Beth (Martin) Simpson - Executive Consultant & CEO
Beth Martin-Simpson is a career coach and recruiter with more than 20 years of recruiting, sales, marketing, entrepreneurial and career counseling experience. With an exceptional career highlighted with rapid advancement and consistent achievement through building long-term relationships based on integrity and trust. Beth continues to establish strong professional partnerships with clients and candidates by listening to their goals, objectives and issues then helping them build solid strategies to find and utilize the best leading talent.
Beth places senior and executive level sales and marketing professionals across various industries in North American. In addition to placing great talent Beth coaches and guides mid-career professionals and helps them identify and pursue career opportunities that best represent their passions, strengths, and goals. Assisting professionals to attract and build a professional and personal life consistent with their values is not just a goal of Beth’s, it’s her passion.
What differentiates Beth from those in her field is not just her ability to be a career coach, but her own personal career-transition experience that she brings to the table. She has experienced several major career transitions (from corporate to small business owner to recruiter to career coach) and personally understands the effort and commitment involved. She can truly empathize with and guide her clients.
Prior to starting Parker Blake Consulting, Beth was a top performer at MarketPro and Aquent, two companies leading the way in the interim and direct hire talent movement. At Parker Blake she has been highly successful in expanding the executive talent placement and career coaching business in markets across the country. During her career, she has worked for such notable companies as Nortel Networks and Ford.
What also sets Beth apart is her personable, creative talent and ahead of the industry methodologies to indentify her clients potential. Beth earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from Oglethorpe University, where she graduated with honors (3.65 cum laude) while working fulltime and going to school fulltime.