Today we’d like to introduce you to David Bowman.
Executive coach, lecturer/actor, author, Fortune 200 executive, entrepreneur, educator – David has helped many thousands find more productive and fulfilling careers. And, he has helped bring many corporations through issues of change during the past 25 years.
He is the Founder and Chairman of TTG Consultants, a Los Angeles based Human Capital consulting firm specializing in corporate talent management and career transition. Some of his many clients have included Arco, Audubon Society, Blue-Cross & Blue-Shield, CBS, Disney, Lockheed Martin, LucasFilm, Nestlé, Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Sears, 7-Up, Sony, Toshiba, TRW and Unocal – to name only a few – as well as many smaller businesses.
David is a “thought-leader” in Corporate Talent and Career Management. He is the former president of The International Association of Career Consulting Firms (IACCF), from which he received a Registered Career Consultant (“RCC”) Certification. He also holds a Career Management Fellow (“CMF”) Certification from the Institute of Career Certification International (ICCI) – the premier global certifying authority for career and executive coaches – where he is a Member of the Board of Governors. He is known as America’s Human Capital Consultant.
He is the co-author of the well-reviewed book, How Do I Find The Right Job? Ask The Experts!, published by John Wiley & Sons. His latest audio release is You’re In Charge Of You!®, covering the seven critical elements of an effective job-search. Previously, he authored Opening New Doors®, considered to be the most complete job-search & career-management system ever published. He also wrote & produced School’s Over, Now What?®, a job-search guide for high school and college grads, as well as Returning To Business, a vocational guide for vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. His on-line, video training programs include: the It’s Your Career!® series, two tutorials about the realities of the new workplace and how to “take charge of your career”; Preventing Sexual Harassment and Workplace Violence Prevention – all featuring “audio sequenced to fast-moving graphics” for better learning and longer retention.
He frequently discusses career and workplace issues on national radio and television talk shows (ABC, CBS, NBC & FOX), as well as in newspapers and magazines throughout the U.S. (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, USA Today, NY Daily News, Investor’s Business Daily, Miami Herald, Los Angeles Business Journal, Emmy, Variety, CBS MarketWatch, BoxOffice, Reuters and many others). Recently, he was a principle on-screen contributor to the feature-length documentary, Murder By Proxy.
He is an educator (UCLA), and regularly addresses conventions and other groups on various human resources, productivity and other workplace topics. His public seminars on job-search and career-management techniques have refocused lives throughout North America.
His management expertise includes domestic and international sales/marketing, finance, (joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures) and operations – having been associated with Fortune 200 companies, as well as small entrepreneurial and public service organizations.
After his formal education at Dartmouth College, with graduate studies at Stanford Graduate School of Business, David enjoyed a corporate management career that included: The Mead Corporation (where he won the first annual “Marketing Man of the Year” award), the USM Corporation and Continental Can Company (where he directed marketing activities worldwide).
For several years, he enjoyed an avocation of acting on TV series: Dallas; Murder, She Wrote; Hunter; General Hospital; Days Of Our Lives; The Young & The Restless; Lou Grant; Dynasty; The Fall Guy; Today’s FBI; Capitol, etc. and many voice-over and on-camera commercials.
Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
The major challenge for TTG and other HR consulting firms is the rapid changing of the Workforce. There are so many “push/pulls” from so many different interest groups and worker categories. The needs and behaviors of the older, Traditional Worker are quite different from the Baby Boomers, which in turn are quite different from the Gen Xers, Yers and the Millennials. Companies must deal with all of these different, and often opposing, issues in order to remain productive. And, HR consulting firms are on the front line of this assistance.
Alright – so let’s talk business. Tell us about TTG Consultants – what should we know?
TTG Consultants offers the following HR services and products to our clients, worldwide…
1. “Consultant Intensive” Outplacement – job-search assistance to redundant/layed-off employees.
2. Executive Coaching – to improve the performance and/or behavior of middle-to-senior executives.
3. Succession Planning – to provide “bench strength” to companies in transition.
4. Executive Search – to aid companies in their search for the best executive talent available.
5. On-Site and On-Line Workplace Harassment and Violence Prevention programs.
6. Self-Directed study products for job-search and career-management: Opening New Doors, The Key to Your Career Future, Returning to Business, School’s Over Now What?
Is there a characteristic or quality that you feel is essential to success?
Watchwords are: creativity, extremely high quality, high knowledge and experience base for consultants, affordable pricing.
Contact Info:
- Address: 4520 Wilshire Blvd.; Suite 100; Los Angeles, CA 90010
- Phone: 800.736.8840 | 323.936.6600
- Email: [email protected]
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