Walter Akana is a personal branding and online identity strategist, and career coach who specializes in success! Bringing confidence, enthusiasm, and unique perspective to his work, he is adept at helping clients identify the personal strengths and unique attributes they can leverage to achieve success while taking ownership of their careers and lives.
Founder and owner of
Threshold Consulting, Walter also works as a senior career management consultant for a global human resources consulting firm, where he coaches a diverse array of candidates in career transition. He also works on select corporate projects coaching fast-track executives on leveraging the power of their own personal brands to better serve their organizations.
Walter’s blend of experience is truly unique. A full-time career professional since 2001, he has more than 20 years in senior training roles with extensive work in corporate and investment banking, at firms, including SunTrust and Wachovia in Atlanta, were he now resides.
In New York, he ran Credit Suisse’s
Corporate Finance and Capital Markets program for international bankers, and provided career guidance to program participants; and he oversaw leadership and professional development for the Western Hemisphere. He also has experience in retail merchandising, and prior to that he was a social worker providing career counseling to young adults in New York’s South Bronx.
Walter has been featured in
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and has contributed to career-related articles at
www.MarketWatch.com and at
www.CNNMoney.com; he has also been interviewed by workplace and career bloggers,
Anita Bruzzese,
Mohammed Al-Taee and
Carol Ross. He writes on career management and personal branding at his own
site, and he contributes at William Arruda’s Personal Branding Blog.
Walter holds an M.S. from Columbia University and a B.A., Psychology from the State University of New York. He is a Certified Retirement Coach, and a Certified Strategist in Personal Branding and Online Identity.
Find him on Twitter:
@walterakana
Walter Akana is a personal branding and online identity strategist, and career coach who specializes in success! Bringing confidence, enthusiasm, and unique perspective to his work, he is adept at helping clients identify the personal strengths and unique attributes they can leverage to achieve success while taking ownership of their careers and lives.
Founder and owner of Threshold Consulting, Walter also works as a senior career management consultant for a global human resources consulting firm, where he coaches a diverse array of candidates in career transition. He also works on select corporate projects coaching fast-track executives on leveraging the power of their own personal brands to better serve their organizations.
Walter’s blend of experience is truly unique. A full-time career professional since 2001, he has more than 20 years in senior training roles with extensive work in corporate and investment banking, at firms, including SunTrust and Wachovia in Atlanta, were he now resides.
In New York, he ran Credit Suisse’s Corporate Finance and Capital Markets program for international bankers, and provided career guidance to program participants; and he oversaw leadership and professional development for the Western Hemisphere. He also has experience in retail merchandising, and prior to that he was a social worker providing career counseling to young adults in New York’s South Bronx.
Walter has been featured in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and has contributed to career-related articles at www.MarketWatch.com and at www.CNNMoney.com; he has also been interviewed by workplace and career bloggers, Anita Bruzzese, Mohammed Al-Taee and Carol Ross. He writes on career management and personal branding at his own site, and he contributes at William Arruda’s Personal Branding Blog.
Walter holds an M.S. from Columbia University and a B.A., Psychology from the State University of New York. He is a Certified Retirement Coach, and a Certified Strategist in Personal Branding and Online Identity.
Find him on Twitter: @walterakana