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Your Career Still Works on Paper - But You’re Burned Out, Running on Empty, and Finally Thinking, “Enough Is Enough” - Even Though You’re Not Sure What Needs to Change

Aligned & Intentional: A Six-Week Guided Career-Design Experience for Accomplished Women Ready to Figure Out What Comes Next
Understand what’s draining you and what needs to change - without assuming burnout means you have to leave your career.
Explore the possibilities beyond simply staying or quitting, and make a decision you can trust based on what actually fits your life now.
Create a realistic 30-60-90 day plan to move forward with more energy, clarity, and intention - without blowing up the career you’ve built.
Next cohort begins soon | Limited to 15 women | Investment begins at $2,500
During a 30-minute fit conversation, we will discuss what you want to change, answer your questions, and determine whether the Core or VIP path is the right fit. We will also discuss anticipated cohort timing and your availability.
If Your Career Still Works on Paper - but Doesn't Feel Quite Right
You have built a meaningful career. You are capable, responsible, and still getting things done. Yet you may be noticing that work is taking more from you than it once did. Burnout is not always about the number of hours you work. Sometimes depletion comes from a mismatch between the work you are doing and what gives you energy, uses your strengths, reflects your values, or fits your life today. It can also come from an unsustainable pace, unclear boundaries, limited support, or carrying responsibility without enough control.

Your exhaustion is not a verdict that you must leave. It is information that deserves your attention.

You may not need to work less, abandon your ambition, or make a dramatic change. You may simply need the space and support to understand what is no longer working - and decide intentionally what comes next.
The Question Is Not Always Should I Stay or Go?
A career crossroads can lead to several thoughtful paths. The goal is not to push you toward one answer. It is to help you understand which answer fits you now.
Recommit - stay with renewed purpose and clarity.
Redesign - change responsibilities, boundaries, priorities, schedule, or the way you work.
Develop - build skills, relationships, visibility, confidence, or support.
Explore - gather information and test possibilities before deciding.
Transition - move intentionally toward a different role, organization, business, or path.
Sometimes clarity leads to reinvention. Sometimes it leads to refinement. Sometimes it helps you choose to stay - not because you are stuck, but because you evaluated the alternatives and decided on purpose.
The Aligned Career Design Process
Career clarity rarely comes from rushing. Inside Aligned & Intentional, we move through the work in an intentional order:
Pause - create enough space to hear what your experience is telling you.
Notice Patterns - identify what energizes you, drains you, and keeps repeating.
Name What Matters - clarify the values, strengths, priorities, and life realities that should guide your choice.
Explore Possibilities - widen your view, test assumptions, and gather useful information.
Take Aligned Action - choose a next step and turn it into a realistic plan.
This is what makes the program different from generic career advice, a personality quiz, or a resume- first process.

We begin with the person and life the career needs to support - and then translate reflection into action.
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What You Will Leave With
A clearer understanding of your current crossroads and the real source of the tension, exhaustion, or depletion.
A personal definition of success for this season - not one inherited from an earlier chapter.
Decision criteria grounded in values, strengths, energy, growth, impact, sustainability, and life realities.
A short list of realistic paths and small experiments that help you learn before you leap.
Greater confidence in your ability to make and communicate a thoughtful career decision.
A personalized 30-60-90-day action plan and the conversations, boundaries, or support needed to move it forward.
A process you can return to when life and work change again.
THE LASTING VALUE
You are not paying for more information. You are choosing to invest in your own clarity, confidence, and ability to make decisions that can shape your time, energy, relationships, and career for years to come.
Your Six-Week Career Design Path

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Week 1: Start With Why

Name what clarity would change and release the pressure to have everything figured out.

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Week 2: Clarity Through Contrast

Identify energizers, drainers, patterns, and signs of misalignment.

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Week 3: Know Yourself Now

Ground your direction in current values, strengths, energy, and life
realities.

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Week 4: Explore Your Future

Expand options, challenge assumptions, and treat exploration as research.

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Week 5: Decide With Confidence

Compare options with the Aligned Choice Filter without demanding certainty.

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Week 6:  Set Your Intentions and Move

Build a 30-60-90 day plan, conversation toolkit, and support structure.

