CAREER AND EXECUTIVE COACHING:
Ellia offers a wide range of career, executive, and leadership services to help you create the success, fulfillment and purpose you long for in your career and business. Click the links below to learn more about our programs. For more information, write to Kathy or phone her at 203-834-9933.
- 12-Part Career Enhancement Program for Corporate Professionals
- Career Transformation Coaching
- Private Career Consultations
- Executive Coaching
- Leadership Coaching
CAREER ENHANCEMENT SERIES FOR CORPORATE PROFESSIONALS
Helping Organizations Support the Success, Growth and Engagement of their Workforce
A 12-part, Yearlong Series for Corporate Professionals
Kathy Caprino, M.A. – nationally-recognized career and work-life expert, executive and leadership developer, author and speaker — has launched a groundbreaking 12-part career growth program for corporate professionals, offering effective ongoing career enhancement support for employees of all levels.
Based on Kathy’s yearlong national research and book Breakdown Breakthrough, her therapy, communications, and coaching training, executive coaching programs with over 1,000 professionals nationwide, and her own leadership and high-level corporate experience, this program is designed to provide a much-needed forum addressing the specific challenges professional women and men face today, and offer ongoing support to corporate professionals to help them:
- Understand and explore more deeply current professional and career challenges faced
- Discover new, effective solutions to their most pressing concerns/issues
- Connect with other colleagues, sponsors, supporters and mentors that will support them on their career path
- Identify their short- and long-term career visions and goals, and create a S.M.A.R.T plan to achieve their visions
- Forge the widest common ground possible between their personal visions and goals and their professional endeavors.
The ultimate goal of this program is to help talented, engaged career professionals find new solutions to their key challenges so that they may grow personally and professionally throughout their careers, and attain their highest levels of efficacy, engagement and productivity in their lives and work. The most powerful long-term benefit of this program is that it supports inclusion and diversity, and aids organizations in balancing their leadership, managerial and support teams with talented, committed, and contributive men and women.
As a national researcher on professional women’s challenges as well as an expert on a wide range of career topics and trends, Kathy tailors her programs to your organization’s needs - either for your women’s diversity and leadership groups, or for combined groups of professional men and women, as needed.
Kathy’s yearlong, 12-part workshop career support series consists of:
1) Twelve, two-hour interactive coaching workshops – conducted one each month, for 12 months. These sessions are facilitated by Kathy Caprino, M.A., each covering one particular area of compelling interest to professionals, and held onsite during the workday. Areas of discussion are drawn from Kathy’s national research with professionals, her book Breakdown Breakthrough, her work with career professionals, and suggestions from the corporate staff it serves.
Core Topics covered include:
- Attaining True Work-Life Balance
- Fostering Collaboration in Communication and Interpersonal Relationships
- Taking Control of Your Career – Strategies for Effective Career Growth Planning
- Authentic Leadership Success – 7 Key Steps to Developing Your Leadership Strength and Influence
- Reducing and Managing Stress and Embracing Wellness
- Navigating Successfully Through Competition
- Speaking Up with Power and Authority
- Stop “Selling” and Start Engaging – Communication Success Through Engagement and Connection
- Developing Your Personal Brand – Understanding Your Unique “Story,” Talents and Contributions
- Leading and Managing With Inspired, Enterprise-Focused Vision
- Achieving Your Highest Potential and Your Greatest Success
- Career Visioning and Planning – Masterfully Shaping Your Career for the Long Term
(Kathy is happy to tailor the topics covered to your organization’s needs, mission, and vision).
After each coaching workshop, Kathy provides the HR and corporate sponsors with a summary of key themes, issues, challenges and trends that emerged from the group (aggregated anonymously), to help the organization gain greater awareness of and effectively address any organizational development needs.
2) Caprino Career Path Assessment tool – Participants of Kathy’s Career Enhancement Series are invited to take Kathy’s Career Path Assessment survey. This specially-designed qualitative tool, along with Kathy’s tailored analysis and recommendations, helps the coachee: 1) identify areas of core strength, 2) evaluate risk potential for various common professional and work-life challenges, 3) Uncover areas for growth and development, 4) Recognize specialized talents to bring forward, 5) Identify Life Intentions, Values, and Standards of Integrity, 6) Build compelling visions for the next chapter of life and work and finally, 7) Develop a S.M.A.R.T. plan steps to attain these visions.
