How to Plan and Manage a Successful Career

The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers: The Guide for Achieving Success and Satisfaction, Includes the Spencer Stuart Job Survival Guide, James M. Citrin and Richard A. Smith. 

The Art of War for Executives, Donald G. Krause. 

Articulate Executive: Learn to Look, Act, and Sound Like a Leader, Granville N. Toogood. 

Business Grammar, Style & Usage: The Desk Reference for Articulate and Polished Business Writing, Speaking & Correspondence, Alicia Abell. 

Career Management for the Creative Person: Right-Brain Techniques to Run Your Professional Life and Build Your Business, Lee Silber. 

Career Warfare: 10 Rules for Building a Successful Personal Brand and Fighting to Keep It, David F. D’Alessandro. 

Corporate Culture Survival Guide: Sense and Nonsense About Culture Change, Edgar H. Schein. 

Decision Traps: The Ten Barriers to Brilliant Decision-Making and How to Overcome Them, J. Edward Russo and Paul J. H. Schoemaker. 

First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently, Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman. 

Managing Your Career, Harvard Business Review series. 

How to Say It at Work: Putting Yourself Across with Power Words, Phrases, and Body Language, Jack Griffin. 

Perfect Phrases for Setting Performance Goals: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Goals for Any Performance Plan or Review, Douglas Max & Robert Bacal. 

Promoting Yourself: 52 Lessons for Getting to the Top ... and Staying There, Hal Lancaster. 

Your Coach [In a Book]: Mastering the Trickiest Leadership, Business, and Career Challenges You Will Ever Face, Robert Hargrove and Michel Renaud. 

You’re in Charge—Now What? The 8 Point Plan, Thomas J. Neff and James M. Citrin. 

Ultimate Guide to Getting the Career You Want and What to Do Once You Have It, Karen O. Dowd and Sherrie Gong Taguchi. 

Career Empowerment: Executive Recruiters on Leveraging Your Talents and Making the Right Decisions Around a Rewarding Career, Inside the Minds series.

Executive Job Search: A Comprehensive Handbook for Seasoned Professionals, Orrin Wood. 

Executive Temp: The Complete Career and On-the-Job Guide for the Interim Manager, Diane L. Thrailkill. 

For Executives Only: Applying Business Techniques to Your Job Search, Bill Belknap and Hélène Seiler.

Headhunters Confidential: 125 Insider Secrets to Landing Your Dream Job, Alan R. Schonberg. 

How to Be a Permanent Temp: Winning Strategies for Thriving in Today’s Workplace, Joan Damico. 

Since 1997 Hélène Seiler has led a boutique career management company focused on international executives. Initially focused on executive recruiting for international consulting companies and global corporation hiring strategy consultants, her firm logically expanded to executive career coaching and talent management of high-potential international executives in 2001. Prior to founding Helsei Consulting, Hélène worked for nine years as a strategy and change management consultant, in Western Europe and in the United States, with Charles Riley Consultants International and A.T. Kearney.

Her experience includes executive recruiting, career management, and outplacement. Hélène typically works with international management consultants, entrepreneurs, expatriate executives, and executive mothers. She coaches in English and in French. She has a master of management science degree from The Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (France). A certified coach with the International Coaches Federation, she frequently speaks about career management issues at major international corporations and strategy consulting firms, as well as at European business schools. Hélène is a French national and a permanent US resident. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two children.

Bill Belknap has 30 years of senior management and human resource experience, with more than 10 years at the vice president level. He has headed the human resource function for fast-paced companies in a variety of industries, including high tech, medical cost containment, consumer products, office products and financial information.