About

Hi. I’m Ronnie Ann Himmel. As a professional career coach, I created Work To The Wise to help you make sense of the world of work. And hopefully to help you enjoy more of the time you spend in your job. I’ve had two other career sites over the last 18 years, and will do my best to give you the benefit of all I’ve learned from readers, my clients, and from my own many career adventures!

My background

I have an MBA and a Career Counseling Certificate, but also a B.A. in Theater with a minor in Psychology. While I learned many useful things from all my education, the theater and psychology experience have added unique understanding to the work scene. After all, the world of work is essentially a living theater of human behavior, at every level.

For 10+ years, I was an independent organizational consultant for NYU Technology where I specialized in business process improvement, project management, and hiring assistance — including planning, interviews, and overall management of the hiring process. On occasion, I was even asked to do some personal coaching for staff and management.

Prior to this job, I had worked in a variety of interesting roles and levels in the public, private, and non-profit sectors — with lots of real-world experience getting those jobs! But of all the things I had ever done, this hiring assistance and coaching work was the most rewarding (and fun) for me.

And this inspired me to get a Career Coaching Certificate from NYU. Now, in addition to offering readers advice on Work To The Wise, I also get to work privately with individual career coaching clients by phone. (See below for more info.)

About Work To The Wise

This site is dedicated to you and your career. And to all the things you ideally want work to be. Now, I am painfully aware that no job is perfect. And some of the things I’ve learned over the years are not anything I would have listened to at the time. You may feel the same way when you read the articles.

But, I’ll do my best to give you workable advice that I think can help, sharing real stories and real solutions about bosses, coworkers, job search, career change, and even work-life issues. I’ll be including things I’ve actually seen or personally experienced in practice that can help improve your work life.

Not every single thing you find here will be exactly right for you. You bring your own life experiences and goals. And your own points of view. Also your own stories. But hopefully some of what you find on Work To The Wise will be helpful. Or, at the very least, raise useful questions that ideally help spark your own solutions!

And please feel free to ask questions or add your own thoughts to the conversation. Some of the best advice and support for others comes from my readers!

Job problems? Career change?

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(one-on-one coaching by phone)

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