Three job offers
Reported receiving three offers and help negotiating employment contracts after an earlier eight-week group programme.
Akosua Oppong-Tawiah
Read the published account ↗For experienced professionals ready for greater responsibility
You’ve built the experience. Make it count in your next role.
You want to be considered for work that matches your ability. To explain your contribution without underselling it. And to negotiate an offer with a clear understanding of what you bring.
Get HR-informed career coaching to build that case and put it to work.
Your initial career audit is free. The conversation also explores whether the paid Leadership Ascend Academy fits your needs.
Here to grow your coaching or consulting business? Explore your business route ↗
Selected client outcomes
See what clients have reported.
A move into a VP role
A published exchange describes a VP appointment. The client also reports declining two other offers.
Name withheld in the published exchange
View the published exchange ↗US$400K+ total compensation
A client reported accepting a role at Meta with a total compensation package above US$400,000.
Total package, not base salary or the size of an increase
View the published exchange ↗These are selected client-reported outcomes across different programmes and dates, including earlier programmes. They are not independently verified here and do not establish typical results. An employer named in a client account is not a sponsor or endorser of GKM Coaching.
When your experience isn’t translating
Your experience may be stronger than the case you’re making for it.
You can explain what you’re responsible for. But when someone asks why you’re ready for a bigger role, it becomes harder to explain what changed because of your work.
Your résumé lists responsibilities. Your LinkedIn reflects your current title. Your interview answers cover what happened, but don’t always make your contribution clear.
Then the salary conversation arrives, and you’re unsure how to support the number you have in mind.
Start by finding out which problem you actually need to solve.
That may mean changing how you present your work. It may also mean choosing a different target, closing an experience gap, or preparing more thoroughly for a particular opportunity.
You don’t need to turn yourself into someone else.
You need to understand what your experience supports and make that evidence easier to see.
Start with what you need to accomplish
What are you trying to do next?
You don’t need to know which coaching service to buy before you know where your progress is stopping.
Your role no longer reflects your contribution.
You’re ready to make a case for greater responsibility.
You’re applying, but not reaching interviews.
You need your experience to earn relevant consideration.
Your profile doesn’t reflect what you want next.
You want the right people to understand your expertise.
You reach interviews, but struggle to make your case.
You want your contribution to be clear in the conversation.
You have an offer and need to respond.
You want to understand the terms and prepare your negotiation.
You want paying clients, not a new job.
You need a clearer connection between your expertise and offer.
The progress you’re working toward
Build a credible case for greater responsibility.
Connect the work you’ve done to the decisions, business problems, and leadership expectations of the role you’re pursuing.
Your starting point
Career and leadership advancement
Career strategy, leadership positioning, and planning for your next move.
See the relevant supportNot sure where the problem starts? Start with your career audit ↗
Ways to work together
Get support for the move you’re making.
Your goal determines the work. The service is how you get help doing it.
Career and leadership advancement
Make a credible case for a bigger role.
You’re ready to explore greater responsibility. But you need more than a new title on your wish list.
Connect your experience to the decisions, business problems, and leadership expectations of the role you’re pursuing. Explain why you’re ready for the work, with examples that support your case.
- Your goal
- A career move that makes better use of the contribution you can make.
- Your support
- Executive career strategy, leadership positioning, professional branding, and career-move planning.
- Connected programme
- Leadership Ascend Academy.
LinkedIn and professional visibility
Help the right people understand what you bring.
Your profile should make sense to someone who hasn’t worked beside you.
Show the problems you understand, the contribution you’ve made, and the work you want to be considered for next. Build a professional presence that supports useful conversations rather than attention for its own sake.
- Your goal
- A profile and professional story that support the direction you’ve chosen.
- Your support
- LinkedIn profile positioning, personal branding, and professional communication.
Résumé and application support
Give your application a clearer reason to be read.
You don’t want to spend another evening changing the same paragraph without knowing whether it helps.
Learn how to select relevant achievements, explain your contribution, and organise your résumé around the opportunity you’re pursuing.
- Your goal
- An application that helps relevant employers understand your suitability.
