector organisations, in both professional and managerial capacities.

Shelly is particularly well known for her executive coaching and has worked across sectors of local, national and European government, coaching and developing senior civil servants.  Shelly has had several high profile TV and radio appearances as an expert on stress at work, workplace bullying and other occupational psychology issues.  She has presented at the British Psychological Society Occupational Psychology Conference.

Interview topic:  *Should I Stay or Should I go – what to do when the going gets tough*

• What can go wrong within an organization, following tough economical times and how this impacts on you feeling happy at work.
• How a climate of fear within an organisation can impact on how you feel about your work
• The factors that led you to start to re evaluate their career
• What actions you can take if you once loved your career but are now feeling burnt out, disillusioned or fed up
• What steps you can take to ensure that you look after yourself emotionally whilst changing career

Olive Amoh, creator of the Career Change Formula Interview Series

Olive is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and Coach who has over 14 years of public and private sector experience. As well as her training as a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, additional foundation training in counseling and a post graduate qualification in coaching have all enabled her to understand why people, think, feel and behave in the way they do.

Developing a trusting relationship is one of her great strengths, as is bringing clarity to an issue and supporting clients to create concrete next steps. Olive believes that people hold the solutions to their own problems, so she focuses on increasing their awareness, and works with them to develop strategies for their success, to be the best they can be in their chosen areas.