Since 1988, Bill Mooney has helped hundreds of consultants build profitable consulting practices. As a consultant coach, consulting educator, and management consultant for consulting businesses, he has helped hundreds of clients identify and implement strategies and tactics that provided them with a competitive edge through their capitalizing on their expertise and experience as well as involvement in trade associations, professional societies, and business organizations as well as professional consulting organizations. He has been particularly effective in helping clients develop presentations and proposals to clients that result in turning around difficult situations as well as walking out with a greater scope and fee than they had originally sought. He will share some of this experience in the afternoon presentation.

Additionally, he has helped thousands of consultants and want-to-be consultants through his various seminars such as “How to Build & Maintain A Profitable Consulting Business” which he offers periodically in Irvine and Woodland Hills. His several hundred coaching, consulting and seminar clients represent many disciplines of consulting and are located in several states. He directs the Torrance based Center for Consulting & Professional Practices, a division of William Mooney Associates.

He is a frequent speaker to consulting, professional, trade, business, corporate, and career groups and has authored numerous articles on consulting related topics including the recently published “How to Find, Hire and Work with Consultants” which appeared in the 2003 Handbook of Business Strategy; “The Branding Game: Using Branding and Consulting Products to Give Your Company the Upper Hand” in the November 1998 issue of BTA Solutions; and “Where’s the Value in Your Security Consulting?” in the Winter 2006 issue of the IAPSC Newsletter.

Bill Mooney is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and a long time member of the Institute of Management Consultants as well as the Association of Professional Consultants, the Food Consultants Group, the American Society of Training and Development, the American Chemical Society, National Science Teachers Association, Torrance Area Chamber of Commerce; and the Palos Verdes Executive Fellowship as well as the alumni associations of both Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. From 1989-1998 he was Executive Secretary of the Consultants Roundtable of Southern California. He is a former member of the Association of Professional Communications Consultants, Consultants Roundtable of Southern California, Independent Computer Consultants Association, National Bureau of Certified Consultants, Professional Coaches & Mentors Association, and the Society of Technical Communications. In 1985, he was the Chairman of the Southern California Section of the American Chemical Society. He is a former Regent, former chair of the Convocation of California Lutheran University and was a member of the Convocation of the University for 27 years.

Bill is an Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at El Camino College, where he served on the faculty from 1950 – 1988 and was Dean of a Science Division from 1954 – 1966. In 1967, he received the national Catalyst Award for Excellence in College Chemistry Teaching presented by the Manufacturing Chemists Association (now the American Council on Chemistry), the first awarded to a two-year college faculty. He is listed in the 1971 and 1974 volumes of Outstanding Educators of America.

Bill received an A.B. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1946; an M.A. in education and an M.S. in Organic Chemistry from Stanford University in 1947 and 1950, respectively. He was elected to Alpha Chi Sigma, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Kappa, and Phi Lambda Upsilon. He served on active duty in the U.S. Navy during and after World War II and has been in Torrance since 1950 where he resides with his wife, Margery. They have three sons and five grandchildren and are members of the First Lutheran Church there.