Career Change is a Gateway to Wholeness
When work stops working, it’s not a failure — it’s a signal.
A call to transform. To remember who you are.
To rise up whole.
At Career Ecology, we blend practical career support with soul-deep personal discovery.
From new graduate to seasoned professional, we walk with humans on the path of planned or sudden career change via a whole-person activation system that doesn’t just unlock meaningful work — it grows heart resilience and frees seekers to truly prosper.
This is not Performance Coaching
A Rite of Passage into the Heart of Work Life
Career Ecology breaks free of performative culture.
We bring instead a whole system of integration — a return to work that reveals authentic story, expression, and clarity of path.
At each stage of the search, Career Ecology energizes both the practicals and poetics of job search – bringing tools together that meet the job seeker with a deep intelligence of story, biology and belonging.
Career Ecology lives inside the questions we carry during times of change.
Who am I?
What was I made for?
Career Ecology takes you inward — not to fix or improve — but to recognize and reclaim your inherent design. This is first.
Through the Four Temperaments, career themes, and narrative reflection, you’ll begin to see yourself not just as a wage earner, but as a whole being with distinct energies, rhythms, and motivations.
This is not personality typing. It’s pattern recognition for the working soul — an initiation into self-trust.
You’ll discover:
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A deep understanding of your temperament mix and its implications for work, communication, and leadership.
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A map of your career themes — recurring motifs, longings, and natural contributions.
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Language to articulate your inner drivers, not just your past roles.
Career Ecology’s tools and prompts illuminate the inner landscape of your work life, so your next move is grounded in truth — not performance.
THE INNER THRESHOLD
This question is answered at the quiet line between where you've been and where you're going.
It's time to leave behind the résumé-as-sales-sheet — and begin sharing your story with strategy, depth, and authenticity.
Powered by Career Ecology’s holistic methodology, the Story Form Resume fuses story, strategy, and psychology to create three smart documents that connect.
No other resume works like this.
The ATS Friendly CV
Your intelligently structured CV is written for readability by Application Tracking Systems (ATS) while also rooting into your story with context and style that breeds understanding and confidence in the reader. Nos you're seen, known, noticed, and desired.
The 360º View Addendum
Your one page addendum to your CV houses mini-reviews from select peers, supervisors, vendors, and clients you've positively impacted. Your 360º View bridges trust and powers attraction.
The Live-Link Resume:
Your single page resume that is designed for networking. It highlights key features of your career in a manner that weaves the story you want to tell. It houses live links to your full CV and 360º View Addendum. Everything is here, ready for chance meetings. Ready for life.
As writer, you're fully supported.
Career Ecology’s custom AI tools guide you at each stage — helping you articulate your skills, refine your summary, and express your impact clearly and confidently.
And for those seeking a mentor-guided experience, that's fully available and the support you so fully deserve.
Also included:
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Synchronized guidance for optimizing your LinkedIn profile.
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Custom AI support for writing responsive, aligned cover letters.
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Weekly Access to the Fireside Circle — a weekly community gathering for Q&A, insight, and connection.
THE STORY FORM RESUME
More than a résumé, these times are calling for something more. Something that unlocks story.
Inside each question lives an invitation to grow.
What is it that I seek? And how do I find it?
You begin to move — safely and with purpose.
You no longer chase roles or are depleted by rejections. Everything is directional.
You design 3 pathways — the known, the emerging, and the deeply desired career path – so you can keep your balance and land where you truly belong.
You seed your search and collaborate with chance – trusting the process and growing in your resilience every step of the way.
Dynamic Search is your compass — offering tools, maps, and methods for personal discovery and forward movement with intention and trust.
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Begin by exploring your personal themes for work – what drives you?
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Discover your 3-fold search strategy and design.
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Develop an integrated search plan that makes room for the dynamic interplay between effort and chance.
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Leverage Career Ecology's custom ChatGPTs for search guidance across changing landscapes of work and the AI evolution.
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Track, monitor and analyze your search via Career Ecology's Google Sheet tracking tool.
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Learn new written networking guidance via Custom ChatGPT for covers, expressions of interest, cold networking with alumni, and more.
DYNAMIC SEARCH
Each question opens a door.
How can I venture out – and be known?
Cross the chasm of separation and speak your journey out loud —
not as a pitch, but as a becoming.
In this module, you’ll be gently guided to craft communication to share with your people that resonates — words that reflect where you are, what you’re seeking, and how others can support you.
You’ll share a version of your Story Form Resume, alongside a message written with clarity and care — one that invites referrals, encouragement, sacred witnessing, or shared presence.
Whether you reach out to family, friends, trusted mentors, or former colleagues, this is how the path begins to form under your feet —
through connection, conversation, and community.
Because being known doesn’t happen from visibility alone.
It happens when we call in our people for support — and offer it back in return.
It’s a return to sacred community — that which were are made for.
CALL IN YOUR PEOPLE
You were never meant to do this alone.
This is the moment of offering — where your resume becomes a reflection,your cover letter a conversation, and the act of applying a quiet form of devotion.
