Kathleen Brady

Kathleen Brady

Professional Certified Coach

NJ, US
Inspiring professionals to achieve career success and lead joyful lives!

Kathleen Brady, PCC is a career/life management coach, author and motivational speaker with 25 years of experience helping people integrate their personal and professional goals. She inspires clients to embrace their dreams and offers practical action steps to bring them to life. Kathleen shows her clients how to develop a comprehensive career/life strategy to achieve career success and live joyfully.

A sought-after industry speaker, Brady is known for her directness and humor. She is a recognized expert on topics including job search strategies and career/life success skills such as goal setting, communication, leadership, time management and stress reduction. A frequent contributor to Your Money in the New York Daily News, she also has shared her expertise on FoxNews, CNN, NPR, This Week in America, First Business Report and radio stations across the country offering advice on how to intergrate the various and oftentimes conflicting roles we are all expected to satisfy in today's complicated world.

Brady is Director of Coaching at Preferred Transition Resources and principal of Brady & Associates CareerPlanners, LLC, a career/life management company. She has an expertise working with attorneys, having started her career at Columbia Law School and proceeding on to serve as Assistant Dean of Career Services at Fordham University School of Law, National Director of Staff Recruitment and Development at Jackson Lewis and Manager of Associate Professional Development at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, LLP. She is also a past president of the National Association for Law Placement and a founding member of the NALP Foundation for Research and Education. She also has expertise working with college students, having served as the Executive Director of Career Services at Georgian Court University, where she is currently a member of the adjunct faculty.

Brady has published countless articles and three books: GET A JOB! 10 Steps to Career Success (Motivational Press, 2015); Navigating Detours on the Road to Success: A Lawyer's Guide to Career Management (Inkwater Press, 2005) and Jobs for Lawyers, Effective Techniques for Getting Hired in Today's Legal Marketplace (Impact Publications, 1996). She is a Certified Professional Coach, a Master Practitioner of the Energy Leadership Index, a certified provider of the Highlands Ability Battery and a member of the International Coach Federation.

Brady holds a MA in Theology and BA in Sociology.  

Kathleen Brady, PCC is a career/life management coach, author and motivational speaker with 25 years of experience helping people integrate their personal and professional goals. She inspires clients to embrace their dreams and offers practical action steps to bring them to life. Kathleen shows her clients how to develop a comprehensive career/life strategy to achieve career success and live joyfully.

A sought-after industry speaker, Brady is known for her directness and humor. She is a recognized expert on topics including job search strategies and career/life success skills such as goal setting, communication, leadership, time management and stress reduction. A frequent contributor to Your Money in the New York Daily News, she also has shared her expertise on FoxNews, CNN, NPR, This Week in America, First Business Report and radio stations across the country offering advice on how to intergrate the various and oftentimes conflicting roles we are all expected to satisfy in today's complicated world.

Brady is Director of Coaching at Preferred Transition Resources and principal of Brady & Associates CareerPlanners, LLC, a career/life management company. She has an expertise working with attorneys, having started her career at Columbia Law School and proceeding on to serve as Assistant Dean of Career Services at Fordham University School of Law, National Director of Staff Recruitment and Development at Jackson Lewis and Manager of Associate Professional Development at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, LLP. She is also a past president of the National Association for Law Placement and a founding member of the NALP Foundation for Research and Education. She also has expertise working with college students, having served as the Executive Director of Career Services at Georgian Court University, where she is currently a member of the adjunct faculty.

Brady has published countless articles and three books: GET A JOB! 10 Steps to Career Success (Motivational Press, 2015); Navigating Detours on the Road to Success: A Lawyer's Guide to Career Management (Inkwater Press, 2005) and Jobs for Lawyers, Effective Techniques for Getting Hired in Today's Legal Marketplace (Impact Publications, 1996). She is a Certified Professional Coach, a Master Practitioner of the Energy Leadership Index, a certified provider of the Highlands Ability Battery and a member of the International Coach Federation.

Brady holds a MA in Theology and BA in Sociology.  

The HABits of Leadership and Effective Teams

The HABits Of Leadership And Effective Teams is a 3-hour program designed to help professionals identify their natural abilities and develop complimentary skills to become effective and influential leaders as well as cooperative team members. Individual team members will complete an on-line assessment tool (the Highlands Ability Battery, aka "HAB") which provides data to indicate whether they prefer to: deal with facts and data or people and emotions; solve problems in a linear, logical...
Audience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Professional Presence: Communicating With Confidence And Credibility

Participants will discover how to communicate with impact in every situation during this two-hour program.  They will review basic communication styles and assumption filters, build listening skills and learn how to adapt when interacting with others to convey their intended message effectively and confidently.

Audience ActivityInspirational / Life-changingHumorous / FunnyCommunication

Gender Matters: Strategies To Improve Cross Gender Communication.

It is time to call a truce in the gender war! This 2-hour session will explore gender stereotypes through the lenses of culture, history and biology in order to deconstruct and challenge some commonly held stereotypes about gender roles in the workplace.  Though improved understanding, men and women will ultimately improve their ability to enhance communication across gender lines resulting in a more effective workplace.

Educational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changingHumorous / FunnyCommunication

Major Decisions: How to Excel in College and Beyond

Students will uncover their unique combination of natural abilities and points them towards academic environments and areas of study that they are likely to excel in and enjoy. Using the Highlands Ability Battery Assessment, which objectively measures innate abilities, students will uncover their gifts and talents, as well as specific career paths aligned with their strengths and receive links to data on the job outlook, salaries and how to prepare academically. 

CareersAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Generations At Work: Solving The Mystery Of Intergenerational Communications.

World events during the formative years of each generation served to shape their core values and expectations for the world of work.  Decoding the various belief systems regarding acceptable professional behavior is the key to success in the workplace. Participants will examine these differences and learn to understand the perspectives and behaviors of the other generations.

SuccessEducational / InformativeHumorous / Funny

HOW TO THRIVE IN TODAY'S DIVERSE WORK FORCE

In today's workforce, diversity means more than race, gender and religion. It also includes differences related to professional/staff perspectives, manager/associate viewpoints, sales/administration attitudes, generational differences, etc. People come to every conversation based on their own life experience that influences their behaviors and communication style. These differences often cause conflicts in the workplace. Participants will learn how to interpret those differences, test the...
Employees / WorkforceAudience ActivityEducational / Informative

ENERGY and ENGAGEMENT

People and organization often think they could achieve their goals if only they had more time, money or luck.  While all of those variables may influence the outcome of any objective, none of those things will ensure success. The secret to success is ENERGY! It is created by a sense of purpose and motivation that integrates goals and objectives with current realities to help you move forward. Participants will take a brief on-line assessment to gauge their current energy level and...

SuccessAudience ActivityInspirational / Life-changing