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Rising to the Occasion

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This book is a practical guidebook for a woman of a certain age facing any kind of crisis - personal, financial or career. Did life just hand you a giant lemon? Or did the ground suddenly fall from beneath you? if so, this book can help you get back on your feet and get stated on the path to what will be the new normal for you. Rising to the Occasion: A Handbook for Tough Times is a resource to meet you exactly where you are and help you to move forward. Some of the topics covered included: picking up the pieces, finding strength in what remains, deciding what to do next, reinvention in the second half of life, light at the end of your particular tunnel, how to cultivate joy and moving on with lessons learned. At once inspirational, light and intensely practical, this is a short guide to finding your way after being blindsided by life.
About the Author: Betsy Newman, M.A. M.Ed., is Senior Project Director of Cygnus Corporation, Inc., Rockville, MD. She is a nationally recognized educator, author, and consultant with more than 30 years experience in organizational development, leadership and executive development, career development, coaching, and facilitation and course design. Ms. Newman directs Cygnus Corporation's Federal Learning and Development Support Contracts. Currently she manages a staff of 6 full-time professional personnel and some 30 certified professional facilitators and executive coaches on a project that provides course development, facilitation and organizational consulting services for over 250 classes and coaching assignments yearly. Before joining Cygnus, Ms. Newman was engaged in her own executive leadership and career coaching corporation that provided leadership training and career coaching to numerous clients such as Deloitte & Touche, Procter & Gamble, Dow Jones and Company, the Fidelity Group, Paragon Health Services, Xavier University, General Electric, and the Kendle Corporation. In addition to her teaching and consulting skills, she is the author of four books on career development and has published articles in many professional journals and magazines, including Training and Development Journal, Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, Resources in Education and The American Personnel and Guidance Journal. Ms. Newman has recently presented at the International Conference on Positive Aging, and was the keynote speaker at a conference on "Making the Most of Your Retirement" at the University of Kentucky, and has presented at Retirement Syposiums at the University of Pittsburgh and State College Pennsylvania.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781463560737
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 126
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 186 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1463560737
  • Publisher Date: 02 Aug 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 133 mm

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