We’re experts in helping ambitious leaders achieve their dreams.
We are Career Coaches who help people like you fulfill their potential. We use our knowledge and experience to mentor clients with a shared goal: to make the world a better place through joy, purpose, and kindness. That’s the route to being happy at work and beyond!
Our mission is to help you leave a distinctive, lasting, positive mark on the world through your career.
Our amazing team of Career Coaches
Our Chief International Officer, Charli has over 15 years of experience in higher education in international project management, marketing, and recruitment. She has worked in over 50 countries with clients from countless more!
Charli knows all too well that your best stories are often found in the least expected places. She wants to help you tell your stories with pride and appreciation for how far you’ve come. Plus, she’s our resident cheerleader. No one will help you feel more confident than Charli, and if you don’t already see how freakin’ awesome you are, you will after working with her!
Going the MBA route? It’s worth noting that Charli was also an admissions committee reader for 10 years across multiple institutions, including 3.5 years as the Associate Director for International Admissions at Cornell’s Johnson School of Business.
If you want to meet your inner brilliance, uncover a new level of belief in yourself and your vision, and then bring it to life, choose Charli.
Jenn is the kind of person friends and family count on to help them move – and to pack everything in color-coded, clearly labeled boxes. She teaches us all how much fun and harmony can be found in getting and staying organized. And she’ll do the same for you.
She was a program manager at the NYC Department of Education, helping the system’s 140,000 students who were off-track earn their diplomas. At Booth’s Rustandy Center for Social Innovation, she directed the CRED (Creating Real Economic Destiny) competition for MBA students all over Chicago. And at Pfizer, she managed a multi-national research study to assess the market for new products.
If you need someone to help you organize and structure your thoughts and ideas into cohesive stories and plans, Jenn is your girl.
Louise has dedicated her life to mastering the art of story. She’s a comedy and script writer, a puppeteer, and an improv star (in addition to being a practicing attorney!!).
What makes this especially impressive is that Louise is not a ham or a “big personality.” She’s actually fairly shy and soft-spoken by nature. But her love of story and of making people laugh have compelled her to break through many barriers to achieve excellence in the fields she loves. That’s exactly what she helps her clients do, too.
If you want to work with someone who will listen patiently without judgment, understand your experiences, be as obsessed with telling your best story as you are, and help you break through all your career barriers, Louise is the Coach for you!
Our GMAT genius, Brian worked previously as a top instructor at Manhattan Prep. It was his job to think about how to make achieving dream scores easier, more efficient, and faster for students.
Brian is a curious listener, a compassionate shoulder to lean on, and a great storyteller. But what makes him a rockstar at this job is his reflective, calming presence and his tireless commitment to your excellence.
Vijay was Career Protocol’s first official client when we launched our flagship MBA application service in 2018. We toiled together across two rounds and many months to discover his values, communicate his value adds, and land him the ideal MBA offer for him: admission to Stanford GSB’s MsX program. Knowing his values and strengths so well, especially his love of mentorship and developing others, it was a no-brainer and a great to welcome him back to the team as a coach after he completed his MBA studies.
Our resident Social Impact expert, Vijay brings a ton of love, commitment, and joy to his work guiding clients to fulfill their potential and vision for impact. Vijay is so passionate about the development of others that he founded a social impact corporation during his time at Stanford that helps educational institutions in Latin America succeed. Ask him about it!
Sarah upped our grammar game by about a thousand points when she joined the team. Our resident writing expert and Northwestern University PhD in English, Sarah is an absolute genius at helping clients express themselves in the clearest, most authentic, and most powerful way possible. She’s obsessed with the written word, having studied the craft of writing in educational and professional settings for more than a decade.
Sarah is a teacher at heart and is passionate about the art of self-expression. In addition to Coaching, Sarah is our Client Success Manager, so she’ll make sure you have everything you need to succeed!
Choose Sarah as your Coach if you want to get in touch with your writerly identity, channel your own unique voice, and emerge as a confident and influential communicator.
Our resident entrepreneur, Aziz is a genius at helping you tap into your potential and build your best career path. His passion for new projects is truly something to behold.
In Angela’s words, “His Booth essays (yep, he’s a Boothie) are some of the most beautiful I’ve ever read, so you know he’s a brilliant guide to finding your own story.”
Work with Aziz if you want to chart your course toward new possibilities and unimagined success in your career!
Our Story
Siblings in life and in business: Angela and Vanessa Guido.
Our Founder, Angela Guido, and CEO, Vanessa Guido, share more than just DNA: they are both passionate about helping others, dedicated to achieving their goals, and they never take themselves too seriously. Together, they have over 40 years of professional coaching and mentorship experience, so they approach projects with patience, kindness, and a whole lot of laughter!
Angela founded Career Protocol in 2017 after noticing a key gap in the Career & MBA Admissions Coaching market: seeing past the end goal to the individual behind it. She made it her life’s mission to help people not only transform their careers, but also embrace the best version of themselves they can possibly be. She hand-picked every member of the Career Protocol team to ensure each of us vibe with her passion, drive, and core values.
