Career Counselor & Business Consultant
Finding work today calls for more than the job-search practices universally advocated. I help clients bring their skills up to date and gain the confidence to compete effectively and find rewarding work.
Services
I have been helping professionals, business owners, and people-in-transition achieve their full potential for over 25 years.
Book
Ground of Your Own Choosing is a guide to a new work security not dependent on a job, but on your own capacity to generate work.
Newsletter
An email newsletter and blog dedicated to helping helping people survive and even thrive in the ever-changing world of work.
News & Upcoming Events
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On August 18 at 5 PM, I will facilitate a conversation about Daniel Pink’s book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, at the second session of the Cape’s newly formed Business Book Club. The meeting will take place in the conference room of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, 5 Shoot Flying Hill Rd, Centerville, MA. The group is open to the public. Come have your entrepreneurial energy revitalized by a lively discussion of the best practices for achieving success in any business venture.
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August 2nd through 6th, I will once again serve as class assistant for Edith and Charles Seashore’s program, “Intentional Use of Self: Strategies and Skills for Consulting, Coaching and Change.” Edith Whitfield Seashore, M.A., specializes in Organizational Development and change and has over 40 years of experience training and consulting with corporations and government agencies as well as non-profits. Charles Seashore, Ph.D., is chair of the faculty of the doctoral program in Human and Organization Development of the Fielding Graduate Institute. Both are NTL pioneers and amazing people. This is my fourth time serving as their assistant.
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Mini-Mart Surprise
Summertime and the living is easy—but not for a Mini-Mart cashier at a rest stop on the Mass Pike. That was the assumption I made when I stopped there for an iced coffee on a hot, sunny Saturday last month on my way to visit family in Connecticut.
The store was packed. A long line of customers in a hurry to be somewhere else snaked its way around the junk food displays, inching slowly toward the older woman on the other side of the counter.
“What an awfully hard job,” I thought, as I watched her selling lottery tickets and sodas.
The weather outside is beautiful, and you’re stuck inside. You’re on your feet all day, under constant pressure from impatient, sometimes rude people. You’re exhausted at the end of your shift and you don’t have much of in the way of material reward to show for it.
But even as I was creating this scenario in my head, I still was able to take in the attentive cheerfulness with which she waited on those who preceded me.