Creative, energetic, intuitive wordsmith who helps students, careerists, and organizations to tell their stories.
Daytona Beach, Florida Area
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- Associate Publisher and Creative Director at Quintessential Careers
- Past
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- Lecturer at Stetson University
- Chief Writer at Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letters
- Education
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- Union Institute & University
- Stetson University
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Katharine Hansen’s Summary
My passions lie in 3 overlapping areas: writing, educating, and applied storytelling. I have had more than 6 wonderful years of teaching college students and helping them tell their stories in business. I adore designing instruction, testing it in the classroom, and then tweaking it to make it better. When I am not lucky enough to be in the classroom, I educate through writing. My 7th book will be published in April 2009, and I’ve written hundreds of articles and other works, primarily on career management, job-hunting, college writing, and college study-skills topics.
I am also a student of and blogger about applied storytelling, a topic I became fascinated with while completing my PhD in organizational behavior. I wrote my dissertation about using storytelling in the job search, which is also the topic of my 7th book. Storytelling and career is a major topic of my blog, A Storied Career, but I’m fascinated by many other applied uses/forms of storytelling. I also believe people can change their lives by changing their stories, and I am developing workshops to help folks do that.
I hold top credentials in the career-management field – Credentialed Career Manager and Master Resume Writer, both from the Career Management Alliance. I write dazzling resumes and cover letters that help professionals tell their stories, and did so for 5 years in my resume-writing business, but it’s not a practice that’s at the center of my passions.
For me, writing is like breathing; it’s something I have to do, and I do it better than most. I have considered myself a writer since third grade.
I am at the point in my life where I have transcended organizational politics and established a joyful life, full of love, learning, freedom, and yes, hard work.
Please also see my bio at:
http://www.quintcareers.com/creative_director.html, my personal Web site at http://katharinehansenphd.com/, and my teaching portfolio at http://www.quintcareers.com/KH_Teaching/Teaching_Portfolio.html
Katharine Hansen’s Specialties:
applied storytelling, organizational communication, organizational behavior, career management, writing/editing, teaching management/OB/communications at the college level
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Katharine Hansen’s Interests:
Professional: Applied storytelling, writing, blogging, social media, teaching, messing around on my computer. Personal: I love being as “carbon neutral” as possible and riding my bike. I enjoy home décor, crafts, container gardening, reading, and yoga.
Katharine Hansen’s Honors:
Accepted into Doctoral Institute, Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, 2007 and 2006; attended 2007
Graduate College Scholarship, Union Institute and University, 2006-2007; 2005-2006
M.K. and Kamala Mitra Scholarship, 2005-2007, based on academic excellence and measurable impact on a given community/society
Student commencement speaker, Stetson University, DeLand, FL, 1993
Phi Beta Kappa, Stetson University, DeLand, FL, 1994
Daniel J. Ransohoff Scholarship for academic focus in the social sciences, 2006-2007
Kingsbury Award, a full scholarship judged on writing portfolio, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 1992
President’s award for outstanding contribution to University of Florida, 1983
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