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Gabrielle Parkinson - Biographical Information

Gabrielle Gabrielle is the creator of Career Life Planning™, an interactive process which provides professional coaching and results in a written professional development plan. She works with individuals, couples, and groups to create positive change, with an emphasis on personal and professional growth and achieving tangible results.

Gabrielle has an extensive background as an Educator/Trainer, Facilitator, Consultant, Manager, Business Owner and Community Leader. She has experience in both staff and line management positions and secondary school teaching experience, teaching at the university, community college, adult and high school levels. In 1973 she developed the first "live office" program through the Humboldt Regional Occupational Program, County Office of Education, a very successful statewide re-training program for high school students and adults re-entering the job market.

Her areas of background and expertise are in the areas of Motivation, Planning and Goal Setting, Team Building Strategies, Management and Supervision, and Leadership Styles. She is also the co-author of a book on transition and change, entitled You Can Choose Again.

In 1985 she founded Business Connections, a countywide networking organization for women business owners, providing a forum for women to promote and market themselves and their businesses. In 1992, she was instrumental in establishing a "non-profit without walls," the Women Entrepreneurs Institute(WEI) and has actively served as its president for several years. The Institute collaborates and partners with businesses and economic development organizations to provide resources for women just starting new businesses or expanding their existing business. She is the co-publisher of the Women Entrepreneus Directory of Northern California (1996-1998), which covers five northern California counties.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

GABRIELLE has been recognized several times in the community for her leadership and her work in promoting entrepreneurship:
1990  Received SBA's "Women in Business Advocate of the Year" Award for Northern California
1993   Received "Women Helping Women" Award from Soroptimist International
1994   Received "Women of Distinction" Award from American Association of University Women
1997   Received "Advocating to Improve the Status of Women," Award for the Women Entrepreneurs Institute from Soroptimist International.
1997   Received "Woman of Achievement Award for 1997," from Humboldt County Board of Supervisors and the Commission on the Status of Women.
1998   Participant in two segments of Women Work, a five-part video production by Humboldt State University and Commission on Status of Women
 

She graduated from Humboldt State University and received a Masters degree in Business, as well as a Standard Secondary Teaching Credential. She completed graduate work at San Jose State University, Sacramento State University and Portland State University. She has her Community College Teaching Credential and a Lifetime California Administrative Credential.

Gabrielle can be contacted at clp@humboldt1.com



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