Daryl Daley, CD - Recruiter

IT Recruiter

★ Senior Tech Recruiter ★ Career Coach ★ | Building Elite Teams | Crafting Tech Careers | Connecting Talent with Opportunity | Mastering the Art of Tech Recruitment and Career Fulfillment |

Building Elite Teams. Transforming Careers. Solving Hiring Challenges (Without the Caffeine Overload).

Great! You’re here! 

Whether you’re hiring top talent or looking for your next big career move, I’m here to help.

Hi, I’m Daryl, a Senior Tech Recruiter, Career Coach, and Executive Search Specialist—your trusted guide for hiring the right talent and unlocking career potential.

With 30+ years of experience, I’ve helped companies across tech, cybersecurity, and consulting industries secure top talent while empowering professionals to land impactful roles. Whether you’re hiring for mission-critical positions or ready to take control of your career, I deliver proven strategies, tailored guidance, and real results.

For Companies
Hiring top talent doesn’t have to feel like a never-ending search.

🔍 My Expertise:

Key Talent Recruitment: Recruiting for high-impact technical, cybersecurity, and consulting roles across mid-level and senior leadership.
Executive Search: Helping organizations secure the leadership they need to innovate and thrive.
Results-Focused Strategies: Delivering candidates who hit the ground running, make an impact, and stay for the long term.

📈 The result? Faster hiring, better candidates, and stronger teams built to succeed.

For Professionals
Your next big career move isn’t hiding—it’s waiting for the right strategy.

As a career coach, I’ve guided over 10,000 job seekers to stand out, land interviews, and negotiate offers with confidence.

🚀 What My Clients Achieve:

An immediate increase in inbound interest from recruiters and hiring managers.
More traction with resumes, leading to interviews and offers.
A targeted, strategic job search that eliminates “rage applying” and focuses on roles that align with their goals.
Confidence in interviews, with compelling stories that showcase their unique value.
Stronger negotiating power, resulting in offers they’re excited to accept.

Why Work With Me?
Proven Expertise: 30+ years in tech recruiting and career coaching means I’ve seen it all—and solved it all.
Personalized Approach: No cookie-cutter templates—everything is tailored to your unique needs.
Real Results: Whether it’s building a high-performing team or landing a dream role, my strategies deliver measurable success.

Let’s Connect
Your next hire—or career breakthrough—is just a conversation away.

📩 Message me on LinkedIn
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Whether you’re building your team or your future, let’s make it happen—and maybe even enjoy the process along the way.

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RESULTS I DELIVER
• Better quality search results. If you are pitting one firm against another, they will race against each other (for a brief while) to get resumes to you as quickly as possible. Because of the imposed urgency, you are likely to see a number of unqualified resumes. Non-exclusive recruiters often hope to get lucky and hit a match, rather than putting in the effort to screen properly.

•  Deeper and broader search. Committing to one recruiter will allow that recruiter to spend the time to network and headhunt to uncover the very best candidate for your requirements, rather than just pulling resumes out of a database.

•  Less work for the hiring manager. If you are working with multiple search firms, you will get a lot more resumes than you would working with just one recruiter. However, many of those resumes will not match your hiring needs, which just makes more work for the hiring manager. Not to mention time spent sorting out candidate ownership disputes between multiple firms.

•  Better candidate experience. Have you ever received the same resume from more than one recruiter? It can make your company look unprofessional if more than one recruiter interviews a candidate about the same job. And you may see some great candidates back out of the process entirely when multiple firms are involved.

•  Confidentiality. For a confidential search, working with more than one recruiting firm makes no sense. It will be impossible for a recruiter to keep the company name confidential if there are multiple search firms involved.

Daryl Daley

The counteroffer is an insult dressed up as respect.
𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆'𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂.
They're buying time to replace you.

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗰.

I've watched this pattern for 30+ years. Someone gets another offer. Suddenly the budget appears. The promotion that was "not possible" becomes available. The manager who had no time clears their calendar.

Here's the truth: the problem that made you look doesn't disappear with more money.

More money doesn't fix a bad manager.
A new title doesn't fix a broken culture.
Promises don't fix neglect.

You already mentally left. The counteroffer just delays it.

Most people who accept are gone within 6-18 months anyway (anecdotal evidence). Because nothing actually changed except the number on your paycheck.

And you burned the bridge with the company that wanted you without leverage.

Here's what I tell every candidate: 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗘𝗢 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿. Companies will always do what's in their best interest. You need to do what's in yours.

Take the new job.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂.

★ Senior Tech & Cybersecurity Recruiter ★ Career Coach ★ 30+ Years Driving Elite Technical & Executive Hires ★ Helping Companies Solve Hard-to-Fill Roles ★ We’re Always Hiring Top Talent! ★

𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗜 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗜 𝗴𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝘄?
You've been asking yourself
this for six months.

