Valerie Frederickson, MS, CMP founded her namesake company in 1995 after the sale of Career Campaigns, Inc., in 1994. Referred to as one of "the top business thinkers in the country" by the San Francisco Chronicle, Valerie had previously served in consulting capacities with one of the world's largest providers of strategic human resource solutions and for a regional human capital management consulting firm. Before entering the field of human capital management consulting, Valerie held various sales and marketing roles including serving as National Sales Manager for Micro Direct, Inc., and in Federal Sales for Everex Systems. A popular speaker, Valerie has been frequently quoted in the media on a variety of human resource and career management topics, and has published many articles. Valerie authored Folio: Silicon Valley’s Comprehensive Career Transition Manual, and was recently featured as an expert in The Change Agents: Decoding the New Workforce and the New Workplace (St. Martin's Press, 2001).

Valerie holds a MA in Counseling Psychology with options in Adult and Career Development and in Marriage, Family & Child Counseling. She is a certified Career Management Practitioner; a Member of the Outplacement Institute since 1996; and a participating CEO in TEC (The Executive Committee) since 2002.

Valerie has served on corporate, government, non-profit, and member association boards. She spent two terms on the board of the National Association for Professional Saleswomen and two years on a California State Auxiliary Board, where she chaired the Finance Committee. She is active with the Northern California Human Resources Council and National Association of Corporate Directors. Valerie is an angel investor and actively consults to and fundraises for startup organizations. Her angel portfolio includes www.odesk.com, www.vectorii.com, www.shipserv.com, and www.varstreet.com.

Valerie and her husband live in Menlo Park, CA and are members of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, where Valerie serves on the Stewardship and Personnel Committees. In addition to fundraising for municipal and regional political campaigns, she is a Sustainer of the Junior League of Palo Alto Mid Peninsula. Her hobbies include growing tropical plants and cacti and speaking European languages. A native of Berkeley, CA, Valerie has lived and worked in Vaud, Switzerland. She switched her baseball affiliation from the A's to the Red Sox upon her 2002 marriage to Adam Bernstein who is from Pembroke, MA and works with Omni Hotels Corporation. Adam is a collector of 20th century paintings and English antiques, and is a fanatic member of the Red Sox Nation.