Higher Gear Coaching - Career Counselor and Leadership Coach - Oakland, California

Nico Golesorkhi

Highly recommend working with Curt! He helped me figure out what my needs and wants are when it comes to my career path and life. If you're in a career rut and need some direction, Curt can help guide you to finding your path forward. His help goes beyond just career searching, he helps you figure out your true purpose, your values, and how to align your life and career to that. Really glad to have him in my corner moving forward.

Dominic Garcia

Curt is a great leader, mentor, and coach. He was able to help me get unstuck with my career goals and passion after I was laid off from work last year. Thanks to his guidance, structured coaching techniques, and open mindset, I landed a new Product Manager role and with a regenerated purpose.

Luke Maher

I spent three months working with Curt after realizing that I needed some help transitioning through a particularly challenging patch of my career. I can't recommend Curt highly enough. He used a fantastic process and set of tools to help me get "unstuck". He is gifted at knowing when to listen, when to challenge, and when to push his clients. I am now approaching my career with a renewed sense of passion and purpose and I honestly feel like I show up better each and every day.

Gene Stout

Curt quickly identifies areas for improvement in his client’s approach to finding new job opportunities. My interaction with him helped me refine my resume, interview skills, social media tactics, and highlighted strengths in ways I could not have done on my own. Equally as important, he helped me realize when opportunities were not a good fit so that I’ve avoided wasting time in my career. If you are looking to improve the outcome of your job search, I recommend Curt as a coach.

Neerav Shah

Curt provided thoughtful information, discussions and insights as I navigated career development after 20 years of work experience. In addition, Curt identified opportunity to increase my positivity intelligence, mental exercises to ensure I was not unfairly judging myself, others throughout my journey. If you are looking for an holistic coach who can challenge you as you reflect upon your professional and personal experiences, I highly recommend and endorse Curt. I look forward to leveraging his services this Fall when I start my new job (I will definitely introduce his services to my team members).

Kelsy Quiroz

If I could give ten stars, I would give ten stars! Curt is a fantastic coach and person. He was the most supportive, insightful, and assertive coach I could ever wish. The result of my time with him surpassed all of my expectations in the best way possible. Today, I am proud to say that I am achieving everything I wanted when I went to my first session with him. I highly recommend Curt to anyone who feels lost, overwhelmed, and unmotivated in their professional lives. Curt made me realize I needed to dream bigger and go for my wildest goals. He helped me design a career plan, and he gave me valuable advice and resources that I will cherish forever.

Stephen Lamers

I worked with Curt over the course of four months and truly believe it has been the best investment I have ever made in myself. His approach not only helped me find what direction I wanted to take in my career (and life in general), but more importantly it gave me the tools to really feel joy in that path. He far surpassed my expectations and continues to provide me with excellent guidance. I strongly recommend Curt and his coaching process.

Victoria Cheng

I highly recommend working with Curt. I worked with Curt to make a significant industry change that I would have struggled to do on my own, and I am very grateful for the entire process -- from preliminary self-reflection all the way to the first 90 days of the new job.

Curt provided feedback, support, and coaching throughout the entire process. It was valuable to learn how I could improve (ex. effective networking, strengthening interviewing skills, negotiating) and to also know that someone was supporting and cheering me on throughout the entire journey. This helped me get unstuck and get into a career that is meaningful to me.