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Personalize your transition with one-on-one meetings with a highly qualified career transition coach to assist you in walking through your career transition. The coach will focus on accountability, encouragement and enabling you to leverage job search best practices that will lead you to land your dream job faster than you would by conducting the search on your own.
Amy Anderson, Career Coach
Marie Cumbest, Vice President,Client Services
Claudia Engel, Career Coach
Jim Hartsook, Career Coach
Michelle O'Donnell, Career Coach
Thommi Odom, Career Coach
Christine Reed, Career Coach, Houston Office
Bob Reissiger, Career Coach
Career Coach
AmyAnderson@CareerSpa.net
Amy Anderson approaches life and business with enthusiasm and energy. A native of Michigan, Amy calls Peachtree City, Georgia, home. Just south of vibrant metro Atlanta, Amy works with corporations and individuals to find a future map for effective career transition.
Amy provides a shot of positivity and possibility in phone and one-on-one consultations, as well as workshops. Since graduating with a degree in Employment Relations from Michigan State, Amy has 15 years of career transition expertise. Since 2006, she has been a Highlands Affiliate, analyzing and processing the ideal implementation of her client’s natural talents. She’s completed Coaches Training Institute(CTI), and as of June 2010, Amy’s a Certified Professional Co-active Coach. Her resume includes executive positions with the American Heart Association and the Carter Center.
In her neighborhood, Amy advocates, volunteers and fundraises for a local safe haven for the victims of domestic violence. She serves on the board of a businesswomen’s charity organization, and regularly cha-chas her way to fitness with Zumba. Amy enjoys spending time outdoors and with her two elementary-age sons. She has a passion for spiritual and personal growth and helping her clients achieve their dreams.
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Vice President, Client Services
MarieCumbest@CareerSpa.net
As Vice President, Client Services, Marie is focused on helping our clients achieve their personal best in their career. Focused on relationship management and service delivery, Marie works with our Career Spa team of professionals and clients to bridge the career gap between where they are and where they want to be.
Marie joins Career Spa with twenty years of Human Resources experience within the professional services and financial industries. Marie was most recently with Deloitte where she served in leadership roles in both talent development and delivery. Marie also spent five years as an internal coach for Deloitte, working with professionals to find their career passions and interests. Marie is seasoned facilitator and presenter, having delivered hundreds of professional and personal development workshops and team building sessions on personal brand, personality type and team effectiveness.
Marie has a Bachelor of Science in Management from Florida State University and a Master of Science in Management from Georgia State University. A certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), Marie is active in both professional and community organizations. An avid runner, Marie recently completed the New York Marathon and is always training for her next race. Marie and her husband, Steve, reside in Virginia Highlands. They have two children whose extracurricular activities happily consume what’s left of their free time.
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Career Coach
Claudia Engel is dedicated to working with professionals seeking to improve, expand or completely change their careers. She is credentialed as an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) by the International Coach Federation and as a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) by The Coaches Training Institute (CTI) .
Prior to beginning her own coaching and consulting business in 2008, Claudia enjoyed over 20 years of corporate experience focusing on team leadership, mentoring and training for national and international clients in the software, utility and financial services industries. Her past employers included Oracle Corporation, Skywire Software, and JP Morgan. She is an active member of the Georgia Coach Association and also volunteers her time with Girls on the Run – an interactive, empowerment program for pre-teen girls.
Claudia is originally from Long Island, New York and currently lives in Atlanta, GA with her husband, daughter and their latest addition – an English Springer Spaniel named Murphy.
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Certified Career Coach
Jim is currently Vice President of Executive Coaching and HR Consulting with Talent Connections. His objective is to help every individual and organization he works with achieve their highest potential and overcome the obstacles that may be holding them back. Jim is a certified coach and holds the HR certification of SPHR (Senior Professional in Human Resources). His specialties include Executive and Leadership Coaching; Life and Career Coaching; and HR Consulting, including Team Building, Creating a Great Place To Work, Talent Selection (Interviewer Training), Rewards & Recognition, and Diversity Training.