- Your support
- The Interview Worthy Resume workshop and résumé resources. Enquire about individual coaching availability.
“confidence and practical tools”
Résumé-workshop customer. Read her published account ↗
Interview preparation
Make your contribution clear when the conversation matters.
You know the work. Now you need to explain it to someone deciding whether to hire you.
Prepare to discuss what the role requires. Select examples that demonstrate your judgment, and explain the results of your decisions without losing the interviewer in detail.
- Your goal
- Relevant examples you can explain naturally, rather than a script you have to remember.
- Your support
- Leadership and executive interview coaching, answer preparation, and feedback.
Compensation and offer support
Know what you’re asking for before you negotiate.
An offer gives you a decision to make.
Understand the responsibilities and compensation being proposed. Identify your priorities. Prepare the evidence behind your request and the questions you still need answered.
- Your goal
- Respond deliberately, rather than accept or reject an offer before you understand it.
- Your support
- Compensation positioning, negotiation preparation, and offer discussion.
62K
A client reported a 62K base-salary increase when moving into a Senior Manager, Procurement Intelligence role.
For coaches and consultants
Turn your expertise into a reason to enquire.
You want prospective clients to understand the problem you help solve, why your experience matters, and what working with you involves.
Build the connection between your LinkedIn presence, your offer, and the next conversation.
- Your goal
- A clearer route from someone discovering your expertise to considering your service.
- Your support
- LinkedIn positioning, personal branding, lead-generation and follow-up systems, offer development, and business coaching.
- A different buying decision
- This is a business-growth enquiry, separate from the career-advancement programme.
Service areas help you identify relevant support. They do not mean every service is available as a standalone package or included in every programme. Confirm scope, availability, and investment before enrolling.
Leadership Ascend Academy
One career move.
Support that connects the work.
Your next move can involve several connected decisions.
Which roles make sense for you? What evidence supports your readiness? Does your professional profile tell the same story you intend to tell in an interview? What would make an offer worth accepting?
Leadership Ascend Academy is the career-coaching route for working on the move as a whole.
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Choose your target.
Clarify the responsibility you want and the experience needed to support that ambition.
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Build your evidence.
Identify the decisions you made, the problems you addressed, and the results you can substantiate.
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Carry it into your search.
Connect your résumé, LinkedIn, professional conversations, and interview preparation to the same target.
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Prepare for the decision.
Understand the opportunity and make your case for appropriate compensation and scope.
You shouldn’t have to choose a collection of disconnected services before understanding your next move.
These describe connected areas of career work, not a fixed curriculum or a promise that every participant needs every component.
An HR-informed perspective
Build your case with the employer’s decision in mind.
Your experience needs to be understood by someone making a hiring decision, assessing responsibility, or discussing compensation.
Gurpreet’s professional background includes recruitment, compensation benchmarking, job evaluation, and salary structures.
For you, the work is practical: explain what you can contribute, support it with evidence, and understand the questions your next employer needs answered.
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Your experience
What have you done that is relevant to the opportunity you’re pursuing?
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Your contribution
What changed because of your work, and what evidence supports that?
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Your next decision
What do you need to understand before choosing the role or accepting the offer?
Customer voices
What clients say changed.
Their accounts describe more than an offer. They describe how they approached the work.
Explaining your contribution
A clearer professional story.
“articulate what I can bring to the table”
Adi Nashashbi
Earlier career programme
Ownership of your next move
More control over your career.
“take control of my career management”
Sean Hassan
Career-coaching account
Room for a useful conversation
Space to discuss what isn’t working.
“discuss issues openly and honestly”
Santanu Chowdhury
Earlier bootcamp programme
Account summary
Confidence explaining your value.
Alexa describes a clearer understanding of her contribution and greater confidence presenting it to employers.
Alexa Tewalt
Career-coaching account
Account summary
A practical starting point.
Amanda describes step-by-step guidance and useful answers as she approached applications as a new graduate.
Amanda Mercieca, RPN
Résumé workshop
Help you can keep using
Useful beyond one application.
