Career Coaching for Tech Professionals

The Market Shifted. The Old Playbook Didn't.

Tech job postings are down 36% from pre-pandemic levels — the worst-performing major sector in the US labor market (Indeed Hiring Lab, 2025). Middle management hiring has dropped 43% since 2022 (Revelio Labs). AI was cited in over 54,000 layoffs last year alone (Challenger, Gray & Christmas), and companies like Microsoft and Amazon are cutting senior roles even while posting record revenue. Two out of three workers over 50 have witnessed or experienced age discrimination on the job (AARP/NORC, 2025).

And the advice you're getting — update the resume, network harder, apply faster — assumes the job you want still exists. Applications per opening have tripled since 2021 (Greenhouse). Only 2 in 1,000 inbound applications result in an offer (Ashby). A third of job seekers now report searches lasting six months or longer (Aerotek, 2025).

Maybe the role is out there. But maybe you've been applying for months and the math isn't working. Or maybe you landed somewhere and it already feels like the last place. Same grind, different logo.

If you've been laid off — or you can see it coming — the career identity you spent two decades building is suddenly in question. That's not a personal failure. It's a structural shift, and it calls for a different kind of response.

There's another path. Before you compete for roles that barely exist, figure out what else you're built for. Your years of experience gave you capabilities that transfer — but you've never had to name them, position them, or point them somewhere new.

That's what this work is about.

Clarity. Direction. A Plan You Can Act On.

Your Wiring, Mapped - Assessment-Based Career Coaching

Know what you're actually built for — your strengths, your emotional intelligence, how you operate under pressure, what environments fit you, and what drains you. Not your job title. Your capabilities. This is what assessment-based coaching surfaces: the patterns underneath the résumé.

2–3 Career Paths That Fit Who You Are Today

Your Wiring, Mapped - Assessment-Based Career Coaching

Specific paths forward with rationale for each. Not guesses. Options you can pursue, based on who you are now, not who you were when you started.

Language That Opens Doors

A 90-Day Career Transition Action Plan

Your experience translated into positioning that works outside your old industry. How to introduce yourself, explain your pivot, and talk about what you bring without sounding lost.

A 90-Day Career Transition Action Plan

What to do first. Concrete steps with real deadlines, not a vision board.

How It Works

Connect

It starts with a conversation. MindLab: Connect is a free 30-minute session. Not a sales call, but genuine discovery about whether coaching makes sense for your situation. You'll talk through where you are, what's driving the change, and get a direct feel for how I work. Free. Virtual. No obligation.

Book Your Free Discovery Session

Choose Your Path

Based on our conversation, I'll recommend an approach that matches your situation and timeline. Programs range from 6 to 12 sessions, integrating validated assessments — CliftonStrengths® 34, EQ-i 2.0® (emotional intelligence), and the Change Style Indicator — to build a complete picture of how you lead, communicate, and make decisions under pressure. Programs start at $1,700. All sessions are virtual

Do the Work

This isn't passive. You'll build a Pivot Profile, map your transferable capabilities, and develop the relational fluency to navigate new environments with confidence. You leave with direction, language, and a plan. Not just insight.

The Relational Fluency Architecture™ is a proprietary framework woven into every engagement. It develops three capacities most executive coaching and leadership coaching overlooks — the relational skills that determine how you actually perform when the stakes are highest:

I Zone: Understanding yourself. How you operate, what you value, and what happens to your judgment under pressure.

They Zone: Understanding others. Reading people accurately instead of projecting your assumptions onto them.

Us Zone: Thinking with others. Holding your perspective and theirs at the same time, so you navigate complexity without losing yourself in it.

Most experienced professionals have stronger relational skills than they think — until the stakes rise. This framework builds the capacity to hold those skills when they matter most: in career transitions, career pivots, interviews, negotiations, and the relationships that shape what comes next.

30 Years in Technology. A Career Rebuilt from the Ground Up.

Thom spent over 30 years in technology leadership. IT operations, information security, roles at Microsoft, Experian, SafeNet, and Gemalto, plus his own startups. Then, within a few years, both parents died, his marriage ended, and he was laid off. The career, the identity, the life he'd built. None of it looked the way it had.

What saved him wasn't a new job title. It was the work he'd already begun doing on himself. Strengths-based development, emotional intelligence, and the disciplined effort to understand what remained true when everything else fell away.

Now he works with professionals navigating the same kind of disruption. He brings the credibility of someone who's lived inside the industries his clients come from, and the depth of someone who's done the interior work that most coaching skips over.

ICF ACC · CliftonStrengths · EQ-i 2.0 · MA, Management — University of Redlands

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From People Who've Done the Work

Thom's coaching style is clear, grounded, and deeply focused. He brings a calm, thoughtful presence to every session and has the ability to distill complex ideas into understandable, practical, and actionable insights.

- Patri O., Iceland

I felt that he truly had my best interests at heart, listened deeply to my process, and prioritized holistic growth rather than orienting solely around goal achievement.

- Morgan D., Indiana

He consistently came prepared, stayed fully present, and followed through between sessions. His fresh perspectives and deep engagement made the coaching process collaborative and energizing.

-Maisha C., British Columbia

Thom was completely open and willing to coach on any topic. His deep thoughtfulness and incredible strength of perspective led to productive sessions. He was truly a joy to work with.

- Melissa P., California

The Job You Had Isn't Coming Back. What You're Built For Is Still Here.

The Market Shifted. The Old Playbook Didn't.