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John Hoschette

USA
phone: 715-222-7883
John
With specialized knowledge in the field of Engineering, John Hoschette is an experienced Career Development Coach, Trainer, and Professional Key Note Speaker. Mr. Hoschette's past position at Lockheed Martin and current position as Technical Director at Rockwell Collins have allowed him an acute understanding of all aspects of an engineering career. Overseeing the operations of nearly 5,000 engineers in Sunnyvale California, along with his experience working with companies such as Alliant Tech, Honeywell, Loral and Northrop Corporations, have given him exposure to the engineering methods of many organizations nationwide.

John Hoschette is an IEEE senior member, author, career coach and adjunct professor. His career articles have appeared in Today’s Engineer and Spectrum Magazine. His company, Career Development Coaches, offers Career Resources for Engineers, Engineering Managers, and Human Resources Personnel. Whether a recent graduate, mid-career, or looking-ahead to retirement, Career Development Coaches offers proven, common-sense advice for navigating all stages of an Engineering career.

Services Offered:
  • Develop Successful Career Plans
  • University to Industry Transitions
  • Improve Job Performance
  • Navigate Difficult Workplace Environments
  • Compensation Negotiations
  • Career Setback or Job Loss Recovery
  • Finance Management
  • 12/1/2011 · Engineering
    Engineering: Your Internet Image Could Be Sabotaging Your Career
    With the wealth of knowledge available at the click of a mouse, the Internet is a wonderful tool that can really help accelerate your career. But have you ever stopped to consider what information about you might be available to others on the Internet?

    10/31/2011 · Engineering
    Engineering: Asking For a Raise is Easier Than You Think, Even In Bad Times
    Do you feel underpaid and deserving of a higher salary? Are you thinking about asking for a raise, but unsure how to go about it? Do you cringe at the thought of approaching your boss?

    John A. Hoschette
    The complete, one-stop career resource guide for engineers, engineering managers, and human resources personnel. This book offers proven, commonsense advice for navigating all stages of your engineering career. Packed with real-world tips supported by actual work experiences and examples.
    John A. Hoschette
    his book is packed with useful tips for excelling in the corporate environment. It is all about the "whens" and "hows" of making a good impression and achieving the greatest impact. This is not a technical book--it focuses more on how to deal with the organization.
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    Caren Goldberg, Ph.D.
    Employment and Human Resources Expert Witness
    9949 Corsica Street
    Vienna VA 22181
    USA
    phone: 571-426-8325
    Caren
    Dr. Caren Goldberg, Ph.D. is an internationally renowned professor of Human Resource Management. She provides expert witness and litigation support services in employment law cases and offers top quality HR and diversity consulting services to organizations in the private, public, and non-profit sectors.

    Dr. Goldberg has written over 50 peer-reviewed papers and three book chapters on Diversity, Discrimination, Stereotypes, and Sexual Harassment. She has been quoted in numerous magazine and newspapers, and has appeared on Dateline, NBC to discuss discrimination. In 2008, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) honored Caren as one of 100 diversity thought leaders from business, consulting, government, and academia, based on her research contributions in this area. More recently, SHRM appointed her to a task force charged with developing professional standards in Diversity and Inclusion.

    Dr. Goldberg has designed and delivered training programs to managers on such topics as interviewing, appraising performance, and conducting terminations. In addition, she has created and led training programs on diversity, sexual harassment, and team building for employees at all levels.

    Services for Attorneys and HR Professionals:
    • Expert Witness Services for Employment Law Matters
    • Diversity and Sexual Harassment Training
    • Test Validation
    • Monitoring EEO/AA Compliance
    • Employee Surveys
    • Training on Interviewing, Performance Appraisals, and Terminations
    • Team Building
    • Developing HR Policies and Programs for Growing Firms
    • Creating Programs to Increase Diversity and Inclusiveness
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    Rosalie R. Hamilton
    Founder
    140 Island Way, #288
    Clearwater FL 33767
    USA
    phone: 727-467-0700
    fax: 727-467-0800
    Rosalie R.
    Rosalie Hamilton is the leading authority on Expert Witness Marketing and Consulting and founder of Expert Communications. She has over 20 years of experience with marketing, management, sales, training and publishing. As a Strategist and Coach, she provides customized marketing plans and consulting to individual experts and firms.

    Ms. Hamilton is a prolific writer, contributing to expert witness directories, newsletters and newspapers, and professional journals. Her book "The Expert Witness Marketing Book: How to Promote Your Forensic Practice In a Professional and Cost-Effective Manner" is a MUST-HAVE resource for the expert consultant, whether seasoned veteran or newcomer with limited litigation consulting experience.

