Barbara Kofman CHRP, CFM

		Barbara Kofman CHRP, CFM
		Jane Reichman Van Toch
		Paul Shemilt

Principal, CareerTrails www.careertrails.com

Before concentrating on the field of career management, Barbara held a number of management and consulting positions within the financial and public sectors, including Senior Consultant at Murray Axmith, and National Director of Resourcing with CIBC. She gained a reputation for excellence in career management, strategic human resources, and organizational development, and was known as a superb communicator and a results-oriented facilitator with strong analytical skills and the ability to motivate and coach.

Her experience has included: facilitating and delivering workshops; providing one-to-one career coaching; directing corporate career development and recruiting functions; developing, implementing and overseeing state-of-the-art career transition programs and services; driving large-scale projects such as corporate-wide surveys and new performance management systems; implementing organizational development initiatives including visioning, repositioning and consolidating corporate businesses.

Barbara has worked in publishing and as a teacher and taught Career Management courses to Community College and University students. She is the Career Editor for "Business Speak Magazine" and has presented at number of conferences most recently to the Women's Engineering Advisory Council and to the Canadian Association of Career Educators and Employers.

Barbara has a Masters in Public Administration, an Honours BA in English, and a Bachelor of Education, all from Queen's University. She is a Certified Career Management Fellow Manager (CFM, the highest level), Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP), and is qualified to deliver a number of psychometric assessment tools including MBTI.

In addition to running her business Barbara is extremely active within the community as a member of the Action Team for the Toronto chapter of ACP International as well as a mentor at the Rotman School of Management.