Kathy Caprino

A significant number of my awesome coaching and consulting colleagues and friends across the country have shared with me in the past year that they've hired outside marketing, branding or business development help with disappointing (or disastrous) results. Despite finding "experts" who seem to have good reputations and produce solid...

Speaking with people every day who are in careers or jobs they dislike intensely, I've asked myself, "How did we get here? How has it happened that so many thousands of people are angry, despairing and disgruntled about what they do for a living?"

Clearly, there are many factors...

In my career and executive coaching, I work with hundreds of women each year going through major transitions. Recently, I was speaking with a fascinating client of mine -- let's call her "Carol" -- who shared with me her views about midlife BEFORE she had arrived there, and...

As a women's work-life expert and career coach, I work with hundreds of professionals each year, giving me a birds-eye view into what contributes to career and work-life misery. And as a Forbes and Huffington Post blogger on career issues and trends, the comments I receive...

As I deliver my coaching and professional development programs to women around the country, I continue to observe a fascinating phenomenon: an enormously large number of working women are in emotional pain about their lives and careers, but most will only make change when the pain...

I work with scores of top career professionals who've achieved truly great things in their careers. But more often than not, these same high achievers demonstrate one key trait that wreaks havoc on their lives and work -- their need to be perfect.

"Perfectionistic overfunctioners" as I call them, do...

I've been watching my clients -- and myself -- these past two years around the experience of charging fees, asking for payment, suggesting folks re-enroll in their programs, etc., and here's what I've found ...

Very few people like asking for money, and no one finds it easy -- we...

As a career and executive coach dedicated to the advancement of women, it's not often these days that I'm surprised by women's behavior. I know women -- especially those in midlife -- quite well, or so I thought. But I've been rocked recently by a finding that's emerging...