Adrienne Tom

Co-Founder | Small Business and Productivity Coach for Career Pros

Every executive has a career story. The difference between being overlooked and being invited forward is how clearly your story demonstrates impact and relevance at the next level.

Too often, resumes read like job descriptions. Responsibilities are listed, but context is missing. Outcomes are implied instead of proven. Yet, boards and decision-makers are not looking for what you were responsible for. They are looking for evidence of how you think, what you drive, and where you can take their organization next.

For 15+ years, I’ve partnered with C-Suite, VP, and Director-level leaders across Canada and the U.S., translating complex careers into executive narratives that hold up in boardrooms, recruiter conversations, and high-stakes decision environments. This work is not about job searching. It’s about positioning, readiness, and control of your professional narrative before opportunity requires it.

I help leaders uncover the stories behind their successes and translate them into persuasive, market-ready career files. Stories that make decision-makers stop and pay attention.

As Canada’s first Certified Executive Resume Master (CERM), a 32X award winner, and a 10X certified career professional, I bring expertise in executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and leadership branding that position leaders as the candidate of choice. 

How I help executives tell their story:
◆ Craft executive resumes and narratives that go beyond ‘responsibilities’ to decision-level impact
◆ Unearth results and value that are not easy to spot yourself
◆ Translate experience into strategic stories that resonate with boards and hiring teams
◆ Deliver polished, market-ready career files aligned to next-level leadership goals

The executives I work with have gone on to:
• Step into C-Suite, VP, and Director roles with greater confidence and leverage
• Strengthen visibility with boards, investors, and executive search firms
• Secure roles with Fortune 500 companies, high-growth firms, and complex, multibillion-dollar organizations

Recognition and expertise:
⚜ Featured in Forbes, The Globe and Mail, NBC News, and Calgary Herald
⚜ Named one of LinkedIn’s Top Voices in Job Search and Careers
⚜ Certification Assessor for Career Professionals of Canada
⚜ Published in 7 resume and cover letter books

Your career story is your competitive edge. Let’s showcase your leadership and open doors. Explore my client recommendations below or visit my website to learn more. 

Calgary Executive Resume Writer | LinkedIn Profile Writer
🌐 www.CareerImpressions.ca
📧 adrienne @ careerimpressions .ca

LinkedIn Profile Writer >> Executive LinkedIn Content and Strategies to Get You Found!

⚜ Looking to get your LinkedIn profile to bubble to the top of search results? Want to build a robust executive online presence? 

⚜ I develop LinkedIn profile content, from top to bottom, for forward-thinking executives, directors, and managers across North America to help them get found and hired faster.

LinkedIn services include:

✔️ Complete LinkedIn profile audit

✔️ Creation of customized, SEO-rich LinkedIn content to increase your profile's visibility on the #1 site for recruiters and hiring managers (over 95% of hiring personnel use LinkedIn)

✔️ Content creation for the Headline, About, Education, and 3 Work Experiences

✔️ Content suggestions for your Volunteer, Accomplishments, Skills, Awards, and Interests sections. 

✔️ Recommendations for all other sections, photo tips, and more

✔️ LinkedIn user guides and engagement strategies (you must also get active on the site to get found!)

▶️ In 2020, I was named a LinkedIn Top Voice for elevating essential career and job search topics and driving important business conversations on the platform.

Career Educator ∙ ICF Associate & CliftonStrengths Certified Coach ∙ Expertise in program management & learning experience design ∙ LinkedIn Top Voice ∙ Star Wars enthusiast

I am a lifelong educator, who is passionate about helping people improve through learning and development. 

Early in my career, my favourite topic to teach was science. 

There is something beautiful in the process of exploring and learning about our world—getting closer to the truth but never actually ever getting there. 

These days my favourite topic is “careers”. 

I’ve been a career educator since 2018 and I realized all the ways I have enjoyed helping others improve through teaching:
 
- growth mindset
- self-advocacy 
- developing belief and confidence in oneself
- celebrating diversity

Can be done through careers. 

And unlike science, which isn’t for everyone, and not everyone’s favourite topic

Careers interest many people

I fell into this world of careers
And it has felt like a perfect fit for me

I love the learning and development world and tying it to careers is a critical way for any organization to strategically engage with their employees—both present and future ones. 

My favourite ways of engagement:
1) building programs which provide experiential learning moments for participants
2) facilitation, facilitation, facilitation--nothing more gratifying than supporting people in their own learning
3) creating digital engagement to scale career education and increase accessibility to new ideas

My favourite topics to speak about?
1) LinkedIn — from profile building to learning how to write posts, I love sharing about how LinkedIn is a great tool for your career. My LinkedIn Top Voice designation represents my interest in this platform.

Ex: this collaboration with Linkedin on how to utilize LinkedIn Learning

2) Self-advocacy — I am still learning how to advocate better but this is a skill that I feel is essentially for others to learn about

Ex: watch the webinar I did for alumni UBC on self-advocacy
- listen to my conversation with Get Hired LinkedIn News on self-advocacy (see my featured section)

3) Self-improvement and reflection - as a certified CliftonStrengths coach and an International Coaching Federation (ICF) associate credited coach (ACC) I like to help people improve using a strengths-based approach

Learning and development done with a career development lens is the way forward for companies and managers to retain and develop their staff. 

Lifelong learning--this is the way.

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