Wednesday, September 11, 2013

The Success Of Rachel Gooen

By Helene Norris


If one is familiar with the non profit industry, then he has probably heard the name of miss Rachel Gooen during his research. For the people who do not know, miss Rachel Gooen is one of the most influential names in this industry. She is a very well known leader and program developer and is also the founder of the famous consulting firm which is known as Fifth House.

Of course in order to know how she became this successful is to look at her humble origins which is her formal education. During college, the very first course that she took up was social change which was then followed by environmental education. The last course that she took in order to skyrocket her career was sociocultural anthropology.

RIght after that, she worked in numerous non profit organizations which further enhanced her career in this field. The National Audubon Society was one of the very first places where she worked and really had a feel of what working in the field was like. Since she was an avid feminist, she also decided to work in Womens Voice for Earth which is an organization that highly promotes feminism.

Since she was working for a total of twenty years in the non profit organization industry, she became so good that she even became an advisor to other organizations. She actually gives a lot of seminars or talks to environmental groups and other organizations as well. Because of her work experience and her superb skills, she became one of the most qualified advisers to ever enter the industry.

Of course before she became this qualified, she first had to be trained as a group facilitator in the year 2005. Afterward, program development became one of her signature skills and she even became an expert on this part. She has been known to aid more than one groups with their own development and even the evaluation of their own respective projects.

She was also an expert in the field of communications because she is known to be really good in handling people. Because of her work experience in clinical sociology, her people skills are second to none and she was known to be able to help a lot of people. Of course she also had social justice training which really made her one of the most unique leaders out there.

After her work experience, she wanted to veer away a little bit in order to create a business that is related to her original work. That is why she decided to make her own consulting firm known as Fifth House which deals with leadership and personal improvement. In fact, she was able to help a lot of people that decided to work with the firm.

So as one can see, miss Rachel Gooen is definitely a role model that a lot of people can admire and emulate. Because of her passion and drive, she was able to become extremely successful in her area of work. Many people see her as an inspiration especially those in the younger crowd.




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