Career Values Assessment

A 39-year-old senior manager of regulatory affairs at a pharmaceutical company came to coaching with a 'general sense that something is off.' The role checks every objective box: compensation, title, stability, respected field. She can articulate no specific complaint. She has a high tolerance for discomfort and a tendency to defer to the evidence of external success when her internal experience contradicts it. The Career Values Assessment separates personal values from professional operating requirements, which is where the mismatch she can't name usually lives. She may be operating inside a culture that rewards precision and compliance when what she actually needs is room to create and influence.

Frame this as building a diagnostic, not a verdict. 'You've said something feels off but you can't point to it. This ass...