• 50+ years of combined career counseling experience by nationally-certified career counselors
• Assisted 60,000+ clients with career plans, over the last seven years
• Provided outplacement services to over 200 clients of four major Maine businesses & affiliates
• Consultant to a large Canadian career information software company
• Annually deliver 24 College Admissions & Financial Aid workshops statewide to 600+ participants
• Continually developing own website, various on-line workshops and career planning products

RELEVANT SKILLS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF STAFF TEAM

Coaching and Counseling Services for Individuals and Businesses

• Entire counseling staff registered or licensed by the Maine Board of Counseling Professionals
• Two counselors soon-to-be certified business coaches and have completed mediation training
• Extensive experience in public & private outplacement, federal re-training of dislocated workers, college administration & teaching, college career planning & placement, health education counseling & secondary school guidance
• 90% of outplacement clients are re-employed or in re-training programs within six months
• Developed various transition workshops for affected employees - Stress Reduction, Turning Hobbies Into Businesses, Returning to School, etc.
• Assisted Maine Department of Labor in delivering transition information & assistance to employees of 5 businesses who were downsizing or closing (1996 - present)

Career Development Consulting and Partnerships

• Provide software consultation to companies regarding adults in career transition
• Co-sponsored vendor booths at ASTD (1999 & 2000) & AARP (2000) national conferences
• Contributing authors to: USA Today's Career Page; and to books: Intentional Change: Personal & Professional Coaches Describe Their Work & Lives; Information Technology: Changing Careers at Mid-Life
• Presenters at National Career Development Association (1998) & National Consultation on Career Development (Ottawa, Ontario - 1999) conferences; Blaine House Conference for Small Business

College Admissions and Financial Aid Outreach Services

• Administer $100,000 in scholarship programs for six statewide civic organizations
• Annually revise a College Planning Guide that is distributed to 10,000 adolescents, families and adults
• Assist state's largest education lender in annual revisions to its website
• Distributor of College Aid Calculator, a financial aid software program
• Presented workshop at New England College Admissions Counselors' annual conference
• Participated in MPBN's series & video, Reaching Higher in Maine: Understanding Student Financial Aid

Website & Information Technology Consulting

• Staff webmaster & consultant available to businesses
• 15 years of Information Technology experience in both public and private sectors
• 3 years of website development, maintenance & consultation experience
• 10 years of database administration
• 15 years of programming experience in multiple languages; 7 years of UNIX consulting

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY & EDUCATION

Dr. William Stone, Ed.D., NCC, NCCC
Employment: President & CEO - Promising Futures, Inc.; Outreach Clinical Director - MES Foundation, Portland, ME (7 yrs.); Adult Education Staff Development & Adjunct Counselor Educator - University of Maine, Orono, ME (3 years); Director of Guidance - N. Anson & Skowhegan (ME) high schools (18 yrs.)
Education: B.S. - University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME; M.Ed. - University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME; Ed.D. - Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Crisanne K. Blackie, M.Ed., NCC, NCCC
Employment: Career Coach/Counselor & Managing Director, Promising Futures, Inc.; Outreach Counselor - MES Foundation, Portland, ME (7 yrs.); College Planning & Placement - Franklin Pierce, Hawthorne & Western New England colleges (10 yrs.)
Education: B.A. - Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY; M.Ed. - Springfield College, Springfield, MA; 40 Hour Mediation Training; Corporate Business Coaching Program-Corporate Coach U

Janet Etzel, M.S., LCPC, NCC, NCCC
Employment: Career Coach/Counselor & Managing Director, Promising Futures, Inc.; Outreach Counselor - MES Foundation, Portland, ME (6 yrs.); Health Education/Counseling (13 yrs.).
Education: B.S. - University of Maine, Farmington, ME; M.S. - University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME; 40 Hour Mediation Training; Corporate Business Coaching Program-Corporate Coach U

William S. Webb, M.Ed., NCC, NCCC
Employment: Career Counselor & Managing Director, Promising Futures, Inc.; Outreach Counselor - MES Foundation, Portland, ME (7 yrs.); Re-Employment Counselor - Training & Development Corporation, Bangor, ME (4 yrs.); Guidance Director/Counselor - Searsport & Belfast (ME) high schools (14 yrs.); Science Teacher - Limestone High School, Limestone, ME (12 years).
Education: B.A. - St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH; M.Ed. - University of Maine, Orono, ME