𝗜𝗳 𝗜 𝗴𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲. New company, new politics, new proof required.

𝗜𝗳 𝗜 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲. Same dead-end projects, same empty promises, same salary you've outgrown.

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻'𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗲.

I know. You're waiting for a sign. Waiting for the promotion they keep delaying. Waiting for the market to feel safer. Waiting for permission.

𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝗺𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄.

Here's the sign: your manager hasn't mentioned your promotion in eight months. The "high-visibility project" went to someone else. You're doing director work at senior pay.

𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸.

That's the pattern you're living in. Monday your VP says you're "essential." Wednesday you're excluded from the strategy meeting. Friday they hire someone external for the role you were building toward.

You already know the answer.

You're just afraid of being wrong.

But staying when the data says go isn't safe. It's expensive. You're leaving $40K on the table every year you wait. You're losing skills because you're not being challenged. You're getting older in a market that rewards movement.

𝗘𝘅𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝗺 𝗜'𝗺 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲?

You're asking the wrong people. Your company won't tell you. Your manager can't tell you. The market already has.

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝗲, 𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲.

Your company already answered. They're just not saying it out loud.

𝗦𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝗺𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄, 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗜 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝘄?

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗵 𝗸𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟮. You know it now.

Stop waiting for perfect timing. It doesn't exist.

The ones who move when the data says move are three levels higher. The ones who wait for certainty are still waiting.

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Everyone keeps saying it's an employer's market.
Unemployment sits at 4.4%. Your inbox is fuller than it's been in months.

So yeah, on paper it looks like you're in the driver's seat.

Except your critical roles are still open. Delivery keeps slipping. And the talent shortages in IT, healthcare, and energy are sitting at 76-77%.

If this were really an employer's market, those numbers wouldn't exist.

Here's what's actually happening.

𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗿'𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁. The inbox is full of people who can do the job adequately. They'll show up. They'll execute tasks. They won't move the needle.

The people who can actually solve your problems? They're not flooding your applicant tracking system. They're working. And they're watching you.

They see the hesitation. The reluctance to commit to headcount even though placements doubled in February. The AI-driven layoffs that are cutting faster than you're building capability.

They're unimpressed.

You're posting roles, then pulling back. You're interviewing in rounds that stretch for weeks. You're asking for another stakeholder meeting while your competitor makes an offer.

The best talent doesn't wait for you to get comfortable. They take the role that moves.

I've watched this pattern for 30 years. Companies mistake activity for advantage. More applications doesn't mean better hires. It just means more noise.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗽 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗼𝗹. 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁.

𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗯𝗼𝘅 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆'𝗿𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗷𝗼𝗯?

An hour later: Meetings continue without you.
A week later: Someone steps up.
A month later: Shortcuts appear.
A year later: You're a footnote.

And that's the truth.

If quitting feels like erasing yourself, you didn't lose security.
You lost an identity you outsourced to an employer.

I've watched this for 30 years.
𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝘆.

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𝗬𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱.

And you're doing it backwards.

Here's what you're wasting time on:

Memorizing answers to "tell me about yourself"

Practicing responses to common behavioral questions

Reading the company's mission statement and values page over & over.

Rehearsing why you want to work there

None of that separates you.

Here's what actually matters:

All hiring is reactive. Something isn't working. Revenue is flat. A team is overloaded. A system is broken. Someone quit.

Your job isn't to recite your background.

It's to prove you can solve their specific problem.

Real prep looks like this:

Research what's actually broken. Read their earnings calls, press releases, Glassdoor reviews. Find the pain.

Prepare questions that show you understand their reality. Not "what's the culture like?" Ask "what's the biggest bottleneck in your current process?"

Connect your past work to their current problem. Show the before and after. Make it concrete.

Stop memorizing scripts.

Start thinking like someone who already has the job.

That's what hiring managers notice.

That's what gets offers.

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I'm working an executive search when my client pivots mid-call.
"𝗪𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝟰𝟳 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗢𝗽𝘀 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝘀."

I'm thinking this could be my next search. Then I hear his reasoning.

First candidate: "Didn't demonstrate enough AI literacy."

I pause. "What does AI literacy mean for a DevOps Engineer in your environment?"

Silence.

Second candidate: "Lacked strategic thinking."

"How did you test for that?"

"Whiteboard puzzle. They couldn't solve it fast enough."

I'm three decades into this work. I've seen this pattern hundreds of times.

The problem isn't the candidates.

It's that my client has no idea what problem they're actually hiring to solve.

𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 "𝗔𝗜 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆" 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻'𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘁.

𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 "𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴" 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘀.

They rejected 47 qualified people for reasons that have nothing to do with the work.

