Career Transitions for Women Staff

Naomi St. Gregory has a unique gift of drawing out the creative potential in each of us to reconnect to who we really are to facilitate individual career/life success.  She has personal understanding of  the blending of both our  analytical and creative sides.  She has a bachelor's degree in Accounting, spending the first chapter of her career in corporate America, with 16 years at American Express Financial Advisors.  She continually renewed her career and reinvented herself based on the needs of the company.  Along the way, she honed her skills in career management, dream-building, creative problem solving, and group facilitation.  Naomi joined the non-profit arena in 2001, bringing her natural consulting and counseling skills to the world of career development.  Since then, she has helped hundreds of people develop job strategies and renew their career paths.  She has earned her certification as a Global Career Development Facilitator, is earning her M.A. in Counseling at Adler Graduate School, and continues to be a gifted facilitator of career workshops. Naomi brings intuition, empathy, wisdom, imagination, humor and creativity to her work at Career Transitions for Women

Lonna Szczesny has an extensive understanding of career transitions, drawn from her 30-year career path involving 9 jobs and 4 career changes in the areas of Art Education, Sales and Marketing, and Management.  She has worked in both profit and non-profit organizations.  She currently directs 3 women’s career programs.  In addition to her program management duties, she keeps her energy level high by presenting single topic seminars to a wide range of business associations, community groups and women’s retreats.  Her passion is life/work potential and personal fulfillment issues.  She manages a highly energetic staff that job shares, flex times, and telecommutes.  She not only copes with change effectively, but embraces it for the opportunities it presents!

Pat Foulkes is a highly professional expert in career counseling.  She has more than 15 years of broad experience in the field of counseling, working with mature worker, dislocated worker, youth and women’s issues.   She had worked in adult education prior to completing her master's degree in Human Development in 1991.  Pat has a passion for professional working women’s issues, helping countless women to “re-career” in individual sessions, workshops, and continued job coaching.  Pat has extensive experience with diverse occupations and populations, is trained and certified in major career assessments, and is also knowledgeable about life/work coaching methods.  She is committed to community involvement and physical health and fitness in her personal life and conveys her energy and zest for life in her counseling style. 

Jan Fundingsland has over 20 years experience in career counseling, workshop facilitation, and workshop design.  She has a BA degree from the University of Minnesota and is globally certified in Career Development Facilitation.    She has served diverse groups of adults within both dislocated worker and women’s programs.  Prior to working in the non-profit arena, Jan worked for Pillsbury and Blue Cross in recruiting and placement.  She spent some time raising her children and reinventing herself in numerous volunteer pursuits, discovering a new career anchor …making a difference in people's lives.  She then transferred her skills into career counseling and continued her passion by studying career anchors, positioning, and transitioning theories.  She employs this knowledge in her counseling and facilitation for Career Transitions for Women.   

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