    Ms. Hamilton is a popular speaker at conferences for such organizations as the American Society of Appraisers, NACVA, the Forensic Accounting Conference at Florida Atlantic University, SEAK, American Board of Vocational Experts, Appraisal Institute, Acoustical Society of America, Equipment Appraisers Association, and Forensic Expert Witness Association.

    Services Include:
    • One-on-one coaching on communication skills, how to present yourself in a professional manner in order to build confidence and poise for presentations and networking opportunities
    • Review and analyze your current marketing, advertising, CV, engagement documents, rates and website, and evaluate your positioning with competition
    • Recommendations and a personalized strategy, which includes ideas for branding or identity. Advise and suggest advertising opportunities, networking and publicity actions
    • Design and produce printed materials such as business cards, stationery, brochures (for a group), and professional announcements
    • Create websites in turnkey fashion -- organize, write/edit (wordsmithing), design and coding; and update, fine-tune, and optimize existing sites
    • Marketing Management handling administrative details such as annual advertising and directory listing renewals
    Areas of Expertise:
    • Branding
    • Business - Organization, Strategy
    • Communications - Coaching
    • Internet - Advertising, Marketing, Websites
    • Legal - Marketing, Publications
    • Management
    • Marketing - Internet, Research, Workshop
    • Media
    • Public Relations
    • Training
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    Legal Marketing Strategy for an Expert Consulting Practice
    Legal Communications - Expert Witness Marketing & Expert Witness Training
    Expert Witness Web site Design
    Articles Website Content Strategy & Search Engine Optimization
    Expert Communications Blog
    1/23/2010 · Expert Witnessing
    Writing Articles to Create Publicity
    Presenting yourself as a writer is a universally accepted form of professional promotion. Aside from producing peer-reviewed material for scholarly and other objectives, it just makes sense to show your prospective clients that you can express

    Should You Be Using a Referral Service?
    In addition, a referral service is a marketing and administrative option for a physician wishing to do Independent Medical Evaluations. Referral services are also called brokers, referral agencies or consulting agencies

    Be a Better Expert Witness
    We want to be better people, kinder, healthier, wealthier, thinner, and more competent at what we do. For example, some of my personal goals for the coming year are: In my dealings with people I will remind myself that almost everyone is coping with one or more personal issues that affect their potential for happiness in a major way and that they welcome a gentle word or touch

    Who Said Experts Shouldn't Advertise?
    I don't know where such an idea could have come from. I've only heard it from a couple of defense attorneys who of course don't want experts making themselves available for plaintiff lawyers as well as for defense (defense - including insurance - attorneys have no trouble finding experts

    Expert Pay Discussion
    A common refrain among expert consultants is, "How do I make sure I get paid?" The most important step in getting paid is planning to get paid. Being compensated for your work is too important to leave to chance, hope or optimistic confidence in the decency of your clients. It's business, for goodness' sake

    Rosalie Hamilton
    How does a seasoned expert witness or a professional who is adding litigation consulting to his practice market his services to the legal community? This book describes how to build or increase a client base of attorneys and insurance personnel.
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    Michael Kerr
    Author, Certified Speaking Professional
    322 Canyon Close
    Canmore CAN
    phone: 866-609-2640 or 403-609-2640
    fax: 403-609-4637
    Michael Kerr is known as one of North America’s Leading Authorities and Busiest Speakers on Humor in the Workplace. His company, The Humor at Work Institute, offers keynote presentations, training workshops, articles, books, audio CDs and training DVDs for “seriously-challenged” organizations.

    Michael’s expertise is on how humor can help organizations manage stress, spark creative thinking, motivate employees, provide more memorable customer service, and communicate more effectively.

    Michael’s books and e-books include “You Can’t Be Serious! Putting Humor to Work” and “Inspiring Workplaces – Creating the Kind of Workplace Where EVERYONE Wants to Work” and “We’ve GOT to Stop Meeting Like This!”.

    Expertise Categories:
  • Author / Writers
  • Humor / Entertainment
  • Speakers
  • Business / Motivational
  • Business / Executive Coaching / Training
  • Human Resources
  • Workplace Issues
  • Communication and Professional Skills
  • Stand Up Comedy / Comedians
  • Managing To Have Fun
    Business author Paul Hawken said it best, "We lead by being human. We do not lead by being corporate, by being professional or by being institutional." Perhaps that’s why many leaders are embracing one of the most undervalued human resources they have at their disposal - their sense of humor

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    Marilynne Miles Gray
    Suite A2-6822 Veyaness Road
    Saanichton V8M 2A8
    CAN
    phone: 250-652-0324
    fax: 250-652-6853
    Mentoring Solutions® Inc., professional services cover: • expert design to ensure success • participant training • materials • evaluation • Colaboro® Mentoring Management System® software.

