The Aligned Career Accelerator · a 12-week career reinvention program
You built a successful career. That doesn't mean you have to stay in it.
For high-achieving healthcare professionals who know they're ready for something different — but don't want to throw away everything they've already built. Over 12 weeks, clarify your next move and build the positioning, relationships, and career strategy to pursue it with confidence.
You are not starting over.
You are starting with years of experience, relationships, skills, leadership, credibility, and accomplishments.
The problem is that you may not know how to translate what you've already built into what comes next.
So you apply randomly. You overthink job descriptions. You wait until you feel "qualified enough." You rewrite your resume again. You ask strangers for referrals. You stay another year in a career you've already outgrown.
There is a better way.
Does this sound familiar?
This program was built for high-achieving women in healthcare — nurses, healthcare leaders, NPs and PAs, high performers moving beyond the bedside — who are saying things like:
- "I know I don't want to keep doing this, but I don't know what I want instead."
- "I'm qualified, but I don't know what else I'm qualified for."
- "I've applied everywhere and no one responds."
- "I want leadership, but I don't know how to position myself."
- "I want something more aligned — without starting from zero."
The core belief
The work that gets you the opportunity happens before the application.
Positioning is step one. Relationships are step one. Clarity is step one. Then the application becomes easier.
The NEXT Method
Four phases, in order — because a job search without a destination is just motion.
How it works over 12 weeks
Weekly Career Lab
A live group call every week: short training, hot seats, and implementation — so you're never guessing what to do next.
Three private strategy sessions
1:1 with me at the moments that matter most: your Next Move Map, your positioning and relationship strategy, and your interview-and-offer strategy.
Support between calls
Structured async messaging for quick questions, wins, and feedback on your deliverables — with responses within 1–2 business days.
Tools, templates & trainings
Short on-demand trainings plus every worksheet you need: audit, maps, trackers, networking scripts, LinkedIn and resume checklists, interview prep, negotiation scripts, and a first-90-days template.
Built for people with full-time jobs. No busywork, no 40-hour course — just the assets and strategy that move a career.
Your 12 weeks, week by week
Every week, all 12 weeks · Live Career Lab group call
Weeks 1–3 · Navigate
Get clear on the direction
Career Crossroads Audit, Decision Clarity work, and your Next Move Map: one primary direction, target role families, compensation target, and 90-day priorities. Private strategy session one locks the map.
Weeks 4–6 · Establish
Position your experience for it
LinkedIn rebuilt to make you findable, resume repositioned in the language of the target role, and your Career Story — the answer to "tell me about yourself" and "why this move."
Weeks 7–9 · Expand
Build relationships and access
Your relationship map, a 10–20 target-organization list, and networking scripts in motion — two real conversations a week. Private session two sharpens the relationship strategy.
Weeks 10–12 · Transition
Pursue, interview, negotiate
Targeted applications with people attached to them, your Interview Story Bank, and the Negotiation Playbook. Private session three preps interviews and offers.
After you land
Start strong
The First 90 Days Blueprint: stakeholder map, early wins, manager alignment, and a 30/60/90 plan — because the outcome isn't "get hired," it's transition successfully.
Why this is different
Most career coaches work on the outside: resume, interview, LinkedIn. Most intuitive coaches work on the inside: purpose, identity, confidence. You need both — the outside strategy and the inside decision-making that stops people from executing it.
That's the intersection I own: strategy × positioning × self-trust. Fourteen-plus years in healthcare, a decade in leadership, hiring and mentoring on both sides of the table — and the reflective work that helps you separate genuine desire from fear, ego, and everyone else's expectations, so the direction you pick is actually yours.
"My consult with Charlene was very helpful, I appreciate the insight she provided as someone who knows the nursing industry well. I came away with action items that helped me in my job search."
What staying stuck actually costs
The Accelerator is an investment. So is not doing it — you're already paying for the version of your career that isn't working:
- The compensation gap. If your next right role pays even $10–20K more, every year you wait is that raise you never collected — and the gap compounds with every promotion cycle you miss.
- The time you can't get back. Most people at a crossroads stay 1–2 more years by default. Twelve focused weeks versus another year of "maybe next quarter" is the actual comparison.
- The energy tax. Sunday dread, shifts that drain you, applying at 11pm and hearing nothing — burnout doesn't stay at work. It follows you home, and it gets more expensive to undo the longer it runs.
- The confidence erosion. Every month of silence teaches you to aim lower. The version of you who applies a year from now is often applying for less than the version who starts today.
Doing nothing is not the free option. It's just the one with the invisible invoice.
✦ The guarantee ✦
I don't guarantee a job — I guarantee what I can influence.
No honest coach controls hiring cycles or employer decisions.
Complete the required modules, attend at least 80% of sessions, complete the agreed career-positioning and outreach activities — and if you reach the end of 12 weeks without a clear career direction, completed professional positioning assets, and an actionable job-search strategy, I'll continue supporting you for an additional 30 days at no coaching fee.
A short application so we both know it's a fit. If it is, we'll get on a call and talk specifics — including investment. No pressure, and a genuine no is always allowed.
Application
Apply to the Aligned Career Accelerator
Takes about 5 minutes. I read every application personally. All fields are required.
Confidential No obligation Reply within 2 business days
Not ready for a 12-week program? Start with the Career Crossroads Intensive — a single diagnostic session, credited toward the Accelerator if you enroll within 7 days.
Do you guarantee I'll get a job?
No, and be wary of anyone who does. I guarantee the implementation support described above: direction, positioning assets, and an actionable strategy — or 30 more days of support at no coaching fee.
I work full-time. Can I actually do this?
It's designed for exactly that. One weekly call, short trainings you watch on your schedule, and templates that save you time instead of costing it. So do I — I built it around a full-time leadership role.
You're a healthcare leader yourself — is that a conflict?
I keep the two strictly separate. I'm not acting as a recruiter for my employer, participation doesn't provide preferential access to my organization, and I don't guarantee referrals or advocacy for your candidacy there. Any employer-specific conflict is handled per my employment policies.