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We are two career coaches passionate about helping you find work that works for you. These are unfiltered conversations centered around creating a fulfilling career path: finding work you love, re-energizing your current career, and navigating the complexities of career change.
Career Maturity Workshop – January 22 & 29, 2017
Dr. Harkness and staff are providing a two-session career workshop to help teenagers determine their future career direction based on their interests, skills, and current and future workplace needs. Career Maturity Workshop for Teenagers These seminars – for children...
PathFinder Meeting – April 28: Mary Louise (ML) Dubay
CDA PathFinder Meeting - Confectionary Entrepreneur Mary Louise (ML) Dubay CDA's Pathfinder for the Future series is designed to help people move forward in their future careers. Our April speaker is Plano small business owner Mary Louise Dubay, founder of Toffee...
Sara Agritelley Discusses Re-engaging Her Career at Midlife
Sara Agritelley to Present at CDA Pathfinders Meeting Former CDA client Sara Agritelley currently serves as a Supervisor of Benefits Service Center at Milliman – an international actuarial consulting firm specializing in employee benefits. Sara is using her knowledge...
HR Expert and Coach Dr. William H. Behrendt to Present
Our February speaker is noted human resource executive and coach Bill Behrendt, who joins us to talk about re-careering in his own life. He’ll also talk about futures in the health care field. Dr. Harkness met Bill when he took her Career Coaching class at UTD. He...
Anne Barr: Expert in Franchising and Business Ownership
Date & Time: Thursday, January 7th, 6:30 pm Location: CDA Offices in Garland All are invited at NO CHARGE to gain this very timely information! Anne Barr presents a seminar called “Business Ownership Options”, and Anne believes her seminar would be of benefit to...
It’s Time to Re-Career and Replace Retirement
I changed careers in a time when career change didn’t exist. Before it even had a name. Get a glimpse into my story now. Re-Careering is Achievable The necessity for me to Capitalize on Chaos, both personally and professionally, and to re-career and forget retirement,...
Why Having a “Sharp Crap Detector” is Essential is Today’s Workworld!
When I was writing the book, The Career Chase 15 years ago and was explaining the necessity to become a Change Catalyst to learn new skills for the new rapidly upcoming age, I listed what I thought those new skills would be. Very quickly I said it would take courage,...
Entrepreneurship: Do You Have What It Takes?
A CDA PathFinder For Your Future Event on Entrepreneurship By 2020, forty percent of American's are predicted to become freelancers, self-employed, part-time workers or work in portfolio career. Is this for you? Want to know more? Attend this CDA PathFinder Meeting!...
Moving Through Career Chaos to Creativity – An Update
As most of you know, I have a tendency to be "ahead of the curve" in a lot of my writing and research. I have been researching both Chaos Theory and Happiness for years, and wanted to review some of my past findings with you - because the world is catching up with...
Is a Green Career in Your Future? Experts Share the Scoop
Perspectives on Green Energy and Its Impact “The future is uncertain . . . . but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.” According to Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize winner in 1977 and author of Order Out of Chaos, and The End of Certainty. This...