Jim has 30+ years of human resources and administrative experience including strategic planning, leadership development, coaching, mentoring, recruiting, training, compensation, resource deployment, budgeting, benefits, evaluation, diversity/EEOC and legal issues. He holds a Masters degree in College Student Personnel with an emphasis in Guidance & Counseling and a bachelors degree in Education.
Jim worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers for 28 years serving in various HR and recruiting roles including HR Leader for the National Administrative Center in Tampa Florida, HR Director for the National Finance Group; Southeast Director of Human Capital for the Technology, Information, Communications, Entertainment and Media (TICE) Industry Group; East Region Recruitment Director; Director of Human Resources and Administration for the Atlanta Group of offices; Southwest Region Director of Human Resources; Member of the National Recruiting Advisory Council; and Member of the National Human Resources Advisory Board. He has developed many programs that assisted PwC’s achievement of being listed on Fortune Magazine’s 100 Best Place to Work designation for 7 years in a row. Jim taught numerous courses and training sessions on leadership development, teaming, interviewing skills, performance improvement, and legal issues nationally, regionally and locally. He has taken PwC’s training initiatives to Australia and Canada to roll out to the partners in those countries. Jim also co-chaired the team that combined the PW and CL recruiting initiatives during the merger of the two firms. Throughout his time with PwC Jim had offices in Houston, Atlanta, NYC, Washington DC, and Tampa.
Prior to PricewaterhouseCoopers, Jim spent 10 years with Deloitte Touche. His responsibilities at DT included: Director of Human Resources for South Florida; Southeast Region Recruiting Director; National Director of Diversity Recruiting; and Member of the National HR Advisory Council. He completed two tours of duty in the National Office in New York.
Jim also spent three years at Illinois Wesleyan University where he served as the Coordinator of Student Activities, Director of the Student Center, Coordinator of Student Employment, and University Conference Coordinator.
Jim holds membership in a number of professional organizations including the International Coach Federation; the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM); the Tampa Bay Professional Coach Association; Tampa HR (Tampa Chapter of SHRM);the Georgia Coach Association; and CSRA (Augusta Georgia Chapter of SHRM).
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Career Coach
MichelleODonnell@CareerSpa.net
Michelle is a seasoned coach with more than 16 years of experience in the human resources field. Her primary areas of expertise are in talent management, executive coaching, performance management, leadership assessment and development.
As a coach Michelle helps individuals develop better self-awareness so they can focus on ways to maximize their talents and develop new skills in order to be more productive and more effective. She has assisted employees at all levels in identifying challenges and obstacles that hold them back from achieving maximum results. She then works with them to map out a development plan and fully supports them as they are held accountable for achieving their goals.
In her most recent corporate role as the Director of Human Resources for Georgia Natural Gas, she coached employees throughout the organization. Senior management depended on her to help them fine-tune their leadership skills and relied on her for sound advice about their management skills and strategic direction in the HR area.
Currently Michelle works with clients in career transition, those struggling with whether to stay in a corporate job or choose another option and those who are ready to take the next step in their career. Also, she assists clients who feel trapped in an area of their life to gain clarity around their life goals, priorities, and the things that have been holding them back from success and happiness.
Michelle received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Employment Relations from Michigan State University and a Master of Science degree in Human Resources Development from Georgia State University. She completed her coach training through The Coaches Training Institute. She also holds her SPHR certification.
She has worked with Georgia Natural Gas and Panasonic, as well as with several start-up organizations.
Michelle is a member of the Board of Directors for the Georgia Coach Association and H.E.R.O for Children. She is an active volunteer with the Society for Human Resources Management.
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Career Coach
ThommiOdom@careerspa.net
Thommi Odom is a Growth Coach who excels at helping individuals and teams “connect the dots” in their personal and/or professional lives. Using her natural ability to instantly engage and relate with people combined with her keen intuition, Thommi provides her clients a unique individualized approach to accessing what is stunting their growth personally or professionally and designing a GROWTH action plan to revitalization.
Her 15-year corporate career path reflects a wide range of experience, encompassing project management, talent management, consulting, coaching, and training and development. This has given her a unique perspective in facilitating teams in removing blocks and taking action proactively in meeting their objectives.