Inside this practice, you'll learn how to align your resume to the soul of the role, craft a custom cover letter that speaks directly, and submit with care — through thoughtful timing and meaningful channels.
You’ll reach out — mindfully — to those who can receive your signal: a hiring manager, a division leader, an alumni connection.
You may even bring your application in person,
or circle back with warmth after time has passed.
Each step is an invitation — not to push, but to show up, wholeheartedly – and be seen.
Conscious Applying invites you to turn the act of applying into an offering — thoughtful, attuned, and alive with intention.
CONSCIOUS APPLYING
You interview — not as a performance, but as a service.
You're ready for anything – and leave performance anxiety behind.
You foster trust and power attraction with everyone you meet.
You move from proving — to connecting; and from performance — to serving.
Connection breeds trust, bonds, and new invitations.
Learn by ear via step by step audio trainings steeped in depth principles for authentic relating; repeat as often as needed.
Gain mindful prep and live interview strategies that are tested and proven over 23 years of executive recruiting experience.
Learn practices for regulating your nervous system before, during interviews, and after interviews.
Leverage Career Ecology's customized ChatGPT for creating highly effective interview question lists (includes the highly effective closing question).
Learn the "Chunky" thank you note approach to affirming connection.
Through Mindful Interviewing, you can quiet the noise, center your message, and build trust in every encounter.
MINDFUL INTERVIEWING
Each question is a key to belonging.
Where is my community? Where do I belong?
Your job change is the catalyst for stepping out, fully visible, and not just on paper — but in public.
You’re no longer just searching — you’re signaling.
You show up in your truth, beyond a template.
LinkedIn becomes your field — not your stage – and becomes a conduit for connection, chance, and good fortune.
Your technical skills on LinkedIn are strong and support your goals.
Online there is a place to plant a seed and join a like minded community with work. That is LinkedIn.
ACTIVATED LINKEDIN
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Gain online step by step guidance into the inner workings of LinkedIn, including the back door recruiters use.
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Learn strategies for signaling interest to recruiters, collaborators, and peers.
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Adopt visibility practices that replace self-promotion with authentic presencing.
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Add key words, skills, headlines, banners.
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Hone strategies for applying via LinkedIn and following up with stakeholders.
The journey continues — not alone, but in community.
You begin to weave relationships that nourish and sustain.
You show up — not to impress, but to belong.
Connection becomes a practice.
Your personal, local, and professional worlds awaken — not by accident, but by design.
Prosperity and joy follows when you activate step by step your human design for community building:
Personal Community
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Learn how to invite support from family and friends.
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Create a personal ecosystem of encouragement and accountability.
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Build rhythms of mutual care.
Local & Professional Community
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Learn how to find and join local professional groups & special interest circles.
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Volunteer at select conferences.
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Practice community service.
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Increase your chances for serendipitous connections and joyful discovery.
Intentional community building connects you to a living web — where showing up, serving, and sharing space create belonging.
INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY
Each question unlocks pathways to wellbeing.
Can I be well in the midst of uncertainty?
The soul of search is fed by the practices that steady the psyche, and help job seekers weather the journey.
With Career Ecology, wellbeing isn’t an afterthought — it’s the soil from which everything grows.
THE SOUL OF SEARCH
This is not just about navigating a job search — it's about learning how to stay well inside it.
Wellbeing is something that is cultivated by practice.
In Career Ecology, care for your nervous system, your spirit, and your story is woven throughout the journey.
You begin with the Inner Threshold — a space to pause, breathe, and cross into something new.
You’re supported by weekly community circles, heart-centered mantras, and rhythms that remind you to stay grounded in who you are.
These are the quiet rituals that hold the deeper work.
And soon, you’ll have more.
So you not only succeed, but grow whole, we’re developing a set of offerings designed to carry your wellbeing forward in intentional, embodied ways:
The Zen Daily Practice
This is the daily practice from wake to sleep for the seeker. This practice of rhythm, breath, movement, good work, play, and more deepens while it expands.
The 7 Natural Laws of Search
Wisdom drawn from nature, biology, and relational intelligence — guiding you to move with the real rhythms of opportunity, timing, and trust.
Hero sapien Salons
Live online gatherings where we explore teachings such as Polyvagal Theory and Shadow Integration through shared listening and reflective dialogue. This is a space to nourish the self in motion.
Wellbeing isn’t what you tend to once the search is over. It’s what lets you stay open, whole, and alive all the way through – and beyond.
These are the questions that inform our work
and our commitment to you.
Here, you need not travel alone.
We meet weekly online in the Fireside Circle to practice mindfulness, update on progress, exchange best practices, offer support, and network.
Job search is social. As a community, we help soothe out the rough edges and celebrate the innovations, pivots, and wins.
The Fireside Circle holds space for burn out recovery, prep and development, for testing the market – learning, growing, and landing.
At Career Ecology, we go through it – together.
This is the age of caregiving and community.
Each question is an opening to connection.
A call to wholeness.
I join you there.
