Richard Pinsker, CMC, FIMC

Transitional Career Coach
Executive Selection Consultant

Significant Results
• Coached executives in career transition at clients’ request for the past three decades.
• Developed a branding methodology for individuals entering a transitional career.
• Founded The Transitional Career Center to assist those in job transition find work.
• Recruited all non-founder key executive and technical talent for a high tech company during its growth from $10 to $250 million.
• Brought the first three outside board members to a $100 million family owned winery and vineyard.
• Improved the hiring decision-making capability of thousands of hiring managers through workshops, seminars and written material.
• Created the “Hire for Results” process for making more objective and predictable hiring decisions.
• Identified and recruited executives to fill the “gaps” of several start-up company management teams.
• Directed the professional recruitment efforts for a company that grew from 400 to 1900 employees during a rapid five-year expansion.
• Founded (now in its 32nd year) the independent management consultants’ annual conference, and chaired it for well over a decade.

Industries Served
During the past thirty years, provided transitional career coaching, executive selection coaching and retained recruitment engagements for client organizations in the following industries: High technology; construction; architectural products; wine and food consumer products; printed circuit boards; software systems; luxury real estate investments; media products; education; publications; entertainment

Credentials
B.S. & M.S., Psychology, University of Wisconsin
Certified Management Consultant
Elected Fellow, Institute of Management Consultants
Author: Hiring Winners, AMACOM Books, Business Week Book Club Main Selection
Getting Hired, Crisp Publications
Seven Rules for Hiring Extraordinary Talent, a Business Novel, HRD Press
Seven Steps to a Rewarding Transitional Career, HRD Press
Magazine & newsprint articles on improving hiring decision-making capabilities.
Board member, The First Tee of Greater Sacramento

Personal Attributes
Entrepreneurial, innovative, detailed, organized, task oriented, writer, speaker.

Granite Bay, CA 95746 • 916 797 9166 • Richard@transitionalcareer.com • (m) 916 768 3609