Six-week private coaching · Founding pilot
In six weeks, translate your experience, personality, and results into a career narrative you own, a position you understand, and a deliberate plan for opening your next career door. Work privately with Ricardo Cruz through the full QVANT Method.
Your first 90-minute session ends with a written first move. You choose what you share about your identity at work.
Six private sessions · $900 total or two $450 payments
Start with a short application and a free 20-minute fit call. We will discuss your goal, the paid program, and whether the fit is right. No payment is required to apply.
Already had your fit call?
Please pay only after your fit call has confirmed the fit and we have agreed your start date.
Illustrative artifact · Career Power Plan
Fictional example of the structure. Not a client outcome.
Recognition
You have work you can point to. You may also be self-editing, understating your contribution, or receiving feedback that is hard to act on: “more visibility,” “more presence,” or “not quite ready.”
What do you want next? Which experiences support that direction? Who needs to understand your contribution, and what power dynamics deserve an honest strategy?
That is where we start. We look at your contribution and workplace context, including genuine development needs, available opportunities, timing, and structural barriers you cannot solve simply by working harder.
This is practical, identity-aware career coaching and execution strategy—not therapy, generic advice, or inspiration without action.
The work
A grounded record of your experience, contribution, strengths, and results.
A specific account of the scope, conditions, and opportunity you want to pursue.
Who influences the decision, what they need to understand, and how you choose to engage them.
Practice an advancement, compensation, sponsorship, or development conversation.
A deliberate sequence for the next 30–90 days, with review dates and open questions.
First session
In our opening 90 minutes, we clarify your target, review the information you have, and choose a useful next conversation or criteria request. We finish with your written First Move Plan.
If the criteria or path are unclear, your plan will show how to clarify them. You decide whether and when to take the action.
The process
01
Evidence and Career Power Inventory; 90 minutes
02
Next-Door Definition; 60 minutes
03
Position and Opportunity Audit; 60 minutes
04
Stakeholder, Visibility, and Influence Map; 60 minutes
05
Conversation strategy and rehearsal; 60 minutes
06
Career Power Plan and next 30–90 days; 60 minutes
The QVANT Method guides the work: Quiet the Doubt, Vision with Specificity, Audit Your Current Position, Navigate the Decision, and Take the First Move. We revisit the stages as new information emerges.
Why Ricardo
I am Ricardo Cruz, founder of QARETE. My background is in client technology, complex delivery, and stakeholder coordination. I bring that practical experience to helping you organize your contribution and prepare for consequential career conversations.
In the sprint, we work on your actual context: the role, the evidence, the people involved, and the decisions ahead. You receive feedback on the materials you will use and space to rehearse the conversation.
This is QARETE's founding-client pilot. The examples on this page demonstrate the work; they are not client success stories.
Fit
This sprint is designed for LGBTQ+ professionals from individual contributor through Director who have real work to examine and a meaningful career door to open. Plan for six sessions plus approximately 60–90 minutes of preparation or follow-through each week.
Strong-fit situations include promotion or greater scope, first-time leadership, visible contribution without performative self-promotion, recovery after being underestimated, and advancement, compensation, sponsorship, or development conversations.
Not a fit: therapy, résumé-only services, guaranteed outcomes, or work that depends on disclosing your identity.
Investment
Pay $900 before session one, or $450 before session one and $450 before session four. No automatic renewal or separate paid audit is required. Any applicable tax is shown before payment.
Please pay only after your fit call has confirmed the fit and we have agreed your start date.
Your investment includes all six sessions, the written materials, and one consolidated written question or artifact review each week, with up to 20 minutes of coach review. Responses are within two business days, Monday–Friday, excluding announced closures.
The pilot is limited to five founding clients, with no more than three working with Ricardo at the same time. We will agree your start date before you pay. You are not required to provide a public testimonial.
Apply for the QVANT Career Power SprintFAQ
Your employer makes employment, promotion, pay, and sponsorship decisions. The sprint delivers a career narrative, clearer position, prepared conversation, and deliberate plan. External outcomes are not guaranteed.
No. You choose what to share. We can focus on professional contribution and relationships without requiring disclosure or public posting. We agree your contact preferences and do not contact your employer without your specific authorization.
We examine what is known, what needs clarification, and whether that path remains realistic. If a different door or kind of support would serve you better, we will discuss that rather than manufacture a case for an unavailable outcome.
A template helps you organize information. This sprint adds tailored evidence review, questions about your organization's expectations, feedback, rehearsal, and follow-through on the situation you are navigating.
If an agreed artifact is incomplete when due, we provide one additional session and a written revision at no charge. If the gap remains after 10 business days, we refund the amount allocated to that milestone: $250 for the opening session or $130 for the relevant follow-up. This covers the agreed work, not an employer's decision.
Before session one, payments are fully refundable. After starting, delivered sessions are allocated $250 for the opening session and $130 for each follow-up. We refund payments above delivered-session charges and waive unpaid charges for undelivered sessions. Give at least 24 hours' notice to reschedule. One late change or missed session may be rescheduled without charge; agree remaining dates within eight weeks. Further exceptions are agreed in writing before a fee or forfeiture.
Your next move
Bring the work you have done and the questions you cannot yet answer. We will discuss whether the six-week sprint is the right next step.
Already had your fit call?
Please pay only after your fit call has confirmed the fit and we have agreed your start date.
Not ready for a call? Start with the free Career Power Scorecard.