Own Your Strengths.
Build a Future Around Them.
A 90-day bootcamp with a clear finish line, for people from all walks of life. Whether you're choosing a first path or rethinking your current one, we start with what you're actually good at, get clear on what you want and why, then build a plan you'll keep acting on. For students, professionals, and the leaders they become.
"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
Two Starting Points. One Method. 90 Days.
Every engagement includes a CliftonStrengths assessment to help you understand your strengths and design a future where you spend more time using them.
Growing in your role, or pivoting out of it.
Whether you're re-energizing where you are or designing a different path, we build a career that fits you - not the other way around.
- CliftonStrengths 34 and a clear read on your edge
- A plan for the pivot, promotion, or retool ahead
- Choices grounded in evidence, not just fantasies
Choosing a path, not just a college.
Most teens pick courses and majors before they know what they're built for. We work the other way around - strengths first, then the paths that fit them.
- CliftonStrengths for Students and interest assessments
- Strengths translated into real vocational pathways
- Guidance for course and college choices that actually fit
Full 34 Report
On the instruments: we use CliftonStrengths - the 34 for adults and the Student edition for those still in school - with the Strong Interest Inventory, YouScience, and other validated tools added as the work calls for them.
Learn About theStudent Report
From Intuition to Data. From Data to a Plan.
The bootcamp focuses your effort on three things, in order. Career advice is usually a hunch dressed up as a plan, so we start with evidence and finish with action you own.
Know your strengths
Understand your strengths and interests and look at how they've helped you succeed so far. CliftonStrengths gives us an honest, validated read on what you're built to do well.
Get clear on the why
Get specific about the outcomes you're after and why they matter to you. We test them against your strengths and interests so the target is yours, not someone else's.
Build the plan
Turn that clarity into a plan made of many regular, ongoing actions, and a written Strengths-to-Pathways roadmap you keep. Every session ends with next steps, so progress happens between our meetings too.
The work before the work
Your pre-work has two halves, and they meet in your first session.
Before we begin - the data
First, a validated strengths assessment, so we start from evidence instead of a blank page. Adults take CliftonStrengths 34. Students take the CliftonStrengths Student edition alongside an interest inventory such as the Strong Interest Inventory or YouScience. This is the objective read on how you're built.
Your first step - 5 key reflections
Second, about an hour on five questions most people never sit still for. This is the honest, personal half. Here is what that hour asks.
Most people plan around two pressures: the fear of not having enough, and the pull to have far more than enough. Both distort the picture. We remove them on purpose and ask what an ordinary good day looks like a few years out, once money is neither a threat nor a fantasy. What shows up in that life, and is missing from your current one, becomes the target the rest of the work aims at.
Adapted from the Best Possible Self exercise.
You're more than any one role. Leader, parent, partner, friend, professional, and the person responsible for your own growth. This step has you name the roles that matter most, set the biggest goal for each, then admit which ones have been running on empty and what has been taking that energy. It's the Big Rocks idea made specific: the largest things get placed first, or they don't get placed at all.
Adapted from Roles and Goals, Stephen Covey.
Decisions get easier when you know what you refuse to give up. You move fast through a bank of values, keep the ones that are genuinely true rather than merely admirable, and rank your top five. What you leave with is a short, ordered list of what sits at your center, the standard we hold later choices against.
Adapted from the Personal Values Card Sort.
A fear left vague runs your decisions from the shadows. You name the step you have been circling but avoiding, spell out the worst you honestly imagine, then work each one: how to make it less likely, and how you would recover if it happened anyway. Looked at squarely, most fears get smaller. The wall turns into a set of problems you can actually handle.
Adapted from Tim Ferriss's Fear-Setting.
Thinking alone changes nothing. So before we meet, you run one small experiment, a test rather than a leap. The accountant curious about photography doesn't quit their job; they shoot a local 5k and send the organizers the photos. You pick one pull from the pages above, design a low-cost, low-risk way to try it in the next two weeks, and decide what result would tell you it's worth more. You arrive with real signal instead of another maybe.
Adapted from Designing Your Life, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.
Bring It Together
Five steps, one picture. The life you would choose, the roles that matter, the values you keep, the fear you named, and the experiment you'll run. Look back and one thread usually runs through your own answers, a direction they keep pointing toward. You bring that to our first session. It's where we begin.
The Pathways Clarity Bootcamp. 90 Days With a Finish Line.
Open-ended coaching is hard to judge before you've lived it. The bootcamp is time-limited on purpose: a clear start, a clear end, and a plan in your hands at the close. The best place to begin if you're serious about the work.
I Will Respectfully Challenge You On Your Behalf.
I'm Allen Abbott. I coach from a background as a former C-level operator, with an Executive MBA, a master's in Organizational Development, and an ICF ACC credential. I've sat in the chairs my clients sit in.
My work runs on evidence and honesty. I won't flatter you, and I won't sell you something you don't need. Based on the Front Range in Denver, Colorado, I work with students and adults alike on the same question: how do you earn a living doing something you're built for?
Bring your challenges. We'll tackle them together.
Once a month you sit in on a live discussion about overcoming real obstacles - the hard call, the stuck project, the conversation you are dreading. $4.99 a month, cancel anytime.
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Thirty minutes. You tell me what is prompting this and what a good outcome looks like in 90 days. I tell you honestly whether we're a fit. The match matters for both of us.
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