As the principal of a career consulting firm, Phyllis Harper-Rispoli guides professionals, managers, and executives through today’s unpredictable job market by sharing tools, techniques, and strategies for making satisfying work life choices.  She has provided career development coaching, training, and consulting to clients in government, education, and industry since 1984.  Among her clients are Motorola, Intel, Emcore, Arizona Department of Transportation, Maricopa Community College District, ASU West and the cities of Scottsdale, Phoenix, and Tempe.

In 1998 Phyllis made a significant life change when she and her husband Rob moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, bought a historic property in Old Town, and opened a small bed & breakfast.  She describes this mid-life adventure as exciting and renewing both personally and professionally.  Today she enthusiastically balances her work as part-time innkeeper with a booming career development practice where she is discovering new passion working with aging Boomers to address life options for their next stage of life.

Her professional activities include:  founding member of Arizona Career Development Association; past president of the Valley of the Sun Chapter of American Society for Training & Development; member of Human Resources Management Association of New Mexico; and founding board member of Work/Life Options, a non-profit organization which promoted flexible work options. She has presented on career-related topics at more than 50 local, regional, and national conferences and is co-creator of the career development board game, Culteers©.

Ms. Harper-Rispoli holds a B.S. degree from Arizona State University and has completed graduate coursework in Career Development and Educational Psychology at Arizona State University, John F. Kennedy University, and the University of New Mexico. She studied under career development guru Richard Bolles, author of What Color is Your Parachute.

Some of the courses taught by Phyllis Harper-Rispoli include:

• Planning for the Power Years