Twenty-five years placing commercial bankers in California taught me one thing about the people who move well: they don't do it alone. Career Sherpa is the advice I've given candidates for years, now something you can actually hire me for. Take one piece, or the whole climb.
Here's something most recruiters won't say out loud. A recruiter's reach stops at the banks they hold a contract with. Skip the contract, skip the bank.
That cuts out nearly every bank over $100B in assets, and a lot of the large regionals too. Those shops hire 100% in-house. No agencies, no headhunters, ever. So when a recruiter says they'll take you to market, they mean their market: the banks paying them.
Career Sherpa flips that. You're paying me, so I work for you, which means I can look everywhere. Any bank, any fintech, any size, anywhere.
Every climb starts with one conversation.
An honest read on where you stand and what you're realistically worth, then your smartest next move, mapped step by step. Book any package within 30 days and the full fee comes off the price, so the first step costs you nothing if you keep going.
Each tier includes the one below it. Moving up is adding, never starting over.
Not moving yet, but want someone watching the market for you? A sync every quarter, the first call when something worth knowing opens up, and an always-on read of where the market's going.
Buy any piece on its own. If you upgrade to a package later, it comes off the price. Pricing on request.
Two things you should know up front. I won't shop you around, and I won't tell you what you want to hear if I think you're about to make a mistake.
And the honest answer to the obvious question: banks pay me to run searches, and you'd be paying me to guide your move. I never take a fee from both sides of the same hire. If your search leads to a bank that's already my client, I'll tell you, and your success fee comes off. The coaching and the assets are yours, clean, with no one paying me on the other side.
I connect and broker strategic conversations between senior Commercial Banking and Credit professionals and the Executive and C-Suite hiring managers who can grow both banks and banking careers. If you are a bank with a mission-critical hire, or a seasoned banker looking for expert advice on how to navigate the next five years, here's how to reach me:
