The Human Capital Solutions Provider in Asia

Executive Search

HRM3 partners local and global clients in searching for the best-fit executive talents to contribute positively in critical and important job positions. 

We use a time-tested 7-Step Headhunting Process to deliver successful assignments.

Organisational Effectiveness

HRM3 partners with organization leaders to identify “felt needs”, design & develop innovative intervention processes and facilitate customized workshops and programs with various local, regional and global teams to evolve strategic changes, company’s directions and improve overall organizational effectiveness using a 6-Step Conceptual Framework.

Career Transition

HRM3 assists clients in difficult but necessary “manpower rightsizing” exercises to achieve “zero defect”. For outplaced employees, we provide a wide range of 1-on-1 career transition programs for management staff and job search workshops for groups.  For remaining staff, we provide “rebuilding” programs.

Executive Coaching

HRM3 offers personalised executive coaching services for senior leaders facilitated by experienced coaches using a 5-phase process.

HR Tranformation services include HR Audit, on-site support & advisory services

Wallace Associates: Contact Information

OFFICE PARK PLAZA

4601 E. DOUGLAS AVE., STE. 311

WICHITA, KS 67218

TEL: 316.558.3706

CEL: 316.214.4274

EMAIL: chris@wallaceassociates.com

Wallace Associates is a locally-owned career management and coaching firm, leveraging over 25 years of business expertise, to provide customized career transition / outplacement, executive coaching, and personal coaching services. Through our partnership with OI Global Partners, we can offer these services through over 200 locally-owned offices in more than 25 countries. For more info, our contact information is here.

Wallace Associates: Global Locations

UNITED STATES

ARIZONA – Phoenix, Tucson

CALIFORNIA – Glendale, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, Torrance, Woodland Hills

COLORADO– Denver

CONNECTICUT – Avon, Danbury, Stamford, Westport

GEORGIA – Alpharetta, Atlanta

ILLINOIS – Chicago

INDIANA – Indianapolis, Evansville

IOWA – Bettendorf, Cedar Rapids, West Des Moines

KANSAS – Wichita

MARYLAND – Annapolis, Frederick, Rockville, Sparks

MASSACHUSETTS – Concord, Boston

MICHIGAN – Ann Arbor, Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids, Southfield, Troy

MINNESOTA – Minneapolis

MISSISSIPPI – Grenada

MISSOURI – St. Louis

NEBRASKA – Omaha

NEW JERSEY – Metro Park-Edison (Iselin & Princeton), Parsippany, Princeton

NEW MEXICO – Santa Fe

NEW YORK – Albany, Buffalo, Jamestown, New York, Tarrytown, West Seneca

NORTH CAROLINA – Charlotte

OHIO – Beavercreek, Cincinnati, Columbus

OREGON – Portland

PENNSYLVANIA – Allentown, Doylestown, King of Prussia, Lancaster, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh

RHODE ISLAND – Warwick

SOUTH CAROLINA – Columbia

TENNESSEE – Chattanooga, Jackson, Knoxville, Memphis, Nashville, Tri-Cities

TEXAS – Dallas, Austin, San Antonio

UTAH – Salt Lake City

VIRGINIA – Leesburg, Tysons, Washington D.C., Winchester

WASHINGTON – Bellevue, Spokane, Tacoma

INTERNATIONAL

North and South America

ARGENTINA – Buenos Ai

BRAZIL – São Paulo

CANADA – Alberta (Calgary, Edmonton), British Columbia (Vancouver ), Manitoba (Winnipeg), New Brunswick (Moncton, St. John), Newfoundland (St. John's), Nova Scotia (Halifax), Ontario (Barrie, Burlington, Kitchener, Markham, Mississauga, Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, St. Catherine's, Thunder Bay, Toronto), Quebec (Montreal, Quebec City), Saskatchewan (Regina, Saskatoon)

