"Former Corporate Human Resources Exec Turned Writer / Coach Creates New Life Centered on Faith and Family"

I’m willing to bet I was alot like you. I had a very visible position as the training manager at a casino hotel owned by an international company. I traveled to sister properties to teach their human resources staff how to train and while there I trained and coached their managers and executives. When someone had a challenge trying to teach a staff member, I was the person they called for help. I was set to make a giant leap in my career and be named Corporate Director of Training.

In my heart…I was miserable.

I was sick of working 6 and 7 days a week. Sick of sacrificing so much of myself for the business. I knew I didn’t want any more of that regardless of how much they wanted to pay me. I couldn’t put my finger on it at the time, but I knew there was something missing in my life and I needed to find it.

So I gave my notice and left.

I eventually took a job with the local office of a national nonprofit. I thought working for a charity and serving others would make me happy and would help me feel I was doing God’s work. But soon…after 3 promotions in 18 months…I was back on the treadmill, working 6 and 7 days a week…10 and 12 hours a day…working to complete my Master’s degree…and I was incredibly unhappy.

Then the unthinkable happened…

I was in an accident so awful, the EMTs who saw my car assumed I was dead.

During my slow and painful recovery I spent a lot of time wondering why I had survived. I often asked God what mission could be so important that I had been allowed to live.

While I tried to understand the messages He was sending, I knew one thing: I wouldn’t – I couldn’t – go back to the corporate life I had known.

I had been given a tremendous opportunity and I knew I wasn’t going to waste it. I would do whatever it took to create a life that was balanced and in sync with my beliefs. I would get in touch with the strengths, talents, and core gifts God gave me and use them to fulfill the mission he entrusted me with…once I figured out what that was. I would live a life dominated with joy and bring joy to others.

It hasn’t been easy, but I’ve done it.

I’ve helped others do it too.

I’ve been a human resources professional in a variety of industries and spent years in recruitment, training, and employee relations. In those roles I regularly coached my fellow managers and executives who wanted to improve their performance. A lot of them would confide that what they really wanted to do was change jobs. Sometimes they wanted to change careers entirely. And I’d help them do that.

Together we’d figure out what made them happiest and how they could leave the industry or even transition to another career right inside the company.

I know now the reason God needed me to go through the pain and struggle of my accident was so I’d understand that He needed me to get off that merry-go-round I was on and use the strengths, talents, and core gifts He gave me to help other professionals discover how to live their faith at work and create a life that’s in sync with their beliefs and values…A life that’s focused on Him…a life that truly reflects the light of Christ in their actions…that’s focused on what’s truly important…where work is a pleasure, not a struggle…where you have a full life that’s filled with the things that matter.

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