We are a leadership, career development, and “re-wirement” coaching and consulting team.
With 50+ years of combined professional experience, we help to navigate the path to success. Fitsbow was originally built on professional experience, connections, and credibility gained over the years. We continue to live our dream of enabling others to live into their purpose and achieve their potential—especially at those pivot points in careers and life.
Paula Fitzgerald Boos
I have been connecting people to possibilities since high school. Because I have always been insatiably curious about the people in my family, my community, and my workplaces, I have always asked lots of questions. Questions that help me understand more fully; questions consistently asked from a place of curiosity and compassion and non-judgment; questions that enable me to make the connections.
I delight in introducing people to others when I see potential connections and interest. In my early days of connecting people to possibilities this took the form of introducing my friends to their lifetime mates—five of my couple friends met through me and are still together 30 years later.
In my professional life connecting people to possibilities has included recruiting, outplacement consulting and training, career strategizing, executive coaching, team building and planning, training and personal branding. For the 20+ years since I left my full-time sales career with IBM to focus on family, I have built a portfolio of work serving organizations and leaders I respect and whose values I believe in.
SWEET SPOT FOR SUCCESS
Mid to senior level business professionals with a desire to learn and grow in order to achieve greater success and satisfaction in work, and those who want to plan intentionally how they want to design their next life chapter.
Especially strong helping people who are feeling "stuck" to create productive change and forward momentum, helping professionals "grow" into new levels of leadership, and supporting intentionality after 50.
SPECIFIC AREAS OF SUCCESS
Creating more harmony with work and life
Managing up effectively to achieve more organizational mobility
Building your personal brand and finding your "special sauce"
Using your special strengths to add value purposefully
Effective transitions to new roles within your company
Selling yourself into a great role in a new organization
Designing vibrant “next chapters”
My work is integrated into my life. I LOVE to coach and facilitate rich conversational spaces. I love learning. I love family time and gardening, walking, cycling, traveling, and trying new things.
Walter (Wally) Boos
After my university training I passed the CPA Exam and went to work for a Big 8 CPA Firm. That was followed by sales and executive leadership positions in the technology field – starting with IBM and then moving to smaller companies, both public and private, VC-backed and privately financed.
Over the last twenty years I have consulted with and advised private companies and senior leaders/owners. On the sales side this has included helping companies craft sales compensation plans that motivate desired behavior – helping leaders make sure their sales compensation plans are in alignment with desired corporate goals. In civil litigation I have been called as a subject matter expert in sales compensation plans. I’ve seen what works and what doesn’t work; what motivates desired behavior and what happens when a sales compensation plan is inconsistent with the corporate values and objectives (Hint: Sales Comp Plan always wins).
In the last five years I have also invested my time in two other areas for which I have a passion:
1. Age is an Attitude (www.ageisanattitude.net ) – We’re
living 30 years longer than our ancestors did 100 years ago. How can I make that a positive experience – for myself and others? Meaning how can I get the most vitality out of those extra years? In learning and experiencing vitality in those extra years I’d like to take as many people with me as possible.
2. Investing in multi-family residential real estate – with others who are interested but not inclined to fly solo. We’ve owned rental properties for 30+ years and in the last 5 years this has included pooling investment dollars with others – forming LLCs that invest in specific multi-family rental properties.
I enjoy hanging out with family and friends – particularly my wife Paula and our six adult children and associated spouses, fiancés, and significant others. Hiking, bicycling, poker, reading, orchids, and hummingbirds are personal favorites. Movies are a pleasure, with “The Big Lebowski” being the gold standard. I also enjoy major league ballgames, having been to my 27th ballpark recently (3 more to go, when stadiums full of people becomes safe and sane again).
