About Us
“ Jack Chapman and Steve Frederick…both men are in the upper ranks of America's most respected career coaches.”
Joyce Lain Kennedy, Career Author, Syndicated Career Columnist
Meet the Team
Steve Frederick - Director
Steve has been helping people to get their careers moving since 1992. He's a published career columnist in the Pioneer Press newspaper and the Daily Herald. He has worked in both private practice and in affiliation with a national career counseling organization, personally assisting over 700 people in improving their careers. Steve has also helped numerous clients to win better salary packages as a salary negotiations coach.
He has presented numerous workshops to audiences in many settings. The workshops he presents include: How to Gain an [Almost] Unfair Competitive Edge in Job Interviewing; How to Make $1,000 A Minute: Negotiating Salaries and Raises; The New Millennium Network Marketing Campaign; Death to Boring Resumes!
Steve holds a masters degree in Public Administration. Prior to his career work, Steve's background includes work in all three sectors: government, nonprofit and for profit. Besides his private sector work in computer training and career work, he has been a Legislative Assistant in the Wisconsin State Legislature, as well as the Executive Director of the Chicago Area Committee on Occupational Safety and Health.Steve lives in Skokie, IL. He can be reached at 847-673-0339.
Jack Chapman - Senior Partner
Since How to Make $1000 a Minute was first published in 1986, Jack has become a specialist in all aspects of salary and raise negotiations--from high-profile executive negotiations worth an additional $300,000, to strategies an hourly-wage worker can use to bargain for extra benefits or perks.
He has personally assisted over 2,000 individuals, one-on-one, in improving their careers through the challenges of job changes, career planning, and entrepreneurship, and has influenced countless others through his many seminars, courses, lectures, TV and radio appearances, and newspaper columns.
Jack's background includes seven years of study in the Jesuit order, where he earned a B.A. degree with 5 majors: Classics, Philosophy, Theology, Mathematics, and English. The holder of a master's degree in Vocational Guidance, he has had a wide variety of careers himself--teaching at the high school and college level, real estate management, corporate training and development, and career management consulting. Jack lives in Wilmette, IL. He can be reached at 847-251-4727
