REINVENTION
Twenty-Eight Years. Ten Thousand Careers.
The resume was almost never the problem. I coach executives through the part of their career nobody warned them about, and I write about the emotional intelligence that decides how it goes.
- Career Transition
- Interview Performance
- Executive Coaching
- Speaking
About Rhett
I got into this because of the way people talk about work when nobody's listening.
I’ve been coaching people through career transition since 1998. Long enough to watch three recessions, one pandemic, and now AI rearrange what a career looks like. Ten thousand people have sat across from me and said some version of the same sentence. I don’t know what I’m worth anymore.
The job market didn’t teach me the most useful thing I know. The conversations did. How a fifty-four year old VP describes himself after a layoff. What a CFO does with her hands when she’s asked about the gap on her resume. The tell is always emotional before it’s ever tactical.
So that’s what I work on. Not the document. The person holding it.
I run Notus Human Capital out of Utah. I ride an ebike on dirt when I need to think. I’m writing a book called Day Two. The rest of this site is those three things.
Beyond the career
I am a better man, a better husband, and a better father because of hiswisdom and guidance.
Patrick Lang
Director, IoT Strategic Roadmap Planning, Intel Corporation
Three Laws, Never Failed Yet
What Actually Decides Who Gets Hired
Twenty-eight years of coaching produced exactly three rules I'd defend in any room, plus one thing almost nobody wants to hear. Here they are.
Lead With the Liability
Say the hard thing first. The gap, the layoff, the age. It stops being leverage against you the second you name it.
Value Before the Ask
Give something that cost you effort before you need anything. This is why some people get answered and most get archived.
Remove the Risk
Every hire is a bet on somebody's reputation. Be the safe choice, not the impressive one.
Delivery Beats Documents
Nobody has ever been hired off a resume. They were hired off ninety seconds of how you sounded when the question got hard.
Watch What Happens When Somebody Finally Says It Out Loud
- Grow Personally and Professionally
- Building Personal and Professional Excellence
- Rise Personally and Professionally
- Growing your business successful
Work
Four Ways In
- Executive Career Coaching
- Winning the Room
- The Axiom Foundry
- Speaking and Workshops
Executive Career Coaching
- Full Search
For executives in transition, by choice or otherwise. Positioning, targeting, recruiter access, interview prep, and the offer conversation. We work until you land, not until a package runs out. This one runs through my firm, Notus Human Capital, where you get the full team instead of just me.
Goal-Oriented business Coaching Solutions
Winning the Room
- Interview Prep
Interview performance coaching, reviewed like game film. We record the session and watch it back together, which is uncomfortable and the fastest thing I know. Your pace, your face, your first ninety seconds, and the four questions that quietly decide it. Most of what loses an interview happens before the second question.
Goal-Oriented business Coaching Solutions
The Axiom Foundry
- Twelve Men
Four days built on Benjamin Franklin's Junto model. Twelve men who were selected, not sold to. You already know your axioms, you've read the books, and the gap between knowing and instinct is the only thing that ever mattered. Closing it takes engineered experience, not another framework.
Goal-Oriented business Coaching Solutions
Speaking and Workshops
- Live Rooms
Keynotes on emotional intelligence, career reinvention after fifty, and what AI is doing to the middle of the org chart. I bring stories with a knife in them, not a model with four quadrants. Half-day workshops include live coaching in front of the room, which is where people actually learn it.
Goal-Oriented business Coaching Solutions
Where They Landed
The Companies On the Other Side of the Offer
People I've coached now run teams at companies like these. I don't place candidates and I'm not a recruiter. I get people ready for the room, and the room does the rest.
- Career Transition
- Executive
1000+
People coached since 1998
- Interview Coaching
- Director and above
10+
Average offers per client
- The Foundry
- Cohort
12
Men per session, by invitation
What they say
From the People Who Did the Work
A lifelong friend
I consider him not only my coach but a lifelong trusted friend.
Arti Deshpande
VP, Enterprise AI Enablement, Brown & Brown Insurance
Integrity
He talked me out of doing a higher priced program because he genuinely felt the scope of my search didn’t justify it.
Stephen Lehocky
Chief Operating Officer, National Circuit Assembly
Emotional intelligence
I cannot recommend… Rhett Kasparian strongly enough for anyone who is seeking a new position, improving their emotional intelligence or developing their interpersonal skills.
Clare Thorp, Ph.D.
EVP & Chief Science Officer, American Urological Association