MEET OUR MEMBERS: Cara Heilmann Helps Wannabe Career Coaches Quit their Corporate Jobs so They Can Help People Find Jobs They Love!

Our Meet our Members series continues. In this edition, we are focusing on another coach facilitating the Great Resignation - a realignment of global priorities.

Cara Heilmann

After college, Socially Responsible Coaching Alliance member, Cara Heilmann took a career assessment that told her her three paths for the future: bartender, pastor, human resources manager.

We like to think she does a bit of all three!

For the past 20 years, Cara has helped people get jobs. A former VP of Talent and Human Resources for large national and international companies and small- to mid-sized firms including Silicon Valley start-ups and staffing agencies, she now trains future career coaches to build successful businesses so they can help people get jobs they love.

Cara is President of the International Association of Career Coaches (IACC)® a global consortium of professional career coaches and founder and CEO of Ready Reset Go®. She is a recognized expert and has been featured in Forbes and The Wall Street Journal. Cara is a bestselling author of two books, published with The Author Incubator: The Art of Finding the Job You Love and Confessions of the Accidental Career Coach, and Ready, Set, Go! co-authored with world-renowned author and speaker Brian Tracy.

Cara comes from Hawaii where she has a long line of entrepreneurial women in her family. She now live in the San Francisco bay area. “Growing up in Hawaii taught me that everyone is part of my family. And what I love most about San Francisco is the vibe of the city... there's no place like it on earth to me.”

Cara is an avid community volunteer who has served on the Board (including as Secretary) of Wardrobe for Opportunity, a nonprofit in Oakland dedicated to ending poverty by helping individuals get a job, keep a job, and build a career.

Cara is committed to leveling the financial playing field for individuals like stay-at-home moms and dads, individuals with disabilities - with a 100% virtual remote business we teach people who feel that they can't earn a high paycheck due to their situation how to have a six-figure income as a career coach. Her work reaches across the globe to help women, women in tech, individuals with disabilities, veterans, Hassidic Jewish women escaping radical marriages, people of color, individuals identified as LGBTIQ, Latinas in Tech, workers in Africa, have hope that they can and do advance their careers.

The Socially Responsible Coaching Alliance educational trainings have helped Cara learn how to take imperfect action, get sh*t done, and stop overthinking things. “Here, I'm loved for exactly who I am. I never have to pretend to be someone or something else. My word of the year is Spirit. May I delve deeply into the Spirit of life and feel its essence move through everything.”

Thanks for being a part of the community Cara, and part of the solution!