Lily Whiteman is a:

• Federal Career Coach: Lily has helped hundreds of professionals of all levels  --  from recent grads to executives  --  land jobs and earn promotions.  
• Washington Post Contributor and Federal Times Columnist:  Lily has written many articles for the “Jobs” section of The Washington Post, and her “Career Matters” column appears twice in a month in Federal Times.  Lily’s career advice has also been covered by The Wall Street Journal; US News & World Report; National Public Radio; The New York Post; Roll Call; WUSA, News 9 (CBS) in DC; XM Satellite Radio and many other outlets.
  
• Savvy Insider:  Lily knows the federal hiring system inside out because she has experienced it as a hiring manager, writer and career coach for over 15 years. She is currently a science writer at the National Science Foundation, which is a federal agency.  In addition, Lily previously climbed the career ladder at five other agencies, including the White House Conference on Aging and the Vice-President's National Partnership for Reinventing Government. As an experienced job seeker herself, Lily relates to other job seekers with empathy and humor. 
Click here to read and/or listen to Lily’s contributions to many national media outlets. Click here for Lily’s Federal Times column.
• Veteran of Numerous Hiring Panels:  Lily has first-hand knowledge of how hiring managers think and how to win them over. She has reviewed piles and piles of job applications herself and interviewed over one hundred hiring managers about their hiring decisions; she knows what works, what doesn't and why.  
• Award-Winning Communicator:  Lily received three “Awards of Excellence” from the National Association of Government Communicators.

TRAINER/ SEMINAR LEADER/ CONSULTANT

Lily Whiteman has led workshops and seminars for many government agencies, universities and other organizations  --  including the Veterans Administration, the Department of Treasury, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the Council for Excellence in Government, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  She has also published dozens of articles in flight magazines, environmental magazines and legal publications. Her website on science communication is CrystalClearCommunication.com

EDUCATION

• Masters in Public Health (with Distinction) from Yale University
• Masters in Environmental Management from Yale University
• B.A. in Earth Science (with Departmental Honors) from Wesleyan University (Connecticut)