Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank Dr. John Yena, Dr. Stephen Friedheim,
and Celeste Brantolino for their useful comments on our original
proposal for this book. We would like to thank Jeffrey Krames and
Mary Glenn of McGraw-Hill for making this book happen; Michelle
Howry for helping us shape the outline for the final draft; Donya Dick-
erson for her careful editing; and Janice Race for coordinating the pro-
duction of this book.
We would also like to thank Deans Louis D’Abrosca and Joe
Goldblatt of Johnson & Wales University for supporting our desire to
create and continue to develop a career self-management course for the
Alan Shawn Feinstein Graduate School. This course became the initial
testing ground for many of the ideas in this book. Dr. Martin Sivula has
given us many insightful comments and suggestions for the research
that has informed our understanding of what makes an effective career
portfolio.
We are indebted to Ames Brown for his ideas on digital formats for
portfolios and for writing a section of the digital options chapter. Jim
Abbott and Ralph Florio made special contributions by providing ideas
for key sections of this book.
We also want to thank the clients for whom we are career coaches.
Each of you has inspired us to do our very best to help you find effec-
tive ways to create portfolios that document and present your many im-
pressive career P.E.A.K.S.
Reflecting on his own career, Frank would like to especially thank
Dr. Douglas T. (Tim) Hall, now at Boston University, for providing a
fascinating introduction to the study of the field of careers when Frank
was a graduate student at Yale. Frank still treasures his notes from
that course, though some of the pages, alas, have turned brown and
curly along the edges!
This book would not have been at all possible without the support
and encouragement the authors received where it counts most—at
home. Our wives and kids were always there when we needed them,
though we weren’t always there when they needed us. With regard to
the latter, Frank would like to thank his mother, Emily (a.k.a.
“Granny”) Satterthwaite, and our kids’ world-class caregiver, Claire
Custer, for being essential members of our extended family, particular-
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