Bios:
Paul, a Five O’Clock Club Certified Career Coach, has
been coaching since 1999 and assisted over 3000 people in
either changing careers or starting their professional
lives. He has worked for several post-secondary career
schools as Director of Career Services specializing in
Biotech/pharmaceutical careers, Green Economy jobs,
aviation, allied health, IT and general administrative
professions. Currently, he the Director of Program
Development for Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Petrocelli
College of Continuing Studies where his responsibilities
include identifying developing and managing many of the
school's adult, non-credit programming. Additionally,
he helped develop the job search training process for
several NJ Department of Labor sponsored job search groups.
Paul has a BS in Psychology from Florida Institute of
Technology. Prior to career coaching, he had a long
career in corporate aviation sales. His final position
in this arena was Vice President of Aircraft Charter Sales
for a nation-wide industry leader.
Beth is a classically trained
materials scientist and an engineering project
manager. She has been freelancing since leaving
Bell Labs in 2008. Five (5) of the last 18 years were
spent trying to launch an advanced materials start up.
It was partially successful: she secured $1M+ in
grants and paid evaluations from potential customers.
Meanwhile, to pay the bills, she worked as a construction
consultant for the insurance industry, as a subject matter
expert in sustainability, and as a business analyst.
Lately, she's been using her PMP at Bristol-Myers Squibb,
formerly Celgene in Summit and in launching another
business.