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The best part is that the results weren't just descriptive but also prescriptive. I gained specific insights into where I might best succeed (and be most fulfilled) in my future endeavors. This is what was most relevant to me, and where I was feeling stuck professionally. I think back to my sessions on a near-daily basis, and I can't recommend highly enough."

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When it came to applying for college I chose nursing as biology was my favorite subject in school and I liked the idea of having a job where I would care for people. I had no idea what the nursing profession entailed having received poor career guidance at school. Having worked as a staff nurse after graduating, I admitted to myself that nursing wasn't the career for me. Following this decision, I undertook a number of alternative jobs within the healthcare sector with the hope of finding my niche within the industry. However, I never felt fully satisfied within these roles. After years of jumping from job to job, I felt miserable and thought I would never find a career I would be happy doing. Last year I met Geraldine Canty (co-founder of Predictive Potential) and she had me do the career assessment program. The assessment results confirmed that a career in Creative Digital Media would give me the greatest job satisfaction. I also enjoyed the clarifications about why a career in this area would suit me based on my personality, interests, values, and my current Lifestyle. Fast forward to today and I am building websites’

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Let me explain. I have been in the work world for nearly four decades. I had the good fortune of finding a suitable career early in my life and became an engineer with masters degrees and an MBA. I landed a well-paying job and was happy with it until two events happened: first the bottom fell out of the dot-com industry and, more importantly, I lost my friend Göran Kropp, a Swedish adventurer and mountaineer who fell to his death while we were rock climbing together in September 2002. Suddenly I found myself searching for meaning in life.

Rather than finding another "job," I reinvented myself and became a full-scale adventurer. I took my engineering training and learned everything I needed to know to achieve a solo circumnavigation of the Earth under my own physical power. I also founded the nonprofit Around-n-Over to educate and inspire the next generation based on lessons learned from human powered journeys. All of these were fulfilling.

The circumnavigation took five years to complete; I became the first person to have rowed the three major oceans. Here I am six years later, reflecting on my 15 Guinness World Records and multiple historic firsts. I have shared the stage with James Cameron and John Glenn at the awards ceremony of the prestigious Explorers Club, and yet I again ask myself... what do I do NOW that has meaning and value for me and others?

My work with Germaine has helped me see that major self-transformation and powering through is MY way. It has helped me see that going forward I will need to create something unique that will allow me to share what I have learned through my adventures to help make a real difference in other peoples' lives.

Having external confirmation of my strengths helped me understand my life pattern and what qualities I possess to use going forward. Valid explanations for my weaknesses have also given me a new way to think about my current frustrations and my personal horizon which are calling me to transform yet again. While difficult, it is a relief to know the new challenge that I will shoulder. Predictive Potential provided me a clear indication of which behavioral talents I need to develop to create better value for society and to achieve greater inner satisfaction for myself.

Thanks to this assessment and feedback process, I may even have found the language that I will need to share the "inner story" of my adventures to realize my newly forming ambition to become a public speaker.

March 2022, Erden is currently rowing his way to China.

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Working with Geri provided me with the space and prompts I needed to help me talk through and consider what might come next in my career. Beyond that, she provided an assessment tool that I found very useful - as it provided insights around my preferences in the workplace. These insights validated some of what I had been thinking, and also highlighted some "blind spots" that I now can be more aware of as I approach each opportunity that may come my way. The data, insights, and knowledge I gained from working with Geri have lit a fire in me to pursue more of what I enjoy the most, which so happens to be where I rank best as a "high performer" and am most likely to succeed."

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I am in a stressful situation right now not knowing whether I will be out of a job since the laboratory that I am part of will be closing. The question of what will happen, what my options are inside and outside the organization, and what to focus on as I try to make good choices for myself is looming large. Germaine set my mind at ease right away. She explained the entire process to me, its purpose and value, and how we would work together through it. That made it much easier for me to focus and take the plunge.."

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I have known Geri for many years as my manager, a career coach, and a friend whom I have admired her people-centric and common sense approach to solving problems. She was a mentor who taught me how to manage some tough situations and come out successful whether it was working with complex customers or establishing a work-life balance during a difficult pandemic year. As a coach, she will spend time to learn about you and your objectives and will provide you with strategies and a toolkit that will help you define and achieve your own success.

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It didn't seem possible to me. That has completely changed. Or, I have changed. I am aligned much more deeply with my abilities, strengths, and values, and Geri has helped me find opportunities to actualize my potential both within and beyond my career path.

Geri is real and honest and open. She makes doing the work enjoyable. In our work together, Geri hasn't limited herself to the scope of our initial consult. She continually shows up for me, providing resources and feedback that I can use to deepen or expand any endeavor that I am involved with. I feel incredibly lucky to work with her and wish everyone had that same opportunity!"

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