CHILE – Santiago

COLOMBIA – Bogotá

MEXICO – Mexico City

URUGUAY – Montevideo

Europe

BELGIUM

FRANCE

GERMANY – Hamburg, Munich, Wiesbaden

IRELAND – Dublin, Limerick

ITALY

POLAND

PORTUGAL

ROMANIA

SCANDINAVIA

SPAIN – Barcelona, Madrid

SWITZERLAND

THE NETHERLANDS

UNITED KINGDOM

Asia Pacific

AUSTRALIA – Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth

CHINA – Beijing, Shanghai

HONG KONG – Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Taiwan

PHILIPPINES – Manila

SINGAPORE – Singapore

Wallace Associates is a locally-owned career management and coaching firm, leveraging over 25 years of business expertise, to provide customized career transition / outplacement, executive coaching, and personal coaching services. Through our partnership with OI Global Partners, we can offer these services through over 200 locally-owned offices in more than 25 countries.

Wallace Associates: Personal Life Coaching

A vessel to move an important person from one place to another.

Personal life coaching involves helping generally well-functioning individuals achieve goals, maximize personal development, and navigate life transitions. It is a unique, highly personalized one-on-one relationship, and is for people who are ready to make changes in their lives and want a trusted partnership in facilitating their process and achieving desired results.

Most often individuals seek to work with a personal life coach because they would like to change, achieve, or create something in their personal lives or careers. More and more people are seeking help from a professional life coach because they choose to create better quality lives, change or enhance their career, increase their choices or options, or enhance their personal relationships. Coaching can help an individual to:

• Discover personal motivation strategy so goals can be achieved

• Increase confidence and self esteem

• Learn new skills to better navigate change in life

• Identify and change limiting beliefs that prevent moving forward

• Create compelling goals that align with what is really important in life

• Create more fulfillment, balance and joy in life

Whatever your current situation, whether you want to accelerate your career, improve your personal or work relationships, develop your interpersonal or leadership skills, or improve your self-confidence, we can help you make it happen. People who invest in themselves welcome the structure, support, feedback, learning and accountability that personal life coaching provides.

Wallace Associates: Executive Coaching

In today's fast-paced and ever-changing world, organizations must strive harder than ever to maintain a competitive advantage. They need leaders at all levels who can navigate change confidently, develop and execute strategy, build effective teams, and optimize their key strengths. Progressive organizations are providing their leaders with coaching to help them lead and succeed.

An executive coach is an individual who operates within a formally defined coaching agreement to assist an individual within an organization, or an organization, achieve increased performance by utilizing appropriate executive coaching methods. They can be thought of as a "thought partner, a trusted advisor". Executive coaching may assist key executives and managers to identify and optimize the use of key strengths, develop effective communication, assure organizational alignment, address performance issues, and build the competencies of emotional intelligence. Effective coaching is not in isolation, but within the organization, with cooperation from the person being coached, the manager, peers, and direct reports.

As executive coaching practitioners, we have direct experience demonstrating that this process has a lasting impact on the individuals who participate in it, on the organizations of which are a part, on the organization's financial bottom line. We understand the important link between business results and the coachee's actions and behaviors. Coaching is a strong investment that organizations make to drive business results.

At Wallace Associates, we specialize in three areas of executive coaching: Developmental, Performance, and Emerging Leader Coaching.

DEVELOPMENTAL COACHING

Individuals who are currently in leadership roles, or may have changed roles, but need to enhance their leadership effectiveness or develop competencies that will facilitate a promotion or new career opportunities. The coaching focus is on examining success factors, meeting current challenges, enhancing interpersonal skills and possibly change specific behaviors. We work on building and sustaining alignment with the organization's strategy, values, and mission.

PERFORMANCE COACHING

Individuals who may or may not be succeeding in their current role, and desire a coach to assist them accelerate or improve their performance. Coaching can help on fine-tuning skills and actions, clarifying goals (both the individual's and the organization's), and developing action steps to achieve short-term goals and improved performance. The coaching focus helps people improve in the current context of their career or personal life.

