Practiced and effective career coach, business development professional, writer, teacher, and storyteller. Provide broad-based leadership training that furthers professional development. Incorporate stories and job search strategies in a business development/training setting for similar purposes. "Wherever you are right now, I can help get you to who and where you want to be."​Relationship building—getting job seekers to inventory their stories so they can create new professional narratives for themselves. Recognizing, selecting representative aspects of what they’ve done so they can move forward. Enable them to create the new professional identity they desire.Facilitating--inspiring and empowering jobseekers and employees to see their professional and personal value; provide venues for boththat are networking based, including a high level networking group called Western New York Executive Candidates..Teaching—imparting knowledge with a keen awareness of content and audience; developed curricula for six center based workshop based on current best practices: Creating a LinkedIn Profile, Creating an Elevator Speech and Branding Statement, Exploring the Hidden Job Market, The Art of the Cover Letter, Stories of Work: Reading Fiction and Re-creating Your Professional Life, and Emotional Intelligence and Your Job Search.Specialties: Non-profits, Higher Education insitutions, Civil Services agencies specializing in Social Services and Native American Issues, Mental Health Advocacy, Human Resource Issues, the Interaction between literature and storytelling and executive and professional growth.Book Publication: Durante, Robert. "The Dialectic of Self and Story: Reading and Storytelling in Contemporary American Fiction." New York and London: Routledge Press, 2001.