    Principals Dr. Bill Gray and Marilynne Gray are available to give public / inhouse presentations: • When 2 Mentor, When 2 Coach, When to Go Online • The NEW Mentoring Paradigm • What Can You Possibly Tell Me That I Don't Already Know? • The Real Mentoring Process • How to Jump-start Relationships and Reach More Goals • Confidentially Yours, Mentor.

    Since 1978, Mentoring Solutions has followed this dictum: “No matter how great the tools, the first key element is good design.”

    Awards include:
  • Mentors of Mentors” Delegates Award at the First International Conference on Mentoring
  • Hewlett Packard’s “Best Corporate Program”
  • Varian Associates (Radiation Division) “Best Program Award”.
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    Larry Raymond
    Visual Language Expert
    Metaphor Language Research Center, LLC
    Boulder CO USA
    phone: 720-233-8946
    Larry
    Larry Raymond is the founder and director of the Metaphor Language Research Center LLC, based in Boulder, Colorado, USA. He is also co-founder of The River Leadership Resources, a not for profit consulting group based in Geneva, Switzerland. He has broad experience as a Manager, Management Consultant and Educator. As a professional manager and executive at international companies for thirty years, he successfully delivered major projects, managed both small groups and global activities with several hundred staff members and budgets over $100M/year. He also led a small international consulting firm, taught management on the graduate level for ten years and performed research into how to overcome obstacles to planning, leading, organizing and controlling.

    Larry holds both USA and Irish citizenship, lived in Switzerland for ten years and in Denmark for two, worked in more than 50 countries and published a book on Building Effective Teams in Cross Cultural Environments. He has long-held passions for achieving sustainable economic growth and improving the lives of people in underdeveloped countries.

    Larry also supported U.N. agencies and South Asian and African governments through consulting in Health Care Management Systems and Economic Development. He has provided pro-bono service to the World Health Organization and other agencies for a variety of projects.

    Services Offered:
  • Change Management
  • Process Improvement
  • Culture Change
  • Strategy Planning
  • Team Building
  • Training
  • Managing Culture Change in a Manufacturing Company
    Those organizations most often interested in changing their culture are usually those performing poorly, facing a crisis, newly reorganized under a larger entity and those with new missions or new managers. The example organization here is an exception to the general rule.

    Case Study: Improve Management Effectiveness with Metaphor Language
    During the 1990's, the WHO was concerned that public health systems in less developed countries had weaknesses in their organizations and processes and were not serving their populations at the level they were capable of.

    Larry Raymond
    "Reinventing Communication" describes metaphor languages, a system of visual symbols that supplements words for communication and analysis and heightens creativity. This book shows how metaphor language helps people communicate on a deeper level, reconcile opposing ideas, and set common objectives
    Larry Raymond
    "Simplify" is the best overview of how to use metaphors for business change. This book shows you how to use all the Metaphor Mapping languages for tangible results in a repeatable manner.
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    Dr. Michael T. Motley
    3748 Repton Way
    Santa Rosa CA 95404
    USA
    phone: 530-304-6462
    fax: 707-528-2946
    Michael T. Motley, Ph.D. has over thirty-five years of experience in the field of Communication, with specialization in the areas of public-speaking anxiety (stage fright), interpersonal communication, meaning, and psycholinguistics. He has developed an approach to reducing public-speaking stage fright that has been proven in several clinical trials to be the most effective therapy available. The method is successful in about 95% of severe cases and 85% of moderate cases.

    Dr. Motley is a Professor of Communication with the University of California at Davis. He has authored almost 200 books, articles, and research papers in communication and psycholinguistics. He has won eighteen excellence awards for his research and was recognized as among the "Top 1%" of communication scholars of the 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's.

    Areas of Expertise:
    • Stage Fright Reduction
    • Interpersonal Communication Skills
    • Male / Female Misunderstandings
    • Communication of Sexual Consent
    Services Offered:
    • Consultation and Advice in Above Areas
    • Therapy for Public-Speaking Anxiety (Stage Fright)
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    Michael T. Motley, PhD
    This book offers solutions for communication problems that erupt in our daily lives. By focusing on socially meaningful applied research in communication, this book offers a new direction for interpersonal communication studies. Featuring original studies that are practical and relevant, chapters provide readers with a balanced combination of rigorous research with pragmatic application.