Coach Fay Krapf
Mission:
To help clients reconnect with their energy, envision possibilities and create, design and find the next career that fits who they really are.
Bio:
 Fay has 28 years of experience in coaching, training, and business. With over 14 years of expertise in career planning, career transitions, and professional development coaching, she has coached 1000+ people – professionals, managers, and executives in high tech, biotech, manufacturing, health care, public sector, education, government, and service industries – from Fortune 500 companies to startups. Fay has helped clients enter and re-enter corporate positions, modify their work focus to integrate career with retirement and she has coached clients launching their own businesses.
Fay’s own career path has included major changes and transition as she went from successful potter to organization development director for a utility to corporate communications consultant with Corning Inc. to faculty at Kenan Flagler Business School to career coach for career management firms and for her own clients.
Fay received her Masters Degree in Organization Behavior from the California School of Professional Psychology. She graduated in coach training from CoachU and is a Certified Career Fellow Practitioner through the Institute of Career Certification International. Fay is a member in many associations including the Association of Training and Development; The National Training Lab (NTL) Institute; Triangle Organization Development Network (TODN); Research Triangle Chapter of Association for Psychological Type, MBTI-qualified and former board member; the North Carolina Association of Business and Professional Coaches, former board member; Association of Career Professionals International (ACPI), former local board member; and mentor coach and visiting faculty/career development lecturer for the North Carolina State University Business Coaching Certificate Program.
Interests:
I love being outdoors and near water – being around it, in it, inspired by it – swimming, kayaking, and canoeing. I am a life-long explorer in personal and spiritual growth and delight in integrating such things as the “Law of Attraction” into my work and life. I enjoy projects like learning Photoshop and working with photos of my family and my art. Additionally, I paint (mostly abstract) using acrylic and watercolor. Most importantly, I love being with family and friends.
Favorite Saying:
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” Goethe
Most Unique Opportunity:
During my first “career chapter”, I created my own pottery business, built my own studio in the woods and expanded the business to a shop in the tourist village of Bryant Pond, Maine. My business included a working studio, gallery, wholesale accounts, and 35 crafts fairs a year throughout New England. I also developed an apprenticeship program where 25+ apprentices came from all kinds of backgrounds to work, live, and learn pottery. I loved helping the apprentices explore what they really wanted to do with their lives after they left the apprenticeship – I was career planning even back then!
Most Unique Adventure:
During the early 80s, prior to the fall of communism, traveling with our three children, ages 9-14, to the Soviet Union, East Germany, and Poland to experience life first-hand from other peoples’ perspectives.
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