Spartan Career Coaches

When you’re a Spartan, you are part of a global community of more than 500,000 strong who are passionate about helping each other. When it comes to building your career, we have made it easy for you to find a coach who understands your needs.

Every coach listed below has a proven record of:

Supporting Michigan State University.
Serving fellow Spartans.
Helping clients obtain desired outcomes.
Committing to providing ethical and timely services.

Featured Spartan Career Coach

Tonjala Eaton

Tonjala is a growth mindset and learning-centered career coach. She believes that each individual has a unique set of gifts, talents and strengths that equips them to reach their highest potential and find fulfilling work. Tonjala works with young, mid- and executive level professionals. She specializes in helping clients navigate career transitions.

In order to help clients reach their goals, she uses personal branding, LinkedIn optimization, networking, resume revision, SMART goals and Happenstance Theory. Tonjala jokes that her father was her first career coaching client. As a young child, she circled job ads in the classifieds during one of her father’s career transitions. This natural curiosity about work led her to earn a Master of Arts in Higher, Adult and Lifelong Education (HALE) from Michigan State University in addition to obtaining her Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF) Certification. She has 15 years of experience supporting others on their career development journey, served as a faculty member at four institutions of higher education, authored a book chapter on the career development of athletes and consults for businesses and non-profit organizations. Follow her on LinkedIn for career insights.

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Spartan Career Coach Directory

Ashley Batteen
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Ashley graduated from Michigan State University in 2008, with degrees in Psychology and Spanish. She then went on to earn a Master of Science in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Her first post-graduation job hunt in 2008 was during the Great Recession, and this proved to be challenging. After having learned so much about job hunting in a tight job market, she was inspired to pass this knowledge on to other people. Since 2008, Ashley has worked with employers, hiring managers, and candidates from all different walks of life, developing career strategies and personal brands.
Monica Marcelis Fochtman

Monica is a career clarity coach, resume writer, and founder of Sheldrake Consulting. She helps mid-career professionals and industry changers get unstuck and regain their confidence so they can love work again. She works one-on-one with her clients to help them not just survive, but thrive during big career transitions. She provides personalized career coaching, job search strategies, resume and cover letter writing and interview coaching grounded in leadership development and career advancement.
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Rich Miller

Rich is an Executive Coach with over 10 years of experience in career transition consulting and an additional 20 years of employee relations and labor relations experience. He will guide you through the entire process, from initial assessment, resume development, how to find positions, interviewing and offer negotiation.
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Karen J. Reiff

Karen takes the time to uncover strengths, personality, accomplishments and goals, and transform them into tools for each client’s career management toolkit. Her services are designed to help get the interview, get found on LinkedIn, communicate in interviews and help clarify one’s personal brand and unique value to recruiters and employers.
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Diane Ring

Diane owns Ring Results, a Texas-based leadership development and executive coaching firm serving top executives, managers, technical professionals and high potential talent from small, start up businesses to publicly traded Fortune 1000 companies. She has served individuals and organizations for 20 years to fulfill their potential through better understanding of emotional intelligence and connecting behavioral and neuroscientific knowledge with leadership development and career management.
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Esther Wallen

Esther is a Global Career Development Facilitator, Certified Career Services Provider, Certified Professional Resume Writer and founder of Wallen Career Solutions. Esther has spent more than a decade in career services, both independently and at different universities assisting career seekers with resume development, interviewing skills, job search strategies and networking.
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Jill Windelspecht

Jill is a certified executive coach in emotional intelligence. Blending neuroscience, social science and 20 years of experience leading talent management globally, she provides executives, organizations and individuals coaching and consulting to help.
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Jeff Zacharski

Jeff is known for his drive and is an individual who thrives on new responsibility, possibility and growth. He causes leadership, integrates people through vision and is a creative thinker who overcomes challenges to create efficiency and cost savings.
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Laura M. Labovich

Laura partners with companies, nonprofits and associations to help them nurture their workforce through the inclusion of innovative, flexible and high-touch outplacement services. Laura and her team also coach job seekers all over the world, from entry-level to executive, to fearlessly and confidently manage their careers and land lucrative, meaningful jobs they love.
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Scott Campbell

Scott has a penchant for working in partnership with individuals and teams to navigate their career journey and reach their highest potential. Areas of focus include leadership skills and capacity development, career transitions/evolution and senior executive assimilation. Scott provides informed support to help clients achieve their objectives, remove obstacles that stand in their way and become more effective leaders.
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Lisa Dietlin

Lisa coaches people to achieve their goals through her methodology of simply doing three things a day. She is an internationally recognized expert on philanthropy, charitable giving and transformational change in both the personal and professional arenas. Her deep experience with fundraising and the nonprofit sector, groundbreaking research on giving patterns and influential ideas on transformational philanthropy have led her to become one of the most trusted philanthropic advisors in the nation.
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