Again, if requested, Kathy provides HR sponsors with recommendations (based on aggregated responses to the Assessment) for actions to address existing “gaps” in organizational effectiveness as it relates to supporting the success of the workforce.
3) 1:1 Career/Executive Coaching – Kathy also provide hands-on career/executive coaching to designated coachees to 1) uncover areas of challenge and growth opportunities areas, 2) receive support for reaching their highest potential and overcoming key issues/challenges, 3) develop short- and long-term career growth goals, 4) create a customized plan for achieving career visions
4) Add-on Half-Day or Full-Day workshops on: Work/Life Balance, Crafting a Career of Meaning and Significance, Communication Effectiveness, Career Success, Powerful Engaging, Transforming Conflict into Collaboration, Leader From Your Center, and more.
FOR MORE INORMATION:
To explore bringing Kathy’s Career Enhancement Series to your organization, and for more information about fees, schedules and tailoring a program to your organization’s needs, email kathy@elliacommunications.com or call (203) 834-9933.
Kathy is delighted to support both employees and employers alike to achieve their highest visions of growth, success and reward. Call Kathy today to discuss a tailored program that suits your organization’s specialized needs.
LEADERSHIP COACHING
For emerging leaders and mid- to high-level professional women who wish to increase their internal power, confidence, authority, and impact in their roles.
Her national research has yielded vitally important findings including:
1) 9 out of 10 women are facing at least one of 12 “hidden” challenges of working women.
3) The traditional competitive career model in place today in corporate America doesn’t fit amajority of women. This non-diverse model has contributed to the low percentage – 15% – of women in senior leadership ranks.
4) There are numerous feminine principles and values that, when honored and embraced in a diverse culture, lead to greater success, growth, and innovation for organizations.
- Resilience in applying lessons and learning from adversity
- Honoring inclusion over hierarchy
- Risk awareness, appropriate risk taking, and resisting following the “rules”
- Straight talking
- Investment in emotional capital
- Focus on meaning, contribution and profit with principles
- Strong interpersonal and empathic relating skills
The findings are clear: Organizations that embrace diversity and both masculine and feminine principles — and that have a more balanced representation of women in senior leadership — perform better financially and are better equipped to compete, innovate and thrive.
For real change to occur and a new inclusive model to be built, shifts must take place on both the individual and organizational levels. Kathy’s work with women honors that fact that women are not “men in skirts” and emphasizes the importance of feminine values and principles. She helps emerging women lead powerfully and authentically, and stimulate both individual and systemic changes that create a more diverse, inclusive culture that will pave way for greater success and growth for all involved.
Working with Kathy, you’ll enhance the following key leadership qualities with a focus on diversity and inclusion of feminine principles and values:
1) Model the way – You’ll think and act in ways that are congruent to what you hold to be true and valuable, in your company and the world. You’ll serve as a role model for what you stand for and espouse.
2) Inspire a shared vision – You’ll envision what is possible for the future, and infuse tremendous positive spirit and energy into that vision, allowing everyone who interacts with you a window into what is possible through collaboration, cooperation and contribution.
3) Challenge both content and process – You’ll learn how to uncover new (yet unthreatening) ways of thinking, being, and doing – and encourage others to do the same — in both “content” and “process. ” These new ways allow for greater expansion and success, at the individual and systemic levels.
4) Empower others – You’ll increase your ability to invest time, energy and commitment in empowering and engaging others, building their self-reliance, independence and growth as individuals and as collaborators.
5) Integrate the whole – You’ll foster integration and wholeness in yourself and others, and throughout the organization.
6) Support inclusion over hierarchy – You’ll support inclusion over exclusion, and centrality over hierarchy. You’ll embark on a path of being in the center (in other words, at the heart) of a large and effective web of inclusion that does what it sets out to do, with ease, clarity, grace, and focus.
