Autor/-in: Michael V. Mulligan CMF

From 1983 to the present, Dr. Michael Mulligan has been directing Mulligan & Associates, an outplacement and executive coaching firm. He has personally helped over 2000 executives find new positions. Dr. Mulligan is recognized internationally as one of the leaders in the career pathing field. He is one of 45 Fellow Managers with the International Career Certification Institute. Fellow mangers certify those in the career counseling field. He wrote an article 'What it takes to be a career consultant" and it has been in the last 12 editions of the Directory of Outplacement and Career Management Firms by Kennedy Information. It has been the guideline for the career managment consulting industry. Dr. Mulligan has been helping individuals with career planning and job searches all his life. After he received his B. A. from Alma College, he was a teacher and coach for a year. He went back to school for his M. A. in counseling and student personnel work in higher education at Michigan State and then took a job in the counseling center at Georgia Tech helping over five hundred students with college major and personal issues. He moved to the U of Georgia and worked as Director of Student Orientation and Assistant Director of Admissions helping students make educational decisions. He received his doctorate in counseling psychology from the U of Georgia and joined the American College Testing Program in Chicago, Illinois. He worked as a consultant with colleges and high schools in the midwest teaching educators how to use student data and testing information to help students grow. He left higher education and started his own outplacement firm ito help released employees find new positions. He has been doing outplacement and executive coaching assignments for the last 26 plus years and is recognized as one of the leaders in his field. Dr. Mulligan met his wife Suzanne Starmann at Alma College in Alma Nichigan and they have been married for 45 years. They have two daughters Anne and Amy and six grandchildren-Ben, Hope, Sam, Haley, Carys and Lucy. Today Mike and Suzanne move back iand forth between Arlington Heights, Illinois and Glen Arbor, Mchigan. Mike conducts webinars that focus on his books from both locations.