Career Change is a Gateway to Wholeness
When work stops working, it’s not a failure — it’s a signal.
A call to shed the old. To heed the call.
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 5-point activation process 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
Career Ecology is not a hussle or hail mary.
It is a return to your own rhythm — and a way to work that inspires.
We begin with a descent: into story, into self:
Hero-Form Resume • Four Temperaments • Personal Themes
Then comes the rise — into clarity, connection, and meaningful work, guided by the 4 Activations of Search:
Dynamic Search Strategy • Mindful Interviewing • Activated LinkedIn
Intentional Community
Career Ecology is a whole system of integration that energizes both the practicals and poetics of job search – and renewal.
One that brings together the practical tools of job search with the deeper intelligence of story, biology, and belonging.
With two decades of search experience, custom AI support, and human mentorship at its core, this is not just career guidance. Career Ecology is a ways to rise, whole.
Anyone facing the unknowns of career change, and who's ready to unlock the power of Self to reclaim work as a source of meaning, prosperity, and joy is invited to thrive here.
The Hero-Form Resume
You 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 Hero-Form Resume fuses story, strategy, and psychology to create smart documents that connect.
No other resume works like this.
You’ll engage a structured yet flexible process that:
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Extracts your unique themes, motivations, and career DNA
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Shapes a narrative that builds trust and alignment with your future
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Produces two powerful tools: an ATS-Ready CV and a Live Resume for networking
You won’t do it alone.
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.
Also included:
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Expert guidance to sharpen voice, structure, and alignment
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Online support for optimizing your LinkedIn profile
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Custom AI support for writing responsive, aligned cover letters
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Access to the Fireside Circle — a weekly community gathering for Q&A, insight, and connection
Live Resume + ATS Ready CV, And Much More
A DESCENT INTO STORY
A Turn Inward to Excel Outward
Before you surge forward in search, you must understand your own nature.
In this phase, we guide you inward — not to fix or improve — but to recognize and reclaim your inherent design. Through the Four Temperaments, career themes, and narrative reflection, you’ll begin to see yourself not just as a worker, but as a whole being with distinct energies, rhythms, and motivations.
This is not personality typing. It’s pattern recognition for the soul — an initiation into self-trust.
You’ll gain:
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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
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Career Ecology’s tools and prompts illuminate the inner landscape of your work life, so your next move is grounded in truth — not pressure, comparison, or fear.
The Four Temperament, Themes & More
A DROP INTO SELF
DYNAMIC SEARCH
You begin to move — with structure and openness.
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.
Discover Where You Belong
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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
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Drop into the daily Lumen ritual to settle your nervous system and strengthen heart resilience
FIRST ACTIVATION
MINDFUL INTERVIEWING
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.
Trust & Bond
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Learn by ear via step by step audio trainings steeped in depth principles for authentic relating; repeat as often as needed
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Gain mindful prep and live interview strategies that are tested and proven over 23 years of executive recruiting experience
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Learn practices for regulating your nervous system before, during interviews, and after interviews
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Leverage Career Ecology's customized ChatGPT for creating highly effective interview question lists (includes highly effective closing question)
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Learn the "Chunky" thank you note approach to affirming connection
SECOND ACTIVATION
ACTIVATED LINKEDIN
You now step 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.
Open the door to being found.
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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
THIRD ACTIVATION
INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY BUILDING
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
Re-ignite Community, And Never Stop
FOURTH ACTIVATION
Plus, Weekly Group Mentorship
Weekly Fireside Circle
We meet weekly online 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.
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.
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 be free?
We begin by elevating story via the Hero-Form Resume.
A CALL TO ACTION
Three Resume Portals to Choose From to Fit Your Need
Whether you're just starting out, navigating a transition, and ready to go DIY or prefer expert support to sharpen your message — the Hero-Form Resume meets you where you stand.
Each option includes the full Career Ecology resume system, powered by story, strategy, custom AI support, and relational intelligence.
Hero-Form Resume Package (DIY + Live)
139
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,
Hero-Form Resume (Live + ATS-Ready CV)
Built on Career Ecology's IP + Custom AI Platform
Custom AI-Powered Cover Letter Generator
LinkedIn Profile Optimization
Forever Membership: Weekly Community Fireside Circles
Hero-Form Resume Package + Shape & Edit
385
All the power of the Hero-Form Resume — with added expert guidance to shape your story and sharpen your message.
Valid for 3 months
All the benefist of Hero-Form Resume, plus . . .
Strategic 45-Minute 1:1 Session
Unlimited Editor Support Until Done and Fabulous
Hero-Form Resume Package for New Grads
235
Includes the Executive Summary Page design Students (pending & newly graduated).
Valid for 3 months
All the benefits of Hero-Form Resume, plus
Live, Guided Resume Design & Editing Support
Your New Resume is your compass.
Next, we embark together on your journey to the top.
Embodied Search is the next leg of your journey, designed to follow the Hero-Form Resume. It’s where story becomes strategy, and your clarity deepens into confident movement.
You’ll ascend through four powerful activations:
Dynamic Search Strategy
Mindful Interviewing
Intentional Community
Activated LinkedIn
With ongoing support spanning 9 months for easye and comfort, you'll journey, move, climb and discover with suport from the weekly Fireside Circle, full arragy of AI-powered tools, proven strategies to cut through the noise and discover your true north start. You’ll rise with confidence — equipped not only to land the role, but to live the story that’s yours to tell.
The Embodied Search
385
6 Month Membership: Inclusive of 4 Activations + Weekly Fireside Circle
Valid for 9 months
Mindful Interviewing
Dynamic Job Search
Intentional Community Building
Activated LinkedIn
Weekly Fireside Circle
Private Mentorship Available (as needed, separate fee)
Integration of Relational Intelligence w/ AI
It's time to shed the old, heed the call,
and rise up whole.
The signal has already come. You’re not lost — you’re being invited to grow. Not later.
But today — in these times.
This isn’t about chasing the next step.
It’s about following the call of your heart to live into your greatest potential for joy — in work and in life.
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 Future Awaits!