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His little-known ideas on improving your worklife and education, and on men's issues

About Marty

Marty's mother claims that he could read the New York Times at age 3 and that his reading comprehension in the 1st grade was at the 12th grade level. That's either the exaggerations of a Jewish mother or the first sign of what was to come.

Today, career coach Dr. Marty Nemko is among the nation's most sought experts on both career and education issues. Marty has been interviewed by hundreds of major media, e.g., The Today Show, The Daily Show, NPR's Talk of the Nation, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, TIME, even CosmoGirl.

CREDENTIALS AS CAREER EXPERT

  • Has served 6,000 career advising clients and enjoys a 95% client satisfaction rate.
  • U.S. News & World Report called him "career coach extraordinaire."
  • The San Francisco Bay Guardian named him "The Bay Area's Best Career Coach."
  • Regular contributor to Psychology Today.(more than 2,000 articles)
  • Has written 20 essays for TIME''s Ideas section.
  • Wrote The Big Idea series for the Washington Post.
  • Wrote the Working It Out column for The Atlantic.
  • Was Contributing Editor at U.S. News & World Report.
  • His column appeared for three years on the front page of the special section of the Sunday Los Angeles Times and for six years on the front page of a section of the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle.
  • His book, Cool Careers for Dummies was the #1-rated career guide in a Readers Choice poll and reached #2 on the Wall Street Journal national business bestseller list.
  • Hosted Work with Marty Nemko on an NPR affiliate in San Francisco.
  • Hosted a show on career issues on KGO-AM, among the most-listened-to stations on the West Coast.
  • Multiple appearances as the career and education expert on CNN Headline News, many on Comcast Newsmakers.
  • The one man in a one-man nationwide PBS-TV Pledge Drive Special: 8 Keys to a Better Worklife.
  • Has appeared on CNN, ABC, PBS, NPR, BBC, The Daily Show, Today Show, CBS's Early Show, Oprah and Friends, and NPR's Talk of the Nation, ABC-TV's 20-20, and in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
  • Has made over 100 appearances as the career and education expert on KGO's Ronn Owens Program, among California's most prominent talk shows.
  • Winner of the non-member Toastmasters International Northern California Speaker of the Year.
  • The primary source for dozens of articles, from the New York Times to Nature.
  • Been consultant on employee development for such corporations as Genentech, Gap, and IBM.
  • Ph.D.from the University of California, Berkeley and subsequently taught there.
  • Instructor on the foundations of patient care in the medical school of the University of California San Francisco..

CREDENTIALS AS EDUCATION EXPERT

  • Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. Specialization: evaluation. Advisor: Michael Scriven.
  • Subsequently taught at Cal State East Bay, U.C. Davis and then U.C.Berkeley's Graduate School of Education.
  • Been a consultant to 15 college presidents.
  • Was senior author of California's public schools accreditation procedures.
  • Was on WASC (accreditation commission for the Western states) task force on increasing higher education public accountability and transparency.
  • Been a consultant to such entities as Consumer Reports and the Educational Testing Service.
  • His first book, How to Get Your Child a Private School Education in a Public School, was named one of the year's Ten Musts by the American School Board Association.
  • His next book, How to Get an Ivy League Education at a State University, was the only college guide of eight reviewed to receive an A rating from Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine. Former U.S.Secretary of Education, Terrel Bell, called the book, "A tremendous service to students and parents. Thorough, reliable, and remarkably helpful."
  • Been the primary source for dozens of articles, including in the New York Times,Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and TIME.
  • Appears frequently as an education expert in major media.
  • His articles on education have been published in the New York Times syndicate, the Chronicle of Higher Education (selected by The Week magazine as one of the best columns in the U.S.), and as cover stories in Family Circle, and the New York Daily News Sunday Magazine. He's even written a number of features for CosmoGirl.
  • Hosted a National Public Radio-San Francisco show that frequently covers education.
  • Has given eight talks (two broadcast) at theCommonwealth Club, a prominent public affairs forums.
  • Blogged at theChronicle of Higher Education.
  • In ABC-TV's Summit on Education, was introduced as "an education consumer advocate, the Ralph Nader of Education." He was accorded the same appellation by KCBS radio.
  • Was on national board of POD, the professional association for faculty development.

MISCELLANY

  • First job was as a professional pianist, among the world's youngest barroom piano players. (Picture a most callow-14-year old in a bar in the Bronx leading a bunch of drunks in a chorus of When Irish Eyes are Smiling.)
  • Second job was as a New York City cab driver.
  • Avocationally, has been a playwright, actor and director. As director, his production of Same Time Next Year won the Roar of the Crowd award as the Bay Area's favorite entertainment. He won the Chanticleers Best Director Award both for Same Time Next Year and for directing Neil Simon's Broadway Bound. He is past president of Chanticleers Theatre's board.of directors.
  • Has acted in Bay Area community theatre productions of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, Moss Hart's Light Up the Sky, and played the villain in an old-time melodrama.
  • Wrote and performs his solo show, Odd Man Out and co-wrote and piano-accompanied Jeffrie Givens' one-woman show, Retard!
  • Has written four screenplays and three stage plays.
  • On the piano, plays show tunes, standards, ragtime, and sing-along, for example, at the Marsh Cabaret
  • Hybridizes roses that needn't be sprayed with fungicides Two of his varieties are in commerce .
  • Is a member of Mensa and is in his 11th year writing a column in The Intelligencer.
  • Is a member of the Committee to Create a White House Council on Men and Boys.
  • Is married to Dr. Barbara Nemko, winner of her region's Schools Superintendent of the Year, seven national awards for innovation, her Congressional district's Woman of the Year, and advisor to the California State Superintendent of Schools. They acted opposite each other in Brighton Beach Memoirs and in Broadway Bound. They have one child, who, after being a researcher for Hillary Clinton in the White House, got her law degree from Yale Law School, and is now Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Dept of Justice.
  • He loves his doggie, Hachi.

Marty Nemko can be reached by e-mail at mnemko@comcast.net.The media may also reach him at 510-655-2777.

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