Managing Partner
CurrentInternationally known writer, speaker, and consultant specializing in the topics of careers and higher education. Author of 12 books. Contributing writer for national media. Quoted in Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, New York Times, Fortune, Money, Men’s Health, Newsweek, US News & World Report, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Globe & Mail (Canada), and many other outlets.Sample engagements: Keynote speaker for tour of universities in India. Keynote speaker for tour of universities in China. Also, lectures in Canada, Mexico, South Korea, Germany, Ireland, and US nationwide. Topics: the borderless career, getting into graduate school; choosing a major; getting a job after graduate school or college; the difference between a job, a career, and a calling; and leadership and success.Faculty member, Penn State TRiO Training Institute, a nationwide training grant. TRiO programs serve underrepresented students.Organization development consultant in higher education, for example: conducted a train-the-trainer strategic planning workshop for a university about to undergo a change effort (a classic organization development project), and conducted a best-practices review and restructuring plan for a small liberal arts college’s career services function. Provide transition coaching for corporate executives, focusing on officer-level careerists with incomes of $200,000 and up. Clients have been in all industries and, indeed, in all locales, from Switzerland to Peru, from New York to Bakersfield. Sample client list: CEO of a software firm, vice president for corporate development, midcareer partner in a top law firm, CEO of a manufacturing plant in Germany, managing director of an international investment advisory group in Singapore, CFO of a rapid-growth high tech company, movie producer, state and federal lobbyists, and executive director of a national association.