Thommi earned her B.S. in Accounting from Mercer University and an MBA in Information Systems from Kennesaw State University. She is also a certified Project Manager, PMP, and a certified HR Professional, PHR.
As a life-long learner, Thommi is continually reading, attending workshops and studying personal and team development. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Professional Counseling.
Thommi is an avid runner and volunteer with several non profit organizations.
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Career Coach, Houston Office
ChristineReed@careerspa.net
Christine Reed is an Executive Coach with over twenty-five years coaching and consulting with individuals and groups in organizations up to and including Fortune 50 companies. In public companies and non-profits, she has excelled in diverse environments transforming individuals’ careers and organizations’ cultures, including personal life coaching. A representative listing of companies and organizations include: Cox Enterprises, Equifax, IBM, Florida Power and Light, BHP-Billiton, Austin American-Statesman, The Palm Beach Post and United Way of Houston.
Christine has an established Executive and Career Coaching practice in Houston, TX, and is part of the Career Spa, LLC team who has expanded into the Houston market. She held a leadership position at a global consulting firm focusing on career transition, and is now working with senior leaders from a variety of industries who are ready to take the next step in their careers or who have identified potential “career breakers” such as communication issues or lack of performance management.
Christine works with senior leaders to enhance the growth and development of themselves and selected subordinates within the context of benefitting the organization. Christine coaches her clients to create the results they want by helping them build on their successes and explore new ways of approaching challenges. Her training specialties include Leadership, People Management, Diversity, Effective Change Management, Career Enhancement, Professional Effectiveness, and Personal Fulfillment. She is certified to facilitate leadership programs for Achieve Global and Development Dimensions International (DDI) and to administer the Myers-Briggs Personality Indicator, and the Birkman Method.
Christine is a lifelong learner who integrates the value of learning into her coaching. A Graduate of Coach U, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in education from Western Michigan University, and a Master of Arts degree from Eastern Michigan University. She is a board member of Houston Coaches, Inc as well as a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF). Christine is actively involved with United Way’s Management Assistance Program (MAP) and volunteers with CanCare, a Houston-based cancer survivor/caregiver assistance organization.
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Career Coach
BobReissiger@CareerSpa.net
Bob served as a regional operations executive in two industry-leading financial institutions for over 25 years. During his career, he was recognized as a strong developer of leaders achieving top business results by helping people grow to levels of responsibility commensurate with their skills, talents, performance and aspirations.
While with these organizations, Bob helped to develop leaders that now provide leadership in significant functional areas including merger integration, risk management, sales, operations and human resources management.
During his career Bob also managed or directed numerous projects (several Six Sigma based) related to outsourcing, consolidations, mergers, new product development and systems conversions and implementations. In his various roles he demonstrated strong performance development, the ability to operate in ambiguous situations under aggressive and demanding time lines, the ability to translate strategies/situations into tactical and achievable plans, the ability to react swiftly to consistent change and the ability and significant achievement to encourage and motivate others.
Bob received Coach Training and Certification through The Coaches Training Institute (CTI). He is a Certified Professional Co-active Coach (CPCC) through them and an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) through the International Coach Federation. He is a member of the International Coach Federation and is on the board of the Georgia Coach Association.
Bob is a career transition coach for Career Spa and a leadership development coach with DBM. Other clients include the Georgia State University Executive MBA Program, several senior managers, small business owners, high potential leaders and people in career transition. During its annual conference on April 29, 2009, the Georgia Coach Association awarded its prestigious PRISM Award in the Small Business category to one of Bob’s clients, Thomas Kauffman, DDS, for improvements to his practice that yielded bottom-line results.
Bob graduated from Georgia State University in 1974 with a degree in Marketing. While in financial services he attended the LSU School of Banking of the South, the Wachovia/Duke University Executive Education School and the Wachovia Leadership Development Program.
A native of Santiago, Chile Bob immigrated to the United States with his family in 1964. He has two children and one granddaughter and lives in suburban Atlanta.
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