2-Hour Virtual Seminar on Navigating The Multiple Challenges of Job Loss: A Career Self-Management Perspective
December 1, 2025
08:00 AM PST | 11:00 AM EST
2 Hours
711791
Group Attendees: Any number of participants
Recorded Version: Unlimited viewing for 6 months ( Access information will be emailed 24 hours after the completion of live webinar)
Job loss is more than a resume problem it's a psychological, financial, and strategic inflection point.
This practical, human-centered webinar equips professionals at all levels to respond with clarity and confidence. Moving beyond quick fixes, we'll show participants how to stabilize emotions, protect finances, tell a compelling career story, and run an effective, metrics-driven job search. Through proven frameworks, real-world scripts, and actionable tools, attendees will learn to transform disruption into momentum building resilience, re-positioning their value, and designing a repeatable self-management plan for the next role and the long game of their career.Why should you Attend:
- Apply a 30-60-90 day self-management plan to regain structure, purpose, and progress after job loss
- Use evidence-based resilience techniques to manage stress, uncertainty, and identity shifts
- Audit finances quickly (runway, burn rate, insurance, benefits) and create a practical stabilization checklist
- Clarify a target role/industry using skills-market mapping and value proposition design
- Craft an achievement-focused résumé, LinkedIn profile, and 3 concise networking pitches
- Build a high-yield job search system (pipeline, daily cadence, outreach templates, tracking metrics)
- Prepare for interviews with STAR+Impact stories and explain employment gaps with confidence and integrity
- Negotiate offers (salary, benefits, start date) and plan the first 30 days to accelerate ramp-up and reduce risk
Would you like to develop and then apply a 30-60-90 day self-management plan to regain structure, purpose and progress after job loss?
What about clarifying a target role / industry using skills-market mapping and value proposition design?
How about planning to negotiate offers and plan the first 30 days to accelerate ramp-up and reduce risk?
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then come laugh, listen and learn as Chris DeVany leads us through the questions and answers we need to address to help achieve our new opportunity goals!
Areas Covered in the Session:
- Welcome & Poll(0:00-0:05 )
- Snapshot of participant goals; ground rules and session map
- Stabilize First: Mindset, Identity, and Energy(0:05-0:20)
- Emotional cycle of job loss; cognitive reframing; daily recovery habits
- Micro-rituals for momentum (plan tomorrow today, 20-minute power blocks)
- Financial Triage & Benefits Quick Check(0:20-0:35)
- Runway, burn rate, emergency budget; health insurance/COBRA; severance basics
- "One-page money plan" and risk triggers to monitor weekly
- Career Positioning: Targeting & Value Proposition(0:35-0:50)
- Skills inventory - market needs mapping
- Defining your "hire-me" narrative (role, industry, problem you solve)
- Gap analysis: what to stop/continue/start learning
- Materials that Win Interviews( 0:50-1:10)
- Résumé: metrics, outcomes, and relevance; portfolio/links if applicable
- LinkedIn optimization: headline formula, ‘About' structure, Featured section
- Three networking pitches (industry, company, role variants)
- High-Yield Job Search System(1:10-1:30)
- Channels that convert: referrals, warm outreach, targeted postings
- Weekly pipeline plan (targets, touchpoints, metrics dashboard)
- Outreach scripts: introductions, follow-ups, post-interview notes
- Interview Mastery & Explaining Gaps(1:30-1:45)
- STAR+Impact stories for core competencies
- Behavioral/technical hybrid prep; concise, confident gap narrative
- Mock "tough questions" lightning round
- Offer Strategy & First-30-Days Plan(1:45-1:55)
- Negotiation levers beyond salary; scenario planning
- 30-day ramp-up blueprint to secure quick wins and credibility
- Action Commitments & Resources(1:55-2:00)
- Personal 7-day action plan; accountability options; Q&A
Who Will Benefit:
- All
Chris DeVany is the founder and president of Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide, a firm which focuses on management and organization development. Pinnacle's clients include global organizations such as Visa International, Cadence Design Systems, Coca Cola, Sprint, Microsoft, Aviva Insurance, Schlumberger and over 500 other organizations in 22 countries. He also has consulted to government agencies from the United States, the Royal Government of Saudi Arabia, Canada, Cayman Islands and the United Kingdom.
He has published numerous articles in the fields of surviving mergers and acquisitions, surviving change, project management, management, sales, team-building, leadership, ethics, customer service, diversity and work-life balance, in publications ranging from ASTD/Performance In Practice to Customer Service Management. His book, "90 Days to a High-Performance Team", published by McGraw Hill and often accompanied by in-person, facilitated instruction, has helped and continues to help thousands of executives, managers and team leaders improve performance.
He has appeared hundreds of times on radio and television interview programs to discuss mergers and acquisitions (how to manage and survive them), project management, sales, customer service, effective workplace communication, management, handling rapid personal and organizational change and other topical business issues.
He has served or is currently serving as a board member of the International Association of Facilitators, Sales and Marketing Executives International, American Management Association, American Society of Training and Development, Institute of Management Consultants, American Society of Association Executives, Meeting Professionals International and National Speakers Association. Chris is an award-winning Toastmaster's International Competition speaker. He recently participated in the Fortune 500 Annual Management Forum as a speaker, panelist and seminar leader.
Chris has distinguished himself professionally by serving multiple corporations as manager and trainer of sales, operations, project management, IT, customer service and marketing professionals. Included among those business leaders are Prudential Insurance, Sprint, BayBank (now part of Bank of America), US Health Care and Marriott Corporation.
He has assisted these organizations in mergers and acquisitions, facilitating post-merger and acquisition integration, developing project management, sales, customer service and marketing strategies, organizing inbound and outbound call center programs, training and development of management and new hires, and fostering corporate growth through creative change and innovation initiatives.
Chris holds degrees in management studies and organizational behavior from Boston University. He has traveled to 22 countries and 47 states in the course of his career.
