Networking to Advance Your Career:
A Brainstorming Session

Marcelle Yeager
President, Career Valet

After 10 years in strategic communications consulting in the private sector and federal government in Washington, D.C. and overseas, Marcelle Yeager forged a new career path when her husband joined the State Department's foreign service. During their first international assignment, she founded Career Valet, which is now a premier provider of career services that helps launch people to the next level of their career. She works mostly with mid- to senior-level professionals who she has helped secure executive roles, including a senior director who became the COO of a start-up, the CFO of a small firm who landed a VP role in a $12B company, and a communications leader who became the VP of global communications for a major technology and manufacturing firm. In 2015, Marcelle co-founded ServingTalent, the first recruiting agency that places both military and foreign service spouses in jobs. Marcelle holds an MBA from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and a BA from Georgetown University. She is a weekly contributor to the U.S. News and World Report On Careers blog and has been featured in MONEY Magazine, AOL Jobs, Business Insider, Monster, MSN, and FlexJobs. She is a certified professional resume writer (CPRW).

Bill Stokes
Chairman, Washington Network Group

Bill Stokes is Chairman of the Washington Network Group (WNG), a Washington DC-based organization of senior-level executives from the private, public and independent sectors. Additionally, Bill is a client development executive and recruiter at ExecCareers DC, a search firm servicing small-to-medium sized businesses and nonprofit organizations in the greater Washington DC region. Bill has served on numerous boards, including the Science and Technology Policy Center for Development, the George C. Marshall International Center and the World Affairs Council of Washington, DC. Bill pursued graduate studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University and undergraduate studies at the College of William & Mary in Virginia.

WNG Career Development Roundtable:

Our WNG Career Development Roundtable convenes special events related to career and professional development; talent management, executive coaching and leadership development; and executive search and recruiting topics of interest to our Washington Network Group membership.

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