Here's what the data shows: 59% of HR leaders say they can't find skilled talent. And 62% are facing crises because their job requirements are unclear.

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗮 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲.

𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗮 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲. (𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲)

𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻'𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗻'𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱.

Companies spend months searching for the perfect candidate while their actual problem goes unsolved. They filter for buzzwords. They test for irrelevant skills. They reject people who could do the job because those people don't fit a checklist nobody can explain.

Meanwhile, qualified candidates are sitting in your pipeline wondering why they keep getting rejected.

The fix isn't more candidates.

It's better questions:

What specific problem does this role solve in the next 90 days?

What does success look like six months in?

What skills actually matter for that outcome?

𝗨𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲, 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴.

𝗬𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲.

And no amount of "skilled talent" will fix that.

Clients Job posting: "𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘆."
Me: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲?
Them: 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲.

Me: What's the range?

Them: We prefer to discuss that later.

Me: What's the range?

Them: 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘴

I've been recruiting for 30 years.

This conversation still happens every single week.

And it never stops being ridiculous.

Here's what "competitive salary" actually means:

We benchmarked against companies we'll never name. We have a number. But we're not telling you because we think you'll negotiate better if you're flying blind.

Spoiler: You won't.

You'll just get annoyed and ghost us.

Or you'll waste three weeks interviewing only to find out we're $40K apart.

Nobody wins this game.

Not the candidate who's trying to pay rent.

Not the hiring manager who just lost their top choice.

Not me, stuck in the middle explaining why we can't just say the number.

The fix is simple. Some jurisdictions get it. Parts of Canada, the US, and Western Europe now legally require salary ranges in postings. They're forcing the transparency the rest of us should've had all along.

But we won't do that because someone in 1987 decided salary negotiations should feel like hostage negotiations.

And we've been stuck ever since.

HappyFriday

Stop playing games with people's livelihoods.

I check 100+ LinkedIn profiles every day for open roles.
𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲.

Here's why:

Your LinkedIn activity says you're consuming content, not creating value.

I check profiles daily for roles I'm filling. If I can't tell what you bring to the table and what problem you solve in 10 seconds, I'm moving to the next candidate who made it obvious.

Your network can't help you if they don't know what you need.

Thursday afternoon is your forcing function.

What actually moved forward this week?

What's still stuck?

The ones who win do weekly audits. They kill what's not working before it becomes next week's habit.

You have 24 hours to course correct.

𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝗶𝘀𝗲. 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝘁.

Pick your three best applications from this week. Read them like you're the hiring manager. Find the one thing that's off.

Fix that one thing.

Then start next week different.

Volume without adjustment is just repeated failure at scale.

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲.  𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲.

Discipline moves searches forward. Waiting for motivation keeps you stuck.

𝗜 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. 𝗜 𝗱𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.
If you're dreading Monday, here's the 15-minute Sunday routine that replaces anxiety with 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡:

1. Pick your top 3 target companies for the week. 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻.

2. Identify one decision you've been avoiding. 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝘁. 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄.

3. Review last week's applications. What got responses? 𝗗𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁.

4. Draft one outreach message to someone at a target company. 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝟵𝗮𝗺.

5. 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗼-𝗱𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱.

No journaling. No affirmations. No vision boards.

𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡.

This doesn't create comfort. It creates action.

𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁.

Career + Exec Coach for Ambitious Millennial Women | Speaker | MBA, Ex-Leader + Consultant

You care deeply about your career, work extremely hard and have the title, scope and results to prove it, and *yet* your current role just isn't working.   

You’ve worked so hard to get to where you are today – from high school honor society to all the college extracurriculars to crushing your first job to a top grad school to that prestigious, post-grad job.

Now you have what you’ve always wanted – that coveted title at a brand-name company, a long list of promotions on your resume and a lot of zeros on your paycheck.

You’re proud of your success (and you should be!), but the job you always wanted has started to feel like the suit you bought pre-pandemic…stiff, itchy and just not right.

You might…

→ Be a future “Chief” temporarily stuck on a low rung of the ladder. You know you’re going to be in the C-Suite one day. CNBC, Ted Talks, Board seats, here you come. But, your current job isn’t going to get you there.

→ A high-achiever measuring success differently these days. Your ambition has evolved - you want to be successful and do work you care about, but you’re measuring success by the number of friend dinners, pilates classes or daycare pickups these days.Your job doesn’t gel with who you are today.

→ Have climbed straight up – only to find burnout. You’ve had a lot of success in the first part of your career – perhaps, too much and you feel, well, just tired. You like your work, you’re proud of your success. You don’t want to throw it all away, but something has to give.

You’re in the right place.

Hi! I'm Cydnee. I equip high-achieving millennial women with mindset and strategies to create and thrive in the career you want. As a former exec leader, chief of staff, consultant and NYU Stern MBA, I have helped 110+ women reimagine their lives since 2019 - and am excited to do the same with you. 

