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Career Planning from the Inside Out Expert

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Main Areas: Career change, career development and planning, talent strategy and management,organization development, executive coaching
Career Focus: business owner, practitioner, speaker
Affiliation: CareerDNA, LLC

Brian A.Schwartz, PhD

Founder and President, CareerDNA, LLC

Principal, The Talent Management Team, LLC

Dr. Schwartz is a psychologist and a leading expert in the fields of Career and Talent Management with a practice that extends 32 yearsand includes over 1700 career planning clients, over 500 executive assessments and several hundred additional assessments and coaching assignments incorporate and university settings. He founded CareerDNA, LLC with partners in May, 2004. He continues his individual and organizational consulting practice through The Talent Management Team LLC, formed in 2001. In 2010 he has been appointed Senior Consultant and Visiting Lecturer at Tsinghua University's Yangtze Delta Regional Institute and will move to Beijing in the spring of 2010. He is gathering thought leaders, consulting firms and consultants, assessment tools and technologies in the world of talent management in China's premiere effort to upgrade and transform Chinese companies and governmental agencies through talent management initiatives.

He has originated a unique approach to career planning based on his observation that one's most enjoyed work is an adult metaphor forone's most enjoyed child's play. His process not only has helped over 1700 clients define a detailed ideal work profile (SkillsDNA plus) but also helps clients identify the internal barriers to their own success and helps them in overcoming those barriers. He is the creative force in the ongoing development of a state-of-the-art manager decision support tool which makes best fit matches between job candidates and job opportunities and corporate cultures andensures an engaged workforce, TalentDNA (www.careerdna.biz) as well as a flagship online career assessment and planning program for individuals, CareerDNA (www.careerdna.net).

Dr. Schwartz is also an expert in Organization Development, Talent Management and Executive Coaching. He has assisted corporations seeking to change their organizational culture to a more participative and open environment. He has designed performance management systems, succession-planning processes, train-the-trainer programs as well as programs in executive and management development. He has been especially effective in coaching executives and managers in improving their performance. Clients have included Interscope, Continental Can-USA, American Express. Reichhold Chemicals, Coopers & Lybrand, UST, PhilipMorris, The Kaempfer Company and its joint venture with The British Airport Authority, BAA-McArthur/Glen Europe, and its successor, McArthurGlen Europe,PLC, Trumpf USA, Pitney Bowes, DrakeBeamMorin, and The Directorship Search Group. His work in career transition and pre-retirement has been used by IBM,Texaco, Richardson-Vicks, Perkin-Elmer and both the New Jersey and Connecticut Education Associations.

Dr. Schwartz' early career was as a staff psychologist and Lecturer at Queens College of the City Universityof New York for eight years. He then founded the Career Planning Center at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in 1976 and headed that until establishing his organization development and career management practice in Greenwich, CT in 1981 in which he has continued as Principal of The Talent Management Team, LLC.

Dr. Schwartz is a member of the American Psychological Association, the National Career Development Association, and the Association for Psychological Type. He is also a member of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychologists, the International Association of Career Professionals, the Society for Human Resources Management, and the American Society for Training and Development. He is a licensed psychologist in Connecticut and holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Queens College and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from New York University.

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I am licensed to commit mayhem as a psychologist in Connecticut since 1976 where I have practiced, along with an office in NYC until 1999. I continue to see individual clients for career management/counseling/planning. Over the years, it has become most apparent to me that my work is primarily political, not just psychological. The preamble of our Constitution asserts that we, the People, have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That pursuit is predicated on the ability to achieve some level of emotional and mental health. Freud tells us that mental health is built on two legs, Love and Work and I have dedicated my life to helping people find the work they love. What if our society were truly aligned with our country's mission as stated in the Preamble to the Constitution. What if the playing field between employers and employees were leveled so that it was not ONLY profits that drove the employment dynamic but that the social and individual benefit of enjoyment of work were deemed the primary but not the only reason for working. What if the balance of power were shifted to allow win/win outcomes between employers and employees so that alignment of one's most impassioned skills, personality type and temperament, personal and work values, content interests and character with organizational mission dominated the hiring process. By empowering people to define their essence, their CareerDNA, I have endeavored to do my small part in driving the quest for happiness in the world of work.

Getting Started With Brian Schwartz

BrianA. Schwartz, PHD

Career ManagementConsultant

489 Roxbury Road

Stamford, CT 06902

203-276-9034

brianschwartz@careerdna.net

Career Assessment Services

Based on the principal that people will be more productive and fulfilled when they are doing work they canbe passionate about and which plays to their natural talents, Dr. Brian A. Schwartz, principal of The Talent Management Team, has developed a career assessment process which assists clients in organically growing the design of ideal work directly from their life experiences. He has worked with over 1700 clients in this way since 1976. The process consists of three essential elements: a battery of inventories, an intensive autobiographical counseling process leading to identifying one’s SkillsDNA and an occupations card sort. Information from each of these are then integrated into a detailed ideal job description with several career options aligned with one’s personality type, values, interests and SkillsDNA. A no cost, no obligation initial hour-long meeting is how we normally explore if and how we might be of help.

The battery of inventories include: two interest inventories, a personality inventory and Dr. Schwartz’ online career assessment and marketing plan product found at www.careerdna.net.

Clients are taken through an intensive series of sessions beginning with background information on their family of origin and proceeding through their lives until the present. Each client identifies their life highlights in a “Life Chart” documenting their achievements, accomplishments, enjoyed relationships, roles and situations. From this they select the seven most enjoyable and meaningful experiences of their life. Those top experiences are then analyzed for the transferable and self-management skills that they used and enjoyed in their top life experiences. These skills are then organized into skill teams, which, in detail, describe the roles, functions, and tasks that would be intrinsically enjoyable to each client. We call this “SkillsDNA” as no two clients have ever developed the same set of skill teams in the same way and with the same degree of importance in their SkillsDNA graphic. It is one’s career “fingerprint". Parallel to this designing of the template for ideal work satisfaction is an analysis of the client’s internal barriers to success, if any. Formulating the principle that “People achieve the level of success that their self-esteem will absorb,” Dr. Schwartz is particularly adept at helping clients identify the external and internal barriers to their success. The program includes developing the marketing materials and plan necessary to make the career assessment actionable i.e.resume, cover letters, elevator pitch and interview preparation using the marketing plan features of www.careerdna.net. Dr. Schwartz may then have the client work with a “talent agent” to ensure that each client gets the support and even direct contacts they need to translate their profile into actionable results.

The process takes approximately 20-30 hours. Fees include a $150 test fee, free one-year use of CareerDNA and session fees of $250/hour. Client meetings are generally two hours in length although longer and more frequent meetings are arranged for clients traveling from a long distance.