Meet Your Career Coach
Hi, I’m Kelan!
I’m a registered dietitian, career coach, and the person who’s going to help you stop underselling yourself and start landing roles that actually reflect your expertise.
Why I Started The RD Coach
For years, I sat on hiring committees and reviewed hundreds of RD applications. I mentored nutrition students. I watched incredibly talented dietitians fumble interviews, accept lowball offers, and second-guess their worth.
The pattern was always the same: brilliant, passionate RDs who had the experience but not the strategy to communicate it.
They’d apologize for their lack of experience. They’d undersell their skills. They’d accept the first offer without negotiating. And I’d think, “If only they could see what I see.”
When I used the same strategic principles to pivot from clinical nutrition into a full-time university faculty role—without prior teaching experience—everything clicked. The problem wasn’t a lack of qualifications. It was a lack of clarity, confidence, and messaging.
That realization inspired me to turn what I’d learned into a framework designed specifically for dietitians who want more from their careers but don’t know where to start.
My Approach
I don’t do vague career advice or generic resume tips. I teach dietitians how to:
- Identify transferable skills they didn’t know they had
- Discover non-traditional RD roles that rarely show up on job boards
- Position themselves strategically for opportunities outside clinical settings
- Communicate their value with confidence (and get paid accordingly)
My coaching is structured, strategic, and supportive—because you need both the roadmap and the encouragement to make big career moves.
My Background
My path to becoming an RD was anything but straightforward. I discovered dietetics my senior year of college after taking a sports nutrition class. Talk about unfortunate timing. But I after a year of working for AmeriCorps and knocking out my pre-reqs, I knew nutrition was the right path for me.
A few years later, I graduated with my Master’s in Nutrition from the University of Utah. I was that intern who thought I’d hate clinical—but ended up loving oncology, critical care, and complex GI cases.
I worked in clinical nutrition for almost 5 years (inpatient, outpatient, and leadership), where I gained project management, teaching, and leadership skills that would later become essential to my career pivot.
From there, I transitioned into working as Assistant Director for two different dietetic internship programs—one focused on sustainable food systems, the other on business and entrepreneurship. After supporting dozens of new dietitians with landing their first roles, I launched The RD Coach in 2023.