Are you looking for support to steward your career and navigate your way in a world that is rapidly changing?
I help you get the clarity and insights to find your answer to the questions, What’s next for me? and How can I make a difference?
Does your organization or team want effective tools to create connection and work effectively together?
Through interactive workshops, individual coaching, coaching hikes, inspiring presentations and the books A Career in Your Suitcase and Retire to the Life You Love, I have tools to empower and equip you to intentionally navigate and steward your career at any life stage and transition.
I design and deliver workshops and webinars to work teams, employees (& their partners) as well as students to empower careers, work engagement, communication and collaboration.
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“Working with Colleen as my career coach was a game-changer. I arrived feeling unsure about my career path, and her tailored approach — combined with resources like the Online Storyteller — was instrumental in helping me gain clarity about my possibilities.
The Online Storyteller, in particular, helped me uncover potential career directions I hadn’t previously considered. It was a powerful tool for reflection and exploration.
I highly recommend Colleen if you're looking for someone who truly understands your unique needs and can help you move forward with confidence.”
This is why I do what I do...
I believe that:
Careers unfold over time and are revealed over time. There is no such thing as a wrong career choice (or study choice); every choice is made within a context and leads to future choices.
A career crisis is really a crisis of imagination; the inability to imagine a situation/career other than the one you are currently in. The key to creating a personally meaningful career is being able to look inside to what is important to you, clarify what you can do, and then look outside to your current situation to find the opportunities that work for your lifestyle and this time and place in your life/career.
Careers are created in collaboration and dialogue with our local and global networks. A willingness to engage wherever you find yourself, an attitude of openness to exploration and unexpected opportunity, the ability to step into the ‘unknown’ and find your way and the ability to adapt to new information and situations are essential to a successful career.
Your career is an ongoing journey – it continues as you grow and develop and move over the course of your life.
I believe the skills needed to develop your career are essential skills in this globalising world. They enable you to create a personally meaningful life from almost anywhere in the world on your own terms.
“Working with Colleen was an unexpectedly rewarding and enjoyable experience, I came in to it quite reluctantly expecting to come out with a nicely polished C.V and little else. Instead I found an experience that while challenging left me more confident, focused and open to opportunity. Colleen is very engaging and is brilliant at piecing together connecting points before bringing them together for you with an apt metaphor that very neatly aligns all these points to the way they personally relate. I would recommend Colleen and this process to anyone who may just want a little more from their career.”
"Colleen has been instrumental in my healing and self discovery. She provided tools to find or help me recognise my potential as well as my qualities forgotten in my life's journey. She has held my hand during the crossroads of my life and helped me restore my confidence. She always had words of inspiration and that continue to resonate as I continue this path of fulfilling dreams. I am very grateful to have met you and for the support that you provided me, I totally recommend her services as a career consultant. Thank you and god bless you always."
About Colleen Reichrath
As a career development professional I equip and empower people so they can navigate their career across international borders, occupational boundaries and economic shifts.
I believe this is an essential skill in this globalising world, enabling you to create a personally meaningful life from almost anywhere in the world and remain true to who you are.
A Certified Holistic Narrative Career Professional (HNCP), Syntropic World Master Class graduate and co-author of the fourth edition of A Career in Your Suitcase, I have been a self-employed career consultant since 1997.
Recently I have had the honour of adding the facilitation of the workshop Retire to the Life You Love to my toolkit based on the book written by my mentor and mother, Nell Smith.
I am excited to be empowering and equipping people to learn to Dare to Care in their careers and lives on behalf of Syntropic World starting in the fall of 2024.
After starting my career consultancy in Canada in 1997, I took it on an international adventure to theNetherlands in 2005. This provided me not only personal and professional insight into the world of global mobility and talent management, but also, inspired me to develop resources and programmes suited to these challenges.
I am a member of the ACCESS Trainers Network in the Netherlands and fluent in English and Dutch
