

Help Your Homeschool Student Choose Their Next Step With More Confidence
Use data-driven self-awareness to help your student understand their strengths, interests, best-fit environments, and potential career direction before making expensive education decisions.
Give Your Student Career Clarity Before College, Trade School, or the Workforce
Homeschool parents are often deeply involved in helping their students prepare for life after high school.
But choosing the right next step can be difficult when the decision is based mostly on grades, hobbies, outside opinions, or what a student thinks they "should" do.
Career Upside uses the Birkman Method to help students better understand their motivational interests, personality strengths, work style, stress behavior, and best-fit environments.
In a 30-minute homeschool career strategy conversation, we'll explore whether a Birkman-based coaching approach could help your student:
- Understand their natural strengths and interests
- Explore college majors, trade school, first jobs, entrepreneurship, or gap year options
- Identify work environments where they are more likely to thrive
- Communicate who they are with greater confidence
- Reduce the risk of costly wrong turns, major changes, or poor-fit career choices
- Think more clearly about long-term career direction
Birkman did not design this process to lock your student into one career path. The design gives your family better insight, better questions, and a more informed way to evaluate the options ahead.
At the end of your complimentary conversation with J. Todd McCarty, Career & Team Performance Coach, we'll determine whether a second meeting makes sense. If not, no pressure. You'll still leave with a clearer perspective on what may help your student move forward.
Career Upside
Executive & Career Coaching
Scientifically proven to boost employment successes and opportunities.
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20+ years of executive and career coaching
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Birkman Certified Professional
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Emory Executive Coaching Diploma
Experienced Leader with Fortune 500 Companies


"As the parent of two young adults, we knew a few years ago that we needed additional help to equip them as they made plans for their futures. When the first one was heading off to college, we reached out to Todd to see how he might be able to help.
Our son was bright but lacked direction. He’d taken plenty of aptitude tests in school, but we wanted something that would provide a more comprehensive analysis, taking into account what motivates him and how that aligns with his interests. The thought of choosing a major and deciding what to do was very stressful. We had Todd work with him, and I’m happy to report that our son is now in his first year of law school. I’m convinced that the time Todd spent administering and explaining the Birkman to him was key in helping our son find a direction.
We were so happy with the results that we had Todd work with our daughter a few years later, and she’s set to graduate almost a full year early after Todd helped HER see that she could turn her interests and creativity into a career in graphic design.
I fully recommend Todd as a coach. He has the unique ability to see through the data to the person behind it and adapts his coaching style so that the recipient is open to hearing what he has to say. Our kids couldn’t be more different, but he was able to help them both a great deal."
Kristin Emerson, Mother of Two