John Epperheimer is a partner with the St. Charles Consulting Group in the San Jose office and manages the coaching practice.

Before joining StCCG, John was President of the Workpath Group, which was founded in 1999.

John has been a senior executive in a Fortune 500 company, a consultant to major companies and now coaches executives and high potential managers, and consults to corporations on the design of leadership development programs. He has coached numerous high tech executives, ranging from software lab directors to VPs, General Managers, Senior VPs and CEOs.

Before co-founding the Workpath Group, he was vice president/client services at MindSteps, Inc., a Silicon Valley start-up company that produced the first Internet-based career development software.

For 4 years, John directed corporate services at the Career Action Center, a Silicon Valley non-profit organization, during the time the CAC designed and operated employee career development programs for Fortune 500 companies. John also launched and managed the Silicon Valley office of a national career development firm where he was a vice president.

Before entering the career development and coaching field, John was a newspaper editor for 20 years. He shared in a staff Pulitzer Prize at the San Jose Mercury News, where he writes a column titled "Reinventing Yourself."

His clients have included Hewlett Packard, eBay, Genentech, Agilent Technologies, Yahoo!, VMWare, Symantec, IBM, Monsanto, Sun Microsystems, Visa International, TD Bank Financial Group, SVB Financial, Apple Computer, Raychem Corporation, and AMD.

John earned a master's degree in organizational development from the University of San Francisco, was a Knight Fellow at Stanford University and earned a bachelor's degree from Southern Illinois University. He is certified to interpret the Birkman Report and several other assessment instruments.