Long Bio: Katharine (Kathy) Hansen,
Ph.D.,
creative director and associate
publisher of Quintessential Careers,
is an educator, author, and blogger who provides content for
Quintessential Careers,
edits QuintZine,
an electronic newsletter for jobseekers, and blogs about applied
storytelling at A Storied Career. Kathy,
who earned her PhD in organizational behavior from Union Institute
& University,
Cincinnati, OH, is an eight-time author/co-author.
Kathy's passions lie in three overlapping areas: writing,
educating,
and applied storytelling.
On teaching, Kathy says: "I have had more
than
six wonderful years of
teaching college students and helping them tell their stories in
business. I
adore designing instruction, testing it in the classroom, and then
tweaking it
to make it better. I also have a respectable record of research and
publication in academic journals."
On writing, Kathy says: "When I am not
lucky
enough to be in the classroom,
I educate through writing. In addition to eight books, and I’ve written
hundreds of
articles and other works, primarily on career management, job-hunting,
college writing,
and college study-skills topics. My articles have been widely
reprinted. For me, writing
is like breathing; it’s something I have to do -- and I do it better
than most. I have
considered myself a writer since third grade. My current favorite kind
of writing is
blogging, and I dream of making my living as a world-famous blogger!"
On applied storytelling, Kathy says: "I am
also a
student of and blogger
about applied storytelling, a topic I became fascinated with while
completing my
PhD in organizational behavior. I wrote my dissertation about using
storytelling
in the job search, which is also the topic of my seventh book.
Storytelling and
career is a major topic of my blog, A Storied Career,
but I’m fascinated by many other applied uses/forms of storytelling. I
also believe
people can change their lives by changing their stories, and I am
developing workshops
to help folks do that."
On career management, Kathy says: "I hold
top
credentials in the
career-management
field –- Credentialed
Career Manager
and Master Resume
Writer,
both from the Career Management Alliance, where I serve on the
executive board. I write dazzling
resumes and cover letters that help
professionals tell their stories, and did so for five years in my
resume-writing business, but
it’s not a practice that’s at the center of my passions. I continue to
do this work for a very
small, select group of clients. I have been widely interviewed and
quoted on career topics."
On her current professional life, Kathy
says:
"I
am at the point in my life where I have
transcended organizational politics and established a joyful life, full
of love, learning,
freedom, and yes, hard work."
Kathy's books include Tell Me About Yourself:
Storytelling to Get a Job and Propel Your Career
(JIST Publishing, April 2009), Dynamic Cover Letters for New
Graduates and A Foot in the Door:
Networking Your Way into the Hidden Job Market (both published by
Ten Speed Press), as well as Top Notch Executive Interviews
(fall 2009) and Top
Notch Executive Resumes
(both Career Press); and with Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D., Dynamic
Cover Letters, Write Your Way to a Higher GPA (Ten Speed),
and The
Complete Idiot's Guide to
Study Skills (Alpha).
Kathy was previously writer-editor at numerous
newspapers, magazines and nonprofit organizations,
and she served as speechwriter for the first woman elected to the
Florida Cabinet. Kathy winters
in DeLand, FL, and summers in Kettle Falls, WA, with her writing
partner, Randall, and Staffordshire Bull
Terrier,
Daphne. Kathy's daughter Mary
is a corporate flight attendant, and her son John is an
artist/photographer.
Kathy's hobbies and interests include
organizational storytelling, animals, container gardening,
intuition, bicycling, books, TV, movies, pop culture, career
development, teaching, instructional
design, collecting teapots, her 2000 red VW bug, yoga, and pecha kucha
presentations.
Kathy’s specialties include:
- applied storytelling
- organizational communication
- organizational behavior
- career management
- writing/editing
- teaching
management/OB/organizational communication
at the college level
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