21 Century Worklife

We provide a wide range of in-person, phone, Skype, and online services to support you, your organization and your staff in seizing the opportunities of 21st Century Worklife. If you seek more awareness, success, fulfillment, impact, and connection, read on, see what others have to say about us, and contact us for more information.

Writing

We are available to write curriculum, blog entries, articles and more to spread the good word about 21st Century Worklife and assist you in building your Community of Genius!

Our writing, editing, and opinions have appeared in ‘The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers’, Idealist.org’s ‘Career Corner’, the advice column ‘Ask Cathy’, From Serving Your Country to Serving Your Community, the NY Times ‘Career Couch’, The Washington Post, NPR’s Marketplace, Working Mother Magazine, Sojourner, Frontline Feminism, Encore.org, and Supergirls Speak Out.

Contact us at 21centuryworklife@gmail.com for more information or to get started. Also, let us know if there is something that you think would be helpful to you that you don’t see here–we are always open to new ideas and deepening our thinking and services!

Training, Workshops, and Seminars

We create new workshops on demand and can customize any of the following topics for a wide range of organizations (nonprofits, social sector, career services, alumnae services, membership organizations, and more), and provide them in the format most suitable to your audience (one-hour, half-day, full-day, and multi-day retreats):

• Reclaim Your Worklife: Seize the Opportunities of 21st Century Worklife
• Reclaim Your Workplace: Co-create the Workplace of the Future
• Your Calling Card: The Seat of Your 21st Century Worklife Power & Potential
• Self-Leadership: The Key To Success and Fulfillment in Your Worklife
• Become a Career Entrepreneur: Take the Reins of Your Worklife
• Staking Your Claim to the Career of Your Dreams: Creating Your 21st Century Worklife Portfolio, Dynamic Resumes, and Cover Letters
• Networking is So 20th Century: Tuning into Your Mutual Radar Society
• Interviewing with 21st Century Authority: Stop Auditioning and Start Shining
  
• Your 21st Century Worklife Insurance Policy: Building Your Community of Genius
• Get Online to Get Offline: Managing the Technology Trance, ‘Techreating’, and Building Real-Time Communities of Genius
• The Whole Picture: The 21st Century Worklife Advanced Course

We’ve created customized trainings for hospitals (e.g. Long Island Jewish Hospital), foundations (e.g. Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, the Foundation Center), advocacy groups (e.g.Young People For, National Organizing Institute), colleges (e.g. Portland Community College, Portland State University), human-services organizations (e.g. Good Shepherd Services), and Management Support Organizations (e.g. Support Center for Nonprofit Management).

Speaking

We give highly customized talks to a wide variety of audiences on the above training topics.  This is a great way to inspire your Community of Genius to claim (or reclaim) their power and potential, access more of their creativity and contribute their maximum.

Previous speaking engagements include: presentations to college students and alumni (e.g. Stanford, Columbia University, Oregon State, University of Minnesota, University of Washington), conference presentations (e.g. Featured Session at the 2010 National Career Development Association, American Society on Aging, Oregon Civic Engagement Conference), keynote addresses (e.g. Truman State University, St. Louis Community College), and professional-development trainings (e.g. California Library Institute’s 2010 Transforming Life After 50 Conference, DBM, Inc., Future Planning Retreat for Nonprofit Executive Directors, University of Connecticut).

To read more about Steven’s speaking experience, click here.

Coaching

If you are looking to really expedite your entry into 21st Century Worklife, we provide highly customized short- and long-term coaching to help you fully step into your power and potential as a Self-Leader and Career Entrepreneur who can expertly express and share your Calling Card.

While some coaches are ‘niche specialists’, we work with a worklife approach that resonates with individuals from many backgrounds. Hundreds of previous clients come from a range of organizational backgrounds–financial, nonprofit, technology, entrepreneurial startups, arts, educational institutions, legal, government, foundations, management support, think tanks, and healthcare–representing a myriad of professional roles–from college students to front-line staff, managers to organizational leaders.