David Rottman
David Rottman is Past President and Chairman of the Board of the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology in New York City, and is a member of the Foundation's Continuing Education Faculty. He has lectured and taught courses on Jungian psychology for more than 20 years including the following topics: The Persona: Archetype of Successful Adaptation; The Role of Family History in the Career; The Career as an Expression of the (Higher) Self; Making Meaning at Work in a Time of Upheaval; The Archetype of Renewal in the Career; and Creativity in Careers. He has lectured frequently on a Jungian approach to the topics of love and empathy.
David Rottman retired in 2011 as Managing Director and Career Development Executive in Corporate Human Resources at JPMorgan Chase. For 26 years, he headed the country's largest internal Career Services Department with five Career Centers in the US. He designed the firm's Career Advancement Program (CAP), which provided industry "best in class" individual and group programs for achieving career advancement. He was a pioneer in creating special programs to advance women and minorities, as well as programs on innovation, teamwork and initiative.
He was responsible for designing and implementation of all firm-wide Career Transition and Career Counseling Programs for mergers/acquisitions with Texas Commerce Bank, 1987; Manufacturer's Hanover, 1991; Chase Manhattan Bank, 1996; Hambrecht and Quist, 1999; JPMorgan, 2000; Bank One, 2004; Bear Stearns, 2008; and Washington Mutual, 2008.
Mr. Rottman is the past President of the Career Counselors Consortium (CCC), an organization he founded in 1997 for the purpose of bringing the work of career counselors to the public. The CCC's annual award for Distinguished Achievement in the field of Career Counseling has been named the "David Rottman Award."
He served on the charter Board of Directors of the Association of Career Professionals, an international organization that he was also instrumental in founding. He has supervised and trained many of the leading career counselors in the US.
Mr. Rottman writes frequently on the subject of careers, and his articles have appeared in local and national publications. The National Business Employment Weekly, a Wall Street Journal publication, honored him twice for having written one of the year's Ten Best Articles on Careers. He was formerly the Careers Columnist for the New York Post.
Mr. Rottman is an accomplished speaker and seminar leader whose workshops on counseling, human motivation, and innovation have been widely praised in the United States and Canada.
He is also active in major projects to reduce hunger and poverty in third world nations. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Palms for Life Fund--A Global Alliance to End Poverty; he is also a member of the Executive Board of the International Food Security Treaty.
He has a Master's in Applied Psychology from New York University. He received his B.A. from New College in Sarasota, Fla.
