People ATX Academy

The recruiter reading your resume already knows how this works. Now you will too.

The Academy is for candidates. The insider view, built by two people who have sat on both sides of the table. Four tracks, mapped to exactly where you are in your career.

Why the Academy

Career advice is everywhere. Insider knowledge is not.

Most advice is written by people who have never run a search. We have run thousands. We know what the resume screen actually filters for, what a hiring committee says once the door closes, and what separates the person who gets the offer from the one just as qualified who does not.

That knowledge has always been leverage held by one side of the table. The Academy hands it to you.

Jami Adkins, Partner and Co-Founder of People ATX
Four tracks

Wherever you are in the climb, there is a track for it.

3 to 5 years
Career Pace

For individual contributors ready to accelerate.

You are good at the job and stuck anyway. Strong reviews, flat pay, and the promotion keeps going to someone louder. The raise is not about working harder. You are not underqualified, you are underpositioned. Career Pace is how you get the visibility, the money, and the next level, without having to become a manager.

  • Position yourself for the role you want next
  • Advocate and negotiate without playing politics
  • Stand out as an IC, no manager title required
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5 years +
Career Crossroads

For experienced professionals standing at the fork.

Stay or go. Build deeper as an IC or step into managing people. You have real experience and real stakes now, and the fear of a wrong, hard to reverse move keeps you circling instead of deciding. Career Crossroads gives you the framework to make the call with clarity, and commit to it.

  • Stay or go, a framework that makes the call clear
  • Should you manage people? Five questions first
  • Decide once, without second guessing it
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Executives & senior leaders
Career Ascent

For directors through the C suite. Executive coaching only.

The top is isolating. The stakes are high, the transitions are bigger, and there is no trusted peer to think out loud with. Career Ascent is confidential, one on one executive coaching. No ebooks, no courses, no self service. By referral and by conversation.

  • A discreet, trusted thinking partner
  • Executive presence and influence at the next scope
  • High stakes transitions, into bigger scope, the C suite, or the board
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Real people. Real jobs. The same framework.
I'm a professional triathlete. I've raced at Kona twice. I know performance gear better than most people who sell it. What I didn't know was how to walk into a room and translate all of that into something a hiring manager could act on. The Academy taught me how to tell my story without apologizing for it. ROKA was always the dream. Now it's the job.
Will Watson
Will Watson
Sales · ROKA · 2× Ironman World Championship Finisher
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Not sure which program fits?

Tell us where you are and where you want to be. We will point you to the right one, or tell you straight if now is not the time. Start a conversation. It costs nothing.