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Give me a call at: 512.677.5257

Email me at: alexa@lokencareers.com

About Alexa:
Founder, Career Coach, Business Professor, Idealist

Alexa Loken’s passion is helping people. In 2014, she started Loken Careers, her third company. Since then, she’s been inspired every day by the clients she speaks with that want to make a difference in their lives and move forward in their career path. 

A serial entrepreneur and do-gooder, Alexa’s career has had many twists and turns. She worked at Indeed.com as a certified career coach for software engineers in both the U.S. and Europe, started a cause-based marketing firm, co-founded a recruiting firm for women in tech, and began her career while working for environmental nonprofits. 

She’s also a Professor of both Public Speaking and Entrepreneurship at Cal Poly, and teaches Social Impact and Eco-Entrepreneurship courses through UCSC (virtually and as a summer study abroad in Costa Rica). She previously taught at CU Boulder and in Austin. She received her undergraduate degree in International Relations from American University in Washington, D.C. and her Master’s in Media, Culture & Communications from New York University.

She grew up in the Bay Area, and has lived in DC, NYC, Hawaii, Austin and Colorado. She and her family moved to beautiful San Luis Obispo, CA last year, where they play along the beach and in the tide pools as often as possible. While she’s happy to coach anyone on “what they want to do when they grow up”, she particularly loves helping clients who are transitioning to a new industry, working with aspiring entrepreneurs, and people who are looking for a social impact career.

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Fun Facts: Alexa has two rambunctious dogs, a curious preschooler, and a smiley toddler. She absolutely adores tea and public libraries. She’s been playing piano since she turned 30, and her and her husband built a tiny house in Austin. 

Meet the rest of the team!

 

 

About Lauren, career coach

Lauren is from Austin, Texas and has an extensive background in the tech and engineering fields. She received her B.S, M.S., and ultimately Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UT Austin. In addition to her career in the engineering field, Lauren has received numerous patents for her academic and industry work and is an established collegiate textbook author with IET Publishing.  She has over 10 years of experience writing, editing, and publishing conference papers and presentations which has naturally carried over into resume and cover letter development. She is a prolific public speaker, even dabbling into wedding officiating. Lauren is particularly passionate about helping people find a career that makes the day fly by and is an avid believer that it exists for everyone.


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Fun facts: Lauren is a vegan and is clinically obsessed with her two cats.

 

About Claire, resume/CL writer

Claire Huang grew up in Atlanta, GA and has lived and worked all over, including Seattle, Boston, and Tokyo. She has a background in management consulting, tech, innovation, consumer goods, and healthcare. Claire enjoys helping people find their passion by combining their interests and skills and preparing them for the next step in their career journey. She earned her BA in Economics from Brown University and her MBA and Integrated Product Design certificate from the Wharton School and the Weitzman School of Design from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Fun facts: Claire loves skiing, hiking, oysters, design thinking, museums, and board games.

 

About Julia, resume/CL writer

Julia has a decade of experience in consulting and operations management at Deloitte, KPMG and Uber. She’s always been passionate about helping others find their ideal careers since her time working at American University’s Career Center as a Peer Advisor. More recently, she’s been coaching fellow Uber employees on career development and management training. Julia resides in NYC when she’s not traveling around the globe. She earned her Bachelors degree from American University, and her MBA at Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania.

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Fun facts: Julia is a new dog mom to a Labradoodle puppy named Dooly. She’s also big foodie, so feel free to ask her for restaurant recommendations in NYC!

 

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