About Career Solutions

About Career SolutionsAnn Brody2019-01-15T13:14:24-06:00

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Career Counselor, career consultant, Highlands Certified Career Consultant, comprehensive career planning, work/life transitions Ann Brody brings a wide background in general counseling and positive psychology to her career counseling practice. She started Career Solutions, Inc. in 1995 after 200+ hours of training by The Highlands Company, a human performance enhancement company. She has coached over a thousand clients using the Highlands Whole Person methodology and The Highlands Ability Battery, the gold-standard in career testing. Ann enjoys working with people at key transition stages in their lives.

In November, 2000, she was certified by the Five O’Clock Club, a national outplacement and career management consulting company, and coached one of their executive level virtual groups. In 2002, she was certified as a Master Personal and Executive Coach by the College of Executive Coaching, Ventura, CA. She is qualified to deliver assessments and seminars based on the MBTI and IPAT 16 PF. In 2007, she was certified in the Lominger Career Architect method of competency evaluation.

Ann Brody graduated from Vassar College and earned her Master’s Degree in Social Work from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C For more information and recommendations, visit http://www.linkedin.com/in/annbrody.

Career Counselor, career consultant, Highlands Certified Career Consultant, comprehensive career planning, work/life transitions Cecelia brings many years of coaching and consulting experience to Career Solutions, Inc. After consulting, training and coaching with a major global consulting firm for many years, she began her own consulting and career coaching practice. She now specializes in strategic planning for organizations and career and job search strategy for individuals. She particularly appreciates working with people and organizations who are facing or in the midst of significant changes.

She is a certified career coach with the Five O’Clock Club, a national outplacement and career management company. Her qualifications for coaching include the Training Program and Practicum in Client-centered Counseling at the Chicago Counseling and Psychotherapy Center and master classes in coaching with the late Rita Cashman. She is certified to deliver feedback for the CNG Communications Styles Survey, the Hogan Leadership Assessments and a variety of other career-oriented instruments.

Cecelia graduated from Vassar College and earned her MAT from Reed College. She currently teaches and coaches students in the MS in Learning and Organization Change program at Northwestern University. For more information visit http://www.linkedin.com/in/ceceliaburokas or http://www.workingwithgroupsatwork.com

Don Eisenhauer

Ann introduced me to the Five O’Clock Club as well as a battery of personal and professional testing mechanisms. She is a great listener and knows how to pin-point your challenge/problem/frustration. Ann recreates your confidence and sense of direction while looking out more than just 6 months. I often re-read my test scores, our notes together and her lists of readings. I highly recommend Ann Brody. My wife, a college educator, had great success with Ann’s methodologies too.

Don Eisenhauer

Allscripts Outcome Executive Associate

Danielle Henderson

Ann has been an invaluable career coach to me, my husband and one of our closest friends. I’d recommend her and her processes to anyone looking to get some clarity on the next steps in their career. She inspires trust, helps you build confidence that you can make a productive change, and was really a joy to work with in every way. She is also knowledgeable and creative — a great coach!

Danielle Henderson

Account Executive - Veeva Systems

Elizabeth Wiggs Maas

Ann helped me through a very difficult time this past year when I found myself new to Chicago, and without a job. Together we explored my unique strengths and by the end of my sessions with her, I was able to confidently choose a path for myself to follow. I learned things about myself and my skills that I never knew before, and the result was that I ended up taking a chance in my career that has paid off very well. The best part about my work with Ann was getting so much more insight into myself and the way I work – I’d recommend her to anyone who’s feeling unfulfilled in his or her current position!

Elizabeth Wiggs Maas

Marketing at Fairlife, LLC

Dan McMahon

I have worked with Ann on and off for over 5 years. Throughout my relationship with Ann as an independent and objective career advisor, Ann has offered valued advice that has been integral to my ability to navigate the complex corporate world.

I highly recommend Ann to anyone who feels the need to seek advice from an independent objective source on dealing with the issues employees are faced with, which can at times be complex given the current economic environment.

Dan McMahon

Business Growth Advisor at Integrated Growth Advisors

James P. Moorhead

Ann has been a career mentor since 2011, when I took the Highlands testing. I would highly recommend Ann’s services – she provides thoughtful and detailed career guidance, has in-depth experience and background from which to draw advice, and is a steady mentor at each step of the way.

James P. Moorhead

John Briggs

Ann has provided coaching to both of my sons — each at crossroads in their academic and educational choices. One son was midway through college and was second-guessing his choice of major/feild, etc. Ann was able to determine his core strengths and weakenesses, and steered him back to his original plan — and even provided him with a few options he had never considered. My other son, still at the high school level, was wrestling through the choices of majors, and Ann was able to highlight his strengths, giving him confidence that he could be successful regardless of his choice. I’m really glad we involved Ann in this process.

John Briggs

Director, Creative Network at AbbVie

Jon Rappoport

When I first met Ann some years ago, I was quite unsure of myself and frankly, too hard on myself for not having “figured it out.”

With the impact of her invaluable coaching having had a lasting effect on my decisions and successes to this day, Ann helped me to realize the unique and innate potential and purpose within myself. Her warmth, her intelligence, her support and her expertise are a huge part of the trajectory on which I still find myself growing, learning and pursuing the passions which continue to unfold before my eyes.

I will always look back on our time working together with fondness and appreciation, and as life — both personally and professionally — continues to be a revealing journey, I am bolstered by the knowledge that Ann and her talent as a career coach is just a phone call away.

Jon Rappoport

Strategist, Consultant and Chief Fig (Facilitator + Idea Generator)

Marie Theiss

Ann is one of the most intuitive, personable, and balanced professionals I know. I’m so glad to have connected with her. She’s helped me over the years with formulating my business strategy, identifying areas that are important to me and creating a fulfilling professional and personal life. Ann is so intuitive and looks for a holistic approach that satisfies so many angles. She helped me strike a balance between capitalizing on running my business, giving my attention to my philanthropic work, and maintaining a sense of calm during hectic and challenging periods of life. She is a gem, she’s funny and is such a valuable person in my life. I am so proud to recommend her here, and have been doing so to my personal and professional friends.

Marie Theiss

Independent Instructional Designer