• Presenter: Gail Liebhaber
  

Research indicates performance on the job is based on self-awareness, managing one’s emotions, picking up on social cues and building effective relationships. This PDI, presented by Gail Liebhaber, Build Your Business: Learn about the coaching potential of the MSC Emotional Intelligence Test for yourself and your clients, is your opportunity to understand the four components of EI, to learn current research and theory, and to have fun understanding and developing your own EI.

Gail Liebhaber has been involved in the field of career development for over 20 years as a trainer, consultant, coach and counselor. She has an M.Ed. with a specialization in career counseling and is a Licensed Social Worker in Massachusetts. She is a MBTI Charter Certified Practitioner for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Strong Interest Inventory and the FIRO-B (Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior), a leadership development tool.

Gail established her private practice in 1994, dedicated to the mission of coaching adults through career transitions with effective and empowering results. Working within corporations and non-profits, Gail facilitates a wide spectrum of career-related trainings and consultations, advising participants on concerns such as: leadership development, team building, career management and life/work balance issues.

In addition to her private practice, Gail was the Director of Career Services for the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge from 1997-2002 and the Director of Career Services at Harvard Divinity School from 2002-August, 2008.

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• Presenters: Cathy Severson and Rochelle McCready

Retirement is not just another career choice, but an opportunity to transform your life. Learn the latest research in adult development transforming retirement as Cathy Severson and Rochelle McCready guide you through the aspects of the VISTa Life/Career Cards and how they can be used to help clients find purpose.

Cathy Severson, M.S., has extensive work experience, from technical, support and management positions in a number of industries including petroleum, mining, manufacturing, government and education. She understands organizational dynamics, having worked for several Fortune 500 companies, small enterprises and started three businesses. Over the past fifteen years, she has been passionate about helping people fulfill their career dreams. With a master's degree in Career Counseling from California State University, Northridge, she has worked with students and adults at Pierce College, CSUN, Ventura County Government, Conejo Valley Adult School, Carson One Stop, and the nationally recognized outplacement firm Drake, Beam, Morin, Inc. She continues to help individuals discover their career goals and move toward a more rewarding life.

Rochelle McCready, MS, NCC, RPCC, GCFI, holds her master's degree from California State University, Northridge, is a Global Career Development Facilitator, and is Registry Eligible with more than fifteen years experience helping adults determine and reach their career goals. She has counseled re-entry students at California State University Northridge, facilitated life skills workshops for women in transitional housing at Haven Hills, led career skills workshops for the unemployed at the Torrance, Lomita, and Carson One Stop Centers, and school-to-career programs for high school and college-age students. She has designed and delivered several career related programs including, Awakening Your Spirit and Passion for the Learning Tree University. In addition, Rochelle has worked as an outplacement consultant and has extensive experience in training and development in the corporate environment. She has a private career counseling and coaching practice in West Hills where she works with adults in career and job transition to help them repackage their potential.

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Murray Mann


Rose Mary Bombela-Tobias


Makini Teresa Harvey

• Presenters: Murray Mann, Rose Mary Bomela-Tobias and Makini Theresa Harvey
  

The principals of Global Diversity Solutions Group, Career Abundance and authors of Barron's The Complete Job Search Guide for Latinos present a highly interactive program that delivers the latest research, proven strategies, tools and techniques to effectively serve multicultural clients and candidates. Learn the Coaching with CULTURES framework, 2008 Multicultural Inventory for Career Assessment, Search, and Advancement™ (MICASA™), RESPECT™ career management models, Diversity Recruitment ROI™ process and more. Participants will receive PDI program tools, multicultural career management roadmaps, case studies, checklists and resource directories.

Murray A. Mann, Rose Mary Bombela-Tobias and Makini Theresa Harvey have been featured nationally in electronic and print media including 60 Minutes; more than thirty multicultural and mainstream publications; sixteen books; and numerous career-related web sites. They speak nationally on multicultural career management, present diversity-inclusion training seminars for employers, and have helped thousands of job seekers reach their goals.

Murray Mann, CCM, CPBS and Rose Mary Bombela-Tobias are principals of Global Diversity Solutions Group, a diversity-inclusion consulting and multicultural career management firm. They are authors of Barron's The Complete Job Search Guide for Latinos. Murray has 30 years of diversity thought leadership and human resources management stewardship. Rose Mary is a nationally recognized executive, management consultant, journalist, and public speaker. She was the first Latino in Illinois to be appointed to the Governor's Cabinet as director of the Department of Human Rights.

Makini Theresa Harvey, CCM, CPRW, JCTC, CEIP, is President of Career Abundance. Makini is a recognized industry leader, holding senior positions in career management associations, speaking nationally, being featured in award-winning publications and delivering exceptional career management services to clients for more than 20 years.
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• Presenter: Judith Grutter

Explore the “other side” of type to enhance career, relationships, leisure, and retirement in this PDI – Type, RIASEC, and the Third Half of Life...Discover ways to take students and clients beyond the matching of type and careers to find the real richness of type; what lies on the “other side.”

Judith Grutter, M.S., NCC, MCC has been a career development program consultant and trainer for over 30 years, and is currently principal with G/S CONSULTANTS in South Lake Tahoe, California. She earned the Master of Science in Counseling at California State University, Los Angeles, and has completed the course work for her doctorate in Higher Education, Work and Adult Development at UCLA. A National Certified Counselor and Master Career Counselor, she developed and for several years coordinated the graduate programs in career counseling at California State University, Northridge [CSUN].

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• Presenters: Vivian VanLier and Martin Yate

Vivian VanLier and Martin Yate will present a lively hands on session based on Martin Yate’s best-selling books. Learn to write a resume that stands out from the competition and discover the secrets that recruiters know about how to penetrate the hidden job market.

Vivian VanLier has been coaching clients and writing resumes for over 15 years. She holds numerous certifications in career coaching and resume writing including Certified Job and Career Transition Coach (JCTC), Certified Career Management Coach (CCMC), Certified Employment Interview Professional (CEIP), Certified Professional Retirement Coach (CPRC), Certified Professional Résumé Writer (CPRW) and is a Personal Branding & Online Identity Strategist.

Martin Yate, C.P.C., is the author of Resumes That Knock 'em Dead and Cover Letters That Knock em Dead. He is an executive career strategist and public speaker with over thirty years in the career management world. These proven job search books are published in seventeen languages. His previous positions include National Director of Training for Dunhill Personnel System, Inc. and Director of Personnel for Bell Industries Computer Memory Division. Martin Yate resides in Savannah, GA.

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