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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