How the Experience Fits Real Life
Short Video Lessons
Easy-to-follow lessons you can complete around a busy work and life schedule.
Access to Session Recordings
If you cannot attend live, a recording of the group coaching session is available on request.
Career Design Workbook & Tools
Practical resources to capture your thinking, make decisions, and keep applying what you learn.
A Small, Focused Cohort
A deliberately intimate group of no more than 15 women for a more personal experience.
Weekly Live Group Coaching
Regular coaching and application sessions, scheduled with participant availability in mind.
Six Types of Working Genius Assessment
A practical lens for understanding your energy, contribution, and career choices without putting you in a box.
YOUR WEEKLY INVESTMENT
Plan for approximately 30 minutes to two hours each week. The time depends largely on how deeply you choose to invest in yourself, and the lessons and assignments can easily be spread across short mini sessions.
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This Experience Is for You If...

You are at a persistent career crossroads and ready to stop circling the question.
You want a career that supports your ambition and your current life.
You will reflect honestly, participate, and take one meaningful step at a time.
You are still getting things done, but work is leaving too little energy for your health, relationships, or the rest of your life.
You want support and are prepared to invest time, attention, and money in meaningful change.
This is NOT for you if:
You want a quick answer, a guaranteed job outcome, or someone to tell you whether to quit.
You are looking only for resume writing, interview preparation, or job-placement services.
You are unwilling to examine your patterns or take ownership of your next step.
You are not currently able or willing to participate and invest in the experience.
Meet Mary Tettenhorst, Your Guide Through Career Clarity and Change
I'm Mary Tettenhorst, Founder and President of Impact Talent Strategies. For more than 20 years, I have helped people and organizations think differently about careers, talent, leadership, and growth across corporate, nonprofit, and higher education environments.

I also know this crossroads personally. I spent years building a career I was proud of - and repeatedly telling myself I would create more space for my health, faith, family, and relationships 'next year'. My career choices have included pay cuts for meaningful experience, moves for growth, changes for family logistics, and eventually a carefully planned transition into business ownership. None of those decisions was perfect or impulsive. Each required me to decide what mattered in that season and what trade-offs I was willing to make.

That is why I will not give you a formula or tell you that leaving is the brave answer. I will help you ask better questions, see more possibilities, and build a decision and plan you understand and own.
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20+ years in HR, talent development, leadership, and career coaching.
Founder of Impact Talent Strategies.
Co-author of Talent Impact: Grow Your People, Grow Your Business.
Master of Education in Human Resource Development.
Authorized/certified practitioner for Everything DiSC, The Five Behaviors, and Working Genius.
What Private Coaching Clients Say
"I appreciate all the guidance and support you've given me through this journey. With your help, I found the light that had been missing in me for some time. You came into my life for this specific reason."
- PRIVATE COACHING CLIENT
"These last several months have challenged me in many ways. I am grateful for the coaching experience, learned so much from the journey, and am so excited about the upcoming year and the opportunities in front of me."
- PRIVATE COACHING CLIENT
"It has truly been a wonderful experience, and I've learned so much! I feel like I rediscovered who I am and got my confidence back - both of which are priceless to me."
- PRIVATE COACHING CLIENT
Choose the Support That Fits Your Decision
Both paths use the same six-week career-design process. Choose the level of personalization and private support that best matches the decision in front of you.
Aligned & Intentional Core Cohort
$2,500
For women who want a structured process, live coaching, community, and a realistic action plan.
  • Six-week Aligned Career Design curriculum.
  • Weekly live group coaching and application sessions.
  • Career Design Workbook, Alignment Scan, Aligned Choice Filter, Five Paths Forward, and 30-60-90 planning tools - all available for download.
  • The Six Types of Working Genius assessment with guided group application to your career and work decisions.
  • Small cohort of no more than 15 women.
  • Recordings of live group coaching calls available upon request when you cannot attend.
VIP Personalized Path
$4,000
For women facing a higher-stakes decision or wanting private support to apply the work to their specific circumstances.
  • Everything included in the Core Cohort.
  • Three private 1:1 coaching sessions.
  • Personalized action-plan refinement and support applying the work to your real circumstances.
  • Personalized assessment support based on your needs. This may include deeper Working Genius application or tools such as Everything DiSC, CliftonStrengths, or another relevant assessment, with private debrief and integration.
  • Limited to five women.
Assessment selection is based on the individual and the decision she is navigating; it is not a one- size-fits-all package.
Next cohort begins soon. Timing will be discussed during your fit conversation.

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Your Next Step
You do not have to make a dramatic decision today. But you can decide to stop carrying the question alone.
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If you are ready to invest in understanding what fits, choosing with intention, and building a plan you can trust, Aligned & Intentional was designed for you.
You do not need the whole plan. You need the willingness to listen - and take the next honest step forward.
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Results may vary | Results are based on individual circumstances

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