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POSTPONED: Verso University Presents: Career Coaching: Career Renewal for Experienced Professionals
Due to potentially icy road conditions, the Library will be closed today (Tuesday, March 3). All individual appointments are postponed for the day.
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Course Details
Career Coaching: Career Renewal for Experienced Professionals
Tuesday, February 17 and 24, 6:30 to 7:30 pm (McCall)
Individual appointments: Tuesday, March 3, 6:30 to 7:30 pm (Reserve with instructor)
Verso University presents Reignite Your Career Momentum: A Two-Part Series for Seasoned Professionals with Career Wing Woman Jodi Rabinowitz — turning experience into advantage and transition into opportunity.
Whether you’re redefining success, exploring a new industry, or seeking renewed meaning in your work, this two-part series helps accomplished professionals move from reflection to results. Blending strategic focus, personal clarity, and modern tools, including how to use AI effectively in your job search, you’ll refine your professional brand and position yourself for what’s next with purpose and confidence.
You’ll learn how to:
- Reconnect with your core strengths, values, and motivators to clarify what matters most now
- Evaluate career options through the lens of purpose, flexibility, and financial goals
- Refresh your résumé, LinkedIn profile, and professional narrative to reflect both impact and evolution
- Use AI to research markets, tailor your materials, and prepare for high-stakes interviews
- Network with intention and tell your story with authority and authenticity
- Navigate transitions and secure early wins once you land your next role
Course attendees participating in the classroom sessions will receive individualized support, personal feedback, interview prep, or next-step strategies. Designed for experienced professionals (10+ years of experience or senior-level roles), this program combines expert guidance, peer connection, and practical tools to help you move forward wiser, sharper, and stronger than ever.
Because your next chapter isn’t about starting over … it’s about moving forward with purpose.
About the Instructor
Jodi Rabinowitz, known to clients as the Career Wing Woman, brings more than 25 years of executive experience in talent acquisition, leadership development, and organizational design. Her career spans innovative technology leaders such as Zoom Video Communications and cultural institutions like The Metropolitan Museum of Art, giving her a rare ability to navigate both high-growth corporate environments and mission-driven organizations.
Blending corporate expertise with a clinical foundation in social work, Jodi approaches every engagement with equal parts strategic precision and heartfelt empathy. She specializes in helping professionals who feel stuck, uncertain, or blindsided by career disruption rediscover their confidence and direction.
She is especially effective because she has lived it herself — five times over — experiencing firings, reorganizations, relocations, and reinventions, and emerging stronger each time. Her own nonlinear journey fuels her conviction that career setbacks are simply plot twists on the way to something better.
Known for her warmth, wit, and unflinching honesty, Jodi helps clients transform anxiety into action, frustration into focus, and transition into triumph. As the Career Wing Woman, she meets every client exactly where they are and designs a process that reflects their unique strengths, story, and aspirations.
Jodi earned both her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two labradors, Bosco and Nilla, and is the proud mother of two grown sons. Jodi owns the career consultancy, Congratulations, You’re Fired, where loves serving as her clients’ Career Wing Woman. Outside of work, she channels her creativity into vibrant paper collage art, along with hiking, yoga, and home cooking.
Important Information About Verso University Classes
- Classes are usually structured as a consecutive series.
- Class size is often limited.
- Each series has a one-time fee registration fee covering all classes in the series.
- Registration is mandatory.
- The Westport Library wants to ensure that all interested students are able to participate in Verso University courses. If the registration fee is a barrier to entry for you, please contact [email protected].
Verso University is the Library’s lifelong learning and education initiative, serving up year-round offerings of classes, workshops, and lectures designed to further education and learning. Offerings run the gamut of educational opportunities, ranging from one-time lectures to ongoing courses to classes that meet weekly or perhaps monthly.
Verso University programs are made possible by the generous support of the Nancy J. Beard Lifelong Learning and Education Fund.
The Westport Library is committed to intellectual freedom, inclusivity, and lifelong learning. Our mission is to provide welcoming spaces for the free exchange of ideas. The Library does not endorse or condemn points of view, including any program content or the views expressed by presenters or participants.
