Barbara Kofman CHRP, CMF

Barbara Kofman, Principal of CareerTrails, has a passion for enabling individuals and organizations to resolve their career-related challenges. She honed her expertise while working in senior roles in Human Resources, Outplacement, and Consulting where she developed a reputation as an excellent communicator and a results-oriented facilitator with strong analytical skills and a natural ability to motivate and coach.

Her experience has included:

• facilitating and delivering workshops
• providing one-to-one career coaching
• directing corporate career development, recruiting, and planning 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
• presenting at major conferences and via webinars

She has produced highly effective solutions for clients in the financial, educational and public sectors, and has taught at the university and college level. She is a sought after speaker, co-writes a monthly column for jobpostings - an international magazine aimed at University and College students - and has been quoted and interviewed for numerous publications including The Globe and Mail, Canadian HR Reporter, Chatelaine, and The Toronto Sun.

Barbara has her Masters in Public Administration, Bachelor of Education, and B.A.(Honours), all from Queen's University, is a CHRP (Certified Human Resources Professional), CMF (Certified Career Management Fellow, the highest level), and is qualified to deliver a number of psychometric assessment tools.

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

"I've worked with 4 different career counsellors, whether through my schooling or as part of a government job assistance process and CareerTrails was the best by far, the most understanding and helpful, while also having the most up-to-date information when it comes to resume writing styles and job hunting skills."

Selective List of Presentations/Webinars:

• Career Management for New Professionals in the Public Service - 2009, IPAC
• Attracting and Retaining Generations in the Workplace - 2008, Small Business Enterprises Conference, City of Toronto, 2008 & 2006 CCHMA Conference, 2007 Conference Paediatric Neurologists, 2007 Smart Business Boards, 2004 CACEE Conference
• Negotiation - May & December 2007, 2008, University of Toronto (Graduating Class)
• Speed Networking - 2008, University of Toronto (staff conference)
• Mentoring - 2008, University of Toronto (mentorship program)
• Exit Interviews, Reference Checking (also 2006 CCHMA Conference), Enterprise-wide Surveys, Effective Resumes - 2005, 2006, Drake International Webinars,
• Career/Life Equilibrium - 2006 HRPAO conference, 2006 Bank of Nova Scotia, 2004 & 2005 WEAC conference
• Interviewing; Networking - 2003, 2005, HRPAO,
• Career Management - 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, Humber College, Rotman, OPS
• Entrepreneurship - 2004, George Brown College
• Currently: Developing and teaching the first ever career program for the School of Continuing Studies, University of Toronto, 'Career Management by Design.' Nominated for the 2008 Excellence in Teaching Award.

"Presenter Barb Kofman offers a high quality, highly relevant perspective, well organized and dynamically presented."

"Barb is an excellent speaker, engaging, considerate, focused, entertaining."