“My PathWise coach (Beth) has given me a new toolset to take control of my career path and achieve balance and satisfaction in my day to day role.
Since working with Beth, I have a renewed focus on being true to my personal values, making sure I’m in a position that allows me to contribute fully, and building strong relationships and community at work. Beth has also helped me recognize the need to adapt my communication style to more effectively connect with co-workers that approach problems and process information differently than me.”
Take control of your career
Free Live Event!
Wednesday, October 22, 12PM
What you’ll learn in 30 minutes:
- The types and causes of burnout
- How to diagnose whether you're just fatigued or burned out
- What to do when you're burned out
- How to build resilience that reduces your risk of burnout
Up next in our PathWise Live Series: "Mind Traps: How Cognitive Biases Impact Our Career Choices."
If you've ever felt like your mind was playing tricks on you, chances are it was. Our brains have quirks, ones that worked well for us in pre-historic times but get in our way today - personally and professionally.
Join us to learn more about these Mind Traps and how you can work around them, in work and in life.
We show you the way
We understand that managing your career is hard! That’s why we started PathWise after spending a collective many years on our own career paths.
We’ve built all that experience into our career guidance platform and drawn from the wisdom of our advisory panel of career thought leaders. We're here to make it easier for you.
What We Offer
PathWise is built to help career professionals across industries and levels to live the careers they deserve, and for the people and institutions helping them to do that. For individuals, we offer several membership tiers as well as a la carte services. For coaches, colleges and universities, and organizations and HR professionals, we offer more integrated solutions as well.

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Our feature-rich service
Available whether you're at work, at home, or on the go.
Career insights to broaden your understanding
Tools and exercises to help you navigate your way
Communities of like-minded individuals.
Our Coaches
Our team brings a wealth of experience and expertise in the career management process to support you in your individual career goals and objectives.
Becca Carnahan
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Becca Carnahan
Becca Carnahan is a career coach, author, and mom from Massachusetts. She is the founder of Becca Carnahan Career Coaching & Communications, where she specializes in helping mid-career professionals find more joy and fulfillment in their work. She also writes and manages the working mom blog, With Love Becca, which helps women manage motherhood, manage careers, and manage to laugh through it all.
Becca gained her expertise in the career development field over a 13-year career at Harvard Business School, where she still works as a career coach, and while earning her Masters’ Degree in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
In addition to her career coaching work, Becca is also the author of Belinda Baloney Changes Her Mind, a fun and inspiring “when I grow up” children’s book and When Mommy Grows Up: A Guide to Parenting Yourself to a More Fulfilling Career.
Specialties
Career transitions • Career vision • Choosing an initial path / new grads • Communication • Confused / stuck / undecided • Entrepreneur / business ownership • Independent workers / gig economy • Interviewing • Job search • LinkedIn / social media profile • Networking • Part-time work / re-entry • Resume review / cover letters • Work / life balance • Work style / self-assessment
Industries
Heather Wilkerson
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Heather Wilkerson
Heather holds a Master’s in Counseling, received coaching training and certification through the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI), and is credentialed as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Heather is currently a Senior Career Consultant for Right Management Consulting, coaches IT career changers for Flatiron and is the founder of Heather Wilkerson Coaching where she provides professional, personal and career change coaching focusing on transitions, managing roadblocks and handling life-changing events. She focuses on professionals experiencing burnout, personal change, and supporting clients to create meaningful careers at any stage.
Heather began her career in Human Resources and Employee Assistance Programs. Over 20 years ago, she moved to career coaching and helping clients manage change. Since then, she has built three different comprehensive Career Development programs, created online career suites, and written and presented numerous training and development programs, including a 3-day career transition workshop, plus an award-winning Career Change and Growth webinar series. Recently, she led Leadership and Career Programs for Brown University Alumni and served as Director of Career Services for the Brown University Master’s in Public Affairs (MPA) program. She has over 20 years of coaching experience working in Higher Ed, Fortune 100 companies, the Federal Government and healthcare organizations.
