WorkVantage - Our People

Our People

Shirley Porter, Keith Porter, and Christine Bennett
"Three leading experts in helping people achieve career independence."

Shirley Porter, Keith Porter, and Christine Bennett are the founders of WorkVantage WorkVantage draws on insights gained from years of experience in management, counseling, education and motivation to help clients create personal and professional success in the chaotic new world of work. Their clients include a wide range of people from unemployed workers to highly-paid professionals, large and small private employers, and publicly-funded organizations helping retrain and motivate dislocated workers.

Shirley holds an MS degree in educational psychology from California State University, Hayward, and a certificate in career development from John F. Kennedy University. She has many years of counseling and training experience, including extensive volunteer service with educational foundations, and has taught and counseled at universities and colleges in California and England.

Keith holds a BS degree in engineering from University of the Pacific, a graduate certificate in telecommunications management from University of Southern California, and has done additional graduate work in systems thinking. He has over thirty years' experience in telecommunications management, training and development, and has led several international high-tech start-up business ventures.

Christine holds a BA in English from University of California, Berkeley. She has extensive experience in training, tutoring, educational materials development, technical writing and editing with several major corporations. Her latest book, Strong Voices, Real Choices, was co-written with Kate Purmal in 2001. She has also taught English in Tokyo, Japan, with her husband.

Shirley, Keith and Christine pooled their diverse training, experience and perspectives in 1994 to create an effective process to help people through the growing crisis caused by the disappearance of traditional jobs. The result of their collaboration is a system that incorporates concepts from a variety of academic and management disciplines. As a wife-husband-and-daughter team, they enjoy working with people to develop a fresh, rich, practical approach to preparing for a future beyond jobs. They've recently put their recipe for success into an exciting new book, Me, Myself and I, Inc: 10 Steps to Career Independence, published by Impact Publications.