CaretraA Note From the Founder

I started Caretra because your career is too important to leave undefined.

Early in my career, I kept seeing brilliant, multi-faceted people struggle to explain who they were and what they were actually good at. The tools we had, resumes, job boards, performance reviews, forced everyone into the same narrow story. I built Caretra to give people a better one.

What I believe

Career clarity isn't a luxury. It's the foundation of doing work that fits you, and building a life that actually feels like yours.

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Identity comes first

You can't navigate a career you can't articulate. Before job titles, before networking, before the next move, you need language for who you are and what you bring.

02

Trajectory is self-authored

No one else gets to define your path. The best careers are designed, not discovered by accident. You get to choose the direction, the pace, and the shape of what's next.

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Enjoyment is a signal

Liking your work isn't unprofessional, it's data. The things that energize you point toward the roles, environments, and problems where you'll do your best work.

Joshua Stewart, Founder & CEO of Caretra

Joshua Stewart

Founder & CEO, Caretra

I have loved weather for as long as I can remember, not just the forecast, but the way small forces add up to something bigger, the way a tiny shift can change everything. That curiosity pulled me into meteorology, then into climate work, then into consulting, but the real thread through all of it has always been people. I am an extrovert at my core: the kind of person who wants to talk to everyone in the room, introduce two strangers who should know each other, and build something that actually lands in the real world. Whether I was on air as a personality, serving in student government, helping develop a climate action plan, or working inside a global consultancy, I kept showing up at the same intersection: complex problems, diverse people, and the chance to make a tangible impact. Caretra came from that place, not from a résumé, but from a belief that the best careers are built by people who understand who they are and what genuinely energizes them.

The more I talked to them, the clearer it became: the problem wasn't their experience. It was the frame. Résumés ask, "What jobs have you had?" when the better question is, "What patterns run through everything you've done?"

Caretra is built around that second question. We help you name your career identity, map the adjacent paths that actually fit your transferable skills, and build a roadmap toward work you genuinely want to do, not just work that checks a box.

My own path has taught me that clarity isn't something you find once and keep forever. It's something you practice. Caretra is the tool I wish I'd had at every transition, and the one I hope makes your next chapter feel a little less uncertain and a lot more yours.

"The goal isn't a perfect plan. It's a career that finally feels like you."
Joshua Stewart

Joshua Stewart

Founder & CEO, Caretra

My Trajectory

Careers aren't ladders. Mine certainly wasn't.

Every turn taught me that the map matters more than the title.

Media, Partnerships & Community Builder

University Broadcast · Student Government · TikTok Campus Partnership

Built early experience translating complex topics for broad audiences, representing student interests to administration, and growing a brand partnership from zero to meaningful campus reach. The throughline: making ideas accessible and bringing people together around them.

Climate Policy & Stakeholder Engagement Analyst

City of Santa Cruz

Contributed to a city climate action plan by synthesizing technical and policy inputs into recommendations officials could act on. Learned that durable impact depends on aligning data, institutions, and the people they serve.

Audit & Assurance Sustainability Senior Consultant

Deloitte

Advisory work at the intersection of sustainability and assurance: helping clients understand climate risk, disclosure expectations, and how to build credible, decision-useful sustainability programs.

Contractor

LLM Coaching & Training

Coached and trained large language models, translating complex domain knowledge into feedback that makes AI more useful and accurate.

Sustainability Tax Incentives Senior

Deloitte

A strategic return to Deloitte to help companies actually implement sustainability initiatives by unlocking the tax incentives that make them financially viable.

Founder & CEO

Caretra

Building the tool I wished existed: one that names your career identity, surfaces adjacent paths, and helps you author a trajectory that's genuinely yours.

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