7) Foster growth, heart, and spirit – You’ll create a supportive, healthy environment that allows all those involved to behave, think, and perform from a heart-based place, where they can feel and experience themselves as personally and professionally aligned. You’ll learn how to shape an organization in which there is a solid common ground between what the individual wants and what the company wants from the individual. You’ll create the space for employees to engage their hearts and spirits in their work.
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In short, Kathy helps professional women embrace their fullest power and impact – as managers and leaders, role models, and as women – helping them hone a powerful vision for their professional identities, and express their fullest selves while making that vision a reality.
Fees/Availability:
Please write to Kathy Caprino or call (203) 834-9933 for more information, or to discuss career growth and leadership coaching programs or seminars for the emerging women leaders at your organization.
Clients have said:
“Kathy is a gifted coach and speaker, and her book, Breakdown, Breakthrough, clearly establishes her as an expert in helping people bring passion to their work. Kathy will help any company develop more effective workers and any individual find deeper purpose in their work and lives.” – Noah Blumenthal, President, Leading Principles, Inc.
“I could go on and on about Kathy Caprino. I am a big fan. She is sharp, intuitive and creative in her approach to weed through complicated scenarios and make sense of them objectively. Her energy and enthusaism are contageous, and she just “gets it”. I highly recommend her on so many levels, but for coaching, I found her skills unmatched in the industry.” — Lisa Wolsch Rousseau, Pepperidge Farm
“Ellia Communications has heart and soul. In her work with clients, Kathy Caprino takes a practical, quite personal approach to the real issues facing women as they ramp up, scale back, grow or simply hold steady and muscle through the challenges and opportunities that life and work present. Through focus, compassion and discipline she engages productively and passionately helping countless women set and meet realistic goals and find satisfaction and success in each step, ever closer to their defined desired state. It is a pleasure to work with Kathy and Ellia Communications. — Kathy Kohler, Executive Management Consultant
“I recently attended Kathy Caprino’s “Breakdown, Breakthrough…” training session in Orlando, Florida. Not only did Kathy help me to navigate through the 12 common barriers that I am facing today as a professional woman in the 21st Century workforce, but she also provided practical ways to discriminate useful information from noise. By doing so, I was able to acquire new skills to support overcoming real life scenarios. These real life scenarios involved difficult challenges that defy easy answers. Kathy also provided a one on one follow-up session to help me create an inspiring life plan and vision which included a compelling personal brand that sends a message to others about my “authentic-self”. Kathy’s commitment and passion for this cause is truly inspirational.” – Selange Roberts, Booz-Allen Hamilton
Executive Coaching

Kathy’s Executive Coaching Programs for women
are ideal for:
Mid- to high-level professional women who wish to increase their experience of internal power, confidence, self-reliance, authority and fulfillment – as professional women, as managers and leaders, role models, and as women who wish to integrate their full life (family, etc.) with their career visions.
Approach:
Drawing on her yearlong national research study with professional women, and her coaching work with hundreds of women executives each year, Kathy helps female executives step fully into their passions, talents, and self-mastery at work. Working with Kathy, you’ll understand where your natural strengths and talents lie, as well as the skill areas you wish to develop and those you don’t. You’ll discover exciting new directions that will advance your career and your growth, bring expanded success and reward, and help you craft a more meaningful career that fulfills your personal and professional values, needs, and priorities over the long arch of your career.
Coaching Focus:
As in her leadership coaching, Kathy works with seven key areas of career success:
| Gaining Self-Mastery and Control | |
| Communicating with Power and Confidence | |
| Building Supportive Work Relationships | |
| Reframing Limiting Beliefs | |
| Understanding Your True Gifts and Talents | |
| Aligning Your Personal Mission with Your Professional Goals | |
| Mapping Out a Short- and Long-Term Plan for Your Most Fulfilling Career |
Kathy also helps you address any or all of the 12 “hidden” challenges working women face today, including:
Difficulty in:
- Balancing life and work
- Speaking up and self-advocating with authority
- Dealing with crushing competition
- Addressing financial anxieties and other constraints
- Using your natural talents and gifts
- Helping others, your community and the world within your current career path
- Aligning your career with your personal values, priorities, integrity and authenticity
For more information on these and the other 12 “hidden” challenges professional women face today, see Kathy’s book Breakdown Breakthrough.
