Linda Faucheux MA LPC
Certified Executive Coach · ICF Associate Certified Coach
For 20 years, Linda has helped professionals discover their signature strengths and design careers that flourish — blending contemplative counselling depth with executive coaching and higher-education leadership.
National Career Development AssociationCareer Development Facilitator Champion Award, 2015From alleviating suffering to helping people flourish
Linda began her professional life as a psychotherapist dedicated to alleviating suffering. Along the way she made a discovery that reshaped her career: she was at her best when she focused not on what was wrong, but on strengths, self-actualization, and human flourishing. That realization led her to career coaching — and she never looked back.
Her path took her to Boulder, Colorado, where she became a leader in career development in higher education: Associate Director of the University of Colorado Career Center, then Director of Naropa University's Career Development Center. Across 20 years of counselling, teaching career development, and leading career centres, she has coached thousands of individuals through transitions of every kind.
Today Linda brings that depth to Careers by Design as a Career & Leadership Coach, providing individual and organizational coaching — including certified executive coaching through the Deep Coaching Institute and a particular passion for developing women leaders. She also gives her time as a volunteer with the Colorado Women's Centre. Her practice is grounded in a 20-year mindfulness meditation practice, graduate training in Contemplative Psychotherapy, and studies in Positive Psychology and strengths-based counselling.
What does that mean for you? A coach who helps you access your whole self — mind, heart, and body — to clarify your unique genius, make decisions with confidence, and consciously design work that fits who you actually are. As Linda puts it: Feel Better, Do Better, and Get What You Want, Faster.
Education & Credentials
"I facilitate a process of expanding awareness of your whole self — mind, heart, and body — so that you can access the most evolved part of yourself as you consciously design your new career direction."
Working with Linda
Three things clients notice from the very first session.
Head and heart, connected
Sessions often begin with a brief centring practice — a signature of Linda's contemplative training and 20-year mindfulness practice. Clients say it creates the space to open up, think clearly, and let go of the stress habits that sabotage career success.
Strengths first, always
With a decade of StrengthsFinder facilitation and advanced training in the VIA Strengths Inventory, Linda starts with what's right with you — clarifying your unique genius and building your career direction on it.
Executive-level depth
As a Certified Executive Coach who has led university career centres and coached organizations, Linda works comfortably at every altitude — from first job searches to leadership development, with a special passion for empowering women leaders.
Where her experience meets your goals
Discover your Signature Strengths — the pathway to your unique genius and greatest satisfaction at work.
Make better decisions — learn to access your truth and navigate the conflicting voices, emotions, and fears that cloud good decision-making.
Clarify and achieve goals — with evidence-based practices that turn intention into progress.
Move through barriers — the psychological and emotional blocks between you and the work you envision.
Let go of stress and anxiety — with effective, practical tools as you move toward your career goals.
Navigate workplace relationships — cultivating the social and emotional intelligence that difficult work dynamics demand.
Design your job search — a strategy built around your temperament and strengths, not a template.
Grow as a woman leader — leadership development coaching from a passionate advocate for women in leadership.
In their words
"I have never met a career counselor like Linda who is more vested in assisting clients finding their own wisdom and truth… several alumni wrote me unprompted after seeing her — it had a major impact on their lives."
"Linda is highly trained as a counselor, an executive coach, and leader. What makes her unique is her background in mindfulness and her heart-centered approach… she has helped hundreds of people discover roles aligned with their greatest talents."
"Coaching with Linda helped me clarify my values… I was then able to move to a new position that was in alignment with them. It was easier to make the decision and accept the offer because I knew what was most important to me."
"The strengths assessment was a great start… teaching me new strengths I didn't realize I possessed, ultimately building my confidence. The one-on-one coaching brought it all together, leaving me fully prepared to pursue my next career."
Q&A interview
Hear Linda's answers on her approach, what makes Careers by Design unique, and insights from 20 years of coaching.
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How do you become your own authority and design your career and life?
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