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Good Work Guidance™
Finding Meaningful Work
Claude sometimes jokes that, judging from how people behave at work, the word career is actually the word "careen" and a piece of the "n" broke off to make it look like an "r." His sense of humor may be slightly different, but there is no denying that many jobs make us feel like we are bouncing off the walls of our cubicles or careening through life from one bad job to another.
In Good Work what you do for a living is determined
- FIRST by your innate interests and capacities.
- SECOND by the need to make money.
Making money is still important, but you look for work that lets you do what you love and still pay the bills. Your "career" changes, sometimes in an instant of "Aha!" insight, but more often through refinements in understanding that lead you through a series of better and better jobs.
Finding good work, work that lets you do what you love and still pay the bills isn't easy. But with strong intention, hard work, and good choices, anybody can find their own true "right livelihood."
Who Will Be Your Guide?
Long before job security disappeared, long before the word "burnout" came into common usage, long before a generation of career changers popularized lifelong learning, and way before the Internet brought learning into our homes, Claude Whitmyer was already teaching people how to find greater meaning and reward in what they did for a living.
He has provided career guidance, small business consulting, entrepreneurship training, and other lifelong learning opportunities to thousands of men and women searching for more meaning in their lives, their work and their work places, while still meeting the need to pay the bills.
How Does It Work?
Private, confidential consultations following the Good Work Guidance™ process), are available in San Francisco and other cities or online by special arrangement.
- You can read a personal history of Claude's own Good Work here.
- Learn more about Good Work Guidance here.
- Sample lessons for the Path to Meaningful Work can be found here.
- To schedule an appointment write or call 415-648-2667.
- please visit BitWine for information about the tools Claude uses for online guidance or to make an appointment for an online session.
What Are Your Options?
Online Career Guidance.
Individual and group sessions are available online, based on the same steps covered in the free sample lessons and face-to-face consultations. For information about the online consulting tools I use, please visit here or write or call me (415-648-2667).
Online Workshops.
The Path to Meaningful Work is available as an online workshop by special arrangement. It is especially valuable for groups of eight or more learners willing to attend together. To let us know of your group's interest, please write or call 415-648-2667. To view sample lessons, visit this page.
Executive Coaching.
If you are a manager or executive facing a job transition or looking for career guidance, we offer you private consultations in person or by phone or email. To schedule an appointment write or call 415-648-2667.
Small Business Consulting.
Starting, expanding, or selling a small business? To do it right, don't try doing it alone. Let us help. We can help you do well by also doing good. For information, please go here or write or call 415-648-2667.
Career Coaching in Japan.
We are excited by the pioneering work of our associate Hidetake Enomoto in bringing career coaching to Japan. Through workshops and one-to-one consulting sessions, Mr. Enomoto has helped many hundreds of Japanese professionals find greater meaning in their work. Through meaningfulWork.Com, he is available for cross-cultural workshops and teleconferences on new developments in the Japanese workplace. Please email for details. Mr. Enomoto's biography, is here, where you will also find links to his new projects that are part of the "Transition Towns" movement to help towns and cities prepare for the coming social, political and economic challenges brought on by "peak oil" production.
Who Will Be Your Guide?
How Does It Work?
What Are Your Options?
Online Career Guidance
Online Workshops
Executive Coaching
Small Business Consulting
Career Coaching in Japan
Books On Meaningful Work
Books On Meaningful Work
Claude and his wife Gail Terry Grimes have long been thought leaders in the movement to bring back purpose and values to the workplace as demonstrated in their writing, including their books:
Mindfulness & Meaningful Work: Explorations in Right Livelihood (Parallax Press, 1994), through which we helped introduce the idea of "right livelihood" to the English-speaking world.
Running a One Person Business (Ten Speed Press, Second Edition, 1994), in which we were among the first to call for a values-based "business-as-lifestyle" approach to entrepreneurship.
In the Company of Others: Making Community in the Modern World (Targer/Putnam, 1993) where we were early champions of the practices of "circles of intimacy" and grassroots marketing that have come to be known as "degrees of separation," "social networking," and "social marketing." Please visit an example of one of our social networks at, The Briarpatch and read about its long, fascinating history at Briarpatch.Net.
These books also document the development and describe the elements of Good Work Guidance™, Claude's unique approaches to career guidance and coaching for people seeking a more meaningful work and life.
