About Renee Lee Rosenberg,


Bio: Renée Lee Rosenberg, MA, LMHC, has over twenty years experience in career transition and career management counseling. She has been certified Five O'Clock Club coach since 1996 and was an adjunct instructor in the Baruch College career development program. She served as director of a major non-profit employment program and worked as an outplacement counselor for the New York City teachers' union. Skilled in multicultural employment issues, Renee has coached Japanese executives in New York and in Tokyo, helping them acclimate to the American business culture.

Renée is a former Vice President and program chair of the New York City chapter of the Association of Career Professionals International, serves on the executive planning board of The Career Development Specialists Network, and is a member of the National Career Development Association, The Association of Psychological Type and The National Speakers Association.

An accomplished and entertaining speaker, Renee regularly presents on a variety of topics including: retirement issues, résumé preparation, interviewing skills, accessing the hidden job market, mid-life career transition, and keeping positive and productive during a difficult job search. Other topics that she covers include effective intergenerational communication, and using positive thinking, laughter and optimism as career and life tools.

Renée holds an MA in Vocational Counseling and a New York State Mental Health Counseling license. She is qualified to administer and interpret various skills and interests inventories, including the MBTI Personality Assessment.

Having coached a Five O'Clock Club weekly group at the New York City main branch for fifteen years, Renee now coaches a telephone group and as maintains a private counseling practice, in-person and by phone. A member of the Five O'Clock Club media team she is frequently interviewed and quoted in print and broadcast media. Her expertise includes: transition and career coaching for lawyers, creative artists, individuals over-fifty and any person who feels stuck in his or her career transition or job search. Renée is the author of the Five O'Clock Club book, Achieving The Good Life After 50: Tools and Resources for Making it Happen (2007)

Renée is also an accomplished studio jeweler in New York City. She personally experienced the career transition journey and specializes in helping others successfully do the same.


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