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Massachusetts | New Hampshire
Name – Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch, M.A.
Title – Career management professional
Location – Boston/Newton
Services – A full range of career counseling, coaching, testing and assessment
services. Helping lawyers identify a new career, design more meaningful work, develop a plan for
re-entering the workforce, manage career transitions, balance family and work obligations, negotiate
better salaries/working conditions, manage difficult bosses and co-workers, learn networking skills,
focus job search strategies, sharpen interviewing skills, and write resumes and cover letters.
Background – Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch (a principal with Mosaic Careers) is a
career development specialist with more than 18 years experience helping companies and individuals
position themselves in a changing marketplace. She works with a wide variety of career fields in
addition to lawyers in both private practice, small and large firms. She holds an MA in counseling
psychology with a specialty in career development from Leslie University, and a BS in communication
arts and psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to her private practice,
she is also an associate with an established New England outplacement firm, as well as a firm
specializing in phone and Internet career coaching.
Contact – (781) 444-5015. ingrid@mosaiccareers.com or igoldblo@wheatonma.edu.
Name – Mark Byers, PhD.
Title – Counseling psychologist
Location – Boston
Services – A counseling and vocational psychologist
specializing in professional and personal development issues in
the legal profession. Dr. Byers counsels individuals and consults
to legal organizations and employers. Services to individuals include
career counseling, vocational testing and assessment, and counseling
for work-related stress and clinical conditions (e.g., burnout,
work/family balance issues and interpersonal conflicts).
Background – Served
for 25 years as Director of Student Life Counseling at Harvard
Law School, working with students and practitioners. Co-authored
Lawyers in Transition, a career planning guide for lawyers, and
authored the chapter on "The Transition from Law School to
Practice" in the ABA's The Legal Employers' Complete Guide
to Recruitment, Development and Management. Dr. Byers also co-authors
an Internet column on career planning.
Contact – byers1@rcn.com.
(617) 899-4654.
Name – Ronald W. Fox, LLB
Title – Career counseling and professional
development for lawyers.
Location – Boston
Services – Since 1990, has provided individual
guidance and support (both in person and over the telephone) to lawyers
seeking
satisfying positions consistent with their personal values and professional
goals. He has facilitated the ABA Public Service Division's Town
Meeting, and presented career workshops for more than two dozen law
schools and bar associations. He also co-authors an Internet column
on career planning.
Background – A 1963 Harvard Law School graduate
who practiced law in a variety of settings for 20 years, and who
founded two law
firms. Ron provided career planning services for Harvard law students
and alumni from 1983 to 1989. He is a member of the Board of Advisors
of the International Centre for Healing and the Law, and the author
of Lawful Pursuit: Careers in Public Interest Law.
Contact – admin@ronaldwfox.com.
(781) 639-2322.
Name – Johnson O’Connor
Research Foundation
Title – Aptitude testing center
Location – Boston
Services – Helps professionals identify their natural strengths,
and directs them to careers that will use those abilities. Through
testing, lawyers unhappy in their work can find a new direction,
whether by switching practice areas, using their JD in a different
capacity, or by switching fields altogether. It can also identify
why their current job is not a good fit.
Background – The nation’s oldest center for the study
of human aptitudes. The organization believes that true job satisfaction
depends upon using those aptitudes (or natural talents and skills)
with which you were born. Testing at one of 11 US locations (see
below for others) takes a day and a half and yields a useful and
individualized job profile and post-test consulting. Fee includes
free follow-up for the first year.
Contact – www.jocrf.org
Name – Betsy Black, JD
Title – Business and life coach
Location – Concord
Services – Provide values-based professional coaching for lawyers in the areas of work/life balance, job satisfaction, and job and career transitions within and outside the law.
Background – After practicing law for several years, Ms. Black navigated her own career transition, and brings this experience to her consulting work with lawyers. She helps lawyers identify their natural strengths and preferences, and helps them to make career choices rooted in their personal values and life purpose. She has a JD from Pierce Law Center, and is a graduate of Coach University, a member of the International Coach Federation, and certified for training by the American Society for Training and Development.
Contact – (603) 219-6475. www.BetsyBlackConsulting.com.
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