Meet The Maker Monday: Barbara Ellen Leicht, MSEd

Written By Barbara Ellen Leicht

~ Successful Career Pivoter 💗 Shop Local Connoisseur ~

Who is the lady behind BE Career Development @becareerdevelopment + Rochester Shops Local @rochestershops?? Simple! 

✨ She’s a former teacher, forever educator, turned Career Coach with a backbone in bespoke marketing + a whole lotta #locallove ✨

When I was in undergrad at University of Pittsburgh (PITT, Let’s Go Pitt!) we all knew teachers no longer lasted 25, 30 years. Kudos to the ones who are!!! Yet, I was the student peers pointed to saying: she’ll be a forever teacher. I believed it. Even moved to Manhattan, had a studio on the UWS + studied at Teachers College (TC) Columbia University where—fortuitously—I interned at TC Career Services 😉

~ long-story short ~

🌱 The late 2000’s recession was happening when graduating with my Master in Education (MSEd) from Nazareth University (Go Naz!), the teacher market was saturated, I have invisible disabilities and * bam * I need health insurance. 

~ So, I career pivoted ~

🌱 Through networking + a ton of soul searching, I became a Career Advisor in 2012, a Certified Career Coach in 2015.

~ and I love it … I help empower ppl to live their best lives ~

🌱 2012 also happens to be the same time I began #ShopLocal blogging about all excellent things local in Rochester, NY!! The girl who grew-up her 1st 10 years in the Beechwood neighborhood fell in-love with local from the start. In short:

~ I help you do the work you love ~

With BE Career Development:

~ go from overwhelmed under-appreciated, underpaid, unhappy … to over it!! Get over the career slump + onto what truly suits you 💗 BE Excellent, BE Energized, + BE Endlessly You! ~

With Rochester Shops Local:

~ makers + boutiques get seen!! Shoppers, stay unique!! 💝 Go from looking, shopping, + living like everyone else to on-trend, on-budget, and on it! On the pulse of #Roc’s best gifts + goodies ~

Overall? I’m an ENFJ, Enneagram 4, cat-mom, and new wifey to this writer Dan Leicht!!

✨ Cheers to being your best you! ✨ 

Barbara Ellen Leicht

Barbara Ellen Leicht, MSEd, is a “Former Teacher, Forever Educator,” Trauma Survivor turned Thriver, and  Mindset Career Coach with 14+ years’ expertise. She specializes in career pivots, higher education, and authentic and strategic relationship building.

Transforming her invisible disabilities into superpowers, Barbara leverages a strengths-based, person-centered, trauma-informed approach to delivering research-backed Corporate Trainings and virtual Career Coaching. On this journey, Barbara has been fortunate to empower 1,000s of diverse job seekers and career pivot’ers.

In fact, during her first full year in business, Barbara helped job seekers negotiate a cumulative of $50k in increased income. Her holistic approach to career coaching helps clients land in a fraction-of-the-time it typically takes.

Barbara’s philosophy—BE Excellent • BE Energized • BE Endlessly You—emphasizes quality fit, for quality work, with quality-of-life. Cheers to being your best you! ✨

https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbaraellenleicht/
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