Selecting a CCN Counselor

• Individual career counseling sessions to:
• help clarify life/career goals
• aid in career decision making and developing career plans
• explore job enrichment opportunities
• help to identify career options particularly on the Stanford campus
• teach networking skills
• teach job hunting strategies and skills
• assist in the development of resumes, cover letter, interviewing skills
• explore retirement options
• Conduct self assessment testing to assess abilities, interests, skills, personality styles, etc
• Provide support for persons experiencing job stress, conflict on the job, and career transition.
• Provide coaching and counseling guidance for all aspects of career management and professional growth.
• How to have a career development dialogue with your managers - Career Dialogues for Employees pdf

For the counselors to be in the network, they need to meet a certain set of criteria (listed below) and agree to charge Stanford clients specified CCN rates.

CCN counselors must:

Hold a Master's degree or higher in counseling or a closely related field.  Have completed two academic terms of supervised field experience in a career counseling setting during their Master’s program.

Five years of post-master's experience in career counseling and development.

• Be qualified to administer career counseling assessments including Myers Briggs Type Indicator, and the Campbell Interest and Skills Survey or Strong Interest Inventory.
• Have professional and general liability insurance of at least $1 million dollars.
• Willing to see clients for counseling sessions in their private practice office, not on the Stanford campus.
• Willing to see clients for evenings or weekends appointments.
• Willing to see clients within one week of initial contact or inform the client that there might be a wait or suggest another counselor in the network.
• Abide by the National Career Development Association Ethical Standards for Career Counselors (revised 2003) http://www.ncda.org/pdf/EthicalStandards.pdf.
• Strongly prefer that the counselors in the network possess at least one of the following credentials:  Nationally Certified Career Counselor, Nationally Certified Counselor, state Licensed Professional Counselor, Registered Professional Career Counselors, Master Career Counselor, Master Career Development Professional, or licensed psychologist.

Anne Chan, M.A., M.S., M.F.T.

• BA, English, University of California, Berkeley
• MA, English, University of Washington, Seattle
• MS, Counseling Psychology, California State University, Hayward
• PhD (June 2008), Counseling Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford
• Licensed Marriage Family Therapist
• Registered Professional Counselor -- California

Anne’s passion for helping others led her to make a career change from teaching to career counseling. She has worked as a career counselor in a variety of settings, including community agencies and higher education. She was a Marriage Family Therapy intern at the Stanford Help Center from 2002-04 where she worked with Stanford employees to resolve a variety of work, career, and mental health issues. Her Stanford experience also includes being a doctoral student at the School of Education for seven years.

Anne utilizes her training, life experiences, and intuition to guide clients toward their best possible selves in their careers. She absolutely believes in the potential and capacity of people to achieve their goals and dreams in their lives and relationships.

Her counseling style is warm, caring, compassionate, down-to-earth, thoughtful, and respectful. She provides an individualized plan for her clients and enjoys working collaboratively with people to maximize benefits from career counseling.

Her passions include helping people make career changes during major life transitions (e.g. after a baby or job loss), identify their strengths, find a niche for themselves in the work world, and get unstuck from emotional blocks. She loves guiding clients in resume construction and job interview preparation. She also loves working with people seeking creative and artistic jobs and are looking to incorporate meaning into their lives.

Contact Information:

Union City Office Information:

3209 Whipple Road

Union City, CA 94587

(510)744-1781

achan@midlabs.com

Menlo Park Office Information:

445 Burgess Drive

Suite 150

Menlo Park, CA 94025

(510)744-1781

achan@midlabs.com

 

Roy Blitzer, MBA

• BA, English Literature, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
• MBA, Organizational Behavior, University of California at Berkeley. 

Roy J. Blitzer, an Executive Coach and Management Consultant, has 30+ years experience as a human resources and business management professional.  He has held numerous positions -- Manager of Training and Corporate Communications, Founding Principal, Vice President, and Senior Executive Consultant -- and has championed a variety of projects that range from creation and delivery of a world wide Management Training Program and Executive Coaching and Development Process to chairing a Human Resource function and establishing systems and support for service quality and self-managing team implementations.

He is an adjunct faculty member at the University of San Francisco, San Jose State University, and Menlo College, sits on the Board of Directors for the Institute of Social Responsibility and the Institute for Effective School Leadership and is former chair the Palo Alto, CA Human Relations Commission. The author of five books, Office Smarts: 252 Tips for Success in the Workplace, Find the Bathrooms First, and the HIRE ME, INC. series (Package Yourself to Get Your Dream Job, Interviews that Get Offers, and Resumes that Get Results), Roy has been published in numerous journals and magazines.  He produces and hosts his own television show, ASK DR BUSINESS, has been a regular guest on NBC Channel 11s BAY AREA SATURDAY, and is a frequent speaker at national professional conferences.

Recently, Roy’s coaching assignments have included C-Level and senior professionals in Finance, IT, Sales & Marketing, HR and Operations. Roy has coached extensively at Stanford at many levels in the University and in numerous departments (H & S, Law, Engineering) and has supported and helped staff at other academic institutions and not-for-profits.

Previously, he was a founding Principal and Vice President of Zenger-Miller, a training, education and consulting company (now Achieve Global International), a Senior Director at Spherion Corporation, and a Manager at Syntex Corporation (now Roche, Inc.). 

