Caela Farren, CEO
Consultant, entrepreneur, and educator for over 30 years, Caela has worked with hundreds of thousands of people to get them on a mastery path. She is known internationally for her expertise in developing career development products, services and systems. Her state-of-the-art tools, workshops, and web-based systems have been implemented in several hundred organizations world-wide.
As a systems-thinker, Caelas practice builds strong links between changing trends in industries, changing strategies of organizations and the talents and aspirations of individuals. Her web of work model is the only framework that integrates on-going changes in industries, organizations, professions, and jobs to the 12 stable basic needs of all adults. She is dedicated to producing peace, harmony, and mastery in our discontinuous world. People who work with her company discover their passion, their path, and bring renewed contribution and high performance to their organizations.
Her companys electronic career coaching and mentoring approach was featured in trade magazines 10 years before virtual coaching became popular. The new, web-based TALENTMAPPING® Information System invented by MasteryWorks is one of the most innovative, user-friendly, employee driven systems in the Human Resources field. Caela is known for developing integrative, user-friendly systems that serve the needs of both organizations and individuals. These include succession planning, mentoring, selection, performance management, career management, leadership and management development systems.
Holding a Ph.D. in Organization Behavior from Case Western Reserve University, Caela enjoys writing. Her books include: Whos Running Your Career? Creating Stable Work in Unstable Times, Bard Press; Designing Career Development Systems, Jossey-Bass, with Kaye & Leibowitz; and she is featured in Management 21C: New Visions for the New Millenium. She is frequently quoted in The Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, etc. and published widely in a variety of journals.
Caela loves to teach and has been a visiting professor over the years at McGill University, American University, Marymount University, and NOVA. Caela has a special commitment to Young Adults. She is working on a new book featuring Young Adults who have chosen a mastery path in a wide variety of trades and professions. Her current passion is to support Young Adults in mastering their work and lives.
Her personal interests include sailing, jazz, Bluegrass, fitness, travel and time with her three daughters and grandchildren.
