Maximize Your Career Satisfaction, Income, and Ledership Potential

Career & Executive Coaching, Professional Branding, and Premium Resume Writing Services for Experienced Professionals and Executives

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Helping You Navigate Your Career

I’m Carl Lackstrom, a coach, consultant, business executive, and people leader with 25+ years of experience helping individuals and organizations achieve their goals.

What Sets Me Apart:

I understand executive decision-making from the inside. I've sat in boardrooms, led enterprise-level initiatives, and advised Fortune 500 C-suite leaders on strategic risk. I don’t just provide theoretical coaching, I provide strategic career advisory grounded in real-world executive experience.

I founded NaviPath Consulting to help experienced professionals and executives navigate pivotal career changes and maximize their career & job satisfaction, income, and leadership potential.

I’ve helped hundreds of professionals:

  • Move into executive and C-suite roles.

  • Pivot successfully into new industries during mid-to-late career

  • Recover and relaunch after layoffs or restructuring

  • Negotiate compensation packages worth six to seven figures

  • Position themselves for board seats and portfolio careers

Let me do the same for you.

Schedule a free career strategy session to discuss your goals and how I can help.

We'll discuss your situation, explore whether NaviPath is the right fit, and if so, design an engagement tailored to your specific goals.

Schedule Your Free Strategy Session

Is NaviPath Right For You?

I specialize in working with individuals who are ready to invest in their careers. My clients typically have 15+ years of experience and are navigating critical career inflection points.

You are in the right place if you are:

Making a Strategic Career Move

  • Transitioning to Director, VP, or C-suite positions

  • Pivoting to a new industry or functional area where your experience translates differently

  • Pursuing board positions, advisory roles, or portfolio careers

  • Shifting from a corporate career to consulting, entrepreneurship, or semi-retirement

  • Transitioning from military service to civilian leadership roles

Facing an Unexpected Transition

  • Navigating a layoff, restructuring, or organizational change

  • Recovering from a career setback and ready to reposition strategically

  • Dealing with a stalled career trajectory and the need to course-correct

  • Finding yourself in a role or company that no longer aligns with your values

Returning to Market After a Break

  • Re-entering the workforce after caregiving, sabbatical, or health leave

  • Ready to reposition your professional brand for today's market

Seeking Premium Executive Opportunities

  • Targeting roles with $150K+ compensation

  • Pursuing opportunities that require executive presence and strategic positioning

  • Prepared to compete in selective, relationship-driven executive markets

  • Need to bypass traditional job boards and access the hidden executive market

Whether you're making a strategic move or finding your footing after an unexpected turn, I will help you move forward with clarity, confidence, and purpose.

Schedule Your Free Strategy Session

The NaviPath Process

I use a proven four-phase process to help you navigate career transitions:

Phase 1: Establish Your Current Coordinates

We start by mapping exactly where you are today—conducting a comprehensive assessment of your career trajectory, leadership strengths, market positioning, and strategic objectives. This discovery phase can include a competitive landscape analysis, psychometric assessments, and a thorough evaluation of your professional brand.

The Outcome: Complete clarity on your starting point, your competitive advantages, and the precise gaps we need to close.

Phase 2: Chart Your Destination & Route

Together, we map your personalized career strategy: defining your target destinations, identifying key decision-makers, clarifying your professional brand and leadership narrative, and creating a detailed roadmap with specific milestones.

The Outcome: A clear, actionable roadmap that transforms career ambiguity into strategic execution.

Phase 3: Navigate with Purpose & Precision

We implement your strategy through targeted actions: optimizing your resume and LinkedIn profile, developing networking and outreach campaigns, preparing for high-stakes interviews, and positioning you with executive recruiters and decision-makers.

The Outcome: You enter the market positioned as a premium candidate, with the confidence and preparation to compete at the highest levels.

Phase 4: Secure Your Landing & Scan the Next Horizon

When opportunities emerge, I provide hands-on support through offer evaluation, compensation negotiation, and onboarding strategy—ensuring you enter your new role positioned for immediate impact and long-term success. We also begin mapping the next career horizon for your continued advancement.

The Outcome: You enter your new role positioned for immediate credibility, long-term success, and continued advancement.

Ready to Take the Next Step?

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What Clients Are Saying

  • At a challenging time during a career transition, I was lucky enough to connect with Carl. His assistance - both strategic and tactical - was invaluable. I thought I had a pretty good resume, but I was amazed by how much better he made it! Additionally, he clearly explained each of the changes he made and how they helped position me better in the marketplace. I immediately saw results from the resume improvements. His guidance and advice on how to maximize my efforts in my job hunt were outstanding. He gave very practical advice and really helped me think more strategically.

    Tim B.

  • I worked with Carl to update my resume and LinkedIn profile and couldn't be happier with the result. He did a great job listening and asking probing questions, which allowed him to truly capture the skills and experiences that I had with my previous employer. He then was able to present it in a way that added that "pop" that recruiters were looking for. I had gone a couple of months using my original resume with no activity, but after Carl did his magic, I almost immediately started getting contacted.

    John B.

  • I highly recommend Carl for executive resume writing. After a recent job change, I reached out to him for a new resume. I was still getting compliments on my resume, but felt it could be more professional with the career path I was taking. Carl was fantastic to work with and very helpful when I had questions or changes. He provided me with a very professional resume, cover letters, and a new look to my LinkedIn page. The first time I used the new resume, I was selected for the position.

    Melissa C.

  • Carl is definitely a cut above the rest! The thing I appreciated most about working with Carl was his honesty. He is a true professional and a gifted writer. Carl, not only challenged the way I thought about my brand, but he was able to turn my wordy, disjointed resume into a seamless document that highlighted my value. He quickly responded to my questions and I received draft updates to my resume within 24 hours. Carl definitely has a great product, and, for me, it was time and money well-spent. It has been about 2 months since Carl provided me with my final draft and I have already been contacted about four opportunities.

    Dante R.

  • Carl was excellent to work with and exceeded my expectations for helping me update my resume. Not only did Carl tailor my new resumes to my specific (and somewhat unique) job search situation, but he was also very generous with his time during the introduction and interviewing stages of the process. The end products were two professional resumes that received positive feedback from prospective employers as soon as I shared them.

    Cliff E.