Ocean Palmer, Author at Ocean Palmer

Getting a New Job — a guidebook to help you win!

April 11, 2023 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Getting a New Job Last summer I was contacted eight days in a row by professionals from five countries on three continents, each asking for help during a job search. Some wanted to find a new opportunity, others had to. Their questions were different and covered the full spectrum from starting the hunt to prepping […]

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Tuki (Back in the Game with Tweedle & Friends)

April 11, 2023 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Tuki (Back in the Game with Tweedle & Friends) Life involves chapters that advance through stages. How we see the world as a teenager is different than how we process life a generation later. This progression lured me into writing a novel centered around my favorite character, number one of all the wonderful ones I […]

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Lucas Goes to Cabo (comedy novella)

April 11, 2023 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Lucas Goes to Cabo It is harder to make someone laugh than cry, which is why I love to bring smiles to readers through character-rich ensemble comedies. Having written comedy for money since I was 17, I’m somewhat adept judging good from bad. Lucas Goes to Cabo is a good one. This “battle of the sexes” […]

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My Life Skills & Business Books: the what & why of each

November 17, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Business & Life Skills Intertwined whether we like it or not As my teaching and global consulting career has unfolded, I constantly strive to add equity to what I teach and how I teach it. These seven books are part of my intellectual property portfolio. Each serves a different learning objective. If one of these […]

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The Rising Tide of Global Sadness

November 5, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

I read this piece by David Brooks recently and thought it was so timely and compelling I would share his work in its entirety. I have spent a lot of time over the past few months trading thoughts with some of my contacts around the world on this same topic. This is a thought provoking […]

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“The Box” —- What’s in Yours?

November 1, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

The Box holds life’s values, choices, and experiences, its perimeter strung with lights to navigate what a friend calls “all the rest of it.” Decisions and life experiences sort and police what goes in The Box and what does not. Life would be clean, neat, and orderly if everything snuggled perfectly into an assigned place, […]

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“Getting a New Job” book release!

August 22, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Thrilled this one is out: Just as “Managing the Worry Circle” helped people around the world, so will this. For most, the worst part of a new job isn’t doing what’s required, it is finding and landing the job in the first place! Having taught and coached around the world, I have compiled an easy […]

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exciting new book release!!! “Tuki (Back in Game with Tweedle & Friends)”

August 15, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

The greatest character I have ever created–diminutive Kiwi recluse Tuki Banjo–emerges from hiding twenty years after shocking the world and suddenly disappearing. For the second time in life Tuki, a full generation after she rocketed to national fame, faces a difficult life situation that forces her to get off the mat and carve out a […]

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Brief Interview with Entrepreneur Site

July 28, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Here is a quick link to an interview I did yesterday with a site that supports and encourages entrepreneurs. I don’t talk about my back story too often, but everyone comes from somewhere and here’s where a major fork in the road led me twenty-plus years ago: https://gosolo.subkit.com/ocean-palmer-associates/ ~ OP Transcription is here: What’s your […]

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“Getting a New Job” nears release

July 28, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Written to help job applicants interview more confidently and effectively, the release of Getting a New Job has been moved up to the first of August. As with the rest of my business and research work, this coaching guide is heavy on behavioral understanding with a life skills emphasis. Its target market is senior execs as wells […]

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