Al Foderaro

Al Foderaro

Al possesses both a passion for helping others and an understanding of how to guide and motivate individuals to achieve greater academic, career, and personal success. His experience includes 40 years as a higher education administrator, career counselor, lecturer, author, public speaker and entrepreneur.

• Founder/Executive Director, Life Decisions Group, LLC

• President, Partners for Cultures of Student Success,Inc., a 501(c)(3) Corporation

• Creator and Coordinator of Stay in to Win, a student success program of the National Association

of Basketball Coaches

• Co-Author, It’s Your Decision, A Commonsense Guide to Making Better Choices and

• Co-Author, It's Your Decision for Teens, A Commonsense Guide to Making Better Choices.

• Co-Author, 9 Keys to Be Life Ready, A Commonsense Guide to Help Teens and Adults Make Better Choices

• Co-author of the Keys to Student Success Guidebook

• Creator of Be Life Ready® initiative and author of Keys to Be Life Ready® Guidebook

• Columnist for Parent News magazine featuring student success topics, 7 years

• Certified Professional Life Coach, Life Coach Institute of Orange County

• Gannett Media Education, Guest Curriculum Writer on decision-making for school youth

• County College of Morris, 32 years, Office of Career Services and Cooperative Education, Director, 19 years

• Taught “Career Development: Theory and Practice” Psychology Course, 22 years

• Past President, National Cooperative Education and Internship Association

• National Cooperative Education and Internship Association Dean Herman Schneider Leadership Award

• Past President, Mid Atlantic Career Counselors Association

• Recipient of Mid Atlantic Career Counselors Association Lifetime Membership Award for contributions to

the field of career development

• Project Director, nationally-recognized School-to-Work Consortium (36 secondary schools and college

members)

• Presenter and featured speaker at more than 100 regional and national conferences