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LOCAL EXPERTS
This section has been designed to showcase and highlight our member
expertise. In addition, you may link to "Find a Career
Services Expert" on the International website. Linking
to the International Site to "Find a Career Services Expert"--from the
Dallas/ Ft.Worth area-- will result in a listing of all Dallas/ Ft.Worth Members and their expertise as posted in their updateable
profile.
We invite you to have your name
posted in this section. We will post your local profiles, here, as
received until we have a representative set of active local Members.
At that point, we will list profiles alphabetically.
Simply send an email to
maher@optimance.com to be added to our local experts list,
here. An example of a local profile is provided below to
assist your thinking. We look forward to the enhancements of our
International Website.
Bob Maher CMF,
on the Founder's Council of our International Association.
Bob was our Chapter's Founding President and served as one of the
Association's original Regional Directors, helping to start Chapters
in Houston, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, St. Louis and his own
hometown, Milwaukee. He also served the Association as its
second Professional Development Chair, following in the giant
footsteps of Dr. James Gallagher who went on to found our
Certification process and Board.
Awarded
The Lifetime Achievement Award by the ACP International in 2006...
As a founding member of our Association, for
giving your time in setting a direction for professional standards and
a focus on technology
Currently Bob is our Chapter's President, webmaster,
and Career Resource Forum Representative. He also serves
the US Country "Network" as Chair of the Certification Committee and
is on the Reorganization Steering Committee.
His 2004 initiative is to create our Profession's
"body of knowledge"
by working with each Chapter in the sharing of best practices,
articles, white papers, etc. It will be fully integrated into
the new International website soon!
Bob has been delivering career management
services since 1980. While most of his experience has been in
independent practice, he was instrumental in the start-up of a local
office for a major international provider of career transition
services, serving as their Senior Consultant. Recently, during
the telecom meltdown in our area, he managed consulting operations for
the largest ever outplacement project handled by a local firm--the Career Control Group, an Optîmance
Company.
He champions a unique High TOUCH/ HIGH Tech
philosophy in delivery services.
Email Bob |
Bob's Web Presence
Helen Harkness,
Ph.D. is a pioneer in career management who founded
Career Design
Associates, Inc. in 1978. A superb strategist and resourceful
catalyst, she spurs others to act while providing resources and
realistic direction for the process of change. A futurist, consultant,
researcher and speaker, she is author of The Career Chase
(1997); Don't Stop the Career Clock (1999); and
Conquering Career Chaos (publication pending). She is
regularly quoted in publications, including: USA Today,
Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, International Herald
Tribune, Chicago Tribune, Good Housekeeping, and
many others.
She received the first
Professional of the Year Award from the Association of Career
Professionals International (ACP International), Dallas/Fort Worth
Chapter. It is a great honor to have the award permanently carry her
name, as “The Helen Harkness Professional of the Year Award.”
Email Helen |
Helen's Web Site
Keith Nave, CMF,
Another past President of our
Chapter, is President of Career Management
Partners/Lincolnshire International, is a highly respected
career management professional. In fact, he was selected as recipient of the Helen Harness,
PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR Award here in the local area.
For over fifteen years, he has coached
senior executives, managers and professionals in making successful
career transitions. He has authored works on career management/career
transition used throughout the United States and has published
articles in The National Business Employment Weekly. He
frequently is invited to speak to civil/professional groups on career
management issues. He is certified in administering several assessment
instruments.
Active professionally in a number of
professional organizations, Keith was a founding member of Dallas/Fort
Worth Chapter of the ACP International and served as chapter President
for 1999-2000. He was one of the first career management professionals
certified by the International Board for Career Management
Certification and has subsequently attained the highest level of
certification as a Career Management Fellow (CMF).
Keith's Email
| CMP's Website
Dick Ulrich is currently
Sr. Vice President, Career
Management Partners, Richardson, Texas. He is a Past President of our Chapter of the ACP International. Based
on his experience and background, Dick brings a unique perspective to
the human resources and career management field. Throughout his
career, Dick has served as an advisor and counselor to Senior
Management. His experience and training in many industry sectors as
well as cultures has enabled him to frame his advice to compliment and
enhance company economics. He is Certified Consultant in the
Birkman Method Assessment Program.
Dick has had a
distinguished thirty-five year career with major domestic companies
including assignments in two international locations, Indonesia and
Yemen. Most recently, Dick spent 17 years in the oil and gas industry
where he held senior HR positions with Hunt Oil Company, Mobil Oil
Company and the Superior Oil Company. In his earlier career, Dick was
selected by a blue ribbon panel of Pittsburgh industry leaders to
install a private sector organizational design for human resource
management for the 8200 employees of County of Allegheny,
Pennsylvania. Dick has held HR positions with Corning Inc. and
National Steel.
Dick's Email
Al
Owens has a strong combination of training professionalism
and career consulting experience. Over the past fifteen years
has contracted to many of the major and national firms in our
industry. Founded Albion Insight, a business training and career
consulting firm, in 1986. Has worked with many major corporate
clients throughout the US. Brings a strong sense of project
management and delivery model standards to his practice.
An active Professional
Member of Our Local Chapter, Al currently serves as the Dallas/ Ft. Worth Chapter's Professional Development Chair
Representative. Holds a BA in Behavioural Sciences from Exeter University and a MBA from London
Polytechnic in the UK.
Email Al |
Al's Web Presence
Don Carter is President, Cartgroup International,
Coppell, TX, a management and career consulting, diversity and
training services firm. He is a Past President, and current Treasurer of the Dallas/ Fort Worth
Chapter of the ACP International.
He brings twenty-five years
of international and diversified experience with Fortune 500 firms in
performance management, leadership and career development, and design
and facilitation of change management processes. Don’s industry
experiences include executive level positions in the energy, oil and
gas, engineering, economic development and consulting. During his
career, Don developed and established a corporate university, designed
curriculum and training delivery processes in three different
languages and is a 1995 director’s recipient of the "Telly" awards
for development of effective corporate communication via video.
As a communicator, he is a
keynote and motivational speaker. As a career coach, he is an advisor
to executives, a career transition facilitator and cultural diversity
consultant. He has worked with several national career transition
firms in our industry. He is certified in the Birkman Method and
several national firms’ career development delivery systems.
Don's EMail |
Don's Website
Pam Venne, LPC, is a proven career coach now in Independent
practice . For the previous 12
years she has served as a coach and career counselor with a national
firm. Her coaching skills were initially honed from 17 years as a
human resource executive. She has helped hundreds of senior level
executives attain higher levels of performance and significantly
enhance their management skills, as well as, transition out of one
company and/or profession and into another.
She holds a B.S. degree and
a M.A. in Counseling and is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC).
She is a past President for the Dallas Chapter of The
Association of Career Professionals International
(ACP International).
Email Pam |
Pam's Web Presence |
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