MBA Career & Leadership Coaching: Discover Your Story!

How do you define and achieve success?

Everyone has a story. Sometimes you need expert guidance to identify the core messages that bring your story to life. And, once your story is ready to be unveiled, to communicate it effectively to achieve your goals.  MBA Navigator can make a difference.

Whether you are searching for a new job, hiring your team, or starting a new business, career and leadership coaching will position you for success.

Armed with the remarkable story of you, it’s time to make things happen. Your goal(s) may include the following:

  • Finding a rewarding and fulfilling new job
  • Exploring possibilities for the next phase of your career
  • Following a passion and changing careers completely
  • Achieving small business and entrepreneurial goals such as marketing your products or services or securing investors
  • Assessing complex situations and making leadership decisions
  • Negotiating successfully 
  • Handling difficult conversations more effectively
  • Managing colleagues up, down and across the organization
  • Creating high-performance teams

MBA Navigator offers a creative, confidential partnership for producing and sustaining your desired results. Coaches elicit and deliver powerful insights for personal, professional, and organizational growth. As your coach, Debra Woog McGinty brings a strategic business view, an understanding of interpersonal and intrapersonal dynamics, a powerful network of resources, skills of creative problem solving and active listening, and warmth.

MBA Navigator offers several solutions to help MBAs navigate the next path to success, including one-on-one coaching and group programs. Debra is the heart of these services, providing the expertise, guidance and support to ensure your success. Solutions include:

  • Strategic Personal Plans
  • Career Coaching
  • Leadership Consulting
  • Renewal Retreats
  • Posing As You Workshop

Coaching clients set goals, identify issues and obstacles, understand preferred styles and organizational culture, explore options and strategies, act and reflect.

Learn how to position yourself for success. Email or call Debra today to schedule your initial consultation.

Client Stories

"I highly recommend Debra. She has guided me through some of the most challenging personal and professional situations I have ever faced. I have referred several VP and C-level female execs to her and each has raved about her approach. And, all made great career moves as a result. Her site emphasizes MBAs, but that is not her sole focus." -- PR Executive

"Thanks a lot for the time yesterday. I really appreciate your insights, and ability to listen. I particularly value that you listen on multiple levels, picking up more than just words, and respond to that as well. You help me validate a whole, rather than just the logical, intellectual thoughts alone. Very hard to say in words, but hope you'll get what I mean!" -- Retail Executive

"Debra helped me prepare to tackle the toughest part of getting a job in consulting: the case interview. She taught me not only to familiarize myself with frameworks for tackling tough business problems on the spot, but how to use them effectively and appropriately. Her patience during mock-interviews and step-by-step debriefing helped me understand where there were gaps in my logic and how to close those gaps by marshalling logical thinking techniques. I went into my interviews feeling prepared and confident-and that was half the battle!" -- MBA Student

"Thank you so much for your coaching, I really feel so energized by our conversation, you are a truly gifted listener and coach! Identifying that my fears are related to the perception that I am imposing on someone (feeling vulnerable) rather than giving them a business opportunity (feeling empowered) was so simple and yet so KEY! I went home and was immediately excited to begin "getting out there"! The twenty-minute conversation we had changed my life. You helped, in such a compassionate way, me get to a shadow belief that I had not been able to face. The greatness of it was you did not have an agenda, and most of the people we talk to in life do. The tangible effect was that six weeks later I had two experiences of showing my artwork and I was empowered. I was in the driver's seat. All the beliefs I'd had were no longer present. Those attitudes came from places that were there the longest time. We uncorked a demon that was sabotaging me and I was able to say to it - goodbye, I don't need you. Debra, you have done more for me already than you can possibly know!" -- Design Entrepreneur

"Debra, thank you so much for your help last week. I feel like we covered so much ground and you really helped me clarify some of the things I need to be thinking about. I'm plugging away on my assignments before our next meeting." -- Market Research Consultant

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Debra Woog McGinty

Debra Woog McGinty, a seasoned MBA Career & Leadership coach, helps professionals develop strategic personal plans, tackle career change, and achieve career success.

She is passionate about helping individuals to identify and communicate their unique capabilities and contributions.

 

Career Highlights:

  • Leadership & Career Consultant since 1999
  • Director of People Strategy (including human resources and recruiting)
  • Director of Admissions and Career Development for dual MBA/engineering program at MIT Sloan
  • Career researcher at
    Harvard Business School
  • Published author
  • MIT Sloan MBA
  • Wellesley College BA, Psychology

Client Stories:

 

"I have found Debra to provide a unique voice in my life. As my coach, Debra listens to my concerns, often sympathizes with what I am experiencing, and moves me to action. This combination is powerful. I depend on Debra to help me examine and clearly define my goals. Then, with incredible skill, she encourages me to take action to realize my goals. Using a variety of tools, Debra assisted me to better understand the consequences of my actions. She is up-front, honest, and cares about my success." -- Management Consultant

 

"Debra has guided me to effectively negotiate for what I want. Her questions help me assess complex interpersonal issues and organizational dynamics such that my ability to orchestrate a raise, a major purchase, or touchy supervisory situations is greatly enhanced. I am learning a new skill set and a more comfortable approach to getting what I want." -- College Administrator

 

"Working with Debra has made me a more strategic manager and more effective team member; she helps me clarify my goals and provides me practical tools to achieve them." -- Corporate Counsel

 

"Debra is an incredibly talented career coach. Through humor and creative ideas, together we worked out an effective strategy to transition to a more satisfying career."
-- Attorney

 

"Her can-do attitude is infectious."
-- Musician

 

"After every session with Debra, I am more focused on how to run my two businesses and reassured about my capacity to accomplish my goals." -- Independent Professional

 

"Debra challenges me. As a result of spending time with her, I realize that I can turn inward, and that it's good to do so. Much of the world has us focused on the outside. Looking inward can be difficult. But she makes it safer." -- Freelance Writer

 

"My experience with Debra was far superior to any other professional development coaching that I have had. Debra has a unique sensibility that allows her to immediately connect with her clients on a deeply meaningful level, and as a result, my takeaway from each of our meetings was clear, action-oriented, inspiring, and fruitful. My productivity benefited immediately upon working with her. Debra's expertise as a coach, thought partner and facilitator was clear. She asked all the of the right questions from the get-go such that every step of the way I was both creating and following a plan to achieve very high-level goals, and in the end not only did I achieve my goals, but I exceeded my own expectations. I would recommend strongly her services, specifically to those seeking to identify opportunities for and implement change in their professional careers." -- Non-Profit Manager

 

"Debra offered us valuable feedback that helped us refine our message for our presentations to potential investors. We will continue to work with her." -- Founder, emerging company