Panelists

Dr. Donald Asher is an internationally recognized author and speaker on the topics of careers and higher education. In America he is well known as “America’s Job Search Guru.” Asher assists C-level executives with career transitions, and works with MBA and graduate programs nationwide. He recently served as the content architect for Elites Optimization Services (EOS), providing career development to Olympic athletes. His career books include the ground-breaking Cracking the Hidden Job Market. He has also written The Overnight Resume, How to Get Any Job, Who Gets Promoted (named career management book of the year; when you register your accepted job offer at Columbia Business School they hand you this book), and Asher’s Bible of Executive Resumes (the largest compendium of executive resumes ever published). He is the author of twelve books in all, available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, and Portuguese. Asher was named a “Career Mastermind” by the award-winning web portal QuintCareers. He was recently named the first-ever Career Guru-in-Residence at Tulane University. He has been an education columnist for MSN (consistently one of the top sites on the Internet), the career columnist for USAirways Magazine, and a contributing writer for the Wall Street Journal’s CareerJournal.com and CollegeJournal.com, college.monster.com, monster.com, careerbuilder.com, wetfeet.com, jobstar.org, Dow Jones’ Managing Your Career Magazine and National Business Employment Weekly, The San Francisco Chronicle, and the NACE Journal. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, New York Times, USAToday, Boston Globe, The Globe and Mail (Canada), The Guardian (UK), salary.com, USNews & World Report, Forbes, Fortune, Money Magazine, Men’s Health, and many, many other publications. Asher earned the PhD in human development from Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara (focusing on retirement for ambitious, career-focused people), and holds the master’s in human and organization systems from Fielding, the master of human resources and organization development from the University of San Francisco, and the bachelor of arts in philosophy-religion from Reed College. He is a featured speaker over 150 times per year, including recent lecture tours in Canada, Mexico, India, China, South Korea, Morocco, Ireland, and Germany, where he spoke about international career trends and the borderless career. Asher lives in Northern Nevada—and in American Airlines seat 3-A (but not during the pandemic).

Dave Gallison, MS, LPC is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Portland who specializes in career counseling and executive coaching.  More about Dave and his associate Aaron Good, MS, CRC may be found at www.gallisonconsulting.com.

Dave’s private career counseling practice is complemented by experience with sizeable organizations.  He has directed a local university career center, provided outplacement services for large employers like US Bank, Hewlett Packard, and Motorola, and managed a private vocational rehabilitation office.  He has also held director-level positions in non-profit social services, higher education, healthcare administration, and worked as a provider in behavioral health.

Dave attained a Master’s Degree from the University of Oregon with a combined emphasis in Counseling, Psychology & Health Education.  Like today’s speaker, he also obtained a Bachelor’s degree (Psychology) from Reed College.

Dave is committed to the art of revealing and developing one’s relationship to work, as well as helping others rise to the highest version of themselves.  To that end, he writes a periodic blog, and lectures on occasion. 

He enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters (when they are around) in many outdoor pursuits, especially hiking, alpine and cross-country skiing, scuba, and overseas travel. Weekends often find him either in the mountains or at the Oregon coast. He is a longtime volunteer for the Mt Hood Ski Patrol, Wilson High School PTA, and the Mankind Project.  Also an avid member of the “J,” he is chomping at the bit to get back to noon basketball!