Wendy L. Werner

Wendy L. Werner is the founder of Werner Associates, LLC, specializing in the areas of career management, coaching, and attorney and business practice management. She also works with other types of professional services firms, and individuals from the private and public sectors. Werner Associates, LLC also works with law firms and businesses to develop effective recruiting and retention plans, marketing strategies, and attorney development and supervision models. She screens and interviews candidates and makes hiring recommendations to law firms, businesses, and corporations.

She has studied with Richard Bolles, author of the best selling career book, What Color is Your Parachute, and utilizes many of his methodologies in her work. She has co-written a monograph on alternative careers for lawyers called, "The Road Not Taken," published and sold by the National Association for Law Placement. She has written multiple columns for the association on counseling, and conducted workshops at the association's annual meetings. She writes a column on careers and law practice management for The St. Louis Lawyer, the monthly publication of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis. She has a master’s degree in Personnel Administration and Counseling from Indiana University, and an undergraduate degree from DePauw University. Prior to opening Werner Associates, she served for many years as the Assistant Dean of Career Services at Saint Louis University School of Law. She is also an accomplished photographer. She believes this background helps her clients ‘see things differently’.