EMERGING LEADER COACHING

Individuals who are considered high-potential, new to leadership role, or being groomed for a higher profile position. These individuals are high performers with great potential for future leadership roles. The concentration is on self-understanding, organizational and personal insight, skill building, navigation of political issues, and enhancement of leadership skills.

THE ASSESSMENT

We believe in the value of assessments as an important tool in the coaching process. Assessments can help the individual being coached by increased self-awareness, uncover potential blind sports, understand themselves in relation to others, and develop increased perspective. The skilled use of assessments is clearly a way to bring an empirically validated, value-enhancing tool to the coaching arena. Some of the assessments instruments we use include:

• MBTI

• FIRO-B

• CPI-260

• Multi-Rater Assessments (360 Feedback, Leadership Practices Inventory)

Wallace Associates: Career Transition / Outplacement

Chris has over 20 years of career management/outplacement experience in the Wichita area and can advise on such topics as the executive job market, changing business trends, new technology in the job search, emerging career fields, economic factors, marketing approaches, self-employment, and particularly, the local job market and network connections.

Today's business climate demands the very best in professionalism, experience, and sensitivity where outplacement and career management services are concerned.

Outplacement or career management is a consulting service designed to assist organizations through some difficult processes, ranging from termination of a senior executive to major downsizings based on the organization's long-term strategic needs or downturn in economic conditions.

At Wallace Associates, we understand that downsizing can be a major change for an organization and its employees. Some of the reasons that companies provide outplacement include:

• To ensure a smooth transition and minimize possible legal action

• To help the departing employee(s) look forward and not focusing on the past

• To ease downsizing employees' stress and start them on the road to re-employment

• To preserve the company's reputation as an employer of choice and good corporate citizen

• Out of a genuine desire to "do the right thing"

Complementing our strong ties to the local Wichita community, we possess a global reach through our affiliation with OI Global Partners, the world's largest career consulting partnership, with over 200 locally-owned outplacement firms. This association allows us to service national and international projects or individuals. A company only needs to make one phone call and we handle their outplacement needs virtually anywhere in the world. We are the only full service outplacement firm not aligned with a national corporate owned firm, so we can customize programs to meet your needs.

THE PROCESS

• One-on-one coaching / consulting

• Assessments to evaluate strengths, interests, values, and accomplishments

• Development of self-marketing tools, including resume, references, cover letters

• How to research the local market and understanding of the hidden job market

• Building a contact network

• Effectively using technology in the job search

• Interview techniques and practice interviewing

• Negotiating the offer

• Assimilation and on-boarding tips and techniques

SERVICE OFFERINGS

Individual Outplacement Services - A comprehensive program designed for all levels of employees, from senior executives, managers, professionals to administrative support personnel. We provide one-on-one professional support and coaching during the outplacement process. Consultant meetings focus on helping the individual successfully redeploy expertise and skills to achieve career goals as quickly as possible through career assessment instruments, developing a marketing plan, resume development, enhancing interview skills, and negotiating job offers.

Group Outplacement Services - An intensive two-day group workshop that provides participants with the techniques and tools necessary to conduct an effective job search. Resume development, interviewing practice, and local market opportunities are covered.

Spouse/Partner Relocation - Two-career families are the norm today, and career help with the "trailing" spouse/partner is essential for relocating new or transferring employees. We offer job search assistance, including research prior to the move, coaching and networking support after.

On-Site Notification Support - On the day of the notification meeting, we are on-site to meet with manager(s) and Human Resources to provide coaching and review logistical issues. Immediately after being notified, we will meet with released employees to provide emotional support and explain outplacement assistance.

