Kate Wendleton (New York, NY) is the author of the best-selling book, Through the Brick Wall, and has been a career coach since 1978, when she founded The Five O'Clock Club, the leading national career counseling network that helps job hunters, career changers, and consultants at all levels. She is also the founder of Workforce America, a not-for-profit organization serving adult job hunters in Harlem who are not yet in the professional or managerial ranks. A former CFO of two small companies, Kate has twenty years of business experience and an MBA.