Careers (General) Consultants

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 Principal Systems Architect (Research & Development) at Smiths Medical 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

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Centennial Advisory Group is a boutique consulting firm specializing in Investment Management and Financial Services. They are a member of the Professional Association of Resume Writers and Career Coaches and hold the Certified Professional Resume Writer designation. Their goal is to enhance the career success and earnings potential of investment industry executives.

Services:

Career Path Advisory Interview Preparation Compensation Consulting

Strategic Introductions Resume Preparation LinkedIn Profiles

Frank Carr is a Certified Professional Resume Writer, a former Hedge Fund Chief Financial Officer, a Corporate Banker and a 20-year executive search veteran for the Financial Services and Investment Management industries.

Mr. Carr has advised thousands of junior, mid-level and senior executives on how to position and maximize their careers within the financial world. With over 4,800 investment industry connections on Linked In, his reach throughout the financial services world is extensive. He has written articles for and has been frequently quoted by publications such as Bloomberg News, CNN Money, Fund Fire, Ignites, Absolute Return, Hedge Fund Alert, and Hedge Fund Manager Week.

Prior to forming Centennial, Mr. Carr had been a Managing Director in the Global Asset Management practice at A.T. Kearney Executive Search, a top 10 U.S. search firm. He began his search career at LAI Ward Howell which was later acquired by TMP Worldwide (owners of Monster.com).

Prior to entering executive search, Mr. Carr was Chief Financial Officer of a Connecticut-based equity long-short hedge fund. He managed investor relations, accounting and compliance, including registration with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Frank had spent eight years in commercial bank lending, initially with Citibank in their Wall Street Commodities division and later was a banker to the feature film and TV industries.

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Gordon Kamisar, Esq., is a certified expert in Executive Recruiting, who has placed hundreds of different executives in the past 27 years in a variety of industries, and who also has a sub-specialty in Attorney Recruiting. A Duke Law School graduate who received his B.A., with distinction, from the University of Michigan, Gordon Kamisar is President of his own executive search firm.

Litigation Support - Mr. Kamisar has been deemed qualified as an expert in trial court, and was found in a recent court opinion to be a "credible and knowledgeable" expert on the subject of executive and attorney placements and compensation, testifying for the defendant employer. Mr. Kamisar has experience testifying in depositions and at trial. He is available to travel nationally and within the past two years has testified in cases in San Francisco, Dallas, and New York City.

Mr. Kamisar has served as an expert witness on the subjects of:

Executive and Attorney Employability Executive and Attorney Compensation Executive and Attorney Marketability Executive and Attorney Earning Capacity

Executive and Attorney Job Search Analysis Executive and Attorney Hiring Practices Executive and Attorney Recruitment Plaintiff / Employee Mitigation of Damages

Recent Cases

• Presently retained in a federal New York City case involving an associate attorney at an AmLaw100 law firm alleging termination was in retaliation for reporting ethical concerns
• Served as an expert for plaintiff on the subject of executive and attorney employability, job search analysis and mitigation of damages in federal district court in San Francisco (N.D. Cal.) case of Wadler v. Bio-­ Rad Laboratories, Inc. where plaintiff was awarded approximately $11 million in damages plus attorneys fees when the jury found violations of Whistleblower protections in the retaliatory firing of the company's Executive Vice President, General Counsel
• Served as an expert in a Dallas case on the subject of the employability of dismissed Hedge Fund Portfolio Manager

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”.

Julaine E. Flick is a consultant in Strategic Marketing Communications for businesses and professionals committed to success, growth and effectiveness.

Before founding PowerStone Communications, Julaine led an award-winning career within top advertising and public relations agencies, working on Blue Chip clients such as DuPont, Eastman Kodak, Apple Computers, and SmithKline Beecham where she led teams responsible for strategic planning, branding, new business development, public relations and crisis management. Later, she forged her own consulting enterprise, serving clients such as Motorola, Verio Inc. and Accenture on global projects while achieving notable success within extraordinarily short timeframes.

Accomplishments for Clients:

• 40 million impressions resulting from a video news release for Du Pont’s consumer product, Impact, an oxygen-based speed shock for pools
• Building the market for Os-Cal, a calcium supplement marketed by SmithKline Beecham, and generating a new national awareness for the prevention of osteoporosis
• Generating the strategic positioning campaign for Du Pont’s pulp and paper division, integrating the message with the company’s corporate position on solid waste recycling, at the time a newly-debated environmental issue
• Launching the debut of Eastman Kodak’s advertising supplement to Vogue magazine with a special event for top fashion photographers and designers in the industry, profiling Eastman Kodak’s leadership in fashion photography
• Creating collateral for Apple Computer’s sales representatives to sell both hardware and software products, developing quarterly newsletter and support materials for Apple’s national sales force

Consulting Services Include:

• Executive Coaching
• Executive Integration
• Strategic Communications Consulting to Companies and Managers Dealing with Change Management
• Reputation and Issues Management
• Crisis Communications
• Employee / Corporate Communications
• New Product Launches

Leading Effectiveness Expert - Julaine is a professional seasoned in leading effectiveness training. Drawing from her experience as a leader in strategic marketing communications and business development — as well as her work in the development of human potential — Julaine teaches clients how to accelerate potential to breakthrough performance and results.

Results with Experience - Julaine's credentials include working with many Fortune 500 companies as well as training and developing more than 1,000 people for one of the world’s premier leaders in breakthrough thinking technologies where she led seminars, trained coaches, and managed leadership development programs. She is one of a small number of people licensed to deliver the Personal Efficiency Program™ (PEP), in which she trains organizations how to work smarter and recover an average of 10 hours, per person, per week, in recovered time. In addition, Julaine has been trained in a number of programs within the fields of transformation and personality typology (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator™). This “cross training” enables Julaine to offer PowerStone clients a rare understanding of the human element of performance.

Speaking Services - Julaine Flick has taken thousands from potential to performance, whether in seminar series, team trainings, or speeches within the business community. Her services are available to general, entrepeneurial, and women's business groups.

Dr. Jeffrey D. Joy, MBA, MEd, CRC is a Vocational Rehabilitation Consultant with more than 20 years of experience serving persons with disabilities in various vocational rehabilitation settings. He provides individualized services to help injured workers and claimants restore healthy, productive lifestyles through long-term gainful employment. Dr. Joy serves as a vocational rehabilitation consultant and assists in the vocational assessment of an individual's Work Capacity, Skills, Labor Market Access, and Earning Capacity.

Mr. Joy's past work includes that of Director of Vocational Services and Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor for the Department of Veterans Affairs and has served persons in various vocational rehabilitation settings. He is Nationally Certified as a Rehabilitation Counselor by the Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification and a Board Certified Vocational Expert. Dr. Joy teaches Assessment, Vocational Testing, and Research at Central Connecticut State University. He has been called to speak on topics of vocational administration, employment services, and vocational rehabilitation. Additionally, Dr. Joy served as the President of the Connecticut Rehabilitation Counseling Association for 2011-2012.

Consulting Services:

• Vocational Rehabilitation - Transferable Skills Analysis, Employability Assessments and Labor Market Surveys, Job-Seeking Skills Training, Earning Capacity Evaluation, Job Placement
• Career Coaching for Unemployed and Underemployed - Resume and Cover Letter Development, Job-Seeking Skills Training, Interviewing, Negotiating Pay and Benefits

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