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Private Chef Education • Career Strategy • Mentoring
So You Want to Be a Private Chef?
Knowing how to cook is only the beginning.
The private-chef world is a different side of the culinary industry—one most chefs were never actually taught how to navigate.
Working successfully inside a private home requires more than culinary skill. It means understanding service, discretion, communication, household dynamics, adaptability, professional boundaries and the expectations that come with working directly for private clients.
After more than 20 years working as a private and traveling chef, I've learned many of those lessons in the only classroom that existed: inside the homes themselves.
So You Want to Be a Private Chef? is where I share what I've learned with chefs who want to enter the private world, position themselves for better opportunities, or figure out why their career isn't moving the way they expected.
This is for chefs who are…
• Trying to break into private-chef work
• Moving from restaurants or personal-chef work into private households
• Already working privately but ready for stronger opportunities
• Applying for jobs but not getting responses
• Getting interviews or trials but not getting offers
• Unsure how to position their experience for the private market
What we can work on
Career direction and positioning. Résumés and professional materials. Job-search strategy and agencies. Interviews and trial days. Private-household expectations. HNW/UHNW service standards. Travel-chef realities. And the less obvious parts of this career that job descriptions rarely explain.
You don't need another cooking lesson. You need to understand the world you're trying to enter.
Not sure what's holding your career back?
Private Chef Career Strategy Session
A 90-minute one-on-one consultation designed to identify where you are, what's standing between you and the opportunities you want, and what you should do next.
$297
START WITH A CAREER STRATEGY SESSION
Already know what you need?
Hands-on career support is also available for chefs who already know where they need help, including professional career materials, interview and trial preparation, and continued private mentoring.
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