Career Coaching Areas of Expertise
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Career Coaching: including job transition, career change, relocation, semi or full retirement, lifestyle change, and entrepreneurism coaching
- dealing with change
- self-evaluation and assessment
- determining goals and objectives, including potential career and industry change, as well as potential board and volunteer opportunities
- addressing family needs
- preparing a targeted resume
- developing a customized marketing plan
- effective, results-oriented networking
- how to work with search firms and which search firms to work with
- exploring the hidden job market
- interview preparation and videotaping
- evaluating, negotiating and closing job offers
- On-board coaching for the next position
- Executive Coaching
- Sales & Sales Management coaching
- Business and Strategy Coaching
- Organizational Coaching: including mergers & acquisitions, growth, start-up and restructures
Education & Training
- Coaching, Coaching University
- The Predictive Index® (PI) behavioral assessment, PI worldwide
- SHL (OPQ32), and Hogan Assessments
- Organizational Effectiveness, Right Management Consultants
- ROI of Executive Coaching and Leadership development, Manchester
- Business-on-Board, Not-For-Profit Board Training, Arts & Business Council
- Change Management, EDS Management Consulting Services
- Strategic Planning and Development, Boston University Corporate Center
- Customer-Focused Selling Train-the-Trainer, PI Worldwide
- Solutions Selling and Solutions Selling Management, Sales Performance International
- Strategic & Conceptual Selling, Miller Heiman/Price Waterhouse
- Merrimack College, BA in Political Science with concentration in Business Management
Summary
For over 20 years Chuck has advised executives and businesses on career development, leadership, talent management and sales. He has consulted and coached firms and professionals across industries, start-ups to Fortune 500, and not-for-profits. Chuck is the Founding Partner of MCG Partners, a leading consulting firm providing world-class career development, leadership, talent management and sales solutions.
Recently, Chuck served as Vice President of Institutional Advancement for Merrimack College, his alma mater. As a member of the Cabinet, he rebuilt and restructured the advancement organization and launched several key programs including a cohesive branding initiative, a new website, corporate alliances/partnerships, strategic planning and a capital campaign. Funds raised during his tenure increased by over 20%.
Previously, Chuck was the Managing Vice President for the New England Region of Right Management Consultants, the world’s largest career transition and organizational consulting firm with over 300 offices worldwide. He exceeded business goals by 130% and profit margins by 30%. Chuck was appointed as a member of the global product development task force and was one of fifteen employees selected world-wide to Right’s global strategic framework initiative team. Chuck joined Right through their acquisition of Manchester, Inc., and was chosen as the executive member from Manchester for the acquisition integration team. At Manchester, Chuck was the managing Director and Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, and ran Manchester Partners, a global sales channel alliance of over 100 consulting firms in 33 countries, worldwide. Chuck has additional experience with Human Resources International, TMP Worldwide, EDS Management Consulting and bank of Boston.
During his career, Chuck has:
- Advised, coached and mentored hundreds of professionals, executives and management teams
- Assessed, selected, trained, coached and managed sales and consulting professionals and teams
- Restructured and realigned organizations and operations through mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations
- Run P&L for multi million dollar organizations
- Managed multiple teams and functions
- Originated and grown sales and profit, including the increase of a consulting firm’s sales from 1M to 14M in 4 years
- Launched several start-ups
- Designed and developed new service and product offerings
- Facilitated the building of websites, branding initiatives, sales brochures and materials
Chuck is an advisor, coach, consultant, strategist and business executive, following coaching guidelines established by the ICF - International Coaching Federation.
He has written several articles and has been quoted in The International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, WBZ Radio, The Boston Herald, Wall Street Satellite Radio, HRMarketer.com, HumanCapitalInstitute.org,
FinancialExpress.com, EmploymentDigest.net and in Insights Magazine. He is an “Ask The Expert” columnist for www.bostonworks.com.
He is on the Board of Directors, Arts & Business Council, is a Partner of Flavors of New England, and is a Cranberry Grower for Ocean Spray. Chuck is a fundraiser and rider for the Pan Mass Challenge (PMC), a 192 mile bike
ride for the fight against cancer. He is a member of NEHRA (Northeast Human Resources Association), HRLF (Human resource Leadership Forum), Several Chambers of Commerce, The Harvard Club and LeBaron Hills Country Club.
He has served on the Board of Directors, North America, for Career Management Consulting Firms International (AOCFI). Chuck lives in Bridgewater, MA with his wife, three daughters and three dogs.
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