EdWARD Lawrence Career and Life coach

The economy seems to be doing great. You've seen the official unemployment statistics. We keep hearing about a "skills gap." Yet, so many...

Recently, someone asked me how I became so good at networking. My reaction was one of surprise. Me? Expert networker? (How did that...

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I once asked some fiends to help me move from an apartment to a new home. My good friend Steve gladly helped out, saying, "Friends help...

My speech at the ICT May 2017 conference was well-received; so I reorganized and edited it for a newspaper opinion piece, which the...

Speech I delivered at the May 2017 ICT event. Here is a link to the ten-minute video: https://youtu.be/BkAzQfIufsM My name is Ed. I am...

Ever look in your neighbor's garage? Is it a single, double, or three-car garage? How many cars are in the garage? Odds are, there are...

What is memory? Is it a recording? Is memory accurate? The evidence suggests memory is neither a recording nor accurate. In fact, there's...

How to Build a Company in Fifty Steps A summary of an article at https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/252811 Be inspired. Have a passion....

This is the 2014 New York Times article that featured my first Institute for Career Transitions (ICT) client. This article highlights how...

Back in 2014 I worked briefly for a company at which I got to know the company’s recruiter. For three weeks, he taught me how he worked...

An article I first posted in 2015 to an ICT forum. Are you familiar with 'empty tile syndrome'? It's basically a mindset that convinces...

This is the written form of a speech I presented at an ICT conference in December 2015. Good morning. Last May I spoke at the ICT...

This is the written form of a speech I gave at the December 2016 ICT conference. Ten years ago the hiring manager said “Great...

This is a written form of a speech I presented at a May 2015 Institute for Career Transitions' conference. I was asked to talk to you...