Contact Information:

Office:  618 Fulton Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301-2137
Office Phone:  (650) 326-5489
Mobile:            (650) 303-6862
E-Mail:  Roy@RJBConsulting.biz

 

Anne L. Broderick, MS, MA, MFT

• B.S., Economics, Arizona State University
• M.S., Economics, Arizona State University
• M.A.,  Counseling Psychology, Santa Clara University
• MFT, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
• Career Management Practitioner, International Board of Career Management Certification

Anne Broderick has been a career management consultant for over 15 years and has wide ranging experience in career development and transition, executive coaching,  management in a high tech environment, marketing, strategic planning and teaching at the university level. She has been in private practice in Palo Alto since 2005. She focuses on helping individuals become aware of their management and personal styles and assists them in making behavioral changes to increase their effectiveness and enhance their opportunities for a successful career.  Her interests include career management and development, assessment, job search strategies, interview skills, conflict resolution, and change management.  She is currently a volunteer in the Healing Partners program at Stanford as well as the Cancer Center and Infertility Clinic.

Contact Information:

Office:  2443 Ash Street-Suite D

Palo Alto, CA  94306

Phone: (650) 814-9813

Email:  albk@earthlink.net

 

Lynne Dotson, MA, NCC, RPC

• BA, Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley
• MA, Counseling, University of Santa Clara
• NCC (Nationally Certified Counselor)
• RPC (Registered Professional Counselor – California)

Lynne Dotson has been a career counselor, coach, and consultant for over 20 years, working collaboratively with clients to guide them in their personal career development and search for good work.  From 1980-1998 she was a staff member at Stanford University’s Career Development Center where she served as a career counselor, Assistant Director of Counseling, and Associate Director/Director of the Center.  In addition to her work at Stanford, Lynne has counseled clients and presented workshops at the Career Action Center, Shyness Clinic, NOVA, and various corporate, non-profit, and professional organizations in the Bay Area. Concurrently she has been in private practice in Palo Alto since 1986.

Her counseling interests include: career management and decision making, positioning for promotion, career endings and new beginnings, self-assessment and testing, and job search strategies.  Her special passions and expertise include working with clients who wish to “reinvent” themselves, who feel “stuck” in some aspect of their work lives, clients who consider themselves “shy” or lacking in self-confidence, and those who may be experiencing personal or professional conflicts in the work place. 

Lynne’s community service activities include work as a mediator, hospice volunteer, child advocate, and pro bono resume writer and interview coach.

Contact Information:
Office: 667 Lytton Ave, Suite. 1
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Phone: (650) 322-7227
Email:  ldotson@stanford.edu

 

Anna Ranieri, MBA, PhD

• B.A., Literature, Yale University
• M.B.A., Marketing, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
• Ph.D., Counseling Psychology, Stanford University

Anna Ranieri has been a career counselor, consultant and coach for over 15 years. She aids clients in career development, advancement and job change.  She was formerly a Stanford staff member for eight years and a senior director of a human capital consulting company for seven years.  She has a private practice at Stanford as well as a consulting practice with organizations that include not-for-profit groups, high tech firms and financial service companies.

She is particularly interested in helping people assess their interests and strengths, aiding them in making behavioral changes toward meeting their career goals, and helping them overcome perceived obstacles on the way to optimizing their work lives. She is skilled in guiding clients through all the processes of job search, job enhancement and career advancement.

Contact information:

Telephone: (650) 328-6942

E-mail: annaranieri@gmail.com

Anne Chan, M.A., M.S., M.F.T.

• BA, English, University of California, Berkeley
• MA, English, University of Washington, Seattle
• MS, Counseling Psychology, California State University, Hayward
• PhD (June 2008), Counseling Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford
• Licensed Marriage Family Therapist
• Registered Professional Counselor -- California

Anne’s passion for helping others led her to make a career change from teaching to career counseling. She has worked as a career counselor in a variety of settings, including community agencies and higher education. She was a Marriage Family Therapy intern at the Stanford Help Center from 2002-04 where she worked with Stanford employees to resolve a variety of work, career, and mental health issues. Her Stanford experience also includes being a doctoral student at the School of Education for seven years.

Anne utilizes her training, life experiences, and intuition to guide clients toward their best possible selves in their careers. She absolutely believes in the potential and capacity of people to achieve their goals and dreams in their lives and relationships.

Her counseling style is warm, caring, compassionate, down-to-earth, thoughtful, and respectful. She provides an individualized plan for her clients and enjoys working collaboratively with people to maximize benefits from career counseling.

Her passions include helping people make career changes during major life transitions (e.g. after a baby or job loss), identify their strengths, find a niche for themselves in the work world, and get unstuck from emotional blocks. She loves guiding clients in resume construction and job interview preparation. She also loves working with people seeking creative and artistic jobs and are looking to incorporate meaning into their lives.

Contact Information:

Union City Office Information:

3209 Whipple Road

Union City, CA 94587

(510)744-1781

achan@midlabs.com

Menlo Park Office Information:

445 Burgess Drive

Suite 150

Menlo Park, CA 94025

(510)744-1781

achan@midlabs.com

 

Clients will be asked to complete a CCN Client Satisfaction Form after receiving services and then again, via an online survey, 4 to 6 months later to determine what impact the services had on their career development.  Feedback responses will not personally identify individuals when used to report on the program’s utilization and success.