Angela is our Founder, so she started this whole thing. She’s helped thousands of MBAs achieve their dreams, and has written two bestselling books on interviewing like a superhero and networking without feeling like an a-hole.
Work with any member of our team and you’re going to engage with Angela. She leads our Community Huddles (regular group coaching calls & workshops), Q&As, hot seats, and all of the community processes. She also works 1:1 with select clients for a supplemental big boss fee.
If you’re interested in these questions and want to achieve something remarkable in your career while having more fun doing it, Career Protocol is the place for you. And you definitely want Angela on your team!
Meet Vanessa, our CEO and Universal Sister
Before Career Protocol, Vanessa worked at a human capital consulting firm, building sponsorship and mentorship along the way. What makes her a career rockstar is the way she coaches and develops the people who follow her lead. She served as the champion for inclusion and diversity at her previous company, promoting gender equity in particular and facilitating Unconscious Bias workshops as an ally to the firm’s LGBTQ+ community.
Angela wanted to bring Vanessa into the fold for years to make her sister’s compassionate-but-firm style of mentorship available to career students, and she finally said yes! Vanessa is a selfless servant and a tireless companion on the road to achieving your dreams. She’s played that role for Angela all her life, and now she does that for each of us. She’s ready to play that role for you, too.
Testimonials: We serve joy
Our tools will accelerate your career
We call this set of skills The Career Protocol – hence the name. Our tools will take you to the top of your game in all that you do by increasing your self-confidence, helping you produce positive results even faster, and cultivating a support team around you that’s rooting for your success.
Self-awareness
Helps you understand how to be true to yourself in a world that has other priorities.
Choosing Up
Empowers you to pick the uplifting perspective, the inspiring story, and the course of action that gives joy.
Communication
Get things done because nothing great in this world happens without collaboration.
Relationship skills
Make you happier and drive the vast majority of the new opportunities available to you.
Growing
Those who know how to do it bravely enjoy the most fun and the greatest rewards.
Our Support Team
Leanne
Director of Operations & Marketing. Leanne makes sure all of us creative cats are herding ever more efficiently in productive directions and taking the best possible care of all our clients.
Jonny
Video and Multimedia Manager. Jonny ups our media game and produces a lot of cool resources. Give him a big hello on YouTube!
Tina
Graphic and Web Designer. Tina makes everything around here look pretty. Give her a shoutout on our Instagram!
Ariana
Chief Librarian and Data Guru. Ariana is on top of all the MBA intel and collects and manages all the in-depth research we share with our clients.
Nollag
Sub-editor. Nollag makes sure we don’t embarrass ourselves with typos and whatnot.
Claire
Head Campaign & Data Analyst. Claire tells us what’s up, down, how to fix stuff, and all that jazz.
The entire Career Protocol team is here to
help you meet your future with authenticity, bravery, kindness, and a healthy dose of laughter.
We’re experts in helping ambitious leaders achieve their dreams.
We are Career Coaches who help people like you fulfill their potential. We use our knowledge and experience to mentor clients with a shared goal: to make the world a better place through joy, purpose, and kindness. That’s the route to being happy at work and beyond!
Our mission is to help you leave a distinctive, lasting, positive mark on the world through your career.
Our amazing team of Career Coaches
Our Chief International Officer, Charli has over 15 years of experience in higher education in international project management, marketing, and recruitment. She has worked in over 50 countries with clients from countless more!
Charli knows all too well that your best stories are often found in the least expected places. She wants to help you tell your stories with pride and appreciation for how far you’ve come. Plus, she’s our resident cheerleader. No one will help you feel more confident than Charli, and if you don’t already see how freakin’ awesome you are, you will after working with her!
Going the MBA route? It’s worth noting that Charli was also an admissions committee reader for 10 years across multiple institutions, including 3.5 years as the Associate Director for International Admissions at Cornell’s Johnson School of Business.
If you want to meet your inner brilliance, uncover a new level of belief in yourself and your vision, and then bring it to life, choose Charli.
Jenn is the kind of person friends and family count on to help them move – and to pack everything in color-coded, clearly labeled boxes. She teaches us all how much fun and harmony can be found in getting and staying organized. And she’ll do the same for you.
She was a program manager at the NYC Department of Education, helping the system’s 140,000 students who were off-track earn their diplomas. At Booth’s Rustandy Center for Social Innovation, she directed the CRED (Creating Real Economic Destiny) competition for MBA students all over Chicago. And at Pfizer, she managed a multi-national research study to assess the market for new products.
If you need someone to help you organize and structure your thoughts and ideas into cohesive stories and plans, Jenn is your girl.
Louise has dedicated her life to mastering the art of story. She’s a comedy and script writer, a puppeteer, and an improv star (in addition to being a practicing attorney!!).
What makes this especially impressive is that Louise is not a ham or a “big personality.” She’s actually fairly shy and soft-spoken by nature. But her love of story and of making people laugh have compelled her to break through many barriers to achieve excellence in the fields she loves. That’s exactly what she helps her clients do, too.