Explore here: 

Ambition Reimagined Guide: 
7 Proven Strategies to Create a Career You Love While Building the Life You Want
https://cydneedetoycoaching.myflodesk.com/asdofdzesa

Ambitious Millennial Woman: 
Newsletter and podcast archive with dozens of personal essays, client success stories + strategies for inspiration + career planning
https://cydneedetoy.substack.com/

Ambition Reimagined: 
Proven coaching program for women ready to stop swirling on “what’s next?!” and make grounded, strategic career moves — anchored in expert guidance, proven tools, deep self-reflection and a supportive community.
https://www.cydneedetoycoaching.com/coaching

Curious to learn more? 
DM me or book a call (https://www.cydneedetoycoaching.com/work-together)

Cydnee DeToy

"Thank You. More Please." 

I have to celebrate January before we get too far into February. 

It was one of those months that felt so full and aligned. And, throughout the month, at the back of my mind, I kept hearing...

“Thank you, more please.” 

The month was full of so much rich connection and energy — both within my client communities and with other networks of women who invited me into their space. 

💬 Talked thoughtful career design with 15 folks at Ask a Chief of Staff. 

🔎 Guided 20 execs through a career inquiry and subtle reset for Forté Foundation’s powerhouse Forte 500 network. 

📚 Led my third working session with Mammoth Brands’s WRG - going deeper and deeper with the women, empowering them to set and hold unapologetic boundaries. 

🤝 Welcomed 9 women into my orbit in my Masterclass, helping them see the power of intentional reflection and community in driving your career forward. 

🫶 Facilitated a deeply connected 2026 intention setting exercise for my alumni community, feeling awed and grateful for their support and amplification of each other. 

🥳 Attended Dreamers & Doers® flagship quarterly event, getting to be interviewed by Katrina Purcell and sharing my dreams with a special group of women. 

💜 Hosted an alum panel on “how to get hired in 2026” for my Ambition Reimagined, and was reminded of the power of women teaching and supporting other women. 

The through line in all of these experiences? 

They were all about the power of live connection - both in-person and virtual. 

I’m increasingly convinced that’s where the magic lives, and so you’ll see me on LinkedIn a little less this year. 

I'll still be going deep on Substack most Thursdays, so if you want a deeper conversation and advice, subscribe via the link above ⤴️.

And of course, send me a DM if you want to connect — whether that’s about coaching, speaking to your community or getting to know each other. 

Now on to February. 

Thank you, more please.

Career expert & speaker for ambitious women | 110+ women coached | 5k+ reached through speaking | Prev: C-Suite, Chief of Staff, Consultant | NYU Stern MBA

Loved chatting with Katrina Purcell about the heartbeat of my work: helping ambitious women build careers 𝘢𝘯𝘥 lives that feel meaningful.

This topic is deeply personal. I spent much of my early 30s learning how to right-size the time, energy and identity I gave to my job — and re-discovering who I was outside of it.

So many of my clients come to me wanting the same, to:

• Reignite the spark in their careers
• Reorient towards work that is truer to who they are
• Rebalance work with the rest of their lives, and
• Build the mindsets, habits and guardrails to protect that balance

I’m deeply grateful to do this work every day — and to be building a movement of 110+ women working and living on their own terms.

You don’t have to choose between ambition and alignment.

Thank you to Dreamers & Doers® and 28th&Park for the invitation.

I’ve now spoken with 300+ MBA women in the past 2 years.

The ones who are most successful share 4 things in common.

(and by “successful,” I mean landing great new jobs - bigger roles, better pay, supportive teams — 𝘢𝘯𝘥 walking away from the wrong thing, launching a soul-fueled side hustle or choosing personal milestones over perfect timing.)

It’s looked different for all of them, but the common thread is this:

They take bold actions, aligned with their values, in order to build a career and life that actually fits.

Here’s what all of them have had in common:

1. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲’𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞.

These women don’t settle for “good enough.” Even if it takes time to build the courage, they’re willing to choose potential and unknown over comfort and draining.

2. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒔 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝, 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝.

They’ve had the prestige. The logos. The big titles. But they’re no longer willing to trade their peace and purpose for external validation.

3. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲’𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐣𝐨𝐛 — 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲’𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬.

This isn’t just about perfecting a resume. It’s about owning their value, trusting their instincts, moving decisively and embodying the leader and whole person they are.

4. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 — 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬.

These women aren’t willing to stay stuck or send endless applications into the void. They’re willing to invest in guidance, support and community to move further, faster.

If you’re on the precipice of a change, let these women remind you:

What you want isn’t too much.

You just have to trust yourself enough to go create it.

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