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Private Career Advisory

How I work with accomplished professionals

Highly personalized, strategic advisory for people navigating layered career challenges, difficult decisions, transitions, and reinvention — a whole-person approach that goes beyond conventional career coaching.

Who I work with

Career challenges too layered for generic career advice.

Clients typically come to me when they are:

  • Successful on paper but deeply unhappy at work
  • Exhausted, depleted, or increasingly detached from their careers
  • Unable to stop thinking about work or constantly pushing to do more
  • Questioning a career they worked incredibly hard to build
  • Deciding whether to stay, leave, pivot, or reinvent
  • Navigating a toxic or chronically stressful workplace
  • Facing a major professional decision
  • Considering entrepreneurship, independent practice, or consulting
  • Trying to redesign work around a changing life
  • Going through a life transition that changed what they want from work
  • Aware that the way they are working is no longer sustainable
  • Ready for something different but unsure what that something is

Some clients come to me because they are struggling. Others aren't struggling at all — they're at a crossroads and want a sophisticated thinking partner for an important career decision.

In both cases the goal is the same: understand where you are, determine where you want to go, and build a thoughtful path from one to the other.

Beyond traditional career coaching

Many people who find me think they're looking for a career coach.

And sometimes career coaching is exactly what someone needs.

But layered career challenges aren't always solved by identifying your strengths, choosing a new career, updating your résumé, or developing a job-search strategy. Sometimes you need to understand why your career has become so difficult in the first place.

Work can become intertwined with identity, self-worth, ambition, family responsibilities, financial realities, relationships, health, life stage, and deeply ingrained patterns around achievement.

Sometimes changing jobs is exactly what's needed. But sometimes changing jobs doesn't solve the problem, because the underlying patterns simply follow you into the next role. That is one of the reasons this work goes beyond conventional career coaching.

The goal isn't simply to help you make a career move. It's to understand what problem we are actually trying to solve—and then determine what needs to change.

That's why my approach takes a broader view. I bring together more than 20 years of experience understanding high-achieving professionals with expertise in psychology, career development, research, entrepreneurship, and business — going deeper than conventional career coaching while staying focused on decisions, strategy, and action.

Your career should serve your life—not the other way around.

What we may work on

Individualized to you and the situation you're navigating.

There is no predetermined formula. We start with your situation, your questions, and the decisions in front of you.

  • Understanding why work has become so difficult or unsatisfying
  • Identifying what may be driving career distress
  • Recovering from burnout and redesigning an unsustainable way of working
  • Untangling identity and self-worth from professional achievement
  • Evaluating whether to stay in or leave a role, organization, or profession
  • Navigating difficult workplace dynamics
  • Clarifying what you want from the next chapter of your career
  • Exploring career reinvention
  • Making high-stakes professional decisions
  • Designing a career transition strategy
  • Evaluating entrepreneurship or a new business venture
  • Redesigning work around a new season of life
  • Building a career around the life you want
  • Creating a healthier relationship with ambition and achievement

What to expect

Clarity—and then movement.

Clients describe me as deeply attuned, strategic, intuitive, direct, and down-to-earth. I listen closely. I notice patterns. I ask questions other people may not be asking. And I help you connect dots that can be difficult to see when you're standing in the middle of your own career.

But insight alone isn't enough. Depending on your situation, we may move from understanding what's happening to evaluating options, making decisions, designing experiments, developing a transition strategy, changing how you work, or building an entirely different professional chapter.

You should leave our work with a better understanding of yourself, a clearer understanding of your career, and a much stronger sense of what to do next.

If the problem isn't clear

Career Health Assessment

When it isn't clear what's driving your career difficulties, I may recommend beginning with a Career Health Assessment before we move forward. First we understand what's happening; then we determine what to do about it. Not everyone needs one.

About the Career Health Assessment

Engagement and fees

How the work is structured

Private Career Advisory

For executives, physicians, attorneys, academics, and senior leaders navigating career distress, a difficult decision, or a complex transition.

Initial session — 60 minutes$395
Follow-up sessions — 45 minutes$350
  • Initial session includes a set of questionnaires reviewed before we meet
  • Session cadence set to your situation, typically twice monthly
  • Structured, sequenced sessions rather than open-ended conversation
  • Decision architecture for offers, exits, and negotiations
  • Between-session correspondence with Dr. Pérez-Litwin

If you begin with the Career Health Assessment, you do not need a separate initial advisory session. Continued Career Advisory following the assessment is $350 for 45 minutes.

A specialty within advisory

Building your next professional chapter.

For accomplished professionals leaving an institutional role to build something of their own, this work happens inside Private Career Advisory — same structure, same fees.

  • Leaving a profession or organization
  • Reinvention and career redesign
  • Building a consultancy or independent practice
  • Developing a professional platform
  • Book-related professional expansion
  • Entrepreneurship and new ventures
  • Portfolio careers
  • Positioning, offer design, and launch sequencing

Ready to figure out what comes next?

Complete a brief application. Dr. Pérez-Litwin reviews each one personally and responds by email regarding scheduling and next steps.

Private Career Advisory is career advisory. It is not therapy, psychological evaluation, or clinical treatment.