About Dynamo Careers

Welcome to Dynamo Careers

Hey There,

Sonja Price here. I'm the Chief Career Strategist and Founder of Dynamo Careers.

After many years of education and a very, very long struggle, I finally landed my first professional job.

But about 6 months into my first job, I realized I was paid way below market average, so I mustered the courage and asked for a raise. After a bit of back and forth, my boss agreed to give me a $6,400 pay increase. I was ecstatic! You would have thought I won the lottery. Thankfully that gave me the confidence to always negotiate my pay from then on out.

Within another year in that first job, I was bored to tears and realized I needed to figure out how to position myself for a job with more responsibility and higher pay. I wrote a new resume and rebranded myself as a Product Manager, got a new job, and increased my income by $8,800/per year!

By this point in my career, I had become intrigued with leadership, organizational culture, and team dynamics. I was fascinated by what made some places better to work in than others. And I wanted to get into consulting, so I decided to go to grad school and earn an advanced degree. So I racked up some more student debt (as if my undergraduate degree wasn’t enough) and 2 years later I graduated with a Masters in Leadership and Organization Development.

Now I had a Master's degree (sound the trumpets) and thought companies would be lining up to hire me. Nope. Not this time either. I thought I would land a fancy consulting gig right out of grad school. Sadly, that did not happen. Again, I applied and applied, but did not land anything in my desired new field.

So I went back to doing what I was doing before grad school because that was the only way I knew how to position myself at that time, but I had previously learned how to negotiate, so I was able to secure a position making $32,800 more per year than I did before grad school. Oh ya!!

Looking back on this now, I realize I probably could have moved directly into consulting (and likely would have made even more money), I just didn't know how to position myself as a consultant at that time.

But in less than 2 years I had been promoted to run an entire consumer research lab and got another $22,000 raise. The thing about me is that as soon as someone gives me a chance, I can do an amazing job. It was just a matter of being considered for and offered the right opportunity. Can you relate?

What you don’t know is that I created that leadership opportunity for myself. And now I teach clients how to do the same. Ask me about how to create your own job promotion!!

I've always been pretty good at knowing how to accelerate my career within a specific role, but knowing how to leverage my previous work experience to transition into a new role required something entirely different. I’m so glad I know how to do that now!

I then decided to transition to Business Development. So I revamped my career profile again and landed an amazing job with a very well-known Fortune 500 company. This time I started making $11,600 more per year!

A few years later, I finally made my big jump into consulting and was making even better money!! 

This time I landed a job making $46,200 more per year. Booyah!

With each career move, I was able to negotiate a job offer making anywhere from $6,400-$46,200 more per year. AND I was doing exciting work!!

All these career changes accidentally lead me to become a Career Coach. With each career move, my friends and family were asking me for support to make similar shifts in their careers too. And that is how Dynamo Careers got started in 2006.

Now I spend my days helping clients achieve similar results - often times far greater than what I achieved in my own corporate career.

Some of my clients have earned up to $100,000 more per year!!

In addition to achieving a Master's degree in Leadership and Organization Development, I also earned 2 Executive Coaching certifications and a Career Coaching certification too. I finished my 1st book in 2019 and am working toward releasing my 2nd book in 2021.

Coaching provides me so much joy and fulfillment! I love helping people just like you identify who you want to be when you grow up and how you can make substantial jumps in your own income too!!

If you learn and implement the same tools that both myself and my clients have used to create outrageous successful careers - you too can achieve career clarity and make major shifts in your title, scope, and income too!!

Sonja

Dynamo Career Strategist

As a widely recognized Career and Leadership expert, Sonja has committed her career (and her heart) to helping people like you identify and land meaningful work and make significantly more money doing it.

She is passionate about empowering people to become financially free, to achieve every item on your bucket list, and to make a positive impact on the topics that matter most to you.

The only recommendations you will ever hear from her are the proven methods she has personally used to produce outrageous success in her own career (ex: transitioning into a new role and earning $50,000 more per year in the process).

She has 15+ years of experience in Career and Leadership consulting and has worked with a wide range of clients including Amazon, AT&T, Microsoft, Nordstrom, Starbucks, and a number of growing start-up organizations. She holds a Master’s Degree in Leadership and Organizational Development and is a Certified Career and Executive Coach.

Jessica

Dynamo Resume Writer

Jessica has been helping professionals make a powerful 1st impression with their resumes and LinkedIn profiles since 2014. Her vast knowledge and impressive background stem from a degree in Communications and Sociology plus 13 years of experience working in a wide variety of corporate roles. She also holds certifications in career coaching, resume writing, LinkedIn SEO optimization, professional portrait retouching, and graphic design.

She works tirelessly to ensure exceptional quality in client's resumes that consistently produce top results in the job market. Her creativity has been tapped into by CEOs, Executives, Directors, Managers, Individual Contributors, and Professional Athletes.

She has a down-to-earth honesty and unpretentious approach that clients love - and you are sure to enjoy!

Alli

Dynamo Resume Writer

Alli has 10+ years of experience in Executive Recruiting and Human Resources and is a Resume Writing expert! She has worked heavily within Human Capital Management and has helped hundreds of companies strategically improve their policies, people management, and talent acquisition processes.

Alli partners her knowledge of Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and keyword optimization with years of hands-on experience working with countless hiring managers to create truly unique and highly effective resumes. Her resumes and LinkedIn profiles get serious results!!

She is also passionate about encouraging ethics within HR processes and candidate selections. In addition to her experience in HR, Alli founded and manages a nonprofit organization for domestic violence shelters.

She holds a degree in Psychology and loves helping companies and employees come together to create amazing work cultures.

When not at work, she enjoys spending time in the great outdoors with her husband and 3 children.

Greg

Dynamo Interview Coach

Greg is our resident interview expert. He is part coach, part strategist, and part advisor. He is extremely dedicated to helping our Dynamo clients interview like a rockstar!

Prior to joining Dynamo Careers, Greg spent over 20+ years in HR positions of progressive responsibility with a focus on recruiting at both the corporate and agency levels. During his career, he's conducted thousands of interviews, across many professional disciplines, which gives him significant insight into the mind of an interviewer.

Greg is a Certified Career Mobility Coach and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems from St. John's University.

When he's not helping our clients master the art of behavioral interviewing, he's spending time with his wife and three children.