Ellis Chase

Ellis Chase, one of Manhattan’s top career consultants and executive coaches, brings his 25-plus years of experience and expertise to this re-examination of how to find a job that fits.

Known for his irreverent style, Ellis cuts through the clutter and clichés of what passes for conventional wisdom to offer a real-life, direct approach to job hunting and career development. An approach more in line with today’s economic realities.

Ellis’s varied consulting practice is based in Manhattan, but his training workshops and lectures often have taken him around the US and Europe. His corporate clients have included: Deloitte Touche, Estee Lauder, Goldman Sachs, The Gartner Group, Purdue Pharma, Swiss Re America, United Nations Development Programmes, Penguin Putnam, Citigroup, WR Wrigley, ING Capital, Group M, Amnesty International, American Civil Liberties Union, Hanger Orthopedics, and Time Warner.

He has been a consultant to Columbia Business School for the past eleven plus years, where he develops and delivers workshops for the Business School’s Alumni Relations and Executive MBA Career Management; he coaches in the Program for Social Intelligence, and is a frequent speaker at other Columbia University colleges and graduate programs. He was an instructor at New York University’s Center for Career, Education, and Life Planning for almost 20 years, and was an original Five O’Clock Club counselor, consulting in this national job search advising organization for 21 years.

In addition to his private practice, Ellis has worked in some of the nation’s largest human resources and outplacement consulting firms; he also worked in manpower planning and staffing at one of the nation’s largest financial services institutions. He is a founding member of the New York Chapter of the Association for Career Management Professionals. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from New York University.

His articles have appeared in the National Business Employment Weekly/Wall Street Journal, The Five O’Clock Club News, the Columbia Business School Alumni e-newsletter, Vault.com, MBAFreeAgents.com, and he has been interviewed extensively on CNBC and CNN, as well as major newspapers and radio stations.