She approaches career coaching with the belief that everyone has great skills and strengths waiting to be uncovered. She has experience helping clients tell their story, craft career plans and generally consult on the self-marketing process. She partners with clients to clarify and connect with their inner strengths and resources to live their best life and reach their goals with ease.
Heather Lives in Rhode Island with her husband and has 4 children at various stages of launch! She enjoys running, yoga, all types of boating and hiking. She is an aspiring cook and musician.
Specialties
Career transitions • Career vision • Communication • Confused / stuck / undecided • Entrepreneur / business ownership • Independent workers / gig economy • Interviewing • Job search • Leadership • LinkedIn / social media profile • Networking • Part-time work / re-entry • Professional development / skill-building • Resume review / cover letters • Work / life balance
Industries
Certifications
Certified Professional Co-Active Coach • Masters in Counseling • PPC Professional Certified Coach
Beth Kennedy
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Beth Kennedy
Beth Kennedy brings more than twenty years of experience to her role as a leadership and executive coach, resiliency-training expert, and speaker. Her Benatti Resiliency Model has helped thousands of people develop the resilience to adapt to changing career circumstances, remain productive and engaged, and find greater life and career satisfaction. Beth has a diverse client list, including dozens of small businesses, nonprofit organizations, individuals, and corporations such as Takeda Pharmaceuticals USA, The Gillette Company, Nike, Converse, Bright Horizons, and Charter Contracting.
Companies hire Beth to coach high-potential individuals on how to use their influence strategically, collaborate effectively, and focus on innovation. She also creates customized training programs that make an impact, with a focus on keeping employees resilient, engaged, and productive, and able to manage change and transition within the organization. Current and past clients credit her dynamic training design, facilitation, and follow-up coaching model for their documented results and successes.
In addition to dynamic programs, Ms. Kennedy has presented her Benatti Resiliency Model at diverse professional conferences and symposiums across the globe. Participants praise the interactive nature of her presentation and leave with strategies to set their career recharge in motion.
She is the author of Career ReCharge: Five Strategies to Boost Resilience and Beat Burnout, which continues her mission of recharging individuals in their careers and lives so they have the energy needed for today’s world.
Beth is a certified Leadership Coach Academy Talent Management / Leadership Coach, and a certified Linkage Inc. Leadership Coach. She holds certifications as a 360Reach Analyst and in the Leadership Circle Profile. Her expertise includes being qualified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® instrument, TypeCoach resources, Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument, the Lominger Leadership Architect®, and the ARSENAL™ Assessment.
Beth holds a BS from Bethany College, West Virginia, an MS in Human Resource Counseling from Northeastern University, Boston, and a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies in Marriage & Family Therapy from the University of Massachusetts at Boston.
Specialties
Board of directors • Communication • Enterprise CxOs / executive coaching • Entrepreneur / business ownership • Leadership • Networking • Team-building • Work / life balance • Work style / self-assessment
Industries
Certifications
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist • Linkage
Published Articles
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Our weekly “Career Sessions, Career Lessons” podcast series features guests in a wide variety of roles sharing the story of their unique career journeys, what they’ve learned along the way, and the advice they have for others who are on their own career journeys.
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Join our communityWhat current community members have to say about PathWise
“Working with a PathWise coach (Tony) has been incredibly valuable. It provided me with the tools to succeed, such as a polished resume and LinkedIn profile. But more important, it helped me gain clarity about what I’m looking for in the next phase of my career, and how I can tell my own story in a compelling way to get there.”
- Sean F.
“I’m so grateful for Pathwise and my career coach, Gayle. Through this process, Gayle has helped me to gained some great perspective.
She helped me to explore and identify what’s most valuable to me in my career. We were able to identify my career goals for the near future. Gayle also provided excellent guidance as far as possible next steps. This process has helped me to recognize what my strengths are, how I can build upon those strengths and how I can achieve success and even enjoy my career.”
- Kim W.
“Thank you kindly for [the] coaching session. It was absolutely great, and there were a couple of points you mentioned that will stay with me throughout my career.”