Darrell Gurney, Executive/Career Coach

Executive Career Coach 🔑 I help Senior Executives & Sales Leaders Unlock Their Next Multiple 6-figure Role Up or Out Within 90 Days Without the Resume/Interview Hassle 🔓 Learn How Using the Link in the About Section ⬇️

Long Beach, California, United States

About

Learn how I help senior executives & sales leaders unlock their next multiple 6-figure role either up or out within 90 days without the resume/interview hassle at https://bit.ly/CareerElevate If you are: ⚜️Someone looking to grow within your organization or take your value where it's appreciated ⚜️Employed and passively looking or unemployed but want to avoid looking needy ⚜️Wanting to upgrade in a current industry or switch to a new one ⚜️Trained to think resumes & interviews are your only path Some of our track record: ⚜️Sundar S – From COO of $80M division of $5B Fortune 500 company to senior thought-leader with the World Economic Forum ⚜️Joyce S – From VP Marketing in largest telecom company into new industry as non-profit Executive Director ⚜️Lee S – From top regional sales mgr of largest computer manufacturer to sequential positions of higher leadership/salary/equity in online tech ⚜️Georgia A – From tech startup financial executive to fractional CFO consulting business growing revenues 20% annually ⚜️Ian V – From entertainment industry absence to using earlier agent/producer/COO roles to earn his top salary in consulting ⚜️Marilyn L – From previous CFO and SEC reporting roles into electric vehicles to prep company for IPO ⚜️Joe R – From new awareness of his value and personal brand, went from top sales rep to Senior Strategy Director reporting to CEO within his company And many more. I consistently help clients achieve their next multiple 6-figure role into career opportunities worthy of their life, time and effort through a proven backdoor thought-leadership approach devoid of resume/interview hassles. See videos in the “Featured” section of this LinkedIn profile and at https://bit.ly/CareerElevate 🔑 I help you: 1. Gain a mile-high observer view of your unique career value pattern 2. Distinguish your personal “brand” that sets you apart 3. Develop the narrative of that “brand” into written and spoken form 4. Isolate your fields of passionate interest, unlimited by past industries or roles 5. Implement a “backdoor” research-based relationships-building campaign completely devoid of job search intentions or pressure 6. Have fun with opportunities chasing you rather than you chasing them Interested in learning how we can work together? I welcome the opportunity to connect with you via a complimentary Career Elevation Assessment following a 24min educational video where you'll to learn how to transform your career. 🔓 Schedule to unlock your next multiple 6-figure role up or out within 90 days at https://bit.ly/CareerElevate

Experience

  • CareerGuy (35 yrs 7 mos)
    • Chief Empowerment Optimystic (specializing in supporting senior executives & sales leaders)
      1991 - Present · 35 yrs 7 mos

      Bestselling author, career and executive coach and midlife sherpa featured in U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal Radio Network, The Washington Post, CNN Money.com/FORTUNE, Forbes.com, and BusinessNewsweek.com. Find out more at https://bit.ly/BackdoorStrategy, https://careerguy.com, https://thebackforty.com and https://amzn.to/3I3DNeg

    • Dream Job Lifeline/Dream Job Life
      2013 - Present · 13 yrs 7 mos

      Dream Job Lifeline: Get Known, Get Offers, Get Working Dream Job Life Reality Show Pilot

    • Author
      2001 - Present · 25 yrs 7 mos

      Books Darrell's work has been endorsed by best-selling authors and inspiring luminaries such as Marshall Goldsmith, Chip Conley, Sally Helgesen, Harvey Mackay, Keith Ferrazzi, Dr. Ivan Misner, Rev. Michael Beckwith, and Cynthia Kersey, to name a few. See which of these books on careers, networking, finding your passion, and creating a powerful second half of work and life support you best: https://amzn.to/3I3DNeg The Back Forty: 7 Essential Embraces to Launch Life's Radical Second Half -- https://amzn.to/35ZYOZ8 Never Apply for a Job Again: Break The Rules, Cut the Line, Beat the Rest -- http://amzn.to/2oYBZhr Finding the S Spot: Career Pleasure Secrets for Merging Skills, Play and Pay -- http://amzn.to/2pmD2UG Headhunters Revealed: Career Secrets for Choosing & Using Professional Recruiters -- http://amzn.to/2ok8Om8 Crisis or Opportunity: Midlife, In and Out of the Office -- http://amzn.to/2c3CE8f

  • The Back Forty (13 yrs 11 mos)
    • Speaker for MBA, University and Professional Organizations
      Sep 2012 - Present · 13 yrs 11 mos

      Speaker for MBA, EMBA, FEMBA and University programs as well as professional and trade groups.

    • Founder and Back Forty Flier
      2014 - Present · 12 yrs 7 mos

      Founder of The Back Forty, Darrell has written materials and edited professional journals on the topics of finding one’s passion and midlife pursuit of purpose. His newest book "The Back Forty: 7 Essential Embraces to Launch Life's Radical Second Half" is an inspirational guide and companion for designing a fulfilling second half of life. The Back Forty INFUSE Program, based on these ideas, supports midlifers to create the second half as the best half, inspired by radical purpose, under the premise that, as Frank Sinatra sings, “the best is yet to come and, babe, won’t it be fine!”

  • Career Counselor/Seminar Leader at Lee Hecht Harrison
    Nov 2008 - May 2013 · 4 yrs 7 mos

    Contract counseling and leader of two-day career transition seminars for outplaced professionals from all industries.

  • Principal at A Permanent Success Career Partners
    1991 - 2001 · 10 yrs

    Retained, contingency, and contract recruiting for all levels (staff to C-level) of Sales, Human Resources, Accounting, Finance, and Operations professionals.