Career-Oriented Life Coaching in Vancouver & Online
What do you want to be known for?
Career coaching for people who want to understand what matters, test possible directions, and turn uncertainty into something they can act on.
How we work
Turn possibility into something you can test.
Understand what matters.
We look at where you are now, what is missing, and what you want to use more of in your work.
Choose something worth trying.
Instead of waiting for the perfect answer, we identify a direction, conversation, or change that can give you useful information.
Take action and adjust.
You try something different, learn from what happens, and use that evidence to decide what comes next.
From someone I’ve worked with
“After working with John, I’ve meaningfully expanded my network, gained diverse work opportunities, improved my resume, gained clarity on my career direction…”
Who you’ll be working with
I’m interested in how you got here — and what might be worth changing next.
I’m John Fialkowski. I work with people who are trying to make better decisions about work, direction, and the kind of life they want their career to support.
The conversations are practical, but they are not superficial. We look at what keeps repeating, what matters to you, what you avoid, what gives you energy, and what might be getting in the way.
But we’re not going to stay there.
The point is to turn what we learn into something you can test: a conversation, a decision, a change, or a step you have been avoiding.
The work can be thoughtful, funny, challenging, uncomfortable, or surprisingly energizing. But it should always lead somewhere.
More about how I work →Where we might start
You don’t need to know exactly what you need help with.
Most people arrive with a situation, a question, or a feeling that something needs to change. We can start there.
Something isn’t working anymore.
Work is draining you, frustrating you, or becoming difficult to tolerate. Sometimes the first job is understanding what is actually happening — and what you can do about it.
Explore difficult workplaces →You don’t know what comes next.
You have experience and options, but none of them has become a decision you believe in. We can investigate what fits and start testing possibilities.
Explore career change →Things are going well. You want to do more with them.
You may not need an escape at all. You may want to lead better, make stronger decisions, earn more, build influence, or figure out what the next level looks like.
Explore coaching for growth →
Career Coaching with John
A podcast about work, identity, and change.
Thoughtful conversations about the lives we build around work — and what happens when they stop fitting.
Explore the podcast →Let’s rethink what we expect from work.
Work takes up too much of our lives to leave our assumptions about it unexamined.
Through stories, conversations, and coaching, we explore what we accept, what we want, and what we might change.
Writing
Ideas about work, change, and how we make decisions.
I write occasionally about work, systems, identity, and the things people do when the old way stops working.
Read more writing →Start here
You don’t need to have it figured out before we talk.
Tell me what’s going on, what you’ve been thinking about, and where you seem to be getting stuck. We’ll see whether coaching makes sense.