“tools I’ll use throughout my career”
Krishabha Goyal
Procurement Category Manager · Résumé workshop
Before you enrol
Know what you’re committing to.
Your decision should be based on the help you’ll receive, the work expected of you, and whether the arrangement fits your circumstances.
Programme fees, coaching schedules, and complete package specifications are not listed on this page. Ask for the current written offer before enrolling.
The free career audit and paid coaching are separate decisions. A service description is not a statement that every component is included.
Review the current Academy page- Your investment
- Confirm the full fee, currency, and applicable taxes.
- Your payment options
- Confirm the payment schedule, total payable, and any additional fees.
- Your coaching period
- Confirm duration, start arrangements, and access period.
- Your sessions
- Confirm number, length, frequency, format, and who delivers them.
- Your individual feedback
- Confirm what receives review, submission limits, and response times.
- Your support between sessions
- Confirm support channels, availability, and scope.
- Your responsibilities
- Understand the preparation, participation, and work expected between sessions.
- Your continuation and exit terms
- Review continuation, cancellation, refund, and complaint-resolution terms.
Read the terms behind any outcome commitment.
The Academy’s published continuation offer is additional coaching, not a stated refund. Review the current written conditions, eligibility, and support arrangements before relying on that commitment.
Read the published programme offer ↗The right fit matters
Choose coaching for the work you’re prepared to do.
This may fit your situation.
You have experience you can examine and discuss. You’re considering a career move, or need help identifying one. And you’re prepared to work on your case, practise your conversations, and use feedback.
You may need a narrower starting point.
You need help with one application, one interview, or one immediate offer. A focused service may be more relevant than a broader programme, subject to availability.
You may be looking for something different.
You need someone to secure employment on your behalf, guarantee an employer’s decision, or remove the need for your participation. Get clear about that need before purchasing coaching.
Your first conversation
Start with your situation.
Not a package.
Your free career audit gives you a place to discuss your background, your target, and where progress is stopping.
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Choose your time and share your background.
Provide your career details and the roles you’re considering through the booking process.
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Review your report before the call.
The published audit offer includes a pre-call report. Read it and note the questions you want to discuss.
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Use the hour to discuss your next move.
Discuss the gap between your current position and your target, including whether paid coaching fits your needs.
Questions before you begin
Get clear before you commit.
Your starting point matters. So do the expectations you bring to coaching.
Do you need a bigger job title before exploring leadership coaching?
Your title is one part of the discussion. Bring examples of the responsibilities you’ve held and the decisions you’ve made. Assess the case you can support rather than assume a larger title is automatically the right next step.
Do you need another certification first?
That depends on the role you’re targeting. Start by distinguishing a required qualification from a problem with how you’re presenting your existing experience.
What happens when your experience comes from another country?
Bring that experience into the assessment. Examine how it relates to the roles you’re pursuing, which requirements may differ, and what evidence would help explain your contribution.
What happens when you’ve already paid for résumé help or coaching?
Bring what you’ve already worked on. A useful assessment should identify what remains unresolved rather than assume everything needs replacing.
Can you get help with one immediate problem?
Use the service selector to identify the support you need. Standalone availability, scope, and pricing should be confirmed before you commit.
Is the career audit the same as joining the Academy?
No. The initial audit is free. Leadership Ascend Academy is a paid programme with a separate enrolment decision. The audit also explores whether that programme fits your needs.
What results should you expect?
Assess the programme against your starting point and target. Selected client accounts illustrate individual experiences; they do not establish what you will achieve. Review any programme-specific continuation terms separately.
What is the route for coaches, consultants, or organisations?
Use the business-coaching or session-enquiry links to contact Gurpreet on LinkedIn. These are separate enquiries from the career-audit booking route. Confirm available services and scope directly.
Make your next move with a case you can stand behind.
You’ve put years into building your experience. Now get clear about the work you want, the evidence you have, and the support that would help you move forward.
For teams and audiences
Planning a session for your team or audience?
Enquire about career development, professional visibility, or explaining professional value. Confirm current topics, formats, and availability directly.