Hear from past clients
CAREER DEVELOPMENT
“As a Millennium generation professional Jean O’Brien coached me on Career Strategies early in my career. Jean taught me skills to successfully and confidently build relationships with professionals of all ages and levels of success. She taught me how to network, coached me how to best communicate my strengths during interviews and understand the process for on-boarding with a new position. Five years later, the skills Jean provided have continued to made a strong impact on my career and have provided great value and many benefits for my successfully growing career. I will continue to grow and develop additional career goals over the next forty years.”
— Skye Tilson
Senior Manager, Digital Marketing
The Trust, Powered by the NFLPA”
CAREER DEVELOPMENT
“Jean’s warm and personable approach allowed me to quickly develop a strong working relationship with her in which I was easily able to communicate my particular needs for my career. With her extensive knowledge and experience in human resources, coaching, and career development, we were quickly able to cover her program in a way that helped me understand how to achieve my goals and prepare for my future. Through her program we built an enormously improved resume, excellent skills in networking and interviewing, and a strong executive presence that will serve me well in my professional career for many years to come.”
— Daniel Lasley
Account Manager
Cvent
PRE-CAREER PROGRAM
“Army Navy Country Club (ANCC) provides a caring and nurturing environment for their members and families. For 17 years Jean O’Brien has presented her signature Your Manners are Glowing and Junior Executive Presence programs to over 1,000 junior members ages 9 through high school. Jean’s unique style of coaching and interacting with our junior members is refreshing and incredibly effective. Ms. O’Brien addresses each students’ unique talents and abilities. Jean relates to and comfortably interacts with each age group directly with appropriate information and reasons for learning lifelong skills for their comfort and academic and professional growth. The results of her programs yield a more confident junior member through interactive verbal and nonverbal skills. Demand for the programs are overwhelming causing parents to quickly register for the Manners program knowing it will fill to capacity immediately. Parents then have their children move into the high age programs continuing to hone their manners and experience beginning career development skills.
We consider Jean an integral part of the ANCC extended family. Her grace and charm are genuine and admired by our staff and parents. Jean provides an excellent program engaging all students with confidence for their unique self to comfortably interact with others. Skills for life!”
— Sheila Chandler
Youth Activities Director
Army Navy Country Club
PRE-CAREER PROGRAM
“St. Peter’s School is dedicated to academic excellence by addressing each child’s unique talents and abilities. Through our Cotillion program, we strive for each student to build confidence through interactive verbal and nonverbal skills. When searching for a new instructor for our popular program, Jean was referred and highly recommended. Jean brought her gentle way and extensive experience introducing essential manners and etiquette skills through hands-on interactive activities and examples. Jean related to the middle school age directly with appropriate information and reasons for learning lifelong skills for their academic and professional growth. Working with the staff and volunteers, Jean quickly understood our goals and provided an excellent program engaging up to 45 students with confidence for their unique self to comfortably interact with others."
— Lauren E. Janes
Director of Community Engagement
St. Peter School, Capitol Hill
CAREER DEVELOPMENT
“As a coach, Jean O’Brien is highly respected and regarded by our organization and the many clients she has coached. Jean worked individually with 25 professional clients during a very challenging time when COVID restructured many companies causing many excellent employees to seek other opportunities. Jean related to each person’s unique situation and developed a path to enhance their confidence, provide all necessary skills, develop their strengths and direct them to future successes. Jean is very professional, she provides her extensive Human Resources expertise to form action plans, guidance and support helping others understand how to achieve their goals."
— Dan Bloodwell
Managing Partner
The White Hawk Group, LLC