About The Environmental Career Coach
If you care about the planet but feel stuck trying to turn your education, experience, or interests into a real career path, you are not the problem. Environmental careers can be hard to navigate without field-specific guidance.
About The Environmental Career Coach
After spending over 8+ years as a career coach helping more than 200 individuals and hundreds more through group sessions and talks, I bring both deep environmental expertise and proven coaching success to help you navigate your path. But my journey started just like yours - in the field.
The field experience behind the guidance
Laura's environmental science background includes monitoring surface water quality, managing critical habitats, developing and leading Tampa Bay's artificial reef program, supporting GIS initiatives, managing databases, securing grants, and coordinating projects across public and private partners.
She also created a GIS internship program and reviewed candidates, giving her direct experience with the gap between what applicants bring and what hiring teams can quickly understand from a resume, application, or interview answer.
Environmental job seekers do not just need generic job-search advice. They need help translating real interests and real experience into roles, language, materials, and conversations that make sense inside this field.
You get guidance shaped by field work, program management, hiring conversations, professional networks, and the confusing gap between "I care about the environment" and "I know how to move forward."
My coaching approach
Environmental work includes many paths: consulting, government, nonprofits, restoration, planning, GIS, compliance, sustainability, field roles, communications, and education. Coaching helps you compare realistic options and choose a focused next step.
Many qualified people undersell their coursework, projects, fieldwork, volunteer experience, previous jobs, or transferable skills. We work on the connection between what you have done and what employers need.
When a search feels scattered, it is easy to apply everywhere and lose confidence. Coaching helps you focus your effort on the roles, materials, and conversations that make the most sense.
Surface water, habitats, artificial reefs, restoration, GIS, databases, grants, and environmental management.
Leadership and participation in environmental professional organizations, including regional and national environmental networks.
Experience reviewing candidates, building internship pathways, and understanding how environmental employers evaluate fit.
Laura is also a co-host of Environmental Professionals Radio, where conversations with people across the field help inform the practical career guidance behind The Environmental Career Coach.
As both a former environmental manager at the Environmental Protection Commission and a business consultant, I've sat on both sides of the hiring table. I understand what employers look for and how to help you stand out. Many of my clients:
I never had a mentor or coach - I am not sure I was even aware I should seek one. That gap led to burnout and temporarily leaving the environmental field. My mission is to prevent that from happening to you.
The work starts with caring about the land, water, wildlife, communities, and systems environmental professionals serve.
Environmental job searches can be confusing and discouraging. The strategy has to support steady action through the messy parts.
Career development is not only about applications. It is also about confidence, self-awareness, communication, and professional maturity.
Environmental careers are rarely linear. We look for practical paths, transferable strengths, and new ways to connect experience to opportunity.
The right environmental career may not look exactly like someone else's path. Your strategy should fit your values, strengths, and reality.
Good coaching should be encouraging, but it should also be grounded in what employers, organizations, and career paths actually require.
Our Promise
If you are trying to make career decisions without a clear map, the goal is to help you understand your options, recognize the strengths you already bring, and move with more confidence. Field experience, hard lessons, and coaching patterns are here to support your path forward.
Start where you are most stuck.
You do not need to solve every part of your environmental career at once. Start with the layer that needs attention now: clarity, feedback, practice, or coach support.
Get started today before this once in a lifetime opportunity expires.
