Recognition, not reinvention.

You’ve tried everything.
Why are you still stuck in your career?

Cover of the What makes you, YOU? Recognition Guide

You’re not stuck.
You’re misaligned.

Whether you’re bored, burned out, overlooked, or displaced, one thing is clear: the person on your resume no longer tells the whole story.

More job boards, assessments, and advice will not help if you are searching from an incomplete understanding of yourself.

Before you decide what comes next,
begin with what your experience has already revealed.

What makes you, YOU?

Recognition Guide

Start by seeing what you’ve stopped seeing.

The Guide helps you examine the evidence already present in your life and work.
It focuses your attention on the work, contribution, and conditions that make you distinctive.

Three places to begin seeing yourself more clearly.

  1. 01

    What work keeps returning to you?

    Notice the problems and roles that keep returning to you.

  2. 02

    What do you make better?

    Look beyond the task to the difference you make.

  3. 03

    When are you most yourself?

    Identify the conditions that bring out your best.

Together, your answers give you a clearer way to describe how you create value and where you naturally fit.

Download the Recognition Guide

Free PDF / No form / No email required

Save the Guide to your computer before completing it.

Jack Maged | Recognition Strategist

He sees what others miss.

Jack did not come from coaching. He spent more than five decades helping others recognize what made them distinctive — from Fortune 100 companies to entrepreneurs, and later, adults at career crossroads.

Across those very different audiences, Jack repeatedly saw the same problem: people were being asked to make important decisions without first recognizing the interests, abilities, contributions, and conditions their own experience had already revealed.

That is why he developed the What makes you, YOU? Recognition Guide: to help people see the evidence before making the next decision.

Jack Maged, Recognition Strategist

Jack challenges the assumptions that keep people looking for answers in the same familiar places.

“I give people heartburn before I hand them the Maalox.”

The discomfort isn’t the point. Seeing differently is.

Seeing the evidence is one thing.
Understanding it is another.

Start with the Guide. Then choose the support you need: a Lens Session to interpret your completed Guide, or Deciphering You to investigate what is driving your misalignment and determine what comes next.

Two ways to go deeper

  1. 01

    Lens

    Have Jack interpret your completed Guide in a private 45-minute session.

  2. 02

    Deciphering You

    Identify what is driving your misalignment and turn that understanding into clear conclusions and recommendations.

Lens Session  /  $450

A focused interpretation of your completed Guide.

Jack reviews your answers in advance, identifies what they reveal, then discusses his interpretation with you in a private 45-minute session.

Talk with Jack About a Lens Session

Deciphering You

A deeper investigation into what comes next.

Deciphering You goes beyond the Guide to uncover what is driving your misalignment and translate that understanding into clear conclusions and recommendations.

  1. Helix

    Discover Your Essence

    Recognize what makes you distinctive.

  2. Prism

    Evaluate Your Position

    Identify what is no longer aligned.

  3. Constellation

    Illuminate Your Path

    Translate recognition into what comes next.

A free consultation is a conversation about where you are now and whether Deciphering You is the right next step. It does not include an interpretation of your Guide.

Schedule a Free Consult with Jack

Your future has been
with you all along.

Download the Guide and work through the questions and prompts. Then decide how deeply you want to understand what your evidence reveals.

Download the Recognition Guide

Save the Guide to your computer before completing it.