Careers for People 45+ with Barbara Rose Brooker, Thuy Sindell, Sunita Sayana, Elinor Stutz and Leslie Kossoff
It's Never Too Late to Change Careers or DirectionAre you considering a new career but don't know how to make the transition? Come discover how your skills and experience can take you to the career of your dreams.
Whether you're stuck in a dead-end job, re-entering the job market or simply ready for something more exciting, this course will show you how to:
- Overcome blocks and obstacles and identify possible solutions
- Reinvent yourself, personally and professionally
- Go from where you are now to where you want to be
- Identify your career objectives
- Develop a proactive, targeted and individualized search plan
- Improve your marketability in the workplace
- Transfer traditional resumes to scannable, e-mail and Internet formats
- Successfully answer the 20 most difficult interview questions
- Establish new business relations
In this highly practical, inspirational course, our expert Panel will show you how to carve out the career - and life - you really want. . Our panel of lively post 45-year-old, successful career switchers, reveal their secrets for reigniting the fire in themselves, finding their real passion and doing what they always wanted to do. Learn from their first-hand experience how to locate seed money for your great business idea, discover the synergies between your life experience and your dream job. You'll be energized, educated and eager to put their shared knowledge to work for you.
Barbara Rose BrookerBarbara Rose Brooker, native SF author, believes that fifty plus is a time to make old dreams come true and to re-invent yourself. She has an MA in creative writing, and regularly teaches seminars on How To Turn Your Life Into A Bestseller And Get Published. Her fiction has been published by Morrow and her memoir and nonfiction by other presses. Currently, her latest published novel The Viagra Diaries is about love, sex, and aging after sixty.
Thuy SindellThuy Sindell is the founder of two software companies: Knowledge Genie, a software company that transforms how people and organizations capture, package, and publish what they know; and Hit The Ground Running, specializing in employee performance. She also specializes in leadership and employee development. She has spent her career focused on helping employees take ownership of their career and demonstrate successes by learning to decode the culture and expectations of their unique organizations. This experience has culminated in her co-authoring three career books: Sink or Swim: New Job. New Boss. 12 Weeks to Get it Right; Job Spa: 12 Weeks to Refresh, Refocus, and Recommit to Your Career; and the upcoming book, The End of Work as You Know It: Eight Strategies to Redefine Work in Your Terms. She has co-founded two software companies, Hit the Ground Running and Knowledge Genie.
Her clients have included Fortune 500 and industry-leading companies such as Apple, Charles Schwab, Cisco Systems, Gap, Hewlett-Packard, Ricoh Silicon Valley, Scios (a Johnson & Johnson Co.), Silicon Graphics Inc, Sun Microsystems, VeriSign, UC Berkeley, Wells Fargo, and Yahoo!.
Sunita SayanaSunita Sayana is the Founder and CEO of CareerApple.com a career transformation company. CareerApple's vision is to help people live their best life by having a career they love. She is a certified career coach, serial entrepreneur and sought after business development executive for fortune 500 companies. Prior to dedicating herself to helping those in career transition, Sunita was the CEO of a successful educational services company. Sunita founded CareerApple after embarking on her own personal journey of career transformation and was inspired to facilitate this discovery in others. CareerApple is now a comprehensive destination for individuals in career transition providing training resources, inspirational profiles and a network of career coaches.
Elinor StutzAs CEO of Smooth Sale, LLC and Author, Elinor Stutz inspires and motivates audiences and clients through speaking, training, coaching and product to achieving their own success. Men and Women alike exclaim her system is natural and easy to implement, and most importantly, greatly increases their revenue stream! Elinor's book, "Nice Girls DO Get the Sale: Relationship Building That Gets Results" published by Sourcebookswas featured in TIME Magazine business supplement, translated into multiple languages and sells worldwide.
Leslie KossoffLeslie L. Kossoff is an internationally renowned executive advisor, writer and speaker specializing in next generation business strategy, corporate collaboration and alignment. For over twenty years she has assisted clients ranging from Fortune 50 to small and mid-sized firms in a broad range of industries and sectors in the United States, Japan and Europe. Leslie has also provided testimony to the United Kingdom Parliament on small business matters and agri-business research and development. She is the author of two award winning books and over 100 articles for publications including the Financial Times and CEO Magazine.
