Laura Zarrow with Dr Dawn Graham on Switchers: The Smart Professional’s Guide to Changing Careers
Dr. Dawn Graham, career expert and author, talks with Laura Zarrow about practical tips for switching careers. She is a contributing writer for Forbes and her first book “Switchers: The Smart Professional’s Guide to Changing Careers and Seizing Success” is in press (AMACOM) and due in stores in summer 2018.She is one of the country’s leading career coaches, with almost two decades of experience in recruiting, coaching, career management, leadership assessment, training, and business transformation. As director of career management for The Wharton School’s Executive MBA program, Dawn works with a population of hard driving business executives, most of whom are changing careers at the prime of their professional lives while vying for some of the world’s most competitive jobs. Dawn also host Sirius XM Radio's popular weekly call-in talk show “Career Talk,” offering advice on career transitions to a diverse population of North America.Prior to joining Wharton, Dawn ran her own career coaching business and had a successful career at Personnel Decisions International (a Korn Ferry company), providing executive consulting, assessment, and coaching services and also implementing the firm’s global talent resource allocation infrastructure. Before that, Dawn gained exposure to corporate talent development via recruiting, training and coaching roles at companies such as Arthur Andersen, AT&T, and Lee Hecht Harrison.A licensed psychologist, Dawn holds a doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Denver, a master’s degree in applied behavioral science from the Johns Hopkins University, and a bachelors’ degree in psychology from Seton Hall University. She is on the Board of Directors for the MBA Career Services for Working Professionals Alliance, and a member of the Association of Career Professionals International and the American Psychological Association.Aired February 21, 2018