Career Coaching Dallas, TX & Nationwide
You're successful. But you're not sure what comes next.
Your career looks fine from the outside, but something feels off. You’re capable, successful, and used to figuring things out, yet lately you’ve found yourself questioning what you actually want from your career. You may have outgrown your current role, feel burned out or unfulfilled, or simply wonder whether the path you chose years ago still fits the person you are today.
Or maybe you actually like your career. You’re not looking to start over but you are very ready to level up. You want the promotion, leadership role, bigger opportunity, or next chapter of your career, but you want to make sure you’re growing in a way that feels right for you and are not just taking on more because that’s what successful people are supposed to do.
I’m Ashley Shihab, a Certified Life Coach in Dallas who has coached clients across the country since 2019. Through virtual one-on-one career coaching, I help capable, driven professionals gain clarity, build confidence, trust themselves, and move forward when they’re ready to move on or move up in their career.
Career Coaching for the 'What Now?' Chapters
If you’ve outgrown your current role, feel stuck in your career, are questioning what you actually want, or find yourself wondering what comes next, you’re in the right place.
It’s a strange feeling to accomplish things you once worked toward only to realize they don’t feel as fulfilling as you expected. You can be grateful for your career and still know you want something different. You can be successful and still feel unfulfilled. And you can genuinely like what you do while knowing you’re ready for more. Sometimes having more options actually makes the decision harder, because for the first time you’re not choosing based on what you have to do. You’re choosing based on what you actually want.
Maybe you’re considering a career change, are thinking about leaving your company, want to pursue a completely different path, or you feel ready to finally explore something you’ve wanted to do for years. You may have been promoted into leadership and are trying to figure out how to navigate this new level of responsibility, or you might have reached a point in your career where you’re asking yourself, “Is this really what I want for the next five, ten, or twenty years?”
These moments can be surprisingly difficult. They can cause you to overthink decisions, second-guess yourself, worry about making the ‘wrong’ move, or they can cause you to stay in a situation that no longer feels right because you don’t know what you would do instead.
Career coaching gives you a dedicated space to step back from all of that noise and overthinking so that you can get honest about where you are, understand what you actually want, and create a clearer direction for where you want to go next.
You may decide you want a career change, you may get the promotion you dreamed of or you may figure out how to make the career you already have work better for the life you want. Whatever we uncover together, we’ll make sure it feels good to you.
Career Coaching for Clarity, Confidence, Career Growth & Your Next Chapter
Career coaching can support you through many different professional challenges and seasons. Whether you’re feeling stuck, navigating a career transition, questioning what you want next, or ready to grow into a bigger role, coaching can help you gain clarity, strengthen your confidence and self-trust, and move forward in a way that feels right for you.
Your career is a significant part of your life, so the work often goes deeper than simply deciding what job you should take next.
Our sessions will help you get clarity on what matters to you now, uncover what may be holding you back, and create a career that fits who you are today.
Getting Unstuck & Finding Career Clarity
Feeling stuck in your career can look different for everyone. You may know that you’re ready for something to change but have no idea where to begin. You might be questioning whether you’re in the right career, feeling bored or unfulfilled, or wondering if there’s something more for you.
Career coaching can help you step back from the day-to-day, understand what is keeping you stuck, gain a clearer perspective, and identify what you actually want.
You don’t have to know exactly what your next career move is before you start coaching. Getting clear is part of the process.
Navigating Career Changes & Transitions
Career changes can bring a lot of uncertainty, even when you know change is necessary.
It is stressful to be considering leaving a job, changing careers, returning to work, becoming an entrepreneur, or simply moving in a completely different direction professionally. And it is really stressful to find yourself without a job, or in a season that I like to call “fun-employment.”
These seasons can bring up a whirlwind of emotions, like feeling excited about the possibilities and terrified of making the wrong decision at the same time.
Career coaching gives you space to work through that uncertainty, understand your options, challenge the fears and limiting beliefs that may be keeping you stuck, and create a path forward that feels intentional and authentic to you.
Advancing Your Career & Stepping Into Leadership
Career coaching isn’t only for people who want to leave their jobs.
Many of my clients are successful professionals, leaders, and executives who are ready for their next level of growth. I meet them when they are preparing for a promotion, stepping into a leadership role, navigating greater visibility, managing a team for the first time, or simply trying to figure out what the next level of their career should look and feel like.
As your responsibilities grow, so do the questions.
How do I lead confidently?
How do I stop second-guessing myself?
How do I advocate for myself?
How do I handle greater visibility and responsibility without burning myself out?
Coaching gives you a space to work through those questions and develop the confidence, self-awareness, and self-trust to lead at the level you’re stepping into. Imagine being able to actually talk openly about your career and your life without worrying about how your colleagues could potentially use your fears and personal life against you! That’s exactly what this time provides.
Building Career Confidence & Self-Trust
You can be incredibly accomplished and still doubt yourself. You’d be surprised how many successful, high level executives have struggled with imposter syndrome, worried that they were not qualified enough, had difficulty advocating for themselves, or constantly looked to other people for reassurance before making a decision. You are definitely not alone if you feel this way!
Career coaching can help you understand the thoughts and patterns that are keeping you from fully trusting yourself, so you can make decisions with more confidence and stop allowing fear or self-doubt to determine what you do next.
Creating a Career That Fits Your Life
Your career is a big part of your life. It affects your time, energy, relationships, finances, confidence, and overall well-being.
That means career success isn’t just about a title, salary, or impressive résumé. It’s also about how your career fits in with the rest of your life.
Wanting more flexibility, a bigger salary, or opportunities for advancement while still having time for your family are all things to consider. Your priorities will change throughout your life, so the definition of success you had five or ten years ago likely no longer feels right.
Coaching can help you figure out what success means to you now and create a career that supports the life you actually want to live.
A Dallas Career Coach You Can Work With From Anywhere
I’m based in Dallas, Texas, but you don’t have to live in Dallas to coach with me.
I provide virtual one-on-one career coaching for clients throughout the United States, so you can have meaningful, private coaching conversations from wherever you are. Whether you’re in Dallas, somewhere else in Texas, or across the country, you can receive consistent coaching support without needing to travel to an office.
My clients come to coaching from many different professional backgrounds and seasons of their careers, but they often have something in common: they know they’re capable of more, they know something needs to change, or they’re ready to grow but aren’t sure what that next step should look like.
I know what it feels like to question your career without knowing what you actually want instead.
I spent years in Corporate America knowing that the path I was on wasn’t right for me, but I didn’t know what “more” meant. I knew I wanted something different, but I had no idea how to translate that feeling into an actual career.
That experience is a big part of why I love career coaching. My role as your coach isn’t to tell you what career you should choose or what decision you should make. I believe the answers you’re looking for are already within you. My job is to help you quiet the noise, uncover what you truly want, work through what’s getting in the way, and build the confidence to move forward.
