Alumni Career Management

Sarita Soldz, MBA, ACC, is a leadership coach, workshop presenter, and speaker passionate about helping others reach their full potential. The essence of her approach is focused on asking: What do you really want? What about this truly matters? And, how might you get there?

Sarita’s approach is based on 20+ years as a leader growing brands and growing people. Her experience includes marketing, innovation, design thinking, and executive coaching. She is an International Coach Federation (ICF) certified coach having completed the Leadership Coaching Certificate program at Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership. She is a graduate from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management (MBA) and the University of Virginia (BS). Currently, she is a Senior Director at UT Austin McCombs School of Business where she is on the Career Management senior leadership team and leads career education and coaching for working professionals and alumni.

Sarita’s coaching specialties include helping others to develop their life purpose and value proposition; applying a design thinking mindset to life/work; improving mental fitness; and asking for and negotiating the small and big things in life and work. In borrowing the words of Brene Brown “to know me is to know my values,” Sarita’s two core values are growth and heart which create the foundation of her leadership, workshops and coaching.

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Ellen holds a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) level certification from the International Coaching Federation (ICF), a master’s degree in Career Counseling, and certifications as an Executive and Leadership Development Coach, Career Management Coach, Personal Branding Strategist, Brain-Based Leadership Coach, and is certified in both Strengthsfinder and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®).

Ellen has experience working with business undergrads, MBAs, mid-to-senior level managers, and executive leaders who are looking to refine their managerial skills, while taking their careers to the next level. She has helped thousands of students and alumni make career choices. Her style and expertise revolve around using brain-based, neuroscience research to help her clients draw out their strengths, focus on their goals, and push themselves out of their comfort zones, in order to reach their goals. She firmly believes in Brene’ Brown’s quote: "If you're comfortable, you're not learning."

Her speaking and coaching have led her to partner with such institutions as Dell, The Food Network, Oracle, and Daimler Chrysler. Her career and executive coaching seminars have reached MBA and university students & alumni at institutions such as Cambridge, Dartmouth, Texas Christian University, Michigan State, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Tulane, University of Iowa, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

When she’s not coaching, Ellen is either teaching Pilates, doing something outside in nature, or dancing. She also enjoys baking, laughing, and spending time with her partner and two boys.

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Michelle engages coaching clients around the globe who are looking to gain career clarity, build career confidence, and create strategies to make change. She is the Lead Coach at NASA’s Goddard’s Career Center and a speaker/trainer on a variety of career management topics.

Prior to working in her own Career Coaching business full time, she was a career advisor at the University of Maryland University College. She has worked with individual clients and groups in academic, corporate and government settings, and has learned the intricacies and specialized skills necessary to navigate these different environments. Her personal experiences have provided her with opportunities to be a creative thinker, passionate colleague, and inclusive leader in the field of career development.

Her advanced degree in career development has provided the foundation and her interest in social media and staying abreast of career development trends has influenced her holistic approach to career coaching. Her presentations and publications seek to inform, challenge, and inspire other professionals to expand their current knowledge and innovate new concepts and practices to share.

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Robin is an alumni career executive coach at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas – Austin. She spent close to 20 years as a career coach and consultant and employer relations leader in higher education, where she helped individual clients and groups to clarify and pursue their personal vision and career goals. Her experience includes relationship management and recruitment support for companies including Accenture, Bain, Deloitte, GE, McKinsey, Microsoft, P&G, and Rockwell, which has helped her understand the experience, skills, and personal characteristics organizations value most. Robin’s coaching style is characterized by authenticity, openness, and a desire to learn and grow with her clients, and she believes that a well-lived life and a fulfilling career are a journey and not a destination.

Robin holds certificates in Executive Coaching and Women in Leadership from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, as well as a master’s degree in higher education administration and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology. She is certified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) and DDI Targeted Selection® (behavior-based interviewing), and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®.

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Alex is a McCombs MBA class of 2014 alumni. After Austin, Alex was a Talent Strategy Consultant at Accenture, where he fell in love with executive coaching. He then spent 5 years as a coach for The Wharton School, where he provided guidance to thousands of students and alumni.

Currently, Alex is a Talent Manager at BCG and owns a small career coaching business for black and brown professionals called Decision Makers LLC. Alex also holds a BS in Astrophysics from Yale University. He is so excited to speak with you about your career!

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