Here’s what you need to know…
I help professionals 50 ->75+ create meaningful career transitions and find work that truly matters. After 20 years as a NYC headhunter,
I know this truth: Every skill you’ve developed is transferable and valuable. Your expertise doesn’t expire.
Award-Winning Author
The Next Act: A Complete Guide to Career Change, Professional Reinvention, and Finding Work That Matters
♦ Silver Winner – MUSE Creative Awards
♦ International Book Award Finalist – Business & Inspirational Categories
“The system wants you to believe your shelf life has expired.
It’s waiting for you to shrink, to become invisible, to quietly fade away.
Michael Feeley is here to help you see that this isn’t true. Go, go, go.” — Seth Godin
Why I’m Passionate About My Work
As a former professional actor in New York City, who spent two decades as a headhunter placing thousands of people in jobs, and now running my own career and life coaching business, I’ve lived career reinvention myself.
Professional reinvention isn’t about starting over—it’s about strategic evolution, valuing and using everything you’ve built.
The people I work with are wise, established professionals ready to do the work to create meaningful change—not quick fixes. They want to find and create work that reflects their values and makes a real difference, where they feel profoundly expressed and love the work they do.
Industries: Finance, Technology, Healthcare, Legal, Publishing, Real Estate, Non-Profit, Entertainment
Notable organizations: The Hunger Project, AMFAR, Marriott, MetLife, BlackRock, News Corp, Macklowe Real Estate, AARP, Cotton Incorporated
How We Work Together
Discovery Call: Complimentary 20-minute consultation
Intensive: Single 2-hour strategic working session
Monthly Program: 4 weekly sessions with accountability
Deeper Transformation: 12-week comprehensive reinvention program
You’ll Gain:
- Clarity on your present job or next career move
- Confidence in your transferable value – skills, life experience, credentials, expertise
- Strategic positioning for your target market
- Actionable and achievable transition plan
My Philosophy
The answers to your questions are in you and we’ll find them together.
I encourage every person I work with to see themselves as a Champion and a Rebel.
Champions train daily. They show up and do their best.
Not to beat others out or down, but to win and lead with fierce integrity.
Why a rebel? Rebels create change.
Your next act can be your best chapter and know this… you have have many more encores to give.
The question is – What meaningful work will you create with everything you’ve learned?
Ready to begin? Please email and let’s talk:
MF@michaelfeeleylifecoach.com
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Yes. It’s true. I do live on the Caribbean Island of Saba. After living and working in New York City for 40+ years I leaped right out of the rat race of corporate America; leaving behind the relentless stress and competition that was wasting me; to rediscover what really matters to me in life.
I’m living my dream – the best life I can by choice. You get one life – make it count.
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About Our Logo
The Golden Section – Nautilus
The logo is a spiral revolving around a central point, expanding inward and outward like a nautilus shell.
Life Coaching gets to the center of you with imagination and tremendous precision.
The spiral exists in the seeds of a sunflower blossom, a pine cone, the shape of our ear and our DNA.
We’re connected and related to everything.
My Certifications
Accredited Coach Training Program (ACTP) by iPEC – Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching
The highest level of training recognized by the ICF – International Coaching Federation
Studying – Growing – Inspiring You
I’m a lifelong learner and along the way I’ve been taking lots of classes and participating in workshops:
- Seth Godin’s Akimbo Workshops – Privileged to be hired as a workshop coach
- The Marketing Seminar with Seth Godin (to help me understand today’s marketing)
- The Integrity Cleanse with Martha Beck (Because integrity is the most crucial thing in my life and work)
- Jon Morrow – Smart Blogger
- The Freelancers Workshop and The Bootstapper’s Workshop (helping me stay on top of my career coaching work and learning how to build your own business)
- The Story Skills Workshop with Bernadette Jiwa
- The Real Skills Conference
- The Creative’s Workshop with Seth Godin (where I had the honor to be an Akimbo Workshop Coach) The pinnacle of my career.
- Writing In Community – Akimbo Workshop with Kristin Hatcher
- Akimbo Workshops – Hella Talks – Dr. Tiffany Jana + Seth Godin – “DEI + J – The State of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice. Where Do We Go from Here?”
- Get it Done: Complete Projects that Matter with Seth Godin – Project Management / Project Planning
- UDEMY – Creating Significance: Choosing to Do Our Best Work – Seth Godin
- UDEMY – Learning to See How Ideas Spread: 5 Graphs – Seth Godin
- LinkedIn Learning – Transitioning from Corporate Leadership to Executive Coaching – Lance Tanaka
- UDEMY – This is Strategy with Seth Godin
- UDEMY – Thriving in an AI Future – Seth Godin
- Purple Space – A Community of Practice for Creators – Entrepreneurs – Freelancers – Line Managers. A place to connect and choose your partners – build a team – to lead – learn – create change that makes a difference the way you hope to.
Through my blog posts, social posts and mailings I’m eagerly sharing all that I’ve learned because this knowledge matters and how it changes the lives of people I work with, needs to be spread around.
Website Images & Alyssha Eve Csük
Alyssha Eve Csük (www.alysshaevecsuk.com) gives me a special gift in allowing me to present 5 of her beautiful photographs on my website. Rust and slate are alive in her exceptional pictures. Alyssha celebrates something which is usually ignored, seen as ugly, corroding, deteriorating and wasting away.
I first saw Alyssha’s photographs on May 15, 2011 in The New York Times and loved them! I was captivated. I had never seen anything like it. Amazing, vivid colors, textures and patterns. I knew right there that ‘rust’ – the way metal changes and is present in stone — had to be part of my coaching website because it is directly related to the changes a person can experience with Life – Career – Change Coaching… the peeling back of layers, revealing textures, grains, depth and brilliance of natural colors and shapes… sharp, smooth and specific details. It says a lot about the rich, complex layers and depths of people.
It is a dream come true to showcase some of her gorgeous art. I’m moved and honored by her generosity and kindness. Thank you Alyssha!
The coaching work I do with people – creating change for a happier life and career – involves deep listening without judgment, a sincere desire to know and a large hope to be immensely useful.
Every one of us has felt hard at times like stone or that we’re wasting away in some way.
People often come to coaching feeling ‘rusted’ and ‘worn down’. They’re stressed and brittle with any number of daily questions and happenings called life. They’ve neglected themselves – sometimes their bodies and minds, capping emotions and living with fear and limiting beliefs about themselves and the world. They’re like a once useful and important object that has been forgotten and allowed to ‘oxidize and rust out’.
Rust is raw. It’s ordinary and resilient. When you focus your attention on it you see that it is active, bold, interesting and independent as it runs and bleeds and blisters. You might say it has a mind of its own and likes to show off as it peels back and pushes off paint, pitting, opening up, releasing what’s underneath. Scratches and scraps expand, rise and reach out. Rust says – ‘This is exactly who I am’.
I’m grateful to have discovered the unique and irresistible visions of Alyssha Eve Csuk; showing that basic, ordinary things like rust and slate, have simple, profound, true beauty and important meaning for our own lives – and for me… thrillingly symbolizes the effects Life and Career and Change Coaching can have on a person.