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Denise Bissonnette
Denise
Bissonnette is an internationally renowned writer, trainer and
keynote speaker. She has inspired people and organizations
throughout North America to look beyond traditional concepts of
career development and to craft livelihoods rooted in the individual
genius of each person.
After earning a Masters Degree at the University of San Francisco,
Denise worked in English as a Second Language programs. Her early
literacy work with political refugees drew her to the difficulties
they faced in trying to establish themselves in the American
workplace. She then made a career change and became a job developer,
working with employers to find jobs for people from groups not
traditionally a part of the workforce. Her success as a job
developer led to requests to deliver seminars to job developers and
employment specialists throughout the employment and training field.
Denise has authored several publications on creative job
development, state-of-the-art job search techniques, cultivation of
the human spirit and how to shine on the job. Denise’s job search
curriculum, Pathways, became a valued resource for the
placement services of many social service agencies and educational
systems. Her book, Beyond Traditional Job Development, is
regarded as the definitive text for job development professionals.
Ms. Bissonnette continues to work with companies to enhance their
workforce diversity efforts and designs training programs and
manuals to enable companies to effectively engage the talents of
employees emerging from welfare-to-work initiatives. Denise will
present the keynote address on Thursday, May 7, as well as two
knowledge sessions during the conference.
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