Jody Michael Associates

Jody Michael Associates has provided career and executive coaching to individuals, teams, and organizations for more than 20 years, helping them realize goals, land jobs and become better leaders. Coaching can be the catalyst to profoundly shift the trajectory of your life. It can also change a company’s culture, helping it to execute on strategy and take accountability to the next level. With career coaching, you can: • Discover the career that best aligns with your talents, values and passions to bring you greater fulfillment • Achieve greater success in your current career through fast-tracked promotions, a higher level of performance and more effective communication • Tremendously improve your interviewing skills to land the job you want • Successfully launch and run your own entrepreneurial venture Through executive and organizational coaching, we can help you: • Gain clarity and focus around your career to achieve greater fulfillment and work-life balance • Transform your leadership skills to inspire and build successful teams, departments and entire organizations • Significantly improve your performance and bottom-line organizational results to attain executive positions • Embrace and instill a higher level of accountability company-wide Expertise The JMA team is led by Jody Michael, an executive coach, career coach, Master Certified Coach, Board Certified Coach, trainer, author, international speaker and University of Chicago-trained psychotherapist. She brings insight from over 20 years of individual, executive and career coaching and 15 years of corporate leadership in the finance industry. Jody has worked with market leaders including Abbott, Accenture, Avnet, BP, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Deloitte, Dial Corporation, Forsythe, Peabody Energy, Sara Lee and Stepan Company. In addition, she has been featured on MSNBC Primetime, Discovery Channel, CNN, NBC’s “Today Show,” National Public Radio (WBEZ) and in the Chicago Tribune.