Career Change is the Modern Day
Hero's Journey
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.
This is where the hero's journey begins.
At Career Ecology, we blend practical career support with soul-deep personal development.
From new graduate to seasoned professional, we walk with you through a 5-point activation process that doesn’t just get you meaningful work — frees you to prosper.
This isn't performance coaching.
Welcome to the 5 Activations
Responsive Resume • Dynamic Search • Mindful Interviewing • Activated LinkedIn
Intentional Community
Career Ecology's 5 Activations energize both the practicals and poetics of job search.
They form a living system that blends biology, psychology, and relational intelligence with over two decades of executive recruiting experience.
This is for anyone facing the unknown of career change, and who's ready to reclaim work as a source of meaning, prosperity, and joy in their life.
FIRST, THE CALL TO RISE
And Reclaim True Self
RESPONSIVE RESUME
You leave the old narrative behind — the résume-as-sales-sheet — and begin to share your authentic story.
You discover who you really are, and reclaim all that you have been leaving on the table. You are ready to be seen for the exceptional human you are. You are skilled, you are worthy – and you see it now.
"The Hero's Story"
Responsive Resume Package
Development Format:
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You reclaim your story and power by developing your own base resume using Career Ecology's proprietary Responsive Resume template, with AI sprinkled in.
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Guidance is online and rolled out in small easy steps that ease you into ownership of your own resume and story.
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Career Ecology works your base resume in collaboration with you to elevate your story, leaving no stone unturned.
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You receive full support ensuring your high-end, progressive resume and CV is complete and attracting.
Receivables:
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Final Responsive Resume in PDF and Word formats.
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Skill and guidance for editing/updating per search targets.
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Empowered, elevated, ready to connect.
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Bonus offers below.
Bonus Package Offerings:
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Online guidance for optimizing your LinkedIn Profile to match your resume.
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Online guidance and templates for writing engaging and responsive cover letters.
THEN, THE CALL FOR BELONGING
The embodied search package.
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 belong.
You seed your search and collaborate with chance – trusting the process and growing in your resilience every step of the way.
"The Hero's Path"
Dynamic Search Module
Training Format:
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Online step by step guidance into the practical and imaginal realms of career path and growth.
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An AI practice for archetypal personal discovery (coming soon).
Development Support:
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Live Q&A during weekly community Hero's Journey Calls.
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Private Q&A with Mentor via Career Ecology site messaging.
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Community Support via Hero Journey online group.
Receivables:
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A cultivated and integrated search plan that makes room for the dynamic interplay between effort and chance.
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Plan includes a 3-fold path that integrates status quo, divergent, and out of the box pathways.
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Search tracking and analysis tool, good for analyzing, planning, and reflective insight.
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A search system you can sustain — rooted in rhythm, not rigidity.
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 bonding.
Connection breeds trust, bonds, and new invitations.
"New Encounters"
Mindful Interviewing Module
Training Format:
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Live class (community), 1.5 hours .
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Recordings provided in Career Ecology site group.
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Mentor led, interactive, practical and poetic guidance.
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Self reflection practices.
Follow-up Support:
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Students' homework is mentor reviewed via private messaging.
Receivables:
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Advanced interviewing skills leading to more success, instead of suffering.
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Development of questions list and "closing question" design.
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Practices to regulate your nervous system before and during interviews.
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Techniques for authentic storytelling and deep listening.
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"Chunky" thank you note letter guidance.
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.
"Being Found"
Activated LindedIn Module
Training Format:
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Online step by step guidance into the inner workings of LinkedIn, including the back door recruiters use.
Development Support:
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Live questions during weekly community Hero's Journey Calls.
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Private Q&A with mentor via Career Ecology site messaging.
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Community Support via Hero Journey online group.
Receivables:
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Strategies for signaling interest to aligned recruiters, collaborators, and peers and getting seen.
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Visibility practices that replace self-promotion with authentic presencing.
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Key words, skills, headlines, banners.
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Strategies for applying via LinkedIn and following up with stakeholders.
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.
You learn to both give and receive.
Connection becomes a practice.
Your personal, local, and professional worlds awaken — not by accident, but by design.
Prosperity and joy follows.
Intentional Community Module
Training Format:
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Online step by step guidance into human design of community building.
Development Support:
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Live Q&A during weekly community Hero's Journey Calls.
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Private Q&A with mentor via Career Ecology site messaging.
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Community Support via Hero Journey online group.
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Invitations to events (according to geography).
Receivables:
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 and 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.
"Belonging in Community"
This hero's journey is yours.
Best walk it with friends.
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 is 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 snapped 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 followed the tremble.
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 as heroes.
“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 true navigation system – and truly live?
Choose Your Starting Point
The journey begins with liberating your voice via the Responsive Resume.
You can set your pace with that, or if you feel called – go all in and secure both tracks now.Your highest good awaits you.
Responsive Resume: Professional or Student
Professionals: Responsive Resume Bundle
385
For Professionals calling in meaningful work. Includes the full resume design, inclusive of the Executive Summary + CV
Valid for 3 months
Step by Step Training with ChatGPT Support
Responsive Resume Template & Guides
One on One Resume Development & Editing Support
2 Month Membership
Bonus: Cover Letter Guidance
Bonus: LinkedIn Profile Optimization
New Grads: Responsive Resume Bundle
235
Includes the Executive Summary Page design Students (pending & newly graduated).
Valid for 3 months
Step by Step Training w/ Guided ChatGPT Support
Responsive Resume Template and Guides
One on One Resume Design & Editing Support
2 Month Membership
Bonus: Cover Letter Guidance
Bonus: LinkedIn Profile Optimization
A CALL TO ACTION
The Embodied Search
The Embodied Search
385
6 Month Membership: inclusive of 4 Activations
Valid for 6 months
Mindful Interviewing
Dynamic Job Search
Intentional Communities
Activated LinkedIn
Live Training & Weekly Live Office Hours
Intentionally Inclusive Pricing: Career Ecology is priced with care.
We believe the work of reclaiming your story and your livelihood should be available to more people — not just those with privilege or power.
A FINAL CALL TO KINDNESS
COMING SOON – A FREE GIFT OF INSIGHT
Journey into your Work-Archetype:
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Discover your inner depths
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And what brings you alive
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What meaning looks like for you
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And its reflection in your design
AND A FREE GIFT OF TIME
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Every Tuesday , Meet & Greets!
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Have questions? Join Lori every Tuesday at 12:30 PM PT for guidance and inspiration.
ARE WE IN COMMUNITY YET?
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Join the Career Ecology Community to receive intentional messages of practical and poetic guidance during times of change.
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Just tap the spiral box floating to the right to join.
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All are welcome.
"When mind intelligence bows to heart intelligence
life harmonizes." – Lori Wallace