Explore every episode of the podcast Career Services Leadership
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| 'You Work for Them' with Hilary Flanagan | 03 nov. 2024 | 00:54:48 | |
Hilary Flanagan is the Director of the Center for Advising, Career and Life Design at Salve Regina University in Rhode Island. Hilary is a leader's leader, with several previous guests of the podcast recommending her as someone to look up to. I first had the opportunity to meet Hilary at the Global Career Services Summit in Washington, D.C. In this episode, we discuss how her unique background as a Coast Guard veteran influences her leadership, why she prioritizes the development and wellness of her team, her experience launching a brand new center at Salve Regina over the past year, the best piece of advice she ever received, and so much more! | |||
| 'Horizon Scanning' with Aranee Manoharan, Ph.D. | 29 sept. 2024 | 01:02:28 | |
Aranee Manoharan, Ph.D. is the Senior Associate Director for Careers and Employability at King's College London. In addition, she serves in leadership roles for AGCAS, Advance HE, and others. Aranee is only the second guest of the Career Services Leadership podcast from outside the United States and the first from Europe! I first had the opportunity to meet Aranee at the Global Career Services Summit in Washington, D.C. when we were matched together for the gift exchange. Later, I had the opportunity to hear her present on inclusive approaches to employability during one of the interactive sessions, which was amazing and is one of her areas of expertise. In this episode, we discuss pragmatic approach to leadership, how she relates her Ph.D. research on ethnic conflict to her work in career services, the U.K.'s approach to assessing "value for money" of a college degree, what she learned going from leading a small team to a nearly 50-person team, and so much more!
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| 'The Person Comes First' with Deborah Liverman, Ph.D. | 01 sept. 2024 | 00:53:43 | |
Deborah Liverman, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of Career Advising and Professional Development for MIT. In addition, Deborah co-leads the Pay Equity Working Group, a team of collaborators across the university that promotes pay equity for MIT students and graduates. I first had the opportunity to meet Deborah at the Global Career Services Summit in Washington, D.C. when we were seated together in the first morning roundtable. We had such a great initial conversation, and I'm glad we were able to delve deeper here. In this episode, we discuss the three different leadership styles she draws on (Transformational, Situational and Authentic Leadership), the ways in which MIT being an R1 university impacts the work of career services, her own research into how women of color make informed career decisions in STEM, why the "early and often" model may not be the right strategy for all students, and so much more!
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| 'Forming, Norming, Storming, Performing' with Suzanne Helbig | 04 août 2024 | 00:45:58 | |
Suzanne Helbig is the Associate Vice Provost of the UCI Division of Career Pathways at The University of California, Irvine. Suzanne, serves as a member of the leadership team of the Global Career Services Summit and is a faculty member of the NACE Management Leadership Institute (MLI). I'm thrilled to have Suzanne as the first guest of Season Two of the podcast; she is a true leader in our field. In this episode, we discuss Suzanne's path to a Cabinet level position within UCI, the importance of creating your own rotational program to learn different parts of the operations, the unique way she leverages the university's purchasing department contracts to generate revenue for her office, how she grew to be comfortable leading as an introvert, and much more!
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| 'The Most Aggressive Employer Engagement Strategy Ever' with Mario Vela | 01 juil. 2024 | 00:54:51 | |
Mario Vela is the Assistant Vice Provost of Career Engaged Learning at The University of Texas at San Antonio. In addition to his "day job", Mario served as the Chair of the Programme Committee for the 2024 Global Career Services Summit and is the founder of the HSI Career Collaborative. Mario has truly established himself as a visionary leader in our field. In this episode, we discuss what motivated Mario to make an early career transition from social services to higher education, how his background in sociology and philosophy inform his leadership style, the three-pillared strategy he developed to transform career engagement at UTSA, who he considers to be the "Mount Rushmore" of career services, and much more!
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| 'The Wisdom to Know the Difference' with Angela Schmiede, Ph.D. | 03 juin 2024 | 00:56:18 | |
Angela Schmiede, Ph.D. is the Vice President for Student Success and Strategic Planning at Menlo College in Silicon Valley, California. Angela is one of the early champions of integrating experiential learning programs into the curriculum, something she has done successfully at Vanderbilt University, Stanford University, and most recently at Menlo College, where she started as Director of Internships and Career Services and has since moved up to Vice President. As such, Angela is our first guest who is not currently the leader of a career services office, but rather oversees the Student Success and Strategic Planning division which encompasses the internship and career services office as well as multiple other complementary departments. In this episode, we discuss how Angela first became interested in building service learning and experiential learning programs, the Servant Leadership and Shared Equity Leadership models she's adopted and relies on, how serving as WSCUC Accreditation Liaison Officer has informed her perspective on the role of career services, why the ability to reframe is crucial to success in multiple dimensions, and so much more! Fun Fact: Angela used to be my direct supervisor when I worked at Menlo College. I learned and continue to learn so much from her.
