Professional Engagements

Presentations & Speeches

  • Strategies for Success to Meet the Challenge of Change for the Employee, Spouse, and Family in the Mobile Lifestyle, Chestnut Global Partners, Online presentation, (November 10, 2011)

  • Identity and the Graduate Student: What’s Next? Take Charge of Change for a Successful Transition to Life after Graduate School with ‘The Wheel’, Texas State University, Round Rock Campus, Round Rock, Texas, (November 18, 2010)

  • Identity and the Mobile Lifestyle: Take Charge of Change with ‘The Wheel’, The Net Connection, Round Rock, Texas, (October 21, 2010)

  • Self-Care in the Practice of Counseling for Mental Health Providers, The Net Connection, Round Rock, Texas, (May 20, 2010)

  • Transition and Change: Counselor Self-Care While in Graduate School and Transitioning to the World of Work, Texas State University, Round Rock Campus, Round Rock, Texas, (February 18, 2010)

  • Accompanying Spouses Can Take Charge of Change and Reconstruct Identity for a Successful International Relocation, Houston, Texas, (September 16, 2005)  

  • What is Normal for the Accompanying Spouse’s Identity During an International Relocation? Families in Global Transition (FIGT), Houston, Texas, (September 16, 2005)  

  • Expatriate Women: Reclaiming Identity, Full-day workshop, Arnoma Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand, (May 19, 1994)

  • Expatriate Women: Reclaiming Identity, Community Services of Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand, (October 6, 1993)

  • Expatriate Women in Thailand: Reclaiming Our Identities, Community Services of Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand, (March 23, 1993)

Kind words from a workshop attendee.

“Like many other women who accompany their husbands overseas, I started to think I was going crazy! But, after attending a workshop facilitated by the authors, I realized what I was feeling was completely normal. By using the skills and exercises that Debra and Charise illustrate in their book, you can get back on your feet and transition into your new lifestyle overseas.”

— Tracy Garringer, Former U.S. Embassy Expatriate Wife, Bangkok, Thailand

Additional reviews here.

Interviews

 

  • University of California Berkeley, Interviewed for an article for Berkeley Wives Blog about the challenges international expatriate spouses and partners face moving to the U.S. in support of their spouses or partners careers and strategies for success, (Summer 2012)

  • www.whileabroad.com, Interviewed for an article in Parenting While Abroad about adjustment to life abroad as an expatriate spouse and mother, (September 2010)

  • Financial Times of London Wealth Magazine, Interviewed for an article about challenges of expatriate accompanying spouses, ‘No Place Like Home,’ Issue Three, (Autumn 2008)

  • Acclimate, Interviewed for an article about women’s loss of identity when they relocate overseas in support of their spouses or partners career, (December 2010)

  • Expat Women: Helping Women Living Overseas, Interviewed for an article about challenges expatriate accompanying spouses experience and strategies for success, (July 2007)

  • Going Global, Interviewed for an article about challenges of expatriate living for expatriates and accompanying spouses, Kronberg, Germany, (May 2004) 

  • The Thailand Tatler: The Business, Culture, Social and Sporting Life in Thailand, Interviewed for an article about men’s identity, ‘Men in Crisis’, (June 1994)

Take Charge Of Change.

Take Charge Of Change.