Peller Marion

BIOGRAPHY: Peller Marion is no stranger to meeting a diversity of people and adventures. This has helped her in the service of others. She climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and pioneered a handicraft center in Botswana, Africa. While working as an Art Specialist in the Berkeley Schools in the 'sixties, she raced 350cc Honda motorcycles. In the 'seventies, as a practicing Gestalt Art Therapist, she had several one woman painting shows. During the last two decades, she traveled the business...See more

BIOGRAPHY: Peller Marion is no stranger to meeting a diversity of people and adventures. This has helped her in the service of others. She climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and pioneered a handicraft center in Botswana, Africa. While working as an Art Specialist in the Berkeley Schools in the 'sixties, she raced 350cc Honda motorcycles. In the 'seventies, as a practicing Gestalt Art Therapist, she had several one woman painting shows. During the last two decades, she traveled the business world as a consulting psychologist to corporations. In 2007, she survived a shark attack in Maui. Dr. Peller Marion is president and psychologist of Peller Marion Associates, Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in executive counseling with Fortune 500 companies. Considered a pioneer in the field of transition and career management, she was one of the first to introduce outplacement to the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 'seventies. She received her doctorate at University of Massachusetts, her master's degree at University of Washington, and her bachelor's degree at Skidmore College. She was on the faculty of Dominican College MBA Strategic Leadership. Dr. Marion has appeared on CNN, CBS and Delta Airlines Audio Tapes in Flight Business News. She has been written about in USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine and The Chicago Tribune. She writes for several Bay Area professional journals and publishes the quarterly Corporate Transitions Newsletter, a publication for business people on trends and issues in career management today. Her writing has appeared in Money Magazine, Fortune Magazine, The Art Therapy Journal, Sun Magazine, Paris Review, and The Wall Street Journal.Peller is the ex-president, and currently the treasurer board member of the O'Hanlon Center for the Arts. Peller facilitated the Artists' Roundtable at OHCA, a monthly forum for exhibiting artists in The Gallery shows, and has had four one women shows at OHCA and four shows in Manhattan.She has led workshops at The Commonwealth Club, Esalen Institute, Book Passage, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, and leads workshops nationally. She was Artist in Residence in the Rhode Island and Massachusetts schools. She is the author of Searching for The G Spot (Artemis Arts Library, 2004) and Shopping Lessons (Artemis Arts Library, 2004). Her book Crisis Proof Your Career (Berkley Press, 1994), was selected as Fortune Magazine's Book Selection of The Month Club. Career Tune Up was published in 2005, and Shark Attack and Other Mishaps was published by Artemis Arts Library in 2019. See less