About From Jobs to Career Consultancy

Many career education systems are built on assumptions about how people should make decisions. When individuals think, process information, or navigate uncertainty differently, those systems can unintentionally create confusion, disengagement, or stalled outcomes.

From Jobs to Career Consultancy exists to strengthen career education by aligning it more closely with how people actually make decisions in real institutional contexts. We partner with workforce development programs, higher education institutions, nonprofit organizations, and education technology providers to improve career education practices so they are clearer, more inclusive, and more effective in practice.

Our work is research-informed, ethically grounded, and designed to function within the operational realities organizations face every day.

Our Focus

Our work centers on improving how career decisions are supported within structured environments. We help organizations:

Many of the individuals served through partner organizations are neurodivergent, whether formally diagnosed, self-identified, or currently undiagnosed. Our approach does not rely on labels or disclosure. Instead, it focuses on designing career education that works across variation in cognition, executive functioning, and decision-making. This allows organizations to provide meaningful support without increasing burden on individuals or staff.

Our Approach

From Jobs to Career Consultancy approaches career education as both a pedagogical and applied practice.

Rather than focusing solely on outcomes, we examine how career decisions are formed, where misalignment occurs, and how systems can respond more intentionally. This work is informed by culturally responsive pedagogy and career development theory, with particular attention to how power, context, and cognitive variation shape career decision-making for adults.

The focus is not on changing individuals, but on strengthening systems so career education functions more effectively in practice.

About the Founder

Danielle Gardner-Forbes is the founder of From Jobs to Career Consultancy and a Career Educator & Strategist with over ten years of experience across higher education, nonprofit workforce development, and skills-based education. She holds an Ed.M. in Higher Education Administration and Student Affairs and a B.A. in Health and Human Services with a concentration in Community Mental Health, both from The State University of New York-University at Buffalo. Her professional credentials include Certified Professional Career Coach (CPCC), Certified Master of Career Services (CMCS), and Board Certified Cognitive Specialist (BCCS).

Why This Work Emerged

Through her work in direct career coaching and career education, Danielle observed a consistent gap between how practitioners were trained and the realities individuals faced when making career decisions. This gap often led to misinterpretation, disengagement, or stalled progress, particularly for individuals whose cognitive styles did not align with traditional career education models. She also noticed stronger outcomes when individuals received structured and transparent support across the full career decision-making process, including intake, assessment, and offer evaluation. These observations prompted closer examination of how career education systems shape decision-making and outcomes, beyond individual practitioner technique.

In response, Danielle developed structured, research-informed approaches to help organizations strengthen career education without expanding scope or relying on oversimplified solutions. She is the creator of the Compare and Repair Pedagogy™, a proprietary framework used in training and consultation to support ethical and effective career decision-making within institutional settings. Her work focuses on strengthening systems so individuals are better supported and not required to change how they think in order to succeed.