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Take control of your career. Get step by step career coaching to define your career goals, elevate your professional brand and get a job that sparks your joy.
Futures in Motion, Inc. helps career changers take control of their careers with career coaching, online resources, and career classes, so they can reach their goals with confidence.
Established in 2002 by Markell Morris, Futures in Motion, Inc. helps clients navigate the job market whether they are re-entering the job market or realigning their career after facing life altering circumstances.
Based on her personal experience as a young widow and brain tumor survivor, Markell is an expert in navigating a career after loss. She understands the dynamics of rebuilding a career, reestablishing a sense of identity, and finding purpose.
Markell helps her clients craft a career vision, establish a personal branding strategy and launch their job search, so they attract high quality job opportunities. Clients implement helpful techniques for working through doubt and fear. They develop their personal action plan to find a meaningful career that also pays the bills. With personal insight, knowledge, and the best tools for success, clients go after their career goals with clarity and confidence.
She shares career advice as a frequent speaker on career- related topics that educate, inspire and empower career changers to shift their focus from obstacles to opportunities. Her books Fast Track Your Career. 2nd Edition and Launch Your Career Transition: 5 Steps to Define Your Next Career Move guide people step-by-step through how to decide a career direction and position themselves for a career that sparks joy.
Take control of your career with Futures in Motion, Inc. Embrace your new normal. Envision your new future. Relaunch your career.
Meet the Futures in Motion, Inc. Team

Markell R. Morris, M.A.
As a Career Counselor and Coach with more than 20 years of experience, Markell is ready to serve you. In her work of guiding and mentoring people in search of meaningful careers, she coaches one-on-one and in groups, creates career information resources, and presents educational programs. Her goal is to empower her clients from a place of possibility and abundance.
She is the author of Fast Track Your Career. 2nd Edition and Launch Your Career Transition: 5 Steps to Define Your Next Career Move. Her professional certifications include:
Markell understands the dynamics of loss, grief, and restarting a career from her own personal experience, too. She unexpectedly became a widow when her husband, Mark, died suddenly just weeks before their first anniversary. A few months later, she received a brain tumor diagnosis and spent the next year in treatment. After her recovery, she stood at her own crossroads. She had to figure out how to re-establish her employment and re-invent her career.
In addition to her work with Futures in Motion, Inc., Markell is an associate faculty member at Santa Monica College General Counseling and Transfer Services and an adjunct career counselor at Cypress College Career Planning Center in California. She serves as immediate past- president and Finance Co-Chair of the California Career Development Association; as a volunteer grief group facilitator at New Hope Grief Support Community in Long Beach, California; and on the Board of Directors for the Hope for Widows Foundation.
She received her master’s degree in Counseling from the University of San Diego, and her bachelor’s degree in Sociology from UC Santa Barbara (Go Gauchos!).
Markell’s ultimate desire is for her clients to pursue and achieve their career goals so they can live their best life.
As a Career Counselor and Coach with more than 20 years of experience, Markell is ready to serve you. In her work of guiding and mentoring people in search of meaningful careers, she coaches one-on-one and in groups, creates career information resources, and presents educational programs. Her goal is to empower her clients from a place of possibility and abundance.
She is the author of Fast Track Your Career. 2nd Edition and Launch Your Career Transition: 5 Steps to Define Your Next Career Move. Her professional certifications include:
- National Certified Counselor by the National Board for Certified Counselors
- MBTI and Strong Interest Inventory certified by The Myers Briggs Company
Markell understands the dynamics of loss, grief, and restarting a career from her own personal experience, too. She unexpectedly became a widow when her husband, Mark, died suddenly just weeks before their first anniversary. A few months later, she received a brain tumor diagnosis and spent the next year in treatment. After her recovery, she stood at her own crossroads. She had to figure out how to re-establish her employment and re-invent her career.
In addition to her work with Futures in Motion, Inc., Markell is an associate faculty member at Santa Monica College General Counseling and Transfer Services and an adjunct career counselor at Cypress College Career Planning Center in California. She serves as immediate past- president and Finance Co-Chair of the California Career Development Association; as a volunteer grief group facilitator at New Hope Grief Support Community in Long Beach, California; and on the Board of Directors for the Hope for Widows Foundation.
She received her master’s degree in Counseling from the University of San Diego, and her bachelor’s degree in Sociology from UC Santa Barbara (Go Gauchos!).
Markell’s ultimate desire is for her clients to pursue and achieve their career goals so they can live their best life.

Terri Steele, Human Resources Consultant
Terri is a Senior Human Resources Analyst/Employment Services and Training with the City of Pasadena. She helps internal clients navigate the hiring process to avoid legal pitfalls and find the right candidates. She has over 15 years of experience in Human Resources, which includes working for the private sector in the retail industry and public sector in education and municipalities. She holds a B.S. in Psychology from the California State University, Fullerton; M.S. in Human Resources Management from Chapman University; and an IPMA-SCP designation from IPMA-HR.
Terri is a Senior Human Resources Analyst/Employment Services and Training with the City of Pasadena. She helps internal clients navigate the hiring process to avoid legal pitfalls and find the right candidates. She has over 15 years of experience in Human Resources, which includes working for the private sector in the retail industry and public sector in education and municipalities. She holds a B.S. in Psychology from the California State University, Fullerton; M.S. in Human Resources Management from Chapman University; and an IPMA-SCP designation from IPMA-HR.

Career Strategy Consultation
Re-entering the job market or changing career direction involves a lot of moving pieces, and it can be frustrating and discouraging when you can’t see a way forward. Fortunately, you don’t have to figure it out on your own. In this complimentary, no obligation session I’ll give you pointers that will fill in your gaps in knowledge, strategy, and tactics, so you can see your situation more clearly and stop wasting time. I’ll suggest programs and resources you can use right away to get started. BOOK YOUR SESSION
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