Yesterday, an article came out in the in the Chronicle of Higher Education about me and my career transition from Biological Engineer to Life Coach. Here are the first few paragraphs:
“Few of us will have a classic eureka moment—bathtub and all—that provides the answer to years of career exploration, but Samantha Sutton did.
As a graduate student in synthetic biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she initially had a difficult time picturing herself as anything other than a scientist or engineer. Her desire to work as part of a team had already led her to consider nonacademic work, such as joining a biotech start-up. But one moment of epiphany radically changed her direction.
Oddly enough, the answer had been in front of her all along. Sutton had taken a life coaching course, which was designed to help students and staff members at MIT find their passions and actively design their lives. It was while working as a teaching assistant for that course that she realized that coaching itself was her passion.”
A blog by Samantha Sutton, Ph.D., life coach at the Handel Group
