FAY KRAPF Coach
Career Development - Leadership Development Career Transition - Job Search
Whether you are thinking of a career transition, job search, developing your career in a new organization, preparing for your new role in an organization, starting your own business, or planning your retirement, you can be confident in your selection of Fay as your coach.
Meet Fay Krapf - Career and Leadership Coach
I have over 28 years experience in coaching, training, and business with over 16 years of experience in career planning, career transitions, professional development, and leadership coaching, having coached 1000+ people - professionals, managers, and executives in high tech, biotech, manufacturing, health care, public sector, education, government, and service industries, and from Fortune 500 companies to startups.
Fay’s Credentials
MSOD - Masters Degree in Organization Development from the California School of Professional Psychology.
Graduate of CoachU Coach Training Program and certified through the Institute of Career Certification International.
Member in the following organizations: The NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science; Association of Training and Development, RTP chapter (ASTD); Triangle Organization Development Network (TODN) and former board member; Research Triangle Chapter of Association for Psychological Type and former board member – MBTI qualified; ICF Raleigh Chapter and former local board member; North Carolina Career Development Association, and the Association of Career Professionals International (ACPI) and former local board member.
In addition to coaching private clients, I work as an affiliate with career management firms, coaching firms, and consulting firms; and serve as a mentor coach and visiting faculty for the North Carolina State University Business Coaching Certificate Program.
Fay’s Career Journey
My own career path has given me to opportunity to personally experience and fine-tune my career creation, networking, and job search skills.
My first career chapter began in Maine where I ran a pottery studio, shop and craft gallery. I had 25+ apprentices over the 10 years – folks from all kinds of backgrounds. Since these apprentices were at the pottery for just 9 months to a year, we often talked about what they might do after their apprenticeship. I realize now that even as a potter, I was helping folks think about their lives, their dreams, and their career transitions.
As I became interested in personal growth and the dynamics of people in organizations, and inspired by many wonderful senior organizational development consultants in The NTL Institute, I began my own major career transition, earning a Masters Degree in Organizational Behavior from the California School of Professional Psychology in California.
While in my graduate program in California, I began to learn about the power of networking, which led to a unique opportunity co-leading one of the MBA student small groups for a semester course in “Interpersonal Dynamics” at Stanford University.
Meeting new neighbors led to my contractor role co-coordinating the Quality Program for NASA at the Ames-Mountain View, CA site. Attending a professional meeting, led to an Internship in Training and Development with the City of Oakland.
Degree in hand, back in Maine - time to search for a job. Criteria: use my degree, make a difference in people’s lives, and make the income I deserve. Networking and a chain of connections six levels deep led me to a position as Director of Organization Development for Central Maine Power Company. There I launched a company-wide, top-down internal career development program, and utilized an assimilation process to bring a new vice president on board and facilitate his successful transition into the organization.
My next search, a multi-state East coast search with applications, recruiters, cold calls, target calls, networking, and courage, led to four job offers and a position as Corporate Employee Involvement Consultant with Corning Inc. There I consulted to and coached division leaders, plant managers, plant training coordinators, team coordinators, and teams for implementation of high-performing work systems.
As my values and priorities changed, I decided to leave corporate life, make more of a direct impact on people’s lives as a coach, and move back to the South where I grew up, to be near my aging parents. So, I moved to the Chapel Hill, Durham, RTP, Raleigh, NC area.
First action, being new in the community, was attending a professional meeting. Subsequently, I built a huge network of colleagues which led to a part-time career consultant position with a career management firm coaching employees, executives, managers, and professionals from “outplacement” or lay-off to their next position or into their own business.
Lunch with a new colleague led to a meeting with the hiring manager and subsequent faculty position at Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina where I taught Business Communications to undergraduates and Career Development to MBA peer counselors who coached the MBAs in job search. A neat partnering of two wonderful jobs and a great 5 years.
On to the current chapter of career and retirement coaching. During the last 12 years I have coached 1000+ individuals, working with them through major and minor transitions, into and out of corporate positions, into and out of small businesses, into retirement and out of retirement.
I continue to be awed and inspired by my clients as they courageously explore their lives, careers, values, and dreams to create and achieve, time after time, the career and work that fits who they really are.
Ready for coaching?……
Contact me to schedule a get-acquainted discussion. We can talk about your career situation and about how we can work together to help you envision your career future and achieve your goals.
faykrapf@gmail.com
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