Robert Hickey, B.S., B.S.
Certified Webmaster Employment: IT Consultant - Promising Futures, Inc.; Systems Programmer - B2B Explorer; MIS Mgr - MES Foundation, Portland, ME (5 yrs.); Programming Mgr. - City of Portland, ME (8 yrs.)
Education: B.S. - University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME (Business Administration); B.S. - University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME (Computer Science); Webmaster Certificate - University of New England, Portland, ME

Ardith Weiss, B.A., M.S., NCC, NCCC
Employment: Coordinator of Career Services - University of Texas at Tyler; Director of Career Services - Ambassador College, Big Sandy Texas; Career Counselor - Career Success Consulting, Tyler, Texas;
Education: B.A. - Ambassador College, Big Sandy, Texas; M.S. - University of Texas at Tyler - Tyler, Texas.

Kate Dulac, B.S., M.S., LCPC, NCC, member ACA & NCDA
Employment: Most recently, Kate served as an on-site consultant at the Career Planning Center at UnumProvident for four years. Previously, Kate provided counseling services to students at the University of Southern Maine.
Education: B.S. - Trinity College, M.S. - Univ. So. ME, LCPC

Anne Stockmar Upton, M.S., LCPC, ACS, NCC
Employment: Anne joined Promising Futures, on May 1, 2001, when she resigned as Director and Site Supervisor of the Career Planning Center at UnumProvident Companies in Portland, Maine, where she had served as an on-site consultant for over five years. As a licensed clinical counselor, with a special focus on career development, Anne offers individual career counseling and assessment, peak performance coaching, life review, group workshops and supervision and training of graduate interns. Anne holds a bachelor's degree in Anthropology and Communications from Dartmouth College and a master's degree in Clinical Counseling from the University of Southern Maine. She is a Licensed Clinical Counselor and an Approved Clinical Supervisor with National Certification.
Education: B.S. - Dartmouth College, M.S. Clinical Counseling - Univ. So. ME, LCPC

Beda F. Knight, B.S. Ed
Employment: Beda attended a private high school where etiquette lessons were required as part of the curriculum, which "opened many doors" for her, and created countless opportunities. It wasn't until years after graduating from the University of Maine with a Bachelor's Degree in Education that she understood how her degree in education and her research on the many useful and practical aspects of etiquette and protocol would be the foundation of her business, the Yarmouth School of Etiquette and Protocol, Inc. As a frequent guest on local television and radio, as their etiquette expert, Beda has discussed many areas of social and business etiquette. (Also, having worked in a large corporation for many years, she has considerable experience within the corporate culture.) Her clients include legal and medical professionals, employees of municipalities, universities, and a variety of local businesses, and business associations. A sampling client list includes: University of Southern Maine (Women in Management); the University of New England; the Court Reporters' Association; the Town of Yarmouth; the Town of Cumberland; and the Saco Rotary Club, to name just a few. Beda works in conjunction with Promising Futures to provide professional etiquette aspects as part of the Promising Futures Career Development program.
Education: B.S. in Education - University of Maine

Leigh Mundhenk, B.S., M.S., PhD
Employment: Founder of WorkConcepts - an organizational development firm. She is also assistant professor of Leadership & Organizational Studies at the University of So. Maine. Has worked with employees from small companies to multinational conglomerates. Leigh has 18 years experience with McNeil Consumer Products Company, a division of Johnson & Johnson where she held various management positions. Leigh holds a PhD in Psycho-Educational Processes from Temple University. She has conducted research on employees whose organizations have gone through significant transition and documented proof that a career development training intervention could help them become more self-reliant. Leigh holds an MS in Organizational Development from Univ. of Pennsylvania. She also holds a BS in Psychology from Duke.
Education: B.S. - Duke University, M.S. - Univ. of Pennsylvania, PhD - Temple University, has chaired local and national of American Society for Training & Development, member Human Resource Assn of Maine