Brian Schwartz

Brian A.Schwartz, PhD

Founder and President, CareerDNA, LLC

Principal, The Talent Management Team, LLC

Dr. Schwartz is a psychologist and a leading expert in the fields of Career and Talent Management with a practice that extends 32 yearsand includes over 1700 career planning clients, over 500 executive assessments and several hundred additional assessments and coaching assignments incorporate and university settings. He founded CareerDNA, LLC with partners in May, 2004. He continues his individual and organizational consulting practice through The Talent Management Team LLC, formed in 2001. In 2010 he has been appointed Senior Consultant and Visiting Lecturer at Tsinghua University's Yangtze Delta Regional Institute and will move to Beijing in the spring of 2010. He is gathering thought leaders, consulting firms and consultants, assessment tools and technologies in the world of talent management in China's premiere effort to upgrade and transform Chinese companies and governmental agencies through talent management initiatives.

He has originated a unique approach to career planning based on his observation that one's most enjoyed work is an adult metaphor forone's most enjoyed child's play. His process not only has helped over 1700 clients define a detailed ideal work profile (SkillsDNA plus) but also helps clients identify the internal barriers to their own success and helps them in overcoming those barriers. He is the creative force in the ongoing development of a state-of-the-art manager decision support tool which makes best fit matches between job candidates and job opportunities and corporate cultures andensures an engaged workforce, TalentDNA (www.careerdna.biz) as well as a flagship online career assessment and planning program for individuals, CareerDNA (www.careerdna.net).

Dr. Schwartz is also an expert in Organization Development, Talent Management and Executive Coaching. He has assisted corporations seeking to change their organizational culture to a more participative and open environment. He has designed performance management systems, succession-planning processes, train-the-trainer programs as well as programs in executive and management development. He has been especially effective in coaching executives and managers in improving their performance. Clients have included Interscope, Continental Can-USA, American Express. Reichhold Chemicals, Coopers & Lybrand, UST, PhilipMorris, The Kaempfer Company and its joint venture with The British Airport Authority, BAA-McArthur/Glen Europe, and its successor, McArthurGlen Europe,PLC, Trumpf USA, Pitney Bowes, DrakeBeamMorin, and The Directorship Search Group. His work in career transition and pre-retirement has been used by IBM,Texaco, Richardson-Vicks, Perkin-Elmer and both the New Jersey and Connecticut Education Associations.

Dr. Schwartz' early career was as a staff psychologist and Lecturer at Queens College of the City Universityof New York for eight years. He then founded the Career Planning Center at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in 1976 and headed that until establishing his organization development and career management practice in Greenwich, CT in 1981 in which he has continued as Principal of The Talent Management Team, LLC.

Dr. Schwartz is a member of the American Psychological Association, the National Career Development Association, and the Association for Psychological Type. He is also a member of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychologists, the International Association of Career Professionals, the Society for Human Resources Management, and the American Society for Training and Development. He is a licensed psychologist in Connecticut and holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Queens College and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from New York University.