BILL ELLERMEYER / FOUNDER, ELLERMEYER CONNECT

BILL ELLERMEYER
FOUNDER, ELLERMEYER CONNECT
bill@ellermeyerconnect.com
(714) 803-9805
ellermeyerconnect.com

Expertise:   
Bill has been working with executives in transition for the past 30 years, helping them to forge a new career path, or in some cases start or even buy a business and develop a “portfolio career” mentality with the ability to use one’s core skills and experience over multiple streams of income. Being involved, getting connected, and staying engaged in work that is inspiring and meaningful is the best way to stay engaged throughout a lifetime of employment.

Bill Ellermeyer was born in Kittanning Pennsylvania, 30 miles up the river from Pittsburg.  His parents came to the San Francisco Bay area when he was young where he grew up until going to Principia College in Southern Illinois where he obtained a degree in Business Administration.  He then joined the Navy in 1960 and became a Naval Air Intelligence Officer attached to a squadron of  jets operating out of a Naval Air Station near Fresno California.  His Naval career took him in and out of ports in the Philippines, Japan and China.

After leaving the Navy, he established a career in human resources becoming VP with Air Cal in Newport Beach.  Bill then took the entrepreneurial route in 1983 starting his company in the executive outplacement industry where he became known as one of the pioneers in the career transition business.  He grew the firm to include offices in Irvine, Los Angeles, and San Diego California.

He sold the business to Adecco in 2000 and became an independent career transition coach which he serves in today helping people discover their “true calling” as well as getting clients  connected with a robust network of meaningful contacts.

Bill is an avid reader with two or three books going at any one time and with a particular interest in the future with the hyper change we are all living with now.  Most of his reading is non fiction on history, self development, entrepreneurship, mindfulness and the Law of Attraction.  He is also passionate about music from early jazz to pop rock and country while at the same time relaxing  or working with classical music in the background.

These days after working with clients he can be found listening to music while reading a book on the impact of Artificial Intelligence, Genomics, or Entrepreneurship.  He has an ongoing interest in fitness exercise, diet, and nutrition.  Bill has been married since 1977 and has a daughter Lauren who is the co-founder of Beyond Fifteen a growing PR firm in Newport Beach California.