If you want to work with someone who will listen patiently without judgment, understand your experiences, be as obsessed with telling your best story as you are, and help you break through all your career barriers, Louise is the Coach for you!
Our GMAT genius, Brian worked previously as a top instructor at Manhattan Prep. It was his job to think about how to make achieving dream scores easier, more efficient, and faster for students.
Brian is a curious listener, a compassionate shoulder to lean on, and a great storyteller. But what makes him a rockstar at this job is his reflective, calming presence and his tireless commitment to your excellence.
Vijay was Career Protocol’s first official client when we launched our flagship MBA application service in 2018. We toiled together across two rounds and many months to discover his values, communicate his value adds, and land him the ideal MBA offer for him: admission to Stanford GSB’s MsX program. Knowing his values and strengths so well, especially his love of mentorship and developing others, it was a no-brainer and a great to welcome him back to the team as a coach after he completed his MBA studies.
Our resident Social Impact expert, Vijay brings a ton of love, commitment, and joy to his work guiding clients to fulfill their potential and vision for impact. Vijay is so passionate about the development of others that he founded a social impact corporation during his time at Stanford that helps educational institutions in Latin America succeed. Ask him about it!
Sarah upped our grammar game by about a thousand points when she joined the team. Our resident writing expert and Northwestern University PhD in English, Sarah is an absolute genius at helping clients express themselves in the clearest, most authentic, and most powerful way possible. She’s obsessed with the written word, having studied the craft of writing in educational and professional settings for more than a decade.
Sarah is a teacher at heart and is passionate about the art of self-expression. In addition to Coaching, Sarah is our Client Success Manager, so she’ll make sure you have everything you need to succeed!
Choose Sarah as your Coach if you want to get in touch with your writerly identity, channel your own unique voice, and emerge as a confident and influential communicator.
Our resident entrepreneur, Aziz is a genius at helping you tap into your potential and build your best career path. His passion for new projects is truly something to behold.
In Angela’s words, “His Booth essays (yep, he’s a Boothie) are some of the most beautiful I’ve ever read, so you know he’s a brilliant guide to finding your own story.”
Work with Aziz if you want to chart your course toward new possibilities and unimagined success in your career!
Our Story
Siblings in life and in business: Angela and Vanessa Guido.
Our Founder, Angela Guido, and CEO, Vanessa Guido, share more than just DNA: they are both passionate about helping others, dedicated to achieving their goals, and they never take themselves too seriously. Together, they have over 40 years of professional coaching and mentorship experience, so they approach projects with patience, kindness, and a whole lot of laughter!
Angela founded Career Protocol in 2017 after noticing a key gap in the Career & MBA Admissions Coaching market: seeing past the end goal to the individual behind it. She made it her life’s mission to help people not only transform their careers, but also embrace the best version of themselves they can possibly be. She hand-picked every member of the Career Protocol team to ensure each of us vibe with her passion, drive, and core values.
Have you met Angela?
Angela is our Founder, so she started this whole thing. She’s helped thousands of MBAs achieve their dreams, and has written two bestselling books on interviewing like a superhero and networking without feeling like an a-hole.
Work with any member of our team and you’re going to engage with Angela. She leads our Community Huddles (regular group coaching calls & workshops), Q&As, hot seats, and all of the community processes. She also works 1:1 with select clients for a supplemental big boss fee.
If you’re interested in these questions and want to achieve something remarkable in your career while having more fun doing it, Career Protocol is the place for you. And you definitely want Angela on your team!
Meet Vanessa, our CEO and Universal Sister
Before Career Protocol, Vanessa worked at a human capital consulting firm, building sponsorship and mentorship along the way. What makes her a career rockstar is the way she coaches and develops the people who follow her lead. She served as the champion for inclusion and diversity at her previous company, promoting gender equity in particular and facilitating Unconscious Bias workshops as an ally to the firm’s LGBTQ+ community.
Angela wanted to bring Vanessa into the fold for years to make her sister’s compassionate-but-firm style of mentorship available to career students, and she finally said yes! Vanessa is a selfless servant and a tireless companion on the road to achieving your dreams. She’s played that role for Angela all her life, and now she does that for each of us. She’s ready to play that role for you, too.
Testimonials
Our tools will accelerate your career
We call this set of skills The Career Protocol – hence the name. Our tools will take you to the top of your game in all that you do by increasing your self-confidence, helping you produce positive results even faster, and cultivating a support team around you that’s rooting for your success.
Self-awareness
Helps you understand how to be true to yourself in a world that has other priorities.
Choosing Up
Empowers you to pick the uplifting perspective, the inspiring story, and the course of action that gives joy.
Communication
Get things done because nothing great in this world happens without collaboration.
Relationship skills
Make you happier and drive the vast majority of the new opportunities available to you.
Growing
Those who know how to do it bravely enjoy the most fun and the greatest rewards.