We specialize working with people who are looking at life and wondering "What's Next?"
Our integrated approach helps you understand your unique individuality, which includes your natural strengths, learning style, interests & aspirations, and use of time & money. Our goal is to help you not only figure out what is next, but to create a roadmap that will get you there. We work one-on-one or in groups.
If you are an organization that works with young people or you are a parent who wants to find new ways to engage your student, we encourage you to check out our individual services. We would love to partner with you as you walk alongside your students.
IAS Personal Advising helps you determine aspirations and reach your goals. Whether those aspirations center around your career, a change in setting, attaining new goals, becoming a better communicator, or learning to grow as a manager or employee, we can help.
We created Personal Advising because we learned long ago that in order to make changes in life you need support, someone who helps you find your strengths, and someone who believes in you. Sometimes a group setting can be uncomfortable or move at a different pace than you prefer. We will work with you one-on-one to make sure you have what you need to figure out where you want to go with your life and what steps you need to take to get there.
Our 1-day TOUCHSTONE experience gives you a basis of understanding your personal dynamics, including how you best think, learn, and grow. Touchstone is both a stand-alone experience and a gateway for further discovery.
Building upon what you learned in Touchstone, our CAPSTONE experience is a life-changing, two-day/one-night retreat. Employing your personal learning styles and utilizing dynamic experiential activities we craft an experience like none other! You learn to apply your strengths, refine your interests, grow your interpersonal communication, and target your time and resources to reach your goals. In the end you will walk away with a plan outlining your growth and progress, as well as have access to tools supporting the implementation and ultimate completion of your plan.
Personal Dynamics Discovery for Parents
Parents often struggle to make sense of their teen. It is as if they speak a different langauge. Our 2-hour session, helps parents, alongside their teen, identify and leverage their teen's natural behavioral strengths. We use a statistically researched, normed, and validated assessment designed to measure personal strengths, decision-making styles, energy style, stress, motivation and much more.
We provide a unique description of each teen and our trained facilitator guides the group through a discussion designed to help parents understand how their teen is wired and how to communicate and motivate more effectively. This session can be attended by parents with or without their teen present.
College TwinPak A: Use an interactive card sort to zero in on your aspirations and our life-size scale to represent your finances. Begin the process of getting the most out of higher education in financially responsible ways.
College TwinPack B: Complete our short assessment to provide insight into your primary learning style and our life-size scale to analyze how you spend your time throughout the week. Begin the process of learning how to use your time and learning style most effectively.
College is NOT for Me: Identify your strengths and how to pursue your goals outside of the traditional college route. This UnSeminar provides direction for individuals who want to choose something other than the traditional college route.
Communication: Getting Beyond "Hey": Learn to get beyond a "Hey" or a head nod personally and professionally.
Adapting your Learning Style--Discover how your learning style can be used to help you in class or the workplace.
Identifying Interests & Aspirations--Use tools to help objectively determine your passions and interests and how they might contribute to a career or volunteer work.
Managing your Time--Grow your understanding of how to wisely use your time. More is not always better. Learn new ways to stay energized and remain effective.
Budgeting your Resources--Learn how to create a basic budget and stick to it.
Resume Writing: Learn how to write a resume that is accurate and convincing.
Undaunted Interviewing: Learn how to become effective in interviews for jobs you seek.
Decision-Making: Learn how to frame decisions and effectively use your natural decision-making style to actively make wise choices.
Leveraging Your Leadership/Management Style:Grow in your understanding of leadership and management and how your particular style can be an asset to any team.
Dealing with Trouble: Identify ways to understand conflict and the ways you can effectively deal with it based upon your natural strengths.
Dynamic Following=Leading Up: Learn how determine who you should follow. Also, you and your boss may be very different. Learn how to lead up!
