About Kathy Vines

Through coaching, resume writing, organizing, and speaking, Kathy Vines helps people untangle what’s holding them back so they can move forward with clarity in their careers and lives.

What is Kathy All About?

Kathy is originally from Long Island but has lived in the Boston area over 20 years, She received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Bucknell University and an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Kathy and her husband, Robert, aka “Handy Boy,” live in Melrose, Massachusetts, and yes, their home is very organized. Mostly…

Coaching for people in a variety of careers and life stages:

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Career Coach

Sometimes, you’re just stuck. Maybe it is your career, your relationships, struggling with some heavy life decision. You could use a thought partner to help you get clear on what matters, and remove the clutter in your thoughts that just don’t. A coach can help, whether it’s for one session or along side you on a longer journey.

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Speaker

Kathy loves speaking to Conference audiences, corporations, or community organizations to invite people think differently about their stuff, their time, or their career! She brings ideas that inspire instant action and results! She’s dynamic and engaging and always manages to work humor into even some of the more challenging subjects.

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Resume Writer

Along with the 20-year career in human resources, Kathy consulted with clients of a premier outplacement firm in Boston, MA, and a top national resume-writing company, before transitioning to private practice in 2015. While Kathy works with a variety of clients, she specializes in working with mid-career professionals who imagine a new chapter ahead, a bit off their current path, not sure of how to execute on such a dream.

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Author

In 2017, Clever Girl’s Guide to Living with Less: Break Free from Your Stuff, Even When Your Head and Heart Get in the Way was published in paperback and Kindle formats. It focuses on the psychological and emotional barriers people face when letting things go, like “I might need it someday” or “but I paid good money for this“. It also gives focus and structure to how to tackle five of the areas that Kathy finds people most commonly struggle: clothes, photos, paperwork, books, and memorabilia/sentimental items.

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Certified Professional Organizer

Kathy is the owner of Clever Girl Organizing, Inc, founded in 2013. In addition to the Certified Professional Organizer® designation, She works with people in their homes, businesses, and virtually to help them untangle their relationship to their stuff and calm the chaos in their life.

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Podcaster

Kathy's podcast, Surfing the Quicksand is a podcast helping midlife women get unstuck – at home, at work, with family, in our bodies, hearts, and minds. This podcast is a passion project for Kathy, a combination and culmination of her professional journey (as a career coach, a professional organizer, and productivity coach, her prior career in Human Resources) and her own lived experience as a 50-something year old woman, wife, and caregiver to aging parents and in-laws. She also had a midlife pivot professionally, becoming a small business owner in her 40’s and starting out on a new path

Like checking out the credentials?

Twenty years of Corporate HR Experience. Three years working at a top professional resume-writing firm and with a leading national outplacement services firm. Private practice coaching since 2015.

Certified Coach (CTACC), Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW), Certified Digital Career Strategist (CDCS) specializing in LinkedIn Tools and Strategies for B2B, B2C and professional network development.