Dr. Sally Gelardin, Co-Facilitator
Personal Profile
Dr. Sally Gelardin, International & Multicultural Education, National Certified Counselor, Distance Credentialed Counselor, eLearning Instructor, and Certified Life Transitions Counselor, has presented workshops for thousands of counselors and career professionals, as well as career workshops for older workers. She started the first job club for seniors in Marin County, California, where her oldest client (in her 80s) was the first person to secure a job. A year later, as Paralegal Career Counselor (University of San Franicsco), she placed her oldest client as a paralegal in the Office of the Mayor of San Franicisco. She has provided workshops for seniors at San Francisco's Montefiore Senior Center and other senior facilities and for the California Department of Aging. She was a member of the Spiritual Eldering movement in San Francisco and has co-presented workshops on cooperative housing for seniors.
Dr. Gelardin was interviewed on the topic of "Coping with Caregiving" on wsradio.com and has provided free job search tips to attendees at the Marin Assisted Technology Fair. She is Guest Editor of an upcoming issue of the Career Planning and Adult Development JOURNAL on "Making a Career of Counseling Caregivers."
In her personal life, Dr. Gelardin has ongoing experiences balancing career and caregiving. Within the past year, Dr. Gelardin moved her mother, father-in-law and stepmother from one state to another, while promoting her new book, "Starting and Growing a Business in the New Economy" (NCDA, 2007) , creating seven Entrepreneur Kits, co-instructing online and in-person workshops for Career Development Facilitators and CDF Instructors, serving as Women's Studies Portfolio Evaluator at the University of San Francisco, and starting a new Distance Job and Career Transitions Coach certificate training. She has adapted her work to accommodate the needs of her family.
Dr. Gelardin is Past-President of the California Career Development Association (CCDA) and is an active member of the National Career Development Association's (NCDA's)Publications Council, as well as a member of the American Counseling Association's (ACA's) Cyber-Technology Committee and a tele-interviewer for the California Counseling Association (CCA).
Donna Christner-Lile , Co-Facilitator
Christner-Lile Consulting
Donna Christner-Lile, NCC, RPC, DCC, is an author and life transitions counselor. She successfully combines her experience and education from two life careers into a unique planning resource for boomers, caregivers, and elders. She has presented on talk shows and has been featured in professional publications, such as ACA's "Counseling Today," "Thrivent Magazine," and public media. She runs a nationally trade registered practice, Christner-Lile Consulting. To fully assist her clients, Ms. Christner-Lile has added the services of Senior Move Management to help seniors who need to move from their homes. She staff's her move organization with women from her church who look upon moving for seniors as a ministry and a service to the community.
From first-hand experience, Ms. Christner-Lile knows how life can change unexpectedly. During her own career change, she became a caregiver to her 92-year old mother. She was able to experience first-hand what many sandwich generation individuals go through to balance life and work. In 2006, she authored a best-selling book, "Aging-In-Place: Living safely in your own home until you are 100Plus." In 2006, she also became the Executive Director of Counseling Life Transitions, a non-profit organization affiliated with Tri-Valley Community Foundation. She is a member of the American Counseling Association and a California Registered Professional Counselor.
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