I’m Lori Wallace — your Mentor & Muse, and the founder of Career Ecology. I created this system to guide you through the most misunderstood rite of modern life: career transition.
Career Ecology is not mere "performance coaching" that scratches the surface and in the end breeds more anxiety. Instead, it unearth's an ancient navigational system that is your birthright. It is the work of the heart-mind, which is the seat of your true intelligence.
As your mentor and muse, it will be my privilege and honor to walk beside you, empower you, and witness your full becoming.
Let me share with you why I've dedicated myself to this vital work.
It all started when the Twin Towers fell on September 11th, 2001. I was working as a marketing executive in San Francisco at the time, and was also growing a human in my belly (7 months into my pregnancy).
That morning, as the towers burned, I felt the overwhelming weight of human despair like never before —and my body moved into early labor.
While the miracle of medicine was able to stop the process so I could carry my baby to term, something else birthed in me that day:
The urgent call to go out and practice radical kindness in the world.
I had my calling.
I needed to help heal human suffering by liberating the human heart.
This awakening led me to the practice of recruiting — but not the kind that chases, the kind that connects.
In 2005, I founded igMedical to transform headhunting into human connection.
And then later, when the world fractured again — through the pandemic, culture chaos, and climate change — another truth revealed itself to me:
People don’t just need jobs.
People need a way back to meaning.
And so Career Ecology was born.
A place where people reclaim their power.
A space where career change is the gateway to wholeness.
I've been preparing for this my whole life.
I hold a degree in Psychology from UCLA, certifications in the Nurtured Heart Approach and Wild Soul Facilitation, and two decades of experience guiding professionals, seekers, and soul-driven humans through the unknown terrain of career change.
But what I bring you most is this:
I’ve lived the ache.
I’ve endured the trauma.
I’ve found my way back — by way of the brave heart.
And now, I walk here with you.
Welcome, Hero.
This is your rite of passage.
This work is epic.
And it transforms lives.
Each question is an opening to connection.
Here are a few words from those who’ve experienced Career Ecology – and emerged whole.
“My Responsive Resume brings to life my story, personality, and commitments.
I am so much more than a linear list of responsibilities and metrics presented in chronological order.
I am my story, and I am ready to be seen!”
— Sean Bjorndal , Pharm.D.
"I could go on and on about my Career Ecology experience with Lori. She is such a gifted mentor, guide and instructor.
Her totally unique approach toward nature, life experience and connectedness is mind-blowing.
I consider this course to be pivotal in my understanding of self, and, by extension, my career and my relationships. Highly recommend!!!"
— Mary Schattenberg, Vice President
"I really committed to employing Lori's mindful interviewing guidance.
To my astonishment, I was calmly able to engage and communicate on a much deeper level with my interviewers.
Lori's interviewing approach is a game changer.
I would highly recommend her to others during their job searching endeavors."
— Stephen Kam , Software Engineer
"Working with Lori and Career Ecology has been a life-transforming experience.
She utilizes a unique holistic approach to guide her clients to find career balance, connection, and belonging.
I recommend Lori to anyone looking for career empowerment and to deepen the connection to their work!"
— Polina McDermott, Pharm.D.
Now that you've seen how Career Ecology blends practical career support with soul-deep personal development, are you ready to claim your inner navigation system – and break free?
We begin by elevating story via the Story Form Resume.
A CALL TO ACTION
Three Entry Points to Choose From for Fit and Need
Whether you're just starting out, navigating a transition, and ready to go DIY — or prefer expert support to sharpen your message — the Story Form Resume meets you where you live.
Each option includes the full Career Ecology 3-Document resume system, powered by story, strategy, custom AI support, and relational intelligence.
Story Form Resume (DIY + Group)
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Built for today’s hiring landscape — this progressive, psychology-informed resume model fuses story, strategy, and AI to position you with clarity and confidence.
Valid for 3 months
Move from passive to powerful — in your story, your skills,
Story Form Resume (Live + ATS-Ready CV)
ATS Friendly CV
360º View Addendum
Live Resume
Built on Career Ecology's IP + Custom AI Platform
Custom AI-Powered Cover Letter Generator
LinkedIn Profile Optimization
Forever Membership: Weekly Community Fireside Circles
Story Form Resume (Shape & Edit)
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All the power of the Story Form Resume — with added expert guidance to shape your story and sharpen your message.
Valid for 3 months
All the benefits of the Story Form Resume, plus . . .
Strategic 45-Minute 1:1 Session
Unlimited Editor Support Until Finished and Fabulous
Story Form Resume (New Grads)
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The most important first step in a new professionals life is to gather themselves up whole and proudly share their story.
Valid for 3 months
All the benefits of Story Form Resume, plus
One on One, Guided Resume Design & Editing Support
The signal is here – it's time to rise.
Begin at the Threshold of Story
All will unfold from there.
To season this moment, we offer a gentle reflection.
A quiet walk into purpose. A space to awaken intention, and remember what truly matters.
No email required. No commitments. Just an inviatation to explore.
Welcome Hero – your enlivened future awaits you.