About Wallace Associates

Wallace Associates is a locally-owned career management and coaching firm, leveraging over 25 years of business expertise, to provide customized career transition / outplacement, executive coaching, and personal coaching services. Through our partnership with OI Global Partners, we can offer these services through over 200 locally-owned offices in more than 25 countries.

WHAT MAKES WALLACE ASSOCIATES UNIQUE

• Our programs are results-driven, and success is defined as helping the downsized employee meet his or her career goals, not just find the "next job."

• We offer access to proven resources, including OI SolutionsSM and the powerful co-managed Individual System, that together assist individuals through career changes.

• Our philosophy of coaching is that it is not a one-time fix, but a key development tool to help leaders optimize their effectiveness.

• The coaching process utilizes a range of appropriate assessments from a powerful suite of instruments, and integrates these into the coaching process.

• All of our coaches receive ongoing certification training through the International Coach Federation (ICF) to ensure they provide the most current and relevant strategic coaching possible.

• Our experience with personal coaching enables individuals to produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives.

CHRIS WALLACE – PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Chris Wallace, a recognized career strategist, has practiced in the field of human resources and career management for over 25 years. During her career, Chris has held management positions in human resources, recruiting, career management, coaching training, and teaching at the college level.

From 2004-2010, Chris served as VP Consulting Services with Right Management. Prior to that Chris was President and CEO of Wallace Associates, Inc., a privately held career management and outplacement firm. During the six years she owned the business, she consulted with a variety of large and small corporations, providing outplacement and employee coaching services. Chris also served as the manager of the Wichita office of Drake Beam Morin, Inc. for nine years before establishing her own firm. While at DBM, she helped manage a career center for Boeing and Via Christi, offering career transition services to over 2,200 employees.

Early in her career, Chris had ten years of experience in Human Resources, working for Pizza Hut, Inc. and NCR Corporation. She established the first college recruiting program at both organizations, and managed corporate recruiting departments during a period of record growth.

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

A strong supporter of charitable, professional, and community activities throughout her career, Chris has served in leadership positions and volunteered with numerous organizations, including: International Coach Federation, OI Global Partners, Jr. League of Wichita, SHRM, The Wichita Chamber of Commerce, Home Technology Solutions, Jayhawk Round-Up, the International Association of Career Management Professionals, Rotary Club of East Wichita, and Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae Association.

THE SKILLS

• Career Management

• Coaching - Executive and Personal

• Mediation

• Facilitating Groups

• Organizational assessment and development

• Career Counseling

EDUCATION

Chris has a Master's Degree in Counseling and a BS in Social Work, both from Kansas State University. She has also taken post-graduate courses in Mediation and Conflict Resolution. Summer of 2010, she attended an intensive program on executive coaching in Santa Barbara and is currently working on the Master Certified Coach (MCC) designation from the College of Executive Coaching.

SELECTED PROJECTS

• Provided change management design and delivery for the merger of two entire health care organizations.

• Established and managed two career centers, offering outplacement services to hundreds of down-sized employees.

• Coached executives on teamwork and leadership to further develop high potential employees.

Welcome to Wallace Associates

Wallace Associates is a locally-owned career management and coaching firm, leveraging over 25 years of business expertise, to provide customized career transition / outplacement, executive coaching, and personal coaching services. Through our partnership with OI Global Partners, we can offer these services through over 200 locally-owned offices in more than 25 countries.

Career Transition

Outplacement / career management is a consulting service designed to assist organizations through some difficult processes, ranging from termination of a senior executive to major downsizing based on the organization’s long-term strategic needs or downturn in economic conditions.

Executive Coaching

Executive coaching assists key executives and managers to identify and optimize the use of key strengths, develop effective communication, assure organizational alignment, address performance issues, and build the competencies of emotional intelligence.

Personal Life Coaching

Personal life coaching involves helping generally well-functioning individuals achieve goals, maximize personal development, and navigate life transistions. It is a unique, highly personalized one-on-one relationship, and is for people who are ready to make changes in their lives.