CAREER COACHING FOR EXPERIENCED INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONALS
Your career has changed.
Your experience has not disappeared.
Get clear on your direction. Know how your experience translates.
Move forward with a strategy that fits where you actually are.
A strong record does not always make the next decision obvious.
You may be deciding whether to stay in your sector or move adjacent, whether a role is genuinely aligned or simply available, or how to translate your experience into a new market without handing over your entire professional history.
The work begins by separating the decision from the activity. Then we build the story, strategy, and next steps around that.
Choose where to begin
Start with the question you are trying to answer.
01.
Direction Diagnostic
I want to understand where I am unclear.
A short, practical check to help you identify where the decision feels clear, where it does not, and what may need more attention.
It takes five minutes and gives you a useful place to begin before any conversation.
02.
Decision Profile Debrief
I want a structured diagnostic before committing to longer work.
A 75-minute session using the Energy Leadership Index alongside my interpretation of your current situation.
We look at where pressure may be influencing your standards, timing, or next decision, and identify what needs to become clearer before you move.
03.
Career Recalibration
I want support through the full decision and transition.
A 10-session private coaching engagement over approximately four months.
Together, we clarify the decision in front of you, translate your experience, strengthen your positioning, and build a strategy you can use as the market responds.
Job offer received days after our final session.
Working with Mai, I was able to identify concrete methods and tools to strengthen and align my executive presence with my professional experience. This included identifying and addressing specific gaps that had time and time held me back, whether in interviews or previous positions.
Ryan K.
Global Strategy Advisor
When direction is clear
The process starts to feel like something you are building,
not something you are surviving
Better criteria
You have better criteria for which roles deserve your attention, based on level, scope, context, timing, and the parts of your experience you want to lead with now.
Clearer purpose for conversations
Some conversations are for information. Some are for positioning. Some are for opening a specific door. The value of the conversation becomes easier to use afterward.
A story you can actually use
You can explain your background without starting at the beginning, overloading the listener, or flattening what you have actually done.
Stronger standards for what deserves attention
You are not weighing every opportunity through the pressure of what arrived this week. You have clearer standards for what fits, what does not, and what deserves further attention.
I'm Mai Rattanavong.
I bring nearly twenty years across international development, multilateral environments, recruitment, senior talent, and advisory work, alongside lived experience as a third culture kid, globally mobile professional, and spouse of a diplomat.
As an iPEC Certified Professional Coach and Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner, I support professionals through career change, relocation, leadership pressure, and major “what now?” moments.
What clients say
Clients come for different reasons.
The shifts are practical.
The ELI assessment provided useful insights into energy levels and how they can be consciously used to reach specific goals. I am very grateful for Mai's help and guidance, and feel more confident and in control following our sessions.
Edith Read
Mai's approach to coaching sets her apart from others in the field and I could sense this difference from our very first conversation. She was attuned to my energy levels, recognizing how they shifted throughout our discussion depending on the topics we explored.
Claire Tomm
I was stuck on a major decision and didn't know what was holding me back. Mai helped me gain clarity and understand my internal blocks. I'm more aware and conscious. What surprised me most was finding my own answers during our sessions.
Emma Alqattan
Your next move does not have to be a guess.
Take the Direction Diagnostic for a quick self-guided read on where you are.