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Put your experience to work.

For executives pursuing their next opportunity, strengthening their professional presence, or becoming better known for their expertise.

I combine strategic coaching, AI-supported research and tools, and practical execution support to help you make good decisions and move forward.

LinkedIn Review & Action Plan

$600

For executives who want a stronger LinkedIn profile and a clear plan to make the updates themselves.

Understand what your profile communicates, where it needs work, and which changes matter most for your goals.

Includes
  • Intake and analysis: Review of your goals, profile, and career materials.
  • Personalized feedback: Recommendations on positioning, profile content, and skills alignment.
  • A 60-minute consultation: Work through recommendations, questions, and key decisions.
  • Revised profile blueprint: Updated after our conversation to reflect the decisions we make, with section-by-section priorities and selected wording examples.

LinkedIn Rebuild

From $3,000

For executives who want a clear personal brand and a complete LinkedIn presence, developed and put into place.

We turn your experience, capabilities, and goals into a profile that makes your value clear and gives the right people a reason to connect.

Includes
  • Personal brand brief: Your priority audiences, value, differentiators, and core message.
  • Complete profile development: Finished language and recommendations across your headline, About, Experience, Skills, and supporting sections.
  • Visual presentation: A custom LinkedIn banner and guidance on your profile photo and overall visual direction.
  • Featured content: Selection and presentation of your strongest material, plus one concise article or resource developed from your existing ideas or work.
  • Engagement plan: Practical guidance on publishing, connecting, and contributing in ways that fit your goals and capacity.
  • Implementation and final review: Agreed changes completed and checked for clarity, consistency, and accuracy.

Career Momentum Program

From $8,500

For executives pursuing their next role, board seat, or advisory opportunity.

Clarify your direction, build the professional platform to support it, and develop the relationships and conversations that move opportunities forward.

Position

Career Foundation

Focus & Direction

Clarify what you want to pursue, where you may fit, and the assumptions worth testing.

Brand & Positioning

Define your value, audiences, differentiators, evidence, and the professional story you want understood.

Build

Professional Platform

Executive Documents

Develop the résumé, executive brief, bio, board materials, and other documents your objective requires.

LinkedIn & Online Presence

Build a coherent profile and online presence that make your value clear to the right people.

Visibility & Authority

Select or develop content and evidence that demonstrate your expertise and support your next move.

Activate

Career Campaign

Situational Targeting & Relationships

Identify the organizations, people, and business situations where your experience matters, then build meaningful connections.

Opportunity Development

Advance promising conversations through interviews, board discussions, proposals, negotiation, and preparation for a strong start.

Conversations begin early. I lead the strategy and coaching, using my methodology and tools to keep the work connected. Trusted specialists contribute targeted review of your strategy and materials, helping us challenge assumptions and strengthen the result. Execution support and accountability keep the campaign moving.

Immerse. Learn. Refine. Repeat.

Executive Authority Program

From $24,000 · One-year engagement

For executives who want to become better known for their expertise and build lasting professional credibility.

Develop a body of useful work that helps the right people find you, understand your thinking, and recognize where you can contribute.

We capture your ideas through focused interviews and existing work, then develop articles, posts, video, and other useful resources. Your website and selected channels connect that work into a coherent professional presence.

Levels of support
  • Focused Authority: Establish your platform, launch an initial body of work, and sustain a focused publishing rhythm.
  • Expanded Authority: Develop a deeper collection across more formats and channels, with broader editorial and production support.
  • Authority & Influence: Add selected media, podcast, speaking, or book campaigns through specialist partners.

I lead the strategy and editorial direction. With your review and approval, my team supports production, publishing, and ongoing refinement as your goals and audience needs evolve.

Channels, output, and specialist involvement are agreed around your goals. Book development, major production, and media spend are priced separately.

Individual Coaching & Consulting

$400 per hour

For professionals who want focused advice and clear next steps on a specific decision, challenge, or opportunity.

Sessions can address career direction, positioning, professional materials, LinkedIn challenges, visibility, targeting and outreach, and preparation for important conversations.

Available as standalone coaching or support within a broader engagement.

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Let’s discuss what you want to accomplish.

Every engagement begins with a conversation. We’ll establish the outcomes, scope, and fee before you commit.

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Positioning. LinkedIn. Visibility. Applied AI.

I help people and organizations sharpen how they are positioned, strengthen how they show up, and build the visibility and authority that support what’s next.

The work

For individuals. For organizations.

The context changes. The objective is consistent: make the value clearer, strengthen the positioning, and help the right people understand it.

For Individuals

Position yourself for what’s next.

Private work with executives, senior leaders and professionals navigating transition, a new role, board work, consulting, greater visibility or a significant next move.

Positioning · LinkedIn · Career Strategy · Board · Visibility · Applied AI
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For Organizations

Help your people show up with greater clarity and credibility.

Advisory, programs and training that help leaders and employees represent their expertise — and the organization — more effectively.

Executive Visibility · Ambassador Programs · Training · Professional Development · Applied AI
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LinkedIn for What’s Next

LinkedIn isn’t the strategy. It’s where strategy becomes visible.

Positioning comes first. What do you bring? How do you want to be understood? What are you trying to make possible? LinkedIn is one of the places that positioning becomes visible — through your profile, network, activity, relationships and reputation. The same principle applies inside organizations: help the right people understand what they represent and how to show up credibly.

Applied AI

Human judgment. Better tools.

I use AI to make the work better — not simply faster. It allows me to research more deeply, challenge assumptions, test positioning, explore alternatives and build richer, more effective work. Speed is useful. Better thinking and better outcomes are the point.

About Richard

Strategist. Practitioner. Builder.

I’m a brand strategist, LinkedIn specialist, educator, author and program designer. I lead the LinkedIn practice at Navigate Forward and work privately with executives and professionals on positioning, visibility and authority-building.

My work also includes organizational training, applied AI, and the development of tools, programs and brand assets. When the work calls for it, I bring in trusted specialists and build the right team around the problem.

Navigate ForwardLinkedIn Practice Lead
Power Your Career: The Art of Tactful Self-PromotionCo-author (winner of five national book awards)
UMN Carlson School / HiredCareer, LinkedIn & AI education
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What are you working on?

If you’re thinking about how you — or your organization — are positioned, understood and visible in the market, I’d be glad to talk.

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