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Renee Peterson Trudeau
An active leader in the Austin business community since
1990, Renee Peterson Trudeau's background
includes almost 20 years experience in career management
and strategy, personal development and marketing
management.
Her passion for helping
others realize their career dreams has been a driving
force in her life. Innovative and results-oriented, she
has the unique ability to help guide clients on their
personal career path. Trudeau's background as a highly
successful marketing/public relations executive includes
leadership positions with an international biotech
corporation, a national health agency, high-profile
advertising and public relations firms servicing Fortune
500 clients, and a nationally recognized state agency.
Her expertise in the area of marketing communications
and public relations is an added bonus that aids clients
in successfully branding and positioning themselves in
today's competitive marketplace.
Trudeau has helped
thousands of professionals throughout Texas and the
U.S.:
- strategically manage
their careers while maximizing job satisfaction
- learn how to develop
and promote their personal brand
- create step-by-step
plans for career change and successful job
searches
- develop and launch
small businesses that support their life goals and
- experience new ways to
balance work/family that energize rather than drain
them.
Her clients include
professionals employed by numerous Fortune 500 and 100
companies, including: IBM, Dell Computer Corporation,
State Farm Insurance, Shell Oil, Samsung, Whole Foods
Market, 3M, GSD&M Advertising, AMD, MCI, Amazon.com,
Accenture, AT&T, Freescale and National Instruments
as well as local, state and federal government agencies
and nonprofit organizations.
Additionally, she leads career management and work/life
balance workshops for Fortune 500 companies and
organizations such as Women in Technology,
EWomen Network and Executive Women in Government.
Her unique approach to career management has been
featured in the Austin American-Statesman,
Austin Business Journal, Austin Woman,
Working Mother, Family Circle, Parenting,
American Way magazine and via numerous print,
broadcast and online business media. She also serves as
a regular career and work/life balance media expert for
numerous national media outlets.
Trudeau is the recipient of the prestigious Mentor Award
from the Austin Professional Chapter of the Association
for Women In Communications (previous award winners
include Women's History Museum founder Cathy Bonner),
and she has been a finalist in the Austin Business
Journal's Profiles in Power Awards for the last 5 years.
At twenty-two, Trudeau was selected to participate in
the Dallas-Fort Worth area Leadership Arlington Program
(part of the nationally recognized Leadership America
Program), and she has received state and national
recognition for her creative, solutions-based approach
from such organizations as the Association for Women In
Communications, the International Association for
Business Communicators, the Phillip Crosby Quality
Recognition Program and the Capital Area United Way.
Trudeau believes strongly in giving back to the
community and is a regular speaker at local, state and
national conferences on career management, creative
career design, work/life balance and women's
empowerment.
Her leadership and personal development background
includes training with The Governor's Center for
Management Development, The Center for Creative
Leadership, Stephen Covey, author of "Seven
Principles of Highly Effective People"; Gregg Levoy,
author of "Callings: Findings and Following an Authentic
Life"; Carol Orsborn, author of "Inner
Excellence: Spiritual Principles to Life-Driven
Business" ; Joseph Bailey, author of "Slowing
Down to the Speed of Life: How to Create a More
Peaceful, Simpler Life from the Inside Out"; and Dr.
Betty Sue Flowers, author of "Synchronicity: The
Inner Path of Leadership." Trudeau has also attended
workshops/training lead by leading authors Cheryl
Richardson, Debbie Ford, Martha Beck, Suze Orman, Louise
Hay, Dr. Christiane Northrup, Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks
and Dr. Wayne Dyer.
She is certified as a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
facilitator/trainer through the Association for
Psychological Type and uses this
communication/assessment tool to help individuals and
work teams transform the way they communicate and work.
She is also on the Advisory Board for the Association
for Women in Communications and is a member of the
Austin Area Career Counselors Network and the national
and Austin chapters of the International Coaches
Federation.
Trudeau graduated with a double major in Journalism
(Advertising/Public Relations emphasis) and English
(Creative Writing emphasis) from Texas Christian
University, Fort Worth, Texas. She has graduate level
training and education in Leadership and Organizational
Development.
Trudeau is the author of the highly acclaimed The Mother's Guide to Self-Renewal: How to Reclaim, Rejuvenate and Re-Balance Your Life. Thousands of women around the U.S. are reading the Guide and starting and joining women's circles--called Personal Renewal Groups--through www.reneetrudeau.com.
She lives in South Austin with her husband and four-year
old son. |
