Candace Gallo Email & Phone Number

West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

• Support adults & youth with disabilities or other barriers to employment.• Develop career goals, prepare for their job search, secure their job, coach the individuals as they learn the tasks and responsibilities.• Support clients one-on-one with community activities, including paid employment, internships and volunteer opportunities.• Develop and maintain relationships with local businesses.• Write daily notes & track monthly progress/goals• Help to make a positive impact in the community by changing the world of work.

West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

Palm Beach Gardens, Fl

Executive Director and Editor with long-term leadership experience with LRP Publications. Direct oversight of more than 25 employees, including: 5 Directors, 3 Managing Editors, and multiple Editors/Copy Editors over a progressive 20-year career history with this multifaceted media publishing company headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, with additional locations in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Asia. Executive Director, 2016 – 2018Executive Editor, 1999 – 2016Editorial Director, 1998 – 1999 ❏ Led LRP’s Education & Special Education divisions for more than 10 years such as ➞ product development, conference planning and programming, and content oversight for thousands of products, websites, books, newsletters, webinars, eLearning tools, training videos and audio conferences. ❏ During tenure, simultaneously managed at one point 12 different divisions and 100 editorial employees in subject areas of ➞ Higher Education, Customer Service Training, Jury Verdict Research, Consumer Financial Services, Grants Management and Federal Employment Law.❏ Managed and assimilated numerous acquisitions of education newsletters, books and websites, including Aspen Publishers Inc., Brownstone Publishers Inc., and Thompson Media Group.CONFERENCE PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING❏ Directed planning and programming of The National Institute on Legal Issues of Educating Individuals with Disabilities conference, the Future of Education Technology conference and the School Attorneys conference.❏ Managed all content, scheduling, presenter assignments and negotiations, venue coordination, budget allocation and project assignments. MEDIA | WEBSITE MANAGEMENT Oversaw all content development and management to include ➞ team editorial assignments, editing submitted pieces, page design layouts, website content, idea generation of “hot topics,” and new books needed.

Greater New York City Area

Ensured deadlines were met and stories were on target; partnered with art and production departments to incorporate advertisements along with content. ❏ Editor of “What’s New” section; launched a children’s magazine called Popsci4Kids, popular science abbreviated for kids, as well as Verge magazine, technology for men in their 20’s.❏ Produced numerous one-off publications on topics such as SUVs, personal computers and televisions.