“It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work through a power greater than yourself"
Abby Locke is a highly sought after career architect for executive MBA women across the United States, Asia, and Europe. With a triple threat of strengths that include personal branding, leadership coaching and executive resume writing, she specializes in taking her clients from "stuck to stellar" in their career aspirations.
Her goal and purpose is to help executive women in business, finance and technology achieve seemingly impossible career goals while commanding the salaries they deserve.
Why Abby
Abby's continues to be recruited by non-profit organizations and private companies to spearhead and lend her expertise to a myriad of career development projects and initiatives.
- She was recently recruited as the Project Director/Senior Career Counselor for the Career Assistance Center with the Department of Labor for an intense seven-month project where she played a pivotal role in delivering career counseling, job search coaching, performance development and career transition services for professional and senior-level federal employees.
- She spent several years as a Certified Career Associate for Lee Hecht Harrison, one of the largest outplacement firms in the country where she assisted hundreds of individuals with career transition, career advancement and career acceleration needs.
- She was retained by the Business and Professional Women foundation to support a nationwide initiative and recruiting campaign aimed at identifying top female military candidates for Walmart's management training programs.
- She was awarded a private contract with a national non-profit, National Council of Churches to support their displaced employees with executive career coaching services.
- She served as MBA Career & Job Coach for Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business where she provided laser coaching on job search strategy, career change, interviews and salary negotiation.
- She was a Career Transition Trainer and played an integral role in training hundreds of transitioning US Army, US Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard military professionals.
In addition, she volunteers as a Résumé Consultant for Women-for-Hire career fairs and has served as the DC Resumes Examiner at Examiner.com and the Washington DC Regional Career Expert for National Career Fairs.
As a published author, she has distinctive executive résumé samples in several national career publications including Top Notch Executive Résumés, Nail the Résumé! Great Tips for Creating Dynamite Résumés, Sales and Marketing Resumes for $100,000 Careers and Jobseeker’s Guide for Working For Executive Recruiters.
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP & MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS
She has been featured and quoted in Essence Magazine, Black Enterprise, Washington Post, Washington Post Express, Wall Street Journal, KISS 105.9, ABCnews.com and CEO Update.
Today, she is profiled contributor on the Career Thought Leaders blog, Excelle.com, Careerealism.com, The Ladders.com, MORE.com and Localcareernetwork.com.
CAREER SERVICES INDUSTRY CERTIFICATIONS & EDUCATION
At true believer in ongoing self-marketing and professional development, Abby has gained some of the top certification in the careers industry and is one of a handful of career experts who hold the following highly coveted and respected certifications:
Certified Career Management Coach
Certificate in Executive Career Coaching
Certified Personal Brand Strategist
Certified 360 Reach Brand Assessment Coach
Certified Online Identity Strategist
Master Resume Writer
Certified Job Search Strategist
Certified MBTI Administrator
Abby is also a graduate of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts where she earned a bachelor's degree in Business Management and holds a MBA degree from Boston University.
