About Career Upside
Career Upside works with business leaders, executives, and other individuals to uncover their unique strengths, improve their performance, and achieve more success in their work and personal lives.
20+ years of executive and career coaching
We can help you because we know what it takes to reach the top in business.
Birkman Certified
Professional
We leverage this science-backed assessment to uncover your natural aptitudes and find clarity in your career.
Experienced leader with Fortune 500 Companies
Because we work with our clients to resolve their deep-lying needs, they find fulfillment in work and life.
Empowering Leaders and Executives To Create Their Own Success
Career Upside was founded on the belief that everyone can write their own success, they just need help starting.
Meet the Team
Principal, Career & Executive Coach
J. Todd McCarty has led an impressive career as a marketing and sales enablement leader working for five different Fortune 500 companies over 25+ years, including Omnicom, Anheuser-Busch, AT&T (formerly BellSouth), Cox Enterprises, and NCR Corporation. During his corporate career, Todd earned over 40 recommendations on LinkedIn from former managers, peers, and clients. In 2015, he earned his Birkman Certified Professional credentials and branched out beyond sales and marketing and into career coaching, team building, and executive coaching, leading his fifteen-person team at NCR to a 95%+ engagement rate, one of the highest in the company. In 2016, he joined the world of franchise ownership in conjunction with WSI (We Simplify the Internet) to start his own marketing agency as WSI Marketing Upside. At the same time, Todd launched a career and executive coaching consultancy called Career Upside. This business's focus is to help clients find the right talent, ensure the right people were in the right seats on the bus, and coach leaders to understand and meet employees' needs to improve employee productivity and engagement. For more information on J Todd McCarty, please visit his personal branding website at www.jtoddmccarty.com and review case studies of the results he has driven for clients.
What Our Clients Say About Us
"Five years ago, I was going through a career transition and wanted help to do a deep review and evaluation of not only my skills and experience but applying those skills to new career opportunities. Todd was instrumental in helping me review not only what I thought were my career skills, but he was able to pull out my interests and passions about work and use them as the inputs to guide my career. The approach, structure and process Todd had me follow was exactly what I wanted. I strongly recommend Todd for anyone in need of personal professional coaching."
Wayne Emerson, Senior Account Executive, Advance Travel and Tourism
"Working with Todd was tremendously beneficial, especially because he helped me in multiple ways. What started as a successful marketing endeavor, quickly morphed into an exercise which helped me personally develop as a leader, manager, and a person. His approachable, inquisitive, and collaborative approach helped our organization laser in on the vision, strategy, and tactics needed to help us succeed. He developed rapport at every level of our organization and his business acumen earned him great respect."
Rick McDonald, President, FSL Group
"Socrates said, 'To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.' Uncovering that self-knowledge has been a critical element of my professional (and personal) success. Here's an analogy -- I would never approach a business problem without doing all my research. Likewise, how could I address my career success without understanding the biggest component - myself. I've completed numerous self-reviews and cognitive assessments over my long career, but Todd's more comprehensive approach to understanding core personality drivers helped me focus my passion and harness my strengths. This more balanced approach has helped me understand how I work most effectively, how I can collaborate best within teams, and in what kinds of organizations and cultures I'll thrive. In short, it felt like having blinders removed. Maybe Socrates was right after all this time -- Highly recommend for both individuals and teams."
George Buckley, Director – Demand Generation, Change Healthcare
Certified in the Birkman Method
The Birkman Method uses a science-backed suite of self-assessment tools to evaluate the individual, then empower their growth and performance. It is strongly rooted in science, validity, and positive psychology. This method can be used for training and consulting services to improve results for individuals and organizations.
