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The following are highlights of Jerry’s experience and background, please click here to download his complete resume.

Professional Experience
Education
Academic Experience
Professional Associations
Volunteerism and Community Service
In Public
Personal

Professional Experience
Jerry Pico has been working with individuals and teams to define and achieve success in their own terms for over 15 years – including for more than 10 years in his coaching and organizational consulting practice, People & Knowledge Works Consulting.

His organizational consulting practice was focused in the disciplines of Talent Acquisition, Development and Retention through the practices of Coaching, Facilitation, Learning and Leadership Development, and Organization Development.

In August 2011 Jerry decided to pursue an exciting new international career opportunity that would leverage his human resources and consulting skills, and began consulting with the EMEA Human Resources team of W. L. Gore & Associates GmbH in Munich, Germany.

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Education
Jerry received his Masters degree in Human Resources and Organization Development from the University of San Francisco, and his Bachelors degree in International Relations and Economics from the George Washington University.  He is also a Certified Myers-Briggs Practitioner and World Café Facilitator.  He has completed two community based, year-long Leadership Development Programs in San Francisco and Atlanta.  He has also participated in Stanford University’s T-Group (Sensitivity and Authentic Communications) training.
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Academic Experience
In addition to his consulting and private coaching practices, Jerry has served as an Adjunct Professor of Leadership Development in the graduate programs in Psychology, Human Resources Management and Business Administration at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. Received consistently high student evaluation scores, including the highest for a first-time professor.
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Professional Associations
Jerry has held memberships and leadership positions in the following professional associations: Association of Psychological Type, International Coaches Federation, Organization Development Network, Society for Human Resources Management and the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.
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Volunteerism and Community Service
Volunteerism and community service have always been a part of Jerry’s life: he has worked as a literacy tutor; a job and career counselor for the homeless clients in San Francisco; a career counselor and mentor for new Americans through Upwardly Global; a multicultural facilitator for a community based organization in the heart of Oakland; and performed organizational consulting and coaching for several nonprofit organizations on a pro bono basis.

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In public
Jerry is an excellent communicator, and his pieces have been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Business Times, and Atlanta Journal Constitution; he is a frequent guest speaker on the benefits of using the Myers-Briggs Personality Type methodology to accelerate individual, team and organizational performance; and most recently was quoted in several Yahoo! Hotjobs career articles.  He also writes a Career Advice column for the Examiner.com.
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Personal
Jerry was born and raised in Brooklyn NY and lived in San Francisco CA for many years before moving to his new home in Munich Germany, where he lives with his most fabulous wife and partner in every way, Désirée, and their joyous young son, Valentin Conrad.

Jerry has always been a bit of a traveler and explorer, and has also lived in Monterey and Los Angeles CA, Chicago IL, Washington DC, Atlanta GA and Florence, Italy.  He is passionate about diversity and loves the experience of meeting people from different cultures and learning about those cultures.

He enjoys reading the New Yorker Magazine (Valentin too and especially Malcolm Gladwell’s work, the Harvard Business Review, and almost anything about neuroscience, the brain and emotional intelligence.  His personal and professional lives have been profoundly influenced by the works of Carl G. Jung, Joseph Campbell, Robert A. Johnson and other Jungians.