Career Development & Professional Positioning

NEXT CHAPTER

Your experience has value.
Your next step should reflect it. 

Support shaped around your next step

Every engagement begins with the person, not the document.

We help students, emerging professionals, experienced professionals, career changers, and executives recognize the value they bring, communicate it clearly, and approach their next opportunity with greater strategy, confidence, and purpose.


We bring career strategy, communications, professional storytelling, business perspective, and thoughtful guidance together to help you understand how your experiences connect and position yourself for where you want to go next.

Who we help

Students & Emerging Professionals

Students & Emerging Professionals

Students & Emerging Professionals

For students, recent graduates, and early-career professionals preparing for internships, first roles, and career growth. We help you recognize the value in coursework, projects, employment, and leadership, then translate it into a professional story employers can understand. 

Your Next Role

Students & Emerging Professionals

Students & Emerging Professionals

For experienced professionals pursuing advancement, greater responsibility, or a role that better reflects their capabilities. We help bring your accomplishments into focus and communicate why you are ready for the next step.

Career Change & Return

Career Change & Return

Career Change & Return

For professionals entering a new function, industry, or work environment, or returning after a career break. We help identify transferable strengths and build a credible story connecting previous experience to future goals. 

Executive Positioning

Career Change & Return

Career Change & Return

For senior leaders pursuing executive, advisory, board, fractional, consulting, or portfolio-career opportunities. We help articulate your leadership perspective, organizational impact, and the value you bring to the next opportunity. 

How we work together

The document is a tool. The story is the strategy.

Your goals and starting point determine where we focus. You may need to clarify your direction, strengthen your professional materials, prepare for a specific opportunity, or bring these elements together.


An introductory conversation helps us identify the support that would be most useful. From there, we define the scope and priorities of the work.


Meet Kate Wurtzel

Kate leads Next Chapter, bringing experience in education, marketing, brand strategy, and business development.


Through thoughtful questions and careful listening, she helps clients connect their experiences, communicate their value, and shape a professional story that is credible, distinctive, and true to them.

More About Kate

The first step is understanding your story.

Every engagement begins with an introductory conversation designed to understand where you are today, where you hope to go next, and what support would be most valuable. 

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