Career Advisory
Understand where you stand and what possibilities exist. Research-driven, highly individualized analysis of your market value, positioning and options.
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Boston · New York · Everywhere interestingWORTH
MEETING.
People worth knowing.
Opportunities worth exploring.
Worth Meeting helps accomplished professionals understand their market value, strengthen their positioning, explore where their experience could take them and, for a select group, get introduced to companies and people worth knowing.
20+ years hiring and managing talent. Master's-trained in counseling. One very human approach to making the right introduction.
Technology finds the signal. People decide what matters.
20+ Years
in Business Leadership
Hundreds
of Interviews & Hiring Decisions
15+
Organizations
Master's-Trained
Counselor
You don't have to hate your job
You don't have to hate your job to wonder what else is possible.
Successful professionals can still be underpaid. Under-titled. Overlooked. Or simply unsure what the smartest next move is.
You don't have to be unhappy to wonder: Am I being paid what I'm worth? Should I be at a higher level? Where else could my experience translate? What companies would value my background? Should I stay, or explore something else?
Why Worth Meeting
The strongest person for a role is not always the one with the most obvious résumé.
Sometimes it is the person whose experience is being undervalued. Sometimes it is the person whose story is not being told clearly. Sometimes it is the person who is a far better fit for a company, a manager or a culture than any tracking system could recognize.
I know that because I spent more than 20 years on the hiring-manager side of the table. Hundreds of interviews. Hundreds of hiring decisions. Teams built, managed and developed long after the offer was signed.
I understand what decision-makers are actually looking for, because I have been one of them. Then I earned a master's degree in counseling, which sharpened how I read motivation, communication and what people need to thrive.
I understand business. I understand hiring. I understand people.
01Two ways Worth Meeting helps
Representation
For a select group, Worth Meeting goes into the market with you. We research where your experience matters and make thoughtful, confidential introductions.
Learn about Representation02How it works
01
Know
Understand the person — not just the profile.
02
Research
Understand the market, compensation, comparable people and where the signal is.
03
Position
Articulate what makes someone valuable and where that value translates.
04
Identify
Find organizations, roles and people worth exploring.
05
Introduce
Make the right connection, thoughtfully and confidentially.
What we actually evaluate
Experience
Strengths
Motivation
Communication style
Career goals
Manager and team fit
Culture
Potential
These are judgments, not keyword matches — informed by decades of hiring and managing people, plus counseling training.
03Why Michael
I didn't come to recruiting from recruiting. I came to it from more than 20 years of hiring, managing and developing people.
More than 20 years in senior marketing and leadership roles, across large corporations, agencies and startups — healthcare, financial services, technology, travel and consumer brands. Hundreds of interviews. Hundreds of hiring decisions. Teams I built, then managed. A master's degree in counseling.
Technology expands what I can see. Human judgment determines what matters.
Read the full storyTechnology finds the signal. People decide what matters.
For companies
The strongest person for a role may not be applying.
They may already have a good job. They may not have the obvious title. They may not contain every keyword your software expects.
We discover people through relationships, referrals, professional networks and thoughtful research — not by waiting for applications to come in.
For companiesOff the Résumé
Cocktails, careers and the stuff that doesn't fit on LinkedIn.
A conversational show about interesting people who happen to be between jobs, changing careers or figuring out what comes next.
Listen inTell Michael what's going on.
No pressure. No résumé blast. Just a confidential first conversation about where you stand and what could come next.
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