Firm Profile

The DeDominic & Associates Team

Patty DeDominic

• Chief Coach, co-founder of Reality Based Certification Process
• Founded PDQ CAREERS in 1979.
• Los Angeles Business Journal CEO of the Year in 2006.
• Sold PDQ CAREERS & CT Engineering 11/2006.
• Past Chairman of the LA Area Chamber of Commerce.
• Former Chairman of the Foundation for SCORE.
• President Emeritus of the National Association of Women Business Owners

Barry Bruder

Has been studying the healing arts for over 30 years, integrating this knowledge with bodywork to create his own unique approach to healing called Bodywurx, a synthesis of deep-tissue bodywork, emotional release, energy medicine and a deeper look into unhelpful patterns of holding in the physical, emotional, mental and psychic bodies.

Barry has a private practice on the west side of Los Angeles, where he uses Bodywurx to benefit people afflicted with critical and chronic illnesses, and utilizes his training in externalization to enable people to release the deep emotional scars created by trauma, severe pain and anger. Barry also teaches “crisis management communication skills” or empathic listening.

 

Brendan Huffman

• Owner, Huffman Public Affairs, LLC (2008-current)
• President & CEO, Valley Industry & Commerce Assn. (2006-08)
• Director of Public Policy, L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce (2002-06)
• Legislative Aide, CA Assembly members Burt Margolin & Wally Knox (1994-99)
• Executive Director, Chambers of Commerce Alliance of Ventura & Santa Barbara Counties
• Co-host, Off The Presses radio show
• Columnist, San Fernando Valley Business Journal
• Member, CA Boating & Waterways Commission (2009-10)
• Producer, Loyola Marymount University’s Urban Lecture Series program televised on Channel LA36 (2009-10)
• Graduate, Western Assn. of Chamber Executives (WACE) Academy 2009 Class
• Co-chair, L.A. Business Recruitment & Attraction Task Force (2007)
• Honoree, San Fernando Valley Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” business leaders (2007)
• Member, L.A. City Business Tax Advisory Committee (2002-05)
• Alumnus, Leadership Southern California (2005)

 

Larry Melby

Larry Melby has had two careers separated by a move from Arizona to California in 1990.  In Arizona he spent over 20 years practicing all phases of commercial and industrial real estate.  These included appraising, leasing planning and sales.

In 1990, he moved to California and opened a day labor business as a franchise.  Mr. Melby soon left the franchise and operated as an independent, expanding throughout Southern California.  After the disaster of 9/11, his national clients pulled back and Mr. Melby closed the company in 2002. After a few years of retirement, he has decided to become a RBC Coach.

 

Mary Schnack

•  Communications and Public Relations Advisor.
• Unique International and Entrepreneurial Resources, including China.  RBC Certified Media Coach
• Specialist in communications for over 20 years
• Owner of a variety of businesses specializing in communications
• Award-winning writer, reporter, public relations professional and advocate.
• Former journalist and writer for major national magazines and newspapers, including Newsweek, McCall’s and the Los Angeles Times.
• Television field producer and director for Newsweek Video.
•  Created a partnership in Nairobi to do communications training in Africa and the Middle East.
• Formed Asia Business Connect, Inc. with two Chinese-American businesswomen in Shanghai and Beijing.
•  Started “Up from the Dust: Supporting the global growth of women microenterprises.”

 

Adele Scheele, PhD

• Career strategist.   Expert in Change Management.
• Author, columnist for newspapers and magazines.
• Keynote speaker and seminar leader, and coach.
•  Author international best selling book, Skills for Success, hailed by Harvard as a classic in career development.
•  Created unique approach to the progress of careering, finding your callings, and guided leadership.

 

Dagmar Steinmetz

• CEO of DDS CONSULT GROUP with offices in Germany, Slovakia, Croatia and the Czech Republic, advising foreign companies on carrying on business in Central and Eastern European countries for more than 17 years.
• The vice president of the German-Czech and German-Slovak Association
• Member of the German Business Council – Wirtschaftsrat der CDU
• Honorary member in Associations of the Women Business Owners in the Czech and the Slovak Republics as well as Women in Business in Austria!

 

Ross A. Waddell

• Adviser, Coach, Financial Expert.
• Investor, Developer, former Chief Financial & Real Estate Officer, Kinko’s.
• Special Adviser for development & financing.

 

Katie White

Katie White of KT White Law Careers counsels clients on Job Search Strategy, Career Transitions, Relationship Building and Business Development Skills.  Recent projects include preparing a senior attorney for interviews to be an administrative law judge; coaching a large law firm associate on an individualized career plan that includes building relationships for future business development; and working with various clients on job search strategy.

With 25 years of experience in law school, career development, law firm recruiting, and professional development Katie has the inside scoop on the legal recruiting process. She has participated in numerous hiring committee meetings, worked with partners on hiring lateral partners and associates for their practices, negotiated with search firms over individual attorney hires, and counseled attorneys transitioning out of law firm employment. These experiences, combined with her law school counseling background, make her an invaluable resource to attorneys in search of a new career.

Prior to starting her consulting business, Katie was the Chief Attorney Recruiting Officer at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, and Director of Attorney Recruiting and Professional Development at Dickstein Shapiro. She held similar positions at Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Covington & Burling.