| Kathleen Brady has over 20 years of experience delivering career development seminars and counseling students, attorneys and other professionals on career development issues and job search strategies. She is a recognized expert on topics including career planning, resumes and cover letters, networking strategies, interviewing techniques and recovering from a layoff as well as career management skills such as time management, delegating, delivering and receiving feedback, working effectively in teams, mentoring and business development.
Throughout her career, Kathleen has helped people develop effective communication skills to succeed in the workplace such as understanding how to relate to others across gender and generationals lines. |
| The author of two books: Navigating Detours on the Road to Success: A Lawyer’s Guide to Career Management (Inkwater Press, 2005) and Jobs for Lawyers, Effective Techniques for Getting Hired in Today’s Legal Marketplace (Impact Publications, 1996), Kathleen has also written numerous articles for The New York Law Journal, The Student Lawyer, and NALP Bulletin. She is currently on the Editorial Board of the ABA’s Law Practice Today Webzine and a contributing author to TheCompleteLawyer.com
Kathleen started her career in the Placement Office at Columbia Law School and went on to serve as Assistant Dean of Career Services at Fordham University School of Law, National Director of Staff Recruitment and Development at Jackson Lewis and Manager of Associate Professional Development at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, LLP. She is also a past president of the National Association for Law Placement, a founding member of the NALP Foundation for Research and Education and a certified provider of The Highlands Ability Battery.
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Gail Parker has over 20 years experience facilitating group workshops and working one-on-one with professionals to provide more impactful communications. She believes that effective communicators can be created through skill building. Seminars include: presentations skills, meetings, problem-solving, panel discussions, motivating, media events, negotiations and sales. She has worked with numerous Fortune 500 and AmLaw 100 firms including: JPMorganChase, CITI, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Olin Corporation, Avon, KPMG, Zurich Insurance, Kimberly Clark, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, LLP, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Dewey & LeBoeuf, LLP. | |
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Before her 12 year tenure as Director of Training and Professional Development at a NY based consulting firm, Gail worked with The Brighton Group, a strategic-management company emphasizing time management, sales and communications. She also worked in sales for Guerlain and taught theatre at New York University.
Gail pioneered and facilitated a workshop in interview skills that became required curriculum for the New York Job Security Division of Hospital Union 1199. She also developed and taught the seminar for the New York Labor Divsion and not-for-profit organizations throughout the state of New York. Often a guest lecturer on communications issues, Gail has been featured in articles in The New York Times, Glamour magazine and the Wall Street Journal.
She is currently consulting with several communications firms including Brady & Associates and BusinessTalk working with clients including: Harvard Law School, PLI and individual authors needing media preparation. Gail is a certified provider of the Highlands Ability Battery.
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Mary Jane Reilly has worked with traditional and non-traditional college students for over 15 years in the areas of academic, career, and leadership skill development. Mary Jane's passion is working with young adults to help them determine career direction through understanding natural abilities, skills, and core values. She then helps translate self-knowledge into a career and job search. |
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Prior to joining Brady and Associates Career Planners, LLC, Mary Jane was the Dean of Students at Fordham University, Career Counselor at St. Francis College, Director of Student Activities at Fordham, and an instructor in career exploration at NYU's School of Continuing Education. She coaches students one-on-one and in group settings on career exploration, interviewing skills, test taking, study skills and assertiveness training. She works with students and recent graduates on resume writing and goal-setting.
Mary Jane is a member of the National Career Development Association and a certified provider of the Highlands Ability Battery, a highly effective strategic tool for shaping career paths.
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Brady & Associates Career Planners, LLC enjoys relationships with a variety of organizations enabling us to partner on various projects to best serve institutional and individual clients.
Kanarek & Brady, LLC
The Highlands Student Center
The Highlands Life and Career Center
Robin Rolfe Resources
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