Topic: 10 Keys to Becoming a Career Conqueror

Speaker: Mark Myers, Chair of Nashville FENG, Career Management and Leadership Coach with Career Connection Partners

Program Description:  
If you were to learn tomorrow that your job was eliminated, how confident are you that – WITHIN 60 DAYS – you would be able to find a job that you enjoy doing and would pay your bills? This interactive program will help the participants assess their ability to do so. By the end of this workshop, you will have strategies, tips, secrets, and ideas to improve your confidence in the 10 keys to becoming a career conqueror.

About Mark Myers:
As a Career Management Coach, Job Search Strategist, and Network Development Coach, Mark's primary goal is to assist individuals with making connections with 'themselves' and others to create their desired professional and personal success. Through Career Connection Partners, launched in 2011, Mark incorporates his ability to open doors with senior executives and senior management of large businesses with his passion for helping others pursue their professional passions. Whether as a Career Coach or Job Search and Network Development Strategist, Mark also brings to the table his personal experiences of five career shifts, the evolution of his professional passion, and several years of effective networking locally, nationally, and internationally. Beginning in February 2020, Mark became the Director of the Nashville Chapter of the Chief Operating Officer Business Forum (COO Forum). In Spring 2020, Mark became a Certified Dale Carnegie Trainer.

Mark's voluntary, professional experiences include Chairman of the Nashville Chapter of Financial Executives Networking Group (FENG); leadership in local, regional, and national roles for Financial Executives International (FEI); alumni leadership roles for both graduate and undergraduate alma maters; and, career and networking assistance to a variety of individuals ranging in experience from recent MBA graduates to seasoned professionals. His other professional affiliations currently or in the past include the Tennessee Society of CPAs, Institute of Management Accountants, American Institute of CPAs, and International Coaches Federation. Because of his focused networking efforts since 2004, Mark's professional network has grown substantially in the number of connections, the functional disciplines and geographical reach represented, and the levels of executive leadership of his contacts.

Mark's career path includes business development, accounting, and financial management. He retired from his accounting career in mid-2018 after a three-year stint in the outsourced accounting services arena, leading groups in two local public accounting firms. Before returning to the public accounting world, he served as Chief Financial Officer at Littlejohn Engineering Associates, Inc., in Nashville, Tennessee, where he led the firm's accounting, finance, and human resources functions. As Client Service Director of the Nashville Office of Resources Global Professionals from January 2008 to April 2011, Mark was responsible for developing new business and managing existing clients, engagements, and consultants for all service lines in the Tennessee market. He is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) with over 35 years of accounting and financial management experience, including earlier experiences of 11 years in public accounting in both auditing and tax roles and 15 years in a Controller role for a regional engineering & architectural firm. Mark has also had Adjunct Faculty appointments with Lipscomb University and Trevecca Nazarene University and currently is in an Adjunct Faculty role at Middle Tennessee State University. His strategy-building capabilities and creative problem-solving skills are backed by an MBA from Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management.