Coaching Outcome:
Kathy’s clients quickly gain access to more personal power, self-confidence, and self-mastery. They understand clearly who they are at their core, the special ways they are gifted and talented, and the unique value they bring to their employer. They are given free reign to explore what they truly want, and define the best ways to achieve their deepest visions.
Kathy knows that women are not “men in skirts.” As a former corporate Vice President and current leader (President of her own firm and Vice President of Synergy Partners USA), she has successfully navigated the challenges she helps her clients overcome, and is an empowering facilitator, advocate and mentor for women. In Kathy’s programs, clients identify their most exciting long-term visions for their career, and from this empowered standpoint, move forward with clarity, grace, focus and energy towards their highest goals.
Clients have said:
“Kathy has helped me tremendously in determining how to move forward with great passion in my work and my career. I cannot recommend her intensive executive coaching highly enough. She truly understands the challenges inherent in 24/7 Web competitive market and finding balance. Kathy is also adept at identifying a real and actionable path for taking crisis and turning it to breakthrough. Her wit, humor and immense depth of knowledge of career/work/life balance are immensely valuable.” – Nettie Hartsock, Founder, Hartsock Agency
CAREER CONSULTATION
Private Phone Consultation to Power Up Your Career or Business
Looking for some expert help with a burning career issue or question?
Kathy has helped hundreds of clients attain their highest career goals and visions. Drawing on extensive experience as a high-level marketing professional, therapist, career and executive coach, and small business owner, Kathy:
- Identifies the best next steps to improve your career
- Helps you overcome blocks that are keeping you from greater success
- Improves your marketing and business communications
- Differentiates between “sounds cool!” career ideas vs. real-life directions that will bring you success and reward
- Strengthens your resume, LinkedIn profile, and other branding and marketing materials
- Provides expert guidance to take your career to the next level of achievement and success
Kathy’s private sessions cover a wide range of career and business issues, including:
| Powering up your personal brand, on LinkedIn, your resume, and other marketing materials | |
| Using social media to build your community and platform | |
| Defining and refining your job search strategies | |
| Determining how to handle an interview, negotiation, or career move | |
| Earning more money doing work you enjoy | |
| Identifying “right” work for you | |
| Gaining new partners to help you succeed | |
| Creating a S.M.A.R.T. Action Plan to move you forward fast and avoid costly missteps |
Kathy helps you get unstuck in your career, and offers powerful advice on actions that will help you: achieve more success, attract positive circumstances, gain support, build your personal brand and reputation, promote yourself effectively, and finally, achieve the career growth you long for.
Brief Consult on One Key Business, Career, or Professional Issue -
To receive quick business or coaching advice, click below to book your 15-minute or 30-minute consultation. (After you book your consult, Kathy will be in touch to set up an appoinment time):
One-Hour Career Consultation: $250.00 (includes Kathy’s full “Career Path Assessment”)
Sign up below to make an appointment to speak with Kathy about her one-hour phone consultations.
Don’t wait – Your breakthrough is here!
CAREER TRANSFORMATION COACHING
Embark on a New Career Path of Fulfillment and Success
What is it worth to you, to have a truly satisfying and fulfilling career, on your terms?
| Do you wish you were happier in your job or career? | |
| Are you in transition and know it’s time for a change but don’t know to what? | |
| Do you want to feel more confident, in charge and at ease in your current role? | |
| Do you have money fears that keep you from making the professional changes you want? | |
| Do you want a career that means more to you than a paycheck? | |
| Do you long for a new direction that you’ll love, using talents you enjoy? |
Are you ready for a breakthrough to CAREER TRANSFORMATION to achieve the fulfillment you truly want?
If the answer to any of these questions is YES, join Kathy today in a one-on-one Career Transformation coaching program to change your career or improve the one you have.
