About

I’m Erikka Taylor.
I Help Business Professionals & Fresh Graduates Accomplish Their Career Goals.

Career Coach & Culture Curator

I’ve coached online for over 3000+ hours & over 7000 online sessions. Career Coaching, Business Communications, & US/Canadian Business Culture are my specialties. I’m a Certified Career Coach & I’ve conducted thousands of interviews in my career as a hiring manager.

I work with many clients who are non-native English speakers & I hold a 160+ Hour TEFL Certification & a 40+ Hour Online Teaching Certification.

In my over 16+ years of experience as a Corporate Hiring Manager in the US & Canada for a variety of industries including technology, telecommunications, e-commerce, fitness, & omnichannel experiences. My experience includes Fortune 500 Companies &
100 Best Companies to Work For® according to Great Place to Work® and Fortune.

I know you will experience personal transformation with me. I’ve coached many international executive clients from companies including Deloitte, Adobe, Google, Verizon, Toyota, Hyundai, NATO, Nvidia, GE, PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Ernst & Young (EY), KPMG, Dell, Samsung, Vodafone to name a few.

The career paths of my clientele are broad. I’ve worked with many global CFOs, HRVPs, EVPs, C-suite executives, Financial Controllers, Test Engineers, Front-End & Back-End Developers, Full-Stack Engineers, Non-Profit Project Managers, Project Managers, Business Intelligence Leaders, Scrum Masters, Teachers, Professors, Writers, Grad Students, Real Estate Brokers, and so many other careers I cannot list them all here.

If you have any questions about your specific needs, please send me a message & I will respond as soon as possible.

Coaching creates new opportunities that you never thought possible. It provides new perspectives & opportunities for growth & accomplishment.
- Erikka Taylor

Topics I Can Help You With

01.

Planning

Together we will map out your career. What are your goals? Where do you want to get to? From there, we will develop a plan. As you know, a goal without a plan is just a wish. We will make these goals actionable and clear throughout the process.

02.

Skill-Building

Once we have our plan, we can focus on building those skills that will help you level up. From presentation skills to email communications and employee relations, I will work with you to build your skills.

03.

Competency

Now that you have the skills you need, we need to improve your competency. We will work on execution at this phase and focus on deepening your knowledge and expertise.

04.

Communication

Without excellent communication skills, it is difficult to thrive in your career. Whether you are a native English speaker or new to English, I can help. We will work together on your business communication skills.

05.

Interview Prep

Having conducted thousands of interviews in my career, I can help you prepare for your next interview. We will cover general strategies and what the interviewer really means from their questions. Interviews are about how you seem – not who you really are – since there isn’t enough time for that! We will review first impressions and how to avoid red flags during the interview process. I will also teach you how to keep your cool & answer with confidence, even when you are nervous.

06.

Practice

At this stage of the process, we will have practice sessions. Whether that is role-playing difficult interactions at work, presentations, public speaking, or mock interview sessions, I will be there to provide you with feedback along the way. We will work together to practice what you need so that you can feel confident in what you are presenting.

07.

Confidence

Have you ever noticed that there are lots of people in roles they are not qualified for? But that they have a lot of confidence and excellent communication and presentation skills so that they can, “fake it till they make it”? We will work on the physical and psychological elements that build confidence so that you can be your best self.

08.

Cultural Understanding

It doesn’t matter what industry you are in or where you work – culture matters! You may be thinking – but I am not from the culture of the country that I work in. So does that mean I can’t fit the culture? The answer is – NO! But, you need to be aware of the internal corporate culture that makes the company work. Cultural fit can be more important for some companies than skill-sets.

What Is A Coach?

There are many definitions for a coach out there, but no definitive definition.

One of the definitions that I feel explains the role the best is from the International Coach Federation (ICF). They describe coaching as a partnership with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.

As a Career Coach who is certified as a Master EFT/TFT Tapping Practitioner, I can help individuals who are experiencing many different life experiences including the following:

A lack of clarity, focus, goals, purpose, in motivation
Confused thinking, poor planning, or execution
Chronic low self-confidence and or low self-esteem
Feeling like you are not living up to your full potential in life
Negative emotional reactions to past events due to underlying beliefs
A life transition or change such as a divorce, death, or career change
A lack of results in attaining set goals
A block in direction and knowing what path to take next

It is important to note that coaching is NOT counseling, consulting, therapy, mentoring, or structured training.

What Can You Expect From Me As Your Coach?

In my view, Coaches are there to support & challenge their clients while encouraging change, growth & development.

In order to accomplish this, as your Career Coach, I commit to:

Asking the right questions to understand your beliefs, needs, & goals
Believing that the client is the only expert on their own life experience, beliefs & circumstances
Listening to understand the circumstances of your unique situation
Encouraging, supporting & believing in you, regardless of whether you believe in yourself
Challenging you to improve self-awareness to assist you in recognizing what is holding you back
Offering an objective assessment & direct observation to assist in your self-awareness & or awareness of others in your life
Fostering shifts in perspective & thinking to provide an expansive view of your circumstances or outcomes
Discovering, clarifying & aligning with your goals & outcomes
Assisting you during the goal-setting process by clarifying & maintaining a clear goal focus
Encouraging you on your journey of self-discovery
Eliciting you to creatively develop your own personal strategies & solutions for action
Holding clients both responsible & accountable for their own outcomes & actions
Creating a non-judgmental environment for you to feel safe in
Maintaining professional boundaries in the coaching relationship, including confidentiality, while adhering to a professional code of ethics

What I Expect From My Clients

To be as honest & open as possible during the process
To come prepared to work
To be open to new & more positive viewpoints on life
To be willing to try new tools to improve self-awareness & improved awareness of their impact on others around them
To be an active partner in creating a coaching plan based on goals that matter to them
To be ready to take full responsibility for all life actions & outcomes and the role played in creating current circumstances
To take complete responsibility for personal beliefs in order to have the power to change them
To own results and outcomes knowing that their success is directly correlated to their commitment & effort to change
To take brave behavioral actions that are in alignment with personal goals, aspirations, & new beliefs
To utilize the tools, concepts, models & principles provided by me as their coach & engage in effective forward actions
To follow through on all commitments made to me as their coach & to themselves