Career Momentum Lab: Network, get unstuck, and create opportunity
Ivana Wang
GTM Engineer | Networking Strategist
Nora Michalski
Tech Leader | Career Mentor
Tactics get you started. Mindset and science get you unstuck.
Most career workshops give you a system and send you home. You take notes, feel motivated, open your laptop the next day, and then something stops you. The message goes unsent. The follow-up never happens. The momentum disappears.
That gap between knowing and doing is not a tactics problem. It never was.
This workshop covers three layers that every other career program treats separately, if at all. Ivana Wang opens with the GPS System: a proven networking methodology that gets tech professionals into the hidden job market through strategic outreach, not job boards.
Ryan McNeely goes deeper with the mindset layer most career programs skip, drawing on decades of study in ancient wisdom and human performance. Kevin Jaimes closes with the science: a quantum mechanics framework that explains, with mathematical rigor, why your mental state directly shapes the opportunities you attract.
Three instructors. Three disciplines. One complete system for unlocking the career you have been building toward.
What you’ll learn
Go from avoiding outreach to executing a system built around how you actually think and communicate.
Use a structured framework to build your target contact list and LinkedIn outreach strategy during the workshop
Learn what changed on LinkedIn: what to write, when to follow up, and how to get a meeting booked
Show up to any in-person setting with clarity, intention, and a genuine desire to add value
Break through the fear, self doubt, and negativity that stop most professionals before they even begin
Learn to handle rejection with grace and keep moving forward without losing momentum or going quiet
Build the inner foundation that makes everything you do externally land with greater impact
Apply Kevin's Antifragile Growth Theorem so every obstacle strengthens your positioning rather than weakening it
Understand the quantum principles that explain why your response to adversity directly shapes your opportunities
Execute your plan inside a structured 21-day sprint with live support and hot seat coaching on Day 14
Workshop agenda
Why Tactics Alone Are Not Enough
Ivana opens with why smart tech professionals follow all the career advice and still feel stuck. Sets up the three-pillar framework: modern networking, ancient wisdom, and quantum science.
Online Outreach: The Updated LinkedIn Framework
Learn what changed on LinkedIn and why old outreach no longer works. Build your target contact list live and draft your first message using the updated framework that gets responses.
In-Person Networking: Five Settings, One System
Conferences, meetups, coffee chats, internal events, casual settings. Each has a specific approach covering who to approach, what to say, and what to do in the 48 hours after.
Break
10 minutes
Mindset Reset: Break Through Fear and Self Doubt
Nora leads the Fear Audit to name what has been stopping your outreach. Learn how to handle rejection without losing momentum and rewire your confidence before you ever hit send.
Break
10 minutes
The Science of Calm Action
Ryan explains how meditation, breathwork, and brain-state training help you move through hesitation, rejection, and pressure so you can take clearer action in your career.
Hot Seat Q&A with All Three Instructors
Live coaching from Ivana, Nora, and Ryan on real situations from the room. Three perspectives on the same career challenge is something you cannot get anywhere else.
Learn directly from expert instructors
Ivana Wang
Career strategist, 4 pivots across 4 industries, tripled salary landing in AI
Nora Michalski
Silicon Valley mentor helping high-achievers move from stuck to strategic
Ryan McNeely
Tech founder, 15+ yrs Silicon Valley, blends ancient wisdom with career strategy
Who this workshop is for
Tech professionals who have been applying for months with little to show for it and know networking is the answer but not where to start.
Tech professionals planning a career pivot who want to access opportunities before they are ever posted publicly.
Introverted tech professionals who have tried networking, felt drained and awkward, and quietly concluded it just is not for them.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from your instructors in a real-time, interactive format.
Three instructors, one session
An AI career strategist and a Silicon Valley career mentor guide you through both sides of career growth: the external strategy of networking and the internal work of taking action with confidence.
Personalized outreach audit
Get your real LinkedIn messages reviewed live. You’ll learn what to change, why it matters, and how to make your outreach feel natural, credible, and effective.
Inner resistance breakthrough
Learn how procrastination, fear of rejection, and hesitation can quietly block your highest-leverage career actions, and how to move through them with more clarity and self-trust.
Complete career toolkit
Leave with a Fear Audit worksheet, personalized outreach target list, AI-era message frameworks, and follow-up templates you can use immediately.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
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