WHAT WE DO
FOR ORGANIZATIONS: We create business-building opportunities for your organization.
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DECEMBER 17, 2025 (12:00 P.M. CT)
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Personal and Professional Development (click to learn more).
Better Job Fit
Reimagine Work & Life!
Our Team
Our incredible staff has so many gifts to offer.
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What we offer
At Better Job Fit, we believe that real change starts by unlocking human potential — one person, one organization, and one community at a time.
Through a strategic ecosystem of services, we provide capacity-building programs that help people strengthen their skills, build resilient career pathways, and achieve economic mobility while staying true to who they are.
- Community collaborations focused on measurable social impact
- Workforce development initiatives with a human-centered lens
- Business results through capacity building
- Strategic succession planning using objective job-matching services
- Customized skill-building workshops
Happy clients
John Thomas
Client
After our discussion today, I was able to drop that baggage of shame, doubt, and focus on what I have to offer.
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Larry Anderson
Client
Without you helping me to get my brain in the right mindset, I might never had considered the new job that I’m in now.
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Calvin Drake
Founder of The River Jordan Legacy
Jan, your debrief with foster care alumni was enlightening.
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Lynette LuBom, MBA
MBA
I am grateful for the feedback and valuable tools that you have shared with me since our first meeting at the University of Phoenix 2019 Career Portfolio Series.
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Paula Bodal, Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
Working with Jan Barlow has been life changing.
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Kevin Humes
Kevin Humes, Founder of AVA and Vet Power
We’ve been successful in scientifically matching service members to jobs that translate their military experience into the public sector.
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Cle’ A.
Better Job Fit Client
You are a blessing to me.
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Katie Zahn
Client
I realize how many opportunities are out there for me.
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Dave Nordel
FM4G MEMBER
Being here is an opportunity. It’s been wonderful. I so appreciate you.
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Jared Berry
FM4G MEMBER
We started realizing that there are a lot of people all over the world that are looking for that same similarity to kind of step away from the work life, get a little re-centered in our purposes and that we are not alone in the things that we do.
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JoNelle Short
Client
I highly recommend Jan Barlow for your N.E.X.T. opportunity as she will help take you to heights far greater than you could ever imagine!
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Stacey Huff
Better Job Fit Client
Your first exercise with me to help me define my end game really captured WHO I AM AND WHAT I WANT
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Deborah Hamlin
Better Job Fit Client
“You have lit my fire!
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Ivette Ortiz
Client
Your insight, input, and overall guidance has been invaluable.
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Ebele Gunn
FM4G MEMBER
I like the fact that in Africa, we’ll see the right hand worships the left hand and the left hand worships the right hand.
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Dr. Robyn
FM4G MEMBER
Other groups, I feel like I have to be on, like I have to be an executive coach.
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Mike Matznick
Better Job Fit Client
As I’m a new hire, receiving this information before actually working with my teammates has increased my communication skills and created a quicker connection with them.
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Bud Paige
Better Job Fit Client
Since selling my family business 6 months ago, your business planning and strategic lessons have proven to be invaluable to me.
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Monica Chavez
Better Job Fit Client
Thank you, it was pivotal.
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Angie Cox
FM4G MEMBER
In fact, before you invited me, I was kind of done with groups, in all honesty.
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Jayci Keffury
Business Development for Texas Rangers Baseball Club
Thank you so much for helping me prepare for the interview.
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Courtney D.
ACH Supervisor (Foster Care Organization)
If I hadn’t learned about our various resistance gaps and how best to work together from the start, I could have made inaccurate assumptions about his professional abilities.
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Renee LeCroy
Creating Your NEXT™ Client
I truly thank you for your professionalism and the benefit of the assessment test, and how important these exercises are to my logical and mindful approach to a NEXT career.”
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Alli McFadden
Client
I have a fresh approach and new self-training that I needed.
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Justin Birnstihl
Better Job Fit Client
Thank you for inspiring my strength of spirit.
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Brett Schaffer
Corporate President Candidate
I found our time very informative
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Vanessa Ryan
Better Job Fit Client
You do excellent work!
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Andrew Duffield, PHD
Better Job Fit Client
After believing that our team was diverse, representing different races, genders, and disabilities, it was shocking to see that our lack of innovation for the past 5 years was because we were locked in ‘Group Think’, we lacked Behavior Diversity in our department.
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Kathy Gutierrez, MBA, SHRM-SCP
MBA, SHRM-SCP
Jan, I landed an interview for a job I am excited about around the same time I needed to complete the resume highlighting exercise.
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Michael Goldberg, Recruiting Consultant
Recruiting Consultant
Best networking event I have attended in a while.
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Nicole Cochran
Client
The tool wouldn’t be that impactful without Jan’s expert guidance and coaching, not to mention her enthusiasm and compassion!”
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Kayla Hagerty
Director of Housing, National Office Sigma Tau Gamma
“Thank you, Jan for helping us!
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Jimmy Epperson, III
Better Job Fit Client
I feel super indebted to you for helping me during that rough patch.
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Michelle Braden
Co-Founder of Way Cool Angels
Thank you very much for taking your time with us on Saturday afternoon to show us the results of our assessments, we really enjoyed spending time with you!
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Angie Young
Better Job Fit Client
You are AMAZING and I am so humbly grateful for you.
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Better Job Fit
A community of resources to help us all reimagine work & life.
At least one new strategic connection or collaboration opportunity