Testimonials

"I highly recommend Maggie as a Career Coach. I had the good fortune to hire Maggie late in 2008 and she quickly helped me identify my strengths and passions. She is masterfully skilled at pushing me just hard enough to achieve my dreams without pushing too hard. Thanks to Maggie I am well on my way to my ideal career less than four months after hiring her.” 
 

"You are so good at what you do! Working with someone who has CLEARLY found her direction in work and in life is so inspiring. You pushed me when I needed to be pushed, but – for me – the fact that you made me give MYSELF a break when I was beating myself up, was probably the most helpful. This coaching experience was a major turning point in my life and I feel like, with respect to my outlook on my career, I am a totally different person than I was a year ago when we first spoke. Hiring you as a career coach has been one of the best things I have ever done for myself.”
 

"My experience with Maggie helped me to find the light at the end of the tunnel. Her dedication, insights, and suggestions enabled me to realize the direction I want to take my career. She provides invaluable advice that has truly helped me to see my vision and make that vision a reality. Maggie fulfilled and exceeded my highest expectations for this process. ”
 

“Maggie has provided excellent services to more than one company with which I’ve been associated. She has provided excellent management coaching and training for one of the firms that I’ve run and was selected to provided career and management coaching to the full senior management team there as well as select high potential candidates. Maggie’s skill and style are excellent. She provides the perfect balance between career coach and management mentor. She guides, facilitates, and helps people aquire the skills and capabilities to be successful. I wholeheartedly endorse Maggie. She brings a level of professionalism and effectiveness to the career and management coaching arena that is outstanding."

 "You had such a knack for honing in on what I was looking for, figuring out different careers that fit and great suggestions on what to do in the meantime, not to mention [you were] quite motivating to talk to as well!”
 

"Maggie is a motivated and motivating counselor. She provides top-notch guidance, resources and tools. Maggie helped me dig deep and determine what I need to do to satisfy specific creative and career yearnings; and she led me down a new path.”
 

"I hired Maggie to coach me through how to ask my management for the flexibility to work from home. After we met, I discovered that my resistance to asking for a flex schedule was based on unfounded fear. While asking your employer for what you need is tricky, especially in a tight economy, Maggie helped me discover that I was underestimating the value of my service. Together we crafted an action plan that gave me the confidence to proceed. Four days after meeting with management, my plan was approved. Succeeding in this negotiation has been a huge energy boost and source of pride. I highly recommend working with Maggie – she’s experienced, listens to your needs, offers great insight, and helps you achieve your dreams. Plus, her easy going nature makes the process fun.”
 

"Your advice and suggestions, helped me get through a very difficult time and I am so appreciative of that. Even small suggestions such as good books to read. It was all so helpful. It provided me direction and kept me focused and positive to find my new job. Thank you!”
 

"After meeting you it was easy to give everything up and go for it.After I have "arrived" in this industry, my measurement of arrival being an appearance as Head Coach of a program in the NCAA Tournament, I will cite that lunch with Maggie Mistal as a huge impetus for my career changing moment! Please keep doing what you do! You impact lives!”
 

"Thank you for the positive and encouraging feedback…I feel that even though it is part of your "job" as a career coach to support and encourage me, I also feel that you are very up front, honest, and direct with me – and not just "blowing smoke." I am also thankful to have the professional opinion of someone like yourself who has done the corporate thing (and done it well!), and who is modeling to me what it means to follow and achieve your vision. So thank you for that!…I really admire people who talk the talk AND walk the walk!”
 

"Working with Maggie is a delight. She has honed her listening skills to quickly zero in on career aspirations and likes and dislikes. I have often gotten stuck in my own internal circular career arguments. Working with Maggie allowed me to wade through my concerns and extract what I am looking for from my career. I highly recommend Maggie for anyone looking to achieve clarity in their career pursuits.”
 

"Getting right to the point, Maggie Mistal is a terrific career coach. I recommend her without hesitation to anyone who is considering career guidance, whether you are contemplating a career transition, questioning whether you made the right career choice, in-between jobs, or simply looking to advance in the career you have chosen. Whatever skepticism I had about the process dissipated rapidly once I began working with Maggie. She listens carefully and attentively, provides valuable insight and analysis, speaks to you in a direct and simple way, and throughout the process provides you the tools you will need to make intelligent and informed career choices. Hiring Maggie was one of the best career decisions I have ever made!”
 

"Maggie is unbelievably intuitive and has the power to unlock the answers that lie within you. She is a great listener and almost helps you arrive at answers “through her.” She has a powerful ability to see connections and piece things together. You feel her unwavering faith in you and in the process at all times! I would recommend Maggie to anyone who is serious about looking within and making a change.”
 

"Maggie helped me create a terrific 5 year plan for my career. She helped flesh out career goals and a life direction that was previously only in the ether. Additionally, with her help, I created a new set of responsibilities at my current job. Because of this, I have new found satisfaction in every work day.”
 

"With Maggie’s help I was able to identify not only what I wanted to do, but how to go about doing it. She gave me practical advice that was both surprising and inspiring and her generosity of both time and spirit made me feel like my professional satisfaction was important to her. I now feel confident and empowered to go out there and find my life’s work."
 

"I highly recommend working with Maggie in order to make a decision about your fit with a current career or envision career options. Maggie’s individualized, yet systematic process worked thoroughly! The insight I gained into my work preferences, career vision and motivation for my daily work habits now serves as a tool to systematically complete my action plan towards my vision. I have a greater sense of peace in my mind and spirit that I am actively creating a lifestyle of work, wellness and enjoyment that I love. Thanks for your integrity, insight and inspiration!"
 

"Maggie Mistal is very wise. She has an uncanny ability to cut through the clutter and get to the heart of the matter. The system she uses to work with her clients, combined with her innate gifts for this kind of work plus her experience make her an ideal career coach. She is intelligent, trustworthy, and a delight to work with and most of all she’s not afraid to…[help you] examine parts of yourself that…have been holding you back.