About Cristin

Career change coach for people whose careers don’t fit the standard playbook

Most career support is designed for traditional job seekers. People moving laterally within an industry, following a legible path, appealing to recruiters who already know what to do with them.

That’s not who comes to me.

My clients have spent years, sometimes decades, in work that mattered. Nonprofit, education, journalism, the arts, tech, healthcare, the public sector. They’ve built real expertise and complex careers that don’t translate cleanly into a job title. When they try to navigate a transition using the standard playbook, it doesn’t work. Recruiters don’t know what to do with them. The advice they find online was written for someone 20 years younger with nothing to protect. And going it alone means reinventing the wheel at exactly the moment when they can least afford to get it wrong.

Here’s how I think about it: traditional job seekers are Fred Astaire. You learn the steps, execute them flawlessly with a smile. Career pivoters are Ginger. She does everything Fred does, but backwards and in heels. The rules still apply. You just have to know them well enough to work around them.

My clients don’t need to be reshaped into “ideal candidates.” They need someone who understands the system they’re navigating and knows how to move through it with their experience, income, and identity intact.

Let’s Get Personal

I’m from Philadelphia, PA but have lived all over the US because of my professional theatre career (was even a member of the union for theatrical actors and stage managers). As a result, I’ve replaced the second person plural of my youth “youse guys” with “y’all.” Infinitely better! Besides that, my Philly accent is pretty loud and proud. Also lots of expletives (sorry, but also not sorry).

Speaking of Philly, I would wrestle you for a soft pretzel, but as a theatre kid, don’t get too wild about the sportsball. But there’s something in the blood that makes me yell at a TV when Philly teams are playing, I can’t help it.

Now I am officially an expat living in the Netherlands with my husband, adorable small human known on these internet streets as “The Bean,” and two cats, a Mama and her baby, who is in the teenage destructive phase (orange cat energy is real).

I walk every day for at least 30 minutes as a daily commitment to movement and being outside.

I love the news, disaster movies, mysteries, reading (libraries and book stores are heaven on earth), tarot/oracle cards, crystals, baking, making pizza and ice cream, wine, whiskey, and being cozy. If I had to pick one above all else, it’s cozy FTW.

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