My interest and expertise in coaching, and career advising, comes from 25 years’ experience as a senior executive in Silicon Valley. Directing and mentoring communications teams for a number of leading life science companies across large global companies and startups showed me that people have many different motivators in life. Working with nonprofits and social services over many years, I saw first-hand how planning and positivity can truly help drive happiness. I also discovered the real benefit of training volunteers to be the most effective members of your team. Volunteers are more engaged when they can lend their time and expertise to directly benefit others.