Meet Jean Baur, CMF
Author/Career Coach

Jean has worked for almost 18 years as a career coach with major outplacement firms (Lee Hecht Harrison, Seagate and Manchester), and has also worked extensively as a writer, coach and corporate trainer. Jean partners with clients of all functions and levels to help them identify and leverage their strengths, develop structure for the search process, create effective implementation plans and identify measurable success factors. Jean’s trademark is her energy and creativity. She likes nothing more than helping clients realize their full potential. She recently earned the highest designation awarded career counselors, the CMF (Certified Management Fellow) from the ICCI (Institute of Career Certification International.)

The author of numerous career transition articles, Jean has written throughout her career, both as a freelance writer and publishing short fiction. She also worked as a corporate trainer for Communispond and helped revise their business writing program. She majored in English at Lake Forest College and loves to read, garden and kayak. In her spare time, she is training her dog, Bella to be a therapy dog.