Find a Speaker

AJST professionals are available to deliver informative and engaging presentations for your next meeting event, workshop or conference. To arrange for a speaker at your event, contact the AJST member directly through their email link provided. The following AJST members are available to deliver presentations on these topics:

Rebecca Conner
Oklahoma, OK
Email: rconner@francistuttle.com
Website: www.francistuttle.com
Topics: Making it Relevant: Resumes that work

Speaker Info: Over 19 years experience working in the career and technology training enviornment. Established the first Job Placement Office for Career and Technology Education in 1988.
Memberships include: Oklahoma Association of Career and Technology Education; Oklahoma Association for Career and Employment Professionals; American Career and Technology Association; and Member of Toastmasters International.

Served on the orginial board of directors for AJST as a Regional Coordiantor.

Sheryl Dawson
Houston, TX
Email: sdawson@dawsonconsultinggroup.com
Website: www.dawsonconsultinggroup.com
Topics: Any area of job search, career change, career development
Speaker Info: Sheryl Dawson is widely recognized for her expertise in the areas of talent management consulting and counseling, program design and development, project management, and business planning and development. As Chairman & CEO of Dawson Consulting Group and COO of Total Career Success, Inc., Ms. Dawson is responsible for achieving the vision and leading the growth of this Houston-based talent management consulting and training firm.

With over twenty-five years of professional experience, Ms. Dawson has an extensive background in a wide range of business and management disciplines. In her early career, she worked in educational, service and financial arenas.

Ms. Dawson co-authored Job Search: The Total System, originally published by John Wiley & Sons, which presents the elements of successful career and job transition. She also designed and directed production of an Interview Video Series and has introduced a number of web based innovations.

Dawson Consulting Group services organizations in the areas of organizational effectiveness, leadership and talent management consulting and training. Ms. Dawson’s vision for facilitating high quality, results-oriented performance improvement and development programs has led Dawson Consulting Group into exciting consulting opportunities. They have assisted both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations for a wide range of industries and sizes including Fortune 100 companies.

Ms. Dawson earned an MBA from the University of Houston - Clear Lake with honors. As author, speaker, and consultant, she is sought after by professional and community organizations and publications to share her expertise on talent, career and organizational related topics. She conveys her passion for influencing the quality of life of those she touches daily in her commitment to all aspects of personal and professional growth including spiritual, emotional, and intellectual.

Curtis Hellman
Lemoore, CA
Email: curtis.helman@navy.mil
Website:
Topics: "How to create a resume in less than an Hour".
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Eileen Scott
Pittsburgh, PA
Email: eileen@3rcm.com
Website: www.3rcm.com
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Speaker Info: Eileen D. Scott – Eileen was until recently Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Customer Service at General Nutrition Corporation. She had a distinguished career at GNC, where she oversaw all aspects of HR management for over 10,000 employees operating more than 4,000 company-owned and franchised stores, as well as distribution and manufacturing facilities. Her achievements in enhancing the customer and employee experience covered everything from fine-tuning store refund policies to creating GNC University to provide employees university-level training in health and nutrition. Notably, she reduced full-time turnover in stores by 24%, provided training experiences that boosted sales by 35%, reduced accidents by 36% and maintained a positive corporate culture in a company that had 6 CEOs in the course of six years. An economics and creative writing graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, Eileen spent her early career at Joseph Horne & Co. in the finance and human resources departments.

Rhoda Smackum
Laurel, MD
Email: rhoda@careerbydesign.org
Website: www.careerbydesign.org
Topics: Image and Professionalism, Interviewing Strategies, Job Search Strategies, Career Change and Transition.
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