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About David Madison,
David Madison has been director of the Five O'Clock Club Guild of Career Coaches since 1996. In this capacity he oversees the Guild certification process-recruiting, screening, training and testing coaches. And because of this close liaison role with all of the coaches in the Guild, he coordinates the matching of clients to coaches when Five O'Clock Club job-hunters ask for one-on-one coaching sessions. He wrote the Coach Training Manual, an indispensable tool for coaches who pursue private practice affiliated with the Five O'Clock Club. On an on-going basis, he has guided the evolution and tightening of the certification process itself to insure that our coaches meet the highest standards of performance, practice and ethics. He arranges eight training workshops per year for our coaches in the New York area, and coordinates the Annual National Conference for the entire Guild. As Associate Editor of The Five O'Clock News, he has written many cover stories for our monthly magazine, and creates the written summaries of the taped 'graduation speeches' of successful job hunters. When our president Kate Wendleton and COO Richard Bayer created the Employment Roundtable in 1999, he was tapped to serve as a consultant to write reports and position papers based on Roundtable presentations. For many years Madison worked as a senior recruiter for two personnel agencies that serviced the banking industry-being the owner of one in the early 1990s. In the mid-1990s he decided to move into the career coaching field and met Kate Wendleton at a professional association meeting. He accepted her invitation to study to become a Five O'Clock Club coach and speaker. After observing the small group process for over a year, he joined the coaching staff at the Club's Mid-Manhattan branch. Largely due to his success in booking a record number of speeches in his first year with the Club, he was asked to become Director of the Guild. Prior to Madison's move into the personnel field, he spent ten years in the United Methodist ministry in Massachusetts, serving churches in Rockport and Shrewsbury. Heavily focused on the educational and pastoral aspects of the parish ministry, he did extensive small group teaching and established a network of support groups for widows and widowers. A native of a small town in northern Indiana, Madison holds a BA in Political Science from Indiana University and a Masters in Sacred Theology from Boston University School of Theology. In 1975 he received his PhD in Biblical Studies, majoring in Old Testament Studies, from the Boston University Graduate School. |
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