Experience Record

Coaching & Counseling 

• Guide clients through every aspect of career planning and development (i.e. assessment, occupational research and exploration, networking and informational interviewing, career goal setting, resume writing, self-promotion, job interviewing, salary negotiation and career management.
• Skilled at administering and interpreting a wide variety of assessment tools and inventories.
• Over twelve years with award-winning career centers at two Fortune 100 companies.
• Coached and counseled broad and diverse employee populations, addressed specific individual needs, promoted career self-reliance and aligned employee development with corporate goals. 
• Helped clients identify, understand and respond to the paradigm shift inherent in the new global, high-tech age.
• Coached clients through managing individual, team and organizational politics; and tailoring professional development and career goal setting in light of organizational trends.
• Applied effective models, techniques, and theories when coaching/counseling hundreds of corporate clients at every level and in varied functional areas within organizations.
• Incorporated feedback systems (360 degree and 180 degree) when coaching executives and leaders, and facilitating intact work groups. 
• Effectively teamed with EAP and HR departments, with client’s consent, to resolve complex employee-management conflicts that threatened client’s career path and prospects.

Corporate Training & Facilitation

• Developed and presented workshops and briefings regarding strategies for self-management, career planning and leadership development.
• Designed and facilitated a “Leader as Coach” corporate program.
• Intervened with work groups to advance individual and team performance toward organizational goals employing objective-setting and competency-based assessment practices. 
• Organized and facilitated peer support groups for leadership development and career transitioning.
• Opened opportunities for professional growth and advancement through rotation and apprentice programs.

Project Planning & Management

• Managed every aspect of the planning, creating, staffing and opening of multiple Coaching Centers in high-tech organization.
• Consultant-developer of a successful leadership program established to create a corporate coaching culture.
• Created core features of a cutting-edge corporate career coaching program operating across remote sites.
• Implemented a “grass-roots” strategy that encouraged all company employees to voluntarily use a customized, client-focused career coaching program and resource center.
• Integrated knowledge and talent management, and mentoring initiatives into a Fortune 100 company’s career center activities and services.
• Identified and reported trends and themes for climate sensing and retention strategizing.
• As Regional Director for a prominant national housing-services company, established first satellite corporate office, mananged and grew regional.operations (including 13 subsidiary corporations) 250% in six years and handled every aspect of budgeting and financial management of a multi-million dollar portfolio.
• Have handled all aspects of human resources management from recruitment and interviewing to supervision, training, performance management, career development planning, and employment termination.

Marketing & Public Relations

• Developed comprehense marketing strategy for a corporate Career Services program.
• Promoted internal corporate career/professional development programs via email “blasts”, intranet postings and employee briefings; staffed information booths, wrote newsletter articles and “tip sheets”, and designed brochures and websites.
• Directed marketing campaigns, including media presentations, special events, promotional materials and give-aways, to create awareness of and participation in corporate and community programs.