Career Coach - Meg Montford

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My name is Meg Montford, Chief Coaching Officer of Abilities Enhanced®. I help you make friends with change to manage your career for life. Services include career coaching, job search training, and resume writing customized for individuals, groups, and organizations. I administer and coordinate all programs and services to meet your career development, career management, and career change needs.

With my team of highly qualified certified Professional Resume Writers and Career Coaches, we meet all project deadlines and ensure your customer satisfaction. My vision is simple: “Believe in yourself and everything is possible.” Printed on a postcard above my desk, this saying has inspired me for 20 years. I am ready to help you achieve your goals!

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Client Successes

My clients achieve amazing results. Read what they say about their career coaching experiences. Testimonials are published with permission of the authors.

	VP Marketing/Sales: More than just earning money, he wanted to work his passion. He shifted directions to follow his life purpose as a sculptor and planned to use his business acumen to build a studio for young artists.
	VP Business Development: Discouraged with building his own business in a stalled economy, he paved his reentry into Corporate America.
	Marketing Director: Victim of a layoff with no job prospects in sight, he sought career coaching to find his way back to the field he loved.
	Purchasing Director: After working 10 years for one company, she saw the “snowball rolling down the hill” when a new CEO was hired. She proactively sought and found a more compatible work environment where she went to work everyday with a smile on her face.
	VP Investor Relations: Downsized and burned out, he used career coaching to find life / work balance while starting his own business.
	IT Trainer: Downsized at 38, she was tired of the high tech industry roller-coaster. She discovered her passion in pharmaceutical sales and broke into the field working for an industry leader.
	Technical Writer: Tired of working 60-70 hours per week, she converted her passion for Yoga and exercising into a career as a personal trainer at the age of 48.
	Broadcast Manager: Unemployed for over a year, a media manager and standup comic landed his dream job with a national TV network after six months of clarifying what was most important to him.
	Business Analyst: Terminated from a corporate position captured with her finance degree, she clarified career goals, discovered her life purpose, and entered the teaching profession.

With experience in the careers industry since 1986, I have provided career consulting to clients from varied industries and for all career types. My expertise includes coaching executives, midlife career changers, new managers, and entrepreneurs. In my early career, I did recruiting and business development. I understand career change first hand having entered the career management field following my own transition from several years as a college financial aid administrator.

I deliver career-related presentations to corporate, educational, government, and community groups. Topics include: career self-management, life after layoff, understanding communication styles, and job search strategies.

My credentials include Master Certified Career Coach, Career Management Fellow, Certified Professional Resume Writer, and Certified TeleLeader. I hold a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Missouri. I am presently seeking professional coach certification (PCC) from the International Coach Federation. My professional affiliations include coaching and careers industry associations plus the American Marketing Association and The Central Exchange of Kansas City.

	Career Highlights ExecuNet Forum Expert for executive members. Trainer, International Coach Academy. Instructor and Mentor Coach, Career Coach Institute, 2003-2005. National Speaker, Career Masters Institute Annual Conference, 2003. Corporate Coaching Graduate, Corporate Coach University. Monster.com Career Coach for the “Job Good. Life Good” May 2001 sweepstakes winner. PARW/CC Best Resume Writing Contest four-time winner. Columnist, ACCPOW Newsletter. Interviewed and quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Kansas City Star, Sales & Marketing Management Magazine, Diversity Inc., and other publications. Authorized Now What?™ Life Blueprint® Facilitator - a coaching program created by Laura Berman Fortgang, MCC. Contributing author to numerous nationally published careers books including Martin Yate’s Knock ’em Dead series, Wendy Enelow’s 101 Ways to Recession Proof Your Career, Marcia Bench's An Insider’s Guide to Career Coaching, and Power Tools: Top Executive Coaches Put You on the Fast Track to Success (The Business Tool Kit Series).

Credentials

Master Certified Career Coach: Awarded by Career Coach Institute, this certification requires completion of two six-month training programs focused on career coaching skills, career development methods, and best employment practices. Core learning competencies were achieved as defined by professional coaching industry standards. Over 1000 coaching hours were documented.

Career Management Fellow: Awarded by the Institute of Career Certification International, the accrediting body for the Association of Career Professionals International, this certification recognizes commitment to advancing the career management profession and its ethical standards. It validates career management competencies throughout one's entire careers industry service.

Authorized Life Blueprint® Facilitator
Awarded by the Life Blueprint Institute®, this credential requires completion of the 20 hour Life Blueprint® training program and successfully passing the final exam. The program includes training in the ICF Core Competencies, personal development of the coach, plus skills and tools directly applicable to coaching.

Certified Professional Resume Writer: Awarded by the Professional Association of Resume Writers & Career Coaches, this credential was initiated in 1991 as the original certification for professionals in the resume writing industry. It is based upon demonstrated attainment of the highest resume writing standards through written examination and peer evaluation.

Certified TeleLeader: Awarded by TeleClass International, this certification requires completion of criteria in three categories: attending teleconference leader training classes, leading TeleClasses critiqued by a peer, plus observing and critiquing TeleClasses led by others. TeleClasses are conducted conveniently by telephone through quality teleconferencing bridge systems. Class participants can learn from their own office or home!

Professional Affiliations

Abilities Enhanced® adheres to the Code of Ethics of these professional affiliates:

	Association of Career Professionals International: USA Country Board: President Elect
	Kansas City Chapter - Association of Career Professionals International: Past President
	Institute of Career Certification International: Career Management Fellow
	International Coach Federation: Career Coaching Special Interest Group Host
	Career Coach Institute: Master Certified Career Coach
	Career Masters Institute: Charter Member
	Association of Coaching & Consulting Professionals on the Web: Columnist
	Association of Online Resume & Career Professionals: Board Member/Career Coaching Expert
	TeleClass International: Certified TeleLeader
	American Marketing Association/Kansas City Chapter - AMA: Member
	The Central Exchange of Kansas City: Member

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