Based on Kathy’s groundbreaking work in career reinvention with hundreds of professionals, this effective program draws on Kathy’s proven five-step model for jumpstarting change in your career so it aligns with who you really are, and brings fulfillment and success along with it.
Her coaching program will guide you through concrete, specific approaches and strategies that will unlock your power, confidence and ability to achieve career growth.
If a new or improved career is what you want, Kathy will guide you through her 5-Step Career-Change Model:
1) Step Back – Ascertain exactly what isn’t working in your professional life, what must change, and why
2) Let Go - Uncover and release your key challenges and blocks in the way of achieving the career and professional life you dream of
3) Say YES! – Discover specifically what you want in your work, along with the skills you are great at and love to use. Say Yes! to these, and begin today accessing greater confidence, power, and authority to achieve your goals
4) Explore - ”Try on” new avenues so that you can differentiate between career options that are just “sound-cool! ideas” vs. real-life directions that fit with your values, priorities, and needs
5) Create It! – Develop a S.M.A.R.T. and doable timeline and action plan to research, refine, and achieve your desired career change, and commit to making it a reality, with ongoing support
You’ll also learn vital information for improving your professional life including:
• How to build an empowering network and community that will support and advance your career goals and visions.
• Overcoming the 12 “hidden” crises working women face today
• The top five reasons many professionals want out of their jobs and what to do about them
• New ways to release your fears and blocks about creating more success and fulfillment in your life
• Keys to strengthening your confidence, authority, and self-mastery so you can communicate, manage, lead, and inspire others effectively and with confidence
• Strategies for building stronger relationships to receive more support during times of transition
• And finally, how to create a S.M.A.R.T and effective plan to achieve the personal and professional success you long for.
Need to Transform Your Professional Brand?
Kathy also offers expert professional branding and marketing guidance to help you power up your professional persona and present a compelling and cohesive story about your professional identity and your career contributions- for both online presentation (on LinkedIn, etc.) and in all other forms of communication.
The ultimate outcome?
This program will help you on your way to becoming one of the fortunate people who truly loves what you do professionally, with confidence and skill, and makes great money doing it. You’ll finally crack your internal success “code” – the secret of what’s been holding you back from the joy, success, and fulfillment in your career you so richly deserve. And you’ll begin your breakthrough process right in the first session.
For every individual who wants a true career breakthrough to achieve a higher level success, fulfillment and joy, this transformational coaching program will give you a clear roadmap to achieve the career you long for with far greater ease, speed, and success than you could achieve on your own.
Why NOW?
If you want career change, there’s no time like now. In this special program, you’ll receive the uplifting support you need to create a career shift from “America’s Breakthrough Coach.”
Why are Kathy’s coaching programs powerful vehicles for career change?
• Save time, money, and avoid missteps – This structured coaching format gives you access to Kathy’s top career coaching support along with key findings from her work with hundreds of professionals nationwide, saving you time, money, and wasted energy of navigating through change all by yourself
• Support – Offers empowered and enlivening support, knowledge, and input that moves you forward fast
• Increased accountability – The dynamic of coaching encourages accountability – you’ll move faster and more effectively with Kathy in your corner
• Your network grows – when you become part of Kathy’s large support community, your network and community expand as well
So don’t wait! Get on the path to reinventing your career today – finally, do what you love with people you love!
“Receiving coaching from Kathy has been one of the best experiences of my life!” – A.C., Connecticut, June 2009
Coaching Packages:
We have a number of coaching packages to suit your budget and needs. For more info, call Kathy at 203-834-9933 or write Kathy@elliacommunications.com.
Kathy’s clients have said:
“I could go on and on about Kathy Caprino. I am a big fan. She is sharp, intuitive and creative in her approach to weed through complicated scenarios and make sense of them objectively. Her energy and enthusiasm are contagious, and she just “gets” it. I highly recommend her on so many levels, but for career coaching, I found her skills unmatched in the industry.”
– Lisa Wolsch Rousseau, Group Manager – Package Design, Pepperidge Farm
Visit Kathy’s LinkedIn profile for 38 more client testimonials and endorsements.




