Bob Gardner, MS, MCC, CPC

As a master career counselor and certified professional career coach Bob Gardner founded Bob Gardner & Associates with the mission to provide you with the best information, resources and career guidance needed to overcome employment challenges, get a job,  find a new career, and be grateful and hopeful as an employee.  

Bob has been a practicing career counselor for a couple of decades. He has become known as  being wise, insightful, and innovative in guiding thousands of clients.  He also offers his wisdom, resourcefulness, and insightfulness gained through life experiences from many of the same career opportunities, challenges, and changes faced by his clients including:

• Making a major career change.
• Going back to graduate school.
• Changing from a generalist to a specialist.
• Managing teams and working independently.
• Running his own company and working in large multinational organizations.
• Managing business travel and life balance.
• Teaching in a university, corporate, and one on one environments.

Bob is creative and resourceful as he looks at all of the parts that make a person who they are, and helps them translate their attributes into a successful job search, a fulfilling career, a new job, and/or a person who is self lead and grateful. 

Bob Gardner's Credentials

Career Guidance Experience

• Founder, Bob Gardner & Associates.
• Director of Personnel, Transamerica Airlines.
• Personnel Officer, Wells Fargo Bank.
• Personnel Interviewer, Office of Education, Sonoma County 

Education

• San Francisco State University - Masters degree in counseling.
  
• California State University Chico - Masters degree in political science,
• University of California, Berkeley - Bachelors degree in political science.

Certifications


• Certified Professional Coach, (CPC) International Coach Federation.
• Master Career Counselor, (MCC)  National Career Development Association.
• National Certified Career Counselor, (NCCC) National Board for Certified Counselors.
• National Certified Counselor, (NCC) National Board for Certified Counselors.

Teaching Experience

• John F. Kennedy University - Adjunct Professor,  graduate level, in career development.
• University of California, Berkeley - Life Long Learning Division, in Supervision.
• University of California, Berkeley - Life Long Learning, International Division, in Management Development.
• Hong Kong Productivity Center, Hong Kong, China - Trainer in Management Development.

Associations

• International Coach Federation 
• Association of Career Professionals International 
• National Career Development Association 
• American Counseling Association
• Retired member of Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity
• Retired member of Army Reserve Officers Training Corps

Publications

• Achieving Effective Supervision, 1984, rev. edition 1989.
• Career Counseling: Matching Yourself to a Career, 1987.
• Managing Personnel Administration Effectively, 1986.

        Honors

• Marquis Who's Who in America, 50, 51, 52, & 66 editions.
• Rotary International, Paul Harris Fellow.

Get Started Today

Call (510) 652-2467 to schedule a complementary initial session. 

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Bob has helped thousands of clients find happiness in their careers

"I have discovered  (been taught) a way of finding peace "in all circumstances" or should I say ... learning that lesson. It certainly is one of the best things I've ever discovered! ...When our ego finally surrenders to the "Self" - the God in us - what a burden we release & what joy there is in that trust."

Santa Clara, California

"Staying in the center truly is our protection... and there truly is a great shortcut in becoming our Higher Self...You were right Bob, I would have to continue on down the path in becoming my own master..."

Walnut Creek, California