Dr. Pearl Hilliard

Jennifer Hill talks to Dr. Pearl Hilliard about how to reinvent your career. She asks Pearl what one can do when you are not passionate or fulfilled by your job and how one can leverage their passion into a new career. Pearl offers resources on how to make a career transition and identify what will bring you lasting happiness.

Dr. Pearl Hilliard is the founder of Hilliard Performance Solutions, a company that provides consulting, coaching, leadership development and training services.

Pearl is an independent consultant/coach who focuses on performance solutions and results, using appreciative inquiry strategies. Her passion is employee engagement, with an emphasis on a strengths-based approach. Her clients include individuals, and small and medium-sized businesses in various functional areas, as well as UCLA, USC and other non-profits.

Pearl experienced her own career transition in 2011 and since then has developed several career/life transitions courses and focuses on career development and transitions for people moving into their second or third-act careers. She delights in supporting her clients as they move into a new field, a different organization, and/or into a new phase of life.

Pearl has extensive experience implementing and directing a variety of programs that facilitate the improvement and optimization of performance. She has a successful track record in strategic organizational development, leadership development, learning, talent management and coaching. Pearl provides executive, career management and life transitions coaching. She specializes in developing and facilitating workshops and retreats. Each client is unique, and Pearl will customize her services to fit the client’s needs, ensuring they achieve their desired results.

Pearl received her doctoral degree (Ed.D.) in Human Performance at Work from the University of Southern California. She also received an M.S. in Counseling from California State University at Northridge, a B.A. (Honors) in Applied Psychology from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, and a B.A. in Business Studies from Manchester Polytechnic, England.

Her training certifications include Achieve Global, Coaching (ACC, BCC & CPC), Connecting With Others, DiSC, Emotional Intelligence, Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team and Myers-Briggs (MBTI).
CONTACT INFORMATION

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Website: hilliardperformancesolutions.com

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Information about our up-coming webinar series, “Reinventing Your Career at 40+”: webinars.yournextstepcareers.com

BOOKS
LifeLaunch: A Passionate Guide to the Rest of Your Life by McLean and Hudson (2011)
Second-Act Careers by Nancy Collamer (2013)
What’s Next? Finding Your Passion and Your Dream Job in Your Forties, Fifties and Beyond by Kerry Hannon (2014)
URLs
encore.org (An organization that taps into the skills and experience of those in midlife and beyond to improve communities and the world)
pivotplanet.com - you pay $50 per hour to talk to someone about their career; they have over 300 career types.
rgp.com - A consulting firm that employs professionals, on a project-by-project basis.
taprootfoundation.org (provides volunteering opportunities)
volunteermatch.org (also provides volunteering opportunities)