Flexible, adaptive, creative work solutions for you and your organization.
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Flexible Work Solutions, Inc., is a purpose-driven consulting firm that specializes in leadership and personal assessment, development, and satisfaction for all levels—executives, professionals, early career, and youth. Our purpose is to improve both the workplace for workers and workers for the workplace. We specialize in maximizing leadership potential, especially for technical leaders.
Who We Serve
Technical Leaders
You are an engineer, scientist, or other technical leader, or an HR partner or consultant who works with technical leaders, and you are looking to assess or improve your leadership skills, create a high-performing team, manage emotionally charged situations, or build trusting relationships.
Organizational Leaders
You are or want to be a C-Suite leader, executive, or director in a small/medium sized business and you want to assess your leadership potential or someone else’s, hire an executive-level leader, or develop systems to delegate work and manage people.
Career Seekers
You are in your early, mid, or late career and you do not know what you want to do, or you don’t like what you’re doing now and don’t know what else is out there. You want to find a job that you love and a boss who will understand you and support your goals.
Parents & Teens
You are a teen, young adult, or parent of one, and you are overwhelmed or afraid of failing, and you want to be empowered to do what you do best, to be who you are and let go of what others want you to be, and feel confident to make mistakes and recover from them.
How It Works
Our approach is similar for all kinds of coaching—leadership, team, career, and life coaching.
1
Interview &
Assessment
You start with an interview with a coach to determine what your goals and expectations are.
The coach will recommend assessment(s) for you and the coach to identify where you are starting from.
2
Feedback &
Planning
You and your coach go through your assessment results and identify what strengths you can leverage and what you might change to get the results you are looking for. Then, together, you create a custom action plan.
3
Coaching &
Action
Working with your coach, you learn and practice new tools, strategies, and behaviors. In between sessions, you apply what you’ve learned and take notes on your successes and challenges along the way.
4
Review &
Revise
Based on your results, you and your coach determine what to keep doing and what to adjust. When your goals are met and you feel comfortable in your new approach, you choose whether to work on something new or wrap up.
Clients
Testimonials
‘Consulting to Technical Leaders, Teams, and Organizations’ is for consultants who work with or want to work with technical leaders in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). It describes unique characteristics of technical leaders and organizations, includes excerpts from interviews with technical leaders, and provides consulting models to help consultants better understand and connect with technical leaders.
‘Flying Without a Helicopter’ advises parents and young adults on what is important to help produce healthy, independent, self-reliant young adults who will thrive on their own. The advice in this book is based on decades of experience in working and consulting with employees, managers, and executives in the business world.
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Lessons From The Workplace
How to Find a Job: It’s Not What You Think
First, and most importantly, get off social media. People often come to me demoralized after they have applied to dozens of jobs on social media platforms and haven’t heard back from any of them. The reasons why are (1) the job listings on these platforms are...
How to Respectfully Disagree
I was in an executive meeting not too long ago and one of the other team members wanted to raise the cost of the company’s biggest product. I was strongly opposed because I thought it was already too expensive and I was concerned that we’d lose sales, or at least...
How to Influence People in your Organization
No matter where you are in the organization, it is important to be able to influence people. Take for example, David, a team leader in a technology company who was tasked with leading a cross-functional team to develop a new software product. David didn’t have direct...
How to Find a Job: It’s Not What You Think
First, and most importantly, get off social media. People often come to me demoralized after they have applied to dozens of jobs on social media platforms and haven’t heard back from any of them. The reasons why are (1) the job listings on these platforms are...
Podcasts
Nerds are increasingly being asked to have it all—technical expertise and people skills. Join engineer-turned-psychologist Joanie Connell on the Reinventing Nerds Podcast as she interviews nerds and people experts to uncover the best communication strategies for technical people. She brings in everyone from big name scientists and computer geeks to everyday working ones as well as other entertaining and insightful people in a quest for the keys to help nerds interact more successfully with people of all types. Asking thoughtful questions of her guests, she affectionately gives self-proclaimed nerds insights into important people strategies in a light-hearted, conversational style.
Trusted Business Partners
We partner with these companies to offer our clients the best comprehensive services available.
Gallup
CliftonStrengths
Joanie is a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, and we employ the CliftonStrengths assessment in many of our coaching engagements for people to leverage their natural abilities to solve problems and get things done.
Rady School of Management
We partner with the Center for Executive Development at the University of California San Diego to provide leadership assessment and training for executive leaders. Various courses and programs are available.
Positive Intelligence
We partner with Positive Intelligence to provide Shirzad Chamine’s method of mental fitness assessment and coaching to help clients weaken their inner saboteurs and strengthen their mental muscles.
7 CTO's
We partner with 7CTOs to offer peer coaching for executive-level tech leaders. Joanie is a forum facilitator, presenter, and a coach for 7CTOs. View their page for more information on their methods and techniques.
