Richard Knowdell

About The Trainer-Richard L. Knowdell

• Developer of Assessment Instruments and Career Counseling Techniques
• International Trainer and Consultant to Multinational Organizations
• Charter Career Management Fellow (CCMF)
• Futurist
• National Certified Career Counselor (NCCC)
• National Certified Counselor (NCC)
• Workshop Developer and International Career Conference Producer
• Publisher of Career Planning & Adult Development Journal
• Founding Editor of Career Planning & Adult Development Network Newsletter
• Executive Coach in Silicon Valley
• Author of Career Development Books   
•   Richard L. Knowdell, MS, NCC, NCCC, CCMF is the President of Career Research & Testing, Inc., author of six books
  , including Building a Career Development Program: Nine Steps for Effective Implementation. Knowdell has taught at the University of California, San Diego and at San Jose State University. In 1995, President Clinton appointed him to the Board of Examiners of the United States Foreign Service. He has developed four popular career assessment instruments that have been translated into nine languages. He is a past president of the California Career Development Association (CACD) and the Silicon Valley Chapter of ACP International. Knowdell established a private career counseling and consulting practice in 1971 and trained and supervised the counseling staff. In the 1980s he founded an Executive Outplacement Firm that provided services for 51 Silicon Valley firms. In the 1990s he served as an executive coach at several Silicon Valley firms. He established one of the first successful Employee Career Development Programs at a national research and development laboratory. He has served as a consultant on employee career development to numerous Fortune 500 organizations and delivered presentations at human resource conferences in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and North America. He taught courses employee career development to human resource managers at San Jose State University and career assessment techniques to professional career counselors at the University of California-San Diego. Over 500,000 of Knowdell’s career assessment card sort instruments have been sold and are used extensively with adults in university, social service, business, outplacement and private practice settings. He has served as an expert witness on employment issues in family law, personal injury, medical malpractice and wrongful termination cases in California Superior Courts and in Federal Court.
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  During a 29 year career, Richard Knowdell established one of America's first successful corporate career development programs, instituted an internal employee assistance program, directed a Silicon Valley corporate training and employee development department, established an executive outplacement consulting firm and served as an executive coach