Alison Blackman
Dunham (Aka. "Advice Sister Alison.")
Alison Blackman Dunham is a life & career
expert, personal public relations consultant, and freelance writer and advice columnist.
She is also the driving force behind the Advice Sisters® "Great Relationships"
web site. Through individual and group consultations and her popular career and general
advice columns and articles, she has helped thousands of men and women around the world to
feel great, be successful, and lead more satisfying lives, utilizing their own, natural
assets. She has held a wide variety of executive positions in the public, private, and
non-profit sectors. Her academic qualifications include a Master of Public Administration
degree (in public and arts management) from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts (in
public relations and music history) from Syracuse University. She is also certified as an
image consultant through the certificate program through Beauty For All Seasons.
Ms. Blackman Dunham is the co-author of two
self-help books: RECRUITING LOVE - Using The Business Skills You Have to Find the Love
You Want Cyclone Books, 1998 and the soon-to-be published EVERYTHING DATING GUIDE
-2nd Edition Adams Media, 2005, as well as four self-published, self-help E-books on
social behavior, singles and dating, and wedding etiquette and dilemmas. She created and
starred in "Making
New Connections" a series of five, audio, CDs about
how-to-enhance-sociability. Alisons advice columns are highly rated by readers and
life & career professionals both online and in print, around the world. Her life &
career advice been featured on Career Magazine, EMBA.net sites (a professional,
subscription online service through the University of Toronto), Matchnet, SelfGrowth.com,
Vault.com, Collegerecruiter, The Gotham Gazette, American Singles, Bliss, Wedding
Solutions, The Knot, and the Discovery Channel. Her acclaimed career advice column:
"Ask Alison" - Managing Your Life & career http://www.advicesisters.net/askalison/askalison.html
has existed for more than a decade on career-oriented web site. Samples of Alison's
"Double-Take" general advice column (two views--practical and emotional--
for every question) can be seen at: http://www.advicesisters.net/doubletake3.html.
Alisons work and advice has also appeared in
print publications around the world including: The Wall Street Journal College Journal,
Executive Female, College Recruiter, Washington Woman, Womens Media, Savvy Magazine,
Mademoiselle Magazine, Clemson University, Oakland Community College, PORTHOLE , local
newspapers in New York, Virginia, Washington, the Writer, Golden Lotus, EVE,
Oncology News International, InTouch Magazine--just to name a few.
For her effects to inspire and empower others,
Alison was named Writer of The Month by Writers Success in December, 2004, and
"Executive of the Month" by Delta Airlines in July, 1997. She has been
recognized for her service to other through the Borough President of Brooklyn Howard
Golden, Mayor Edward Rendell of Philadelphia, the Community Mayors of New York State, The
Sunset Park Little League, and the Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst. She is also
co-founder of the Metropolitan Tribe organization, a non-profit support network for
creative entrepreneurs. |