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Coach Michael Burt
Coach Michael Burt and Executive Career Upgrades have partnered to move coaches, athletes, and consultants into corporate leadership. You already have the operating experience. What stops most people is that nobody on the hiring side knows how to read it.
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Who We Help
Head coaches, coordinators, and program directors at the high school, college, and professional level. You have run recruiting, managed a staff, and owned a budget. That is executive work. It has just never been written down that way.
Career athletes moving into a second career. Competing at that level builds discipline, coachability, and composure that companies say they want, but none of it survives a standard résumé screen without translation.
Independent consultants and advisors ready to move back inside an organization. You already have the range and the client exposure. What you need is positioning that reads as a leader rather than a vendor.
The Gap
A head coach recruits talent, manages a staff, owns a budget, and gets measured publicly every week. A professional athlete performs under scrutiny most executives will never face. A consultant scopes the work, runs the client relationship, and owns the outcome. All of it is operating experience. It rarely gets read that way, because the title at the top of the page sends the reader somewhere else.
What breaks the transition is almost never capability. It is positioning. Coaches apply through the same portals as everyone else, describe their work in the language of their own field rather than the language of business, and get filtered out before a person ever sees the file. Then they conclude the market doesn't want them.
The market wants them. It needs the record told in terms it already recognizes.
The Translation
This is the work. We take what you actually ran and restate it in the terms a hiring committee is scoring against.
Figures shown are illustrative. Your call starts by pulling your real ones.
How It Works
Each stage has to be finished before the next one is worth starting, which is why the order matters more than the speed.
We map what you have actually run. Budget size, staff headcount, recruiting volume, fundraising responsibility, and your record under pressure. Most coaches undersell every one of those.
We rebuild the résumé, the LinkedIn profile, and the interview narrative in corporate language, then target the industries and functions where a coaching background is an advantage instead of something you have to explain.
We open doors directly to decision makers rather than sending you back through applicant tracking systems, and we stay with you through the interview process, the offer, and the negotiation.
The Partnership
“I have sat across from executives who were blindsided by a job change and could not explain their own experience. You have it harder. You have done more difficult work than most VPs I have met, and the market cannot read it. That is a positioning problem, and positioning is the whole job here.”
— Tim Madden
Track Record
Book a strategy call with the Executive Career Upgrades team. We will look at what you have actually run, tell you honestly whether the move is worth making right now, and show you what it takes if it is.
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