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R. Whitcomb Blakeley

Founder and principal of CMR, Whit has over 28 years experience in corporate outplacement and executive career management consulting to some of the largest organizations in the Southeast. He has innovated some of the services that are now industry standards, and continues to provide close support and highly-effective programs for organizations such as: Siemens, BellSouth, Quebecor World, Schwan's, Krupp Polysius, Georgia-Pacific, Kimberly-Clark, Yamaha, Mitsubishi, Hoshizaki, Comcast, Merrill Lynch and others. In addition, Whit is an active or a former Board member of several corporations and prominent non-profit organizations, including: Boys and Girls Clubs, Prevent Child Abuse Georgia, Camp Fire USA, Woodruff Arts Center and Georgia 100.

 

Laurine Erends

Chief Operating Officer for CMR has a strong history of building and managing successful companies. Laurine is responsible for office operations, finance, client support, project tracking and the managing of our Alpharetta, Jacksonville and Birmingham offices. Laurine also oversees our relationships with other OI Partner throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia and the maintaining of our network and referrals. Prior to joining CMR, Laurine was a very successful entrepreneur who built and sold the country’s largest grower and distributor of Dutch bulbs. Laurine is originally from Holland and is multilingual.

 

Kathy Booe-Kiser

Vice President for CMR responsible for all Talent Management programs, including Coaching and Leadership Development. Kathy is herself an accomplished Executive Coach at CMR. Kathy previously held several VP- level positions in Finance, IT and Business Processes at Siemens Energy and Automation, Inc. With 25 years of business experience in a variety of functional areas, Kathy’s coaching and leadership development approach is based on real life experience and pragmatic knowledge. She partners with clients to identify their goals, create action plans and supports clients in executing to achieve the desired results. Kathy has a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and is a Certified Public Accountant. She has actively participated on several small business boards in the Atlanta area. Kathy is a graduate of Coach U’s Core Essentials Coaching Program and a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF).

 

Jeff Fox

Vice President of Global Sales – For 17 years, Jeff has been responsible for developing and managing relationships with a deep base of contacts and corporate clients for our career transition, talent management and recruiting services. Prior to his career in our industry, Jeff spent 20 years in insurance and financial services, serving as an executive with several prominent companies. As founder of Real World Presentations, Jeff offers highly effective educational seminars and is a frequent guest speaker for many trade associations, chambers of commerce, colleges and teacher development programs. Jeff has also been active on a number of SHRM Committees, including Mentoring, Volunteer, Expo, Excellence, Leadership, Membership, GEM and Certification Committees. Jeff is also a SHRM Certification Instructor. He is currently the Vice President of SHRM Atlanta’s 8 GEMs. Jeff Chaired a number of committees for Gwinnett County’s Chamber of Commerce and sits on many County and State school advisory committees.

 

Jacqueline Tyser

Vice President of Client Services for CMR, Jacqueline is responsible for service delivery to our career transition and talent management clients. Prior to joining CMR spent over 20 years in Human Resources and Training for BellSouth, and as a Senior Consultant for ODR in human performance development and change management. Clients such as Merck, Pfizer, Alegent Health, and New York Presbyterian Hospital, recognized her outstanding performance. Additionally, Jacqueline has facilitated strategic planning sessions and process-improvement projects with clients such as Deloitte & Touche, Brown University, BellSouth, Cingular and the National American Lung Association. As recognized by her clients as an excellent communicator, she converses in a manner that is open direct and easily understood. She is influential in presenting ideas and recommendations in such a way to win others over to the “improvement” point of view. When you have Jacqueline Tyser on a project you have a high-energy resource that drives for results to improve business processes and human performance characterized by enhanced efficiency, quality and integrity.

 

Caroline Blakeley Lytle

As CMR’s Vice President of Client Development, Caroline is responsible for forming lasting relationships through business development and facilitating strong future relationships with current clients. Meeting the needs of the corporate clients experiencing transition is paramount in understanding how to apply CMRs comprehensive and contemporary services while easing the adjustments for corporations and individuals. Prior to CMR, Caroline had a strong history of very successful sales in real estate, applying the same communications skills and character to ensure quality of service and client support.

 

Dr. Dennis Ghyst, PHR

Dr. Ghyst is a Senior Project Consultant for CMR and has over 25 years of corporate, independent, and academic experience facilitating leadership, career transition, communication skills, team building, diversity, emotional intelligence, and stress management/ personal resilience workshops and courses. He has designed training curricula and conducted training and coaching sessions for all levels of employees, facilitating numerous management seminars for the USDA Graduate School and CDC. His responsibilities also have included over 12 years of management counseling/training for Career Management Resources and Lee Hecht Harrison. Dennis received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Florida, and his M.A. in Political Science-International Relations from the University of California at Los Angeles. After teaching at the University of South Carolina, Dennis joined Hughes Aircraft Company to develop and implement HR training and development programs.

 

Bruce MacDonald, SPHR

Senior Project Consultant - Bruce brings 20 + years experience in Human Resources management with major corporations including Molson's of Canada and Quebecor World, the world's largest commercial printing company. Bruce works very closely with client Human Resources' staffs and management on large CMR transition projects nationwide to ensure high quality, sensitive and rapid delivery of services in one week, one month or one year projects involving tens or hundreds of employees in non-union and union production environment. Bruce has been instrumental over the years in providing outplacement and transition consulting to CMR clients in almost all-50 states, and in a variety of industries.

 

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Career Management Resources, as a result of its’ years in business serving corporations throughout the Southeast, utilizes an Associate Consultant staff of Human Resource professionals who have all served at a Director level or higher with more that 15 years experience in major corporations. Each has received intensive training in the CMR individual counseling format, materials and group workshop training. A key requisite is not only their professionalism and ability to relate to all levels of employees, but also their empathy and genuine interest in helping others. Each CMR Consultant fully subscribes to the Association of Outplacement Consulting Firms’ (AOCFI) Code of Ethics, and is monitored quarterly through candidate and peer evaluations.

 

Representing over 200 offices in 27 countries, the OI Partners promise to you is:

A better human experience...for a better business outcome