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About Cathy Goodwin
Cathy Goodwin, Ph.D.,
provides career planning, career advice and career information
to midlife professionals, business owners and
executives. When a midlife crisis becomes a career crisis, she helps
clients transform career breakdown to career breakthrough.
Download a one-hour
recording where I am interviewed about my approach to career
consulting and a taste of my career advice.
Recognized as an Expert
Cathy has been interviewed as a career and relocation transition expert
by radio stations
and newspapers (including KQED San Francisco, Boardroom, the
Denver
Post, Billings (MT) Gazette,
Matt and Ramona Show and USA Today
Online). She is the Relocation Expert in Samantha Ettus's
best-selling 100 Things Everyone
Should Know How to Do and she's quoted in Developmental Psychology (2005), a
Prentice-Hall college textbook. Her own book, Making the Big Move (New Harbinger
1999) is now available for download.
Cathy holds an MBA from U of Penn's Wharton School and a PhD in
marketing from UC Berkeley. She has published her own original research
on
life transition and personal growth and made presentations on these
topics
at national and international conferences. If you like research
(or just feel slightly
masochistic) you can view her academic c.v. online.
Been
there before
Cathy's own career path has included stints in corporate America,
academia and self-employment. She's lived all over North
America, including Canada and Alaska.
Cathy has always been fascinated by careers and the world of
work. She's woven career interests into research, part-time
consulting, and even assignments for college students. So she's
familiar with a wide range of careers and their unwritten, unspoken
rules.
Quotes
and Quibbles
- "I am living proof that people can change
and grow
throughout their
lives. For example, as a child, I was an anti-athlete-- last one chosen
for teams, loved dresses, never followed sports.
- "Now I work out in a
gym and am an avid fan of women's basketball. I was a Liberty fan and
now support the Seattle Storm. I even watch an occasional
fooball game. Go Eagles! And in a perfect world, I'd live in gym
shorts and a tee. Forever.
- "Some years ago, I was offered a job in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida,
and
made two major life transitions at once. I bought a house. Then I
went to the Humane Society of Broward County
'just to look' and walked out with Keesha, a
four-year-old keeshond-chow mix. She was my very first dog, after
a
lifetime as a cat fanatic. She took over my life and insisted on
joining my official website photos.
- "I read voraciously and devour murder
mysteries. I join art
museums and have taken pottery and drawing classes. (No talent but
lots of enthusiasm.) Musical tastes range from George Jones to
Mozart
with not much in between.
- "I was born in New York City and still think
of The City as
home, although I haven't lived there for years.
- "I do not have a favorite color, song or
movie.
- "My favorite place to live is wherever I happen to
be right
now. In
2001, it was Silver City, New Mexico. In August 2005, I moved to
Seattle, Washington, to enjoy rain, coffee and foggy glimpses of Mount
Rainier."
Now that you're gained a
sense
of
who I am, let's get started with the free
stuff.
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