About Aspire!

Randi Bussin
Founder and President
Aspire!

Randi Bussin, founder and president of Aspire!, is a career coach and counselor with more than 25 years of business, entrepreneurial, and career counseling experience. Randi coaches and guides mid-career professionals and helps them identify and pursue career opportunities that best represent their passions, strengths, and goals. Assisting her clients to attract and build a professional and personal life consistent with their values is not just a goal of Randi’s, it’s her passion.

What differentiates Randi from those in her field is not just her ability to be a career coach, but the vast educational and career-transition experience that she brings to the table. She has experienced several major career transitions (from corporate to small business owner to career counselor to coach) and personally understands the effort and commitment involved. She can truly empathize with and guide her clients.

Randi most recently served as Director of MBA Strategic Initiatives at the Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. Previously, she was Assistant Director of Graduate Career Services at Bentley College and at the Boston University School of Management, where she also taught career development, networking, entrepreneurship, and international business.

Randi has extensive corporate experience in sales and marketing management with Microsoft, Compaq, Codex/Motorola, and Wang Laboratories, both in the U.S. and Europe. She also served as president of an international high-tech consultancy firm, Trilogie Consultants, for more than 10 years.

What also sets Randi apart is her unique educational background. She earned an MBA from INSEAD, in Fontainebleau, France, with concentrations in Organizational Behavior and Entrepreneurship. Randi also has a master’s degree from Tufts University and has completed the Core Essentials Program (CEP) from Coach University.

Randi is a certified career management coach from the Career Coach Academy, and a member of the Career Management Alliance (CMA). She also has taken training in the DISC behavioral and communication assessment, the Golden Personality Type Profiler (GPTP), and through Reach Communications to help clients uncover, communicate, and build their offline and online brands for career management.

She is a member of the Career Management Alliance (CMA), the National Résumé Writers’ Association, the Career Counselors’ Consortium of New England, and the INSEAD Alumni Association. She has appeared on public television’s “Job Doctor,” and is a frequent contributor to Bridgestar’s Leadership Matters newsletter, The Ladders job-search Web site (www.theladders.com) and her own blog, which offers advice on career transition, job search, and labor market trends.

http://www.aspireforsuccess.com/weblog.php.

When not helping others fulfill their ambitions, Randi spends time with her 8-year-old daughter, Jacqui, whom she adopted from China. Together they garden, spend time outdoors, and cook.