Owner / Partner
Career By Choice - Expat Career & Entrepreneur Coaching
Italy
Megan Fitzgerald is an expat career, entrepreneur and branding coach and the founder of Career By Choice. She empowers expats to use their personal brand to build a career or business that 'fits' who they are and their international, mob...
Megan Fitzgerald is an expat career, entrepreneur and branding coach and the founder of Career By Choice. She empowers expats to use their personal brand to build a career or business that 'fits' who they are and their international, mobile lifestyle.
It is the unique combination of her creative, entrepreneurial approach, her extensive global experience and training, and her passion for helping others do what they love while living where they want that has helped her clients find more freedom and success in their professional lives. Her strengths lie in her ability to quickly identify needs, strategically explore possibilities, and empower others to make choices that work for them.
Much like herself, Megan's clients are forward-thinking expats who are passionate about building a more fulfilling professional life, wherever they call home. They embrace the idea that communicating their personal brand in a compelling way both on- and off-line is the key to their success. Because they want to thrive - not just survive - in the global market place, her clients are willing to invest the time and energy in applying new strategies and technology tosuccessfully grow their careers or businesses. Her clients love that she sets the bar high and holds herself to the same high standards in the level of support she provides to them.
With over 15 years of experience in career and business development, Megan has worked with such professionals and entrepreneurs from across the globe. She has developed career and business development programs for people from Africa, Asia, Europe, North and Latin America and the Middle East. Her passion for travel, culture and service has taken her to over 25 countries on 5 continents to live, work or play.
Committed to excellence, lifelong learning and applying innovative strategies to help her clients succeed, she is constantly working to hone her craft. Her credentials include:
• Certified Personal Branding Strategist - one of the first 100 worldwide
• Certified Career Coach
• Certified Executive Coach
• Certified Online Identity Strategist – one of the first 35 worldwide
• Certified 360 Personal Brand Assessment Analyst
• Trained in entrepreneurial and business coaching
• Cambridge University CELTA
• Bachelors Degrees in International Relations and Semiotics
• Masters Degree in Multimedia Communications
It is her expertise in personal branding, career marketing materials and strategic career and business development which has led to her being selected to present to global audiences and telesummits. She has being featured in several expatriate publications, including Italy Magazine.
As Megan believes that developing your professional network on- and off-line is essential for the global professional, she enjoys connecting with colleagues, peers and collaborators from San Francisco to Seoul via many online communities and networks. She is also a member of several professional associations, including the International Coach Federation, the Career Management Alliance, and the Association of Career Professionals International.
Megan is active in community service and donates a percentage of her total income to The Global Fund and to life saving programs around the world fighting AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. She is a member of Kiva.org, or a "Kivan", and supports entrepreneurs in developing countries through small microloans. Currently she is supporting a woman in Samoa to raise kava, and important element in Samoan culture, to support her family.
When she is not being of service to her clients, Megan enjoys exploring her expat hometown of Rome, international travel, modern art, independent film, salsa dancing, vipassana meditation and a caffè macchiato to start her day.
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"If your career or business does not "fit" who you really are and your lifestyle of choice, can it really be called successful?"
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Brown University, United States
Bachelor’s degree.
Areas of study: B.A. International Relations
B.A. Semiotics
American University
Master’s degree.
Areas of study: M.A. Multimedia Design and Communications
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