Executive + Career Coaching
Brand + Corporate Affairs
Life Design
Meet J (aka Jonathan)
Founder of By J Coaching
Built by 10+ Years in Corporate PR / Exec Communications
Former Deloitte, Lockheed Martin, AT&T, DJE Holdings
MBA · CCMP
ICF Associate Certified Coach Credential in Progress
Accepting Limited Slots for Chicago Based or Virtual Clients Navigating Life/Career Transitions.
Are you a pro at what you do?
But not convinced you want to keep doing it?
By J is reinvention coaching for capable folks navigating change, uncertainty, and the question of what comes next.
Why By J
For 11 years, I helped leaders and organizations make sense of complicated moments—what needed to be said, how to say it, and what should happen next.
Outside of work, people came to me with a different kind of complicated:
Should I take the job?
How do I tell my story?
Why doesn’t this version of my life fit anymore?
What now?
I started noticing the same skill showing up in both places: I could listen to the whole messy story, find the thread, and help someone see a way forward.
That was the superpower emerging.
By J brings those two sides of my work together.
Through coaching, I help people think through career, leadership, identity, and life changes without forcing a perfect answer.
Through communications consulting, I help professionals, leaders, and organizations strengthen how they show up—from messaging, executive visibility, GEO, and practical AI use.
Different starting points. Same work. Understand what is really going on, get clear about what matters, and make the next move. No grand reinvention required. Just honest conversation, sharper thinking, and something useful to do next.
Always Forward.
- J