Career Transition · Workforce Development · Outplacement
Career transitions. Workforce change. Leadership growth. The Vellian Group helps professionals and organizations confidently navigate career change through personalized coaching, impactful workshops, and compassionate outplacement services.
Trust & Credibility
The Vellian Group has supported professionals at every stage of their careers — including White House professionals transitioning into industry, C-suite executives, military veterans entering civilian careers, small business owners, emerging leaders, and individual contributors across diverse industries.
Four Practice Areas
Helping professionals take the next step in their careers — from board readiness to a complete reinvention.
Strengthen your professional presence with a personal brand site, basic SEO setup and walk-through, and visibility strategy that supports leadership, speaking, and consulting opportunities.
Interactive presentations for organizations, associations, universities, and professional groups navigating career growth and workforce change.
Supporting organizations and employees through workforce transitions with professionalism, compassion, and measurable results.
Who We Serve
Why The Vellian Group
Real volume, real range — from individual contributors to admirals, deans, and CEOs.
Engagements coast to coast, with executives placed and promoted in every major U.S. market.
No templates, no portals. Every engagement is built around the person and the role.
Heather has coached the C-suite, the boardroom, and the leaders quietly running the place.
Outcomes you can measure: interviews secured, offers accepted, pivots completed.
We protect the people leaving and the people staying — and the employer brand around both.
Client Success Stories
“Heather Joy is a gifted wizard with words. She took my work to a level of professionalism I could not have achieved without her guidance.”
“Translating 36 years of military and civilian leadership into language that resonates with civilian executives is no small task — Heather did it beautifully.”
“Within a week of posting the résumé Heather crafted, I secured three interviews — and I advanced in all of them.”
Meet Heather
Heather founded The Vellian Group to give professionals and the organizations they serve somewhere serious to go for career strategy. Over the past 15+ years she has guided more than 20,000 professionals — from C-suite executives and military flag officers to White House staffers, university deans, and emerging leaders — through the moments that define a career.
Frequently asked questions
We help professionals and organizations navigate career change. That includes 1:1 career and executive coaching, resume and LinkedIn work, personal branding, workshops and keynotes, and national outplacement programs for employers managing workforce change.
We work with C-suite executives, senior leaders, White House and federal professionals, military veterans, university and healthcare leaders, small business owners, emerging leaders, and the HR teams who support them. Engagements range from individual coaching to organization-wide outplacement.
No. The Vellian Group is a national practice. We work with clients across all 50 states by video, with in-person sessions available for senior executive search and on-site organizational engagements.
Fees depend on scope — individual coaching engagements, branding work, and outplacement programs are each priced differently. Every project starts with a confidential 30-minute discovery call where we scope the work and share pricing transparently before you commit.
Schedule a confidential discovery call. We'll listen, ask the questions that matter, and outline what's possible — whether that's a single coaching engagement, a full transition plan, or an organizational program.
Start the Conversation
Book a confidential 30-minute discovery call. We'll listen, ask the right questions, and outline what's possible — for you or for the people you lead.