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Kate Wendleton is a nationally syndicated columnist and a respected
authority and speaker on career development, having appeared on the Today
Show, CNN, CNBC, Larry King, National Public Radio and CBS, and in The Economist, The
New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune magazine,
Business Week and other national media.
She has been a career coach since 1978, when she founded The Five O'Clock
Clubå and developed its methodology to help job hunters and career changers
of all levels in job-search-strategy groups. This methodology is now used
by branches of The Five O'Clock Club, which meet weekly in the United States
and Canada.
Kate also founded Workforce Americaå, a not-for-profit Affiliate of The
Five O'Clock Club, serving adults in Harlem who are not yet in the professional
or managerial ranks. Workforce America helps each person move into better-paying,
higher-level positions as each improves in educational level and work experience.
Kate founded, and directed for seven years, The Career Center at The New
School for Social Research in New York. She also advises major corporations
about employee career-development programs, and coaches senior executives.
A former CFO of two small companies, she has twenty years of business-management
experience in both manufacturing and service businesses.
Kate attended Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia and received her MBA
from Drexel University. She is a popular speaker with groups that include
associations, corporations, and colleges.
While living in Philadelphia, Kate did long-term volunteer work for the
Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Walnut Street Theatre Art Gallery, United
Way, and the YMCA. Kate currently lives in Manhattan with her husband.
Kate Wendleton is the author of The Five O'Clock Club's five-part
career-development and job-hunting series for professionals, managers and executives: Targeting a Great Career, Shortcut Your Job Search: The Best Ways to Get Meetings,
Packaging Yourself: The Targeted Resume,
Mastering the Job Interview and Winning the Money Game, and Navigating Your Career, as well as the book for students and recent grads, Launching the Right Career.
The original Five O'Clock Club was formed
in Philadelphia in 1883.
It was made up of the leaders of the day, who shared their
experiences "in a spirit of fellowship and good humor."
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