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| 'Everywhere, All at Once' with Rosaria Kiely | 28 avr. 2024 | 00:55:03 | |
Rosaria Kiely is the Manager of Career Development and Employability at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. As our first international guest, Rosaria brings a fresh new perspective to the conversation on career services leadership, but we also discuss the seemingly universal challenges we all face in doing this work. In this episode, we discuss why Rosaria uses a 'systems thinking' approach to make sense of the new "multi-super-hyper-active" landscape in higher education; how she embeds employability into the curriculum; why creating a sense of psychological safety (and being willing to suffer a 'vulnerability hangover') is so important as a leader; and much, much more. (P.S. Listen to the very end: Rosaria shares a personal testament to the generational power of higher education that is such a clear articulation of why this work is so important.)
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| 'Find People Who Feel Like You Do' with Dr. Roshni D. Lal | 29 mars 2024 | 01:08:39 | |
Roshni D. Lal, Ph.D. is the Director of the Office of Academic Appointments & Internships at the Smithsonian Institution. Fun fact: she is our first guest who is serving in a leadership role on the employer side (after spending years in leadership roles on the higher education side). Roshni is a visionary thinker and one of the most passionate, articulate professionals working in our field today. In this episode, we discuss how and when she first discovered she enjoyed being a leader, her "issues and initiatives" approach to 1:1 meetings with her staff, her visionary idea to rebrand career centers as "identity centers", and the unique challenges second generation and multi-ethnic students face. Support this podcast: https://mysantaclara.scu.edu/giving/CareerCenter Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylanhoule/ | |||
| 'Yes We Exist, Finally You See Us' with Carol Lwali | 19 mars 2024 | 01:03:44 | |
Carol Lwali is the Director of Career Engagement at Seattle University. As a longtime and active member in MPACE, Carol is a well-known leader in the field of career services. Originally from Kenya, Carol has a unique background and offers fresh perspective that challenges the status quo. In this episode, we discuss how her desire to build community informs her approach to leadership, how her identity as Black woman has shaped her perspective on higher education, her leadership philosophy of knowing when to lead, when to follow, and when to listen, why her word of the year is "Resolute" and so much more. Support this podcast: https://mysantaclara.scu.edu/giving/CareerCenter Connect with me on Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylanhoule/ | |||
| 'Eclectic Leadership' with Jon Schlesinger | 27 janv. 2024 | 00:51:00 | |
Jon Schlesinger is the Executive Director of the Hiatt Career Center at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. Jon has distinguished himself in the field of career services through his research and scholarship. In this episode, we discuss why he prioritizes research and scholarship as a key component of the Career Center's work, his eclectic / situational leadership style, and how he is using an intersectional lens to extract fresh and useful insights from outcomes data. Support this podcast: https://mysantaclara.scu.edu/giving/CareerCenter Connect with me on Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylanhoule/ | |||
| 'Operate Like a Business' with Mary Willis | 19 déc. 2023 | 00:43:26 | |
Mary Willis is the Director of the Career Development Center at California State University, Fresno. In this episode, we discuss what she's learned about leadership from being the director at three different universities, her business-oriented strategy for protecting her budget and getting funding requests approved, and why where the career center sits in the org chart isn't as important as who champions it. Support this podcast: https://mysantaclara.scu.edu/giving/CareerCenter Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylanhoule/ | |||
| 'The Ethos of "We"' with Leezel Ramos | 01 déc. 2023 | 00:44:55 | |
Leezel Ramos is the Executive Director of Career and Professional Development at Mount Saint Mary's University in Los Angeles, CA. In this episode, we discuss how her background as a community organizer and activist informs her leadership style, the need to reframe career and professional development as 'we' not 'me' work, and why asking the right questions can be more effective than having the right answers.
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| 'What Keeps You Up at Night?' with Sue Harbour | 04 nov. 2023 | 00:56:15 | |
Sue Harbour is the Associate Dean & Executive Director of Berkeley Career Engagement at UC Berkeley. In this episode, we discuss what keeps her up at night (and how her answer has changed over the years), the importance of having a strong relationship with your alumni and advancement offices, and why its critical for university leadership to see your office in action.
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| 'We're a Reality Shop' with Alex Hochman | 14 oct. 2023 | 00:46:09 | |
Alex Hochman is the long-time Senior Director of the Priscilla A. Scotlan Career Services Center at the University of San Francisco. In this episode, we discuss how he leverages FDS data to generate leadership buy-in, what he would do with $10M dollars, and why its critical that students know him know by name.
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| 'Setting Goals and Defining Roles' with Mary Beth Stadt | 05 sept. 2023 | 00:38:41 | |
Mary Beth Stadt is the Executive Director of the Career Center at St. Mary's College of California. In this episode, we discuss her approach to setting goals and defining roles, the relationship between loyalty and risk-taking, and the value of being in Academic Affairs.
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| 'Living Three Years in the Future' with Daniel Newell | 01 août 2023 | 00:46:06 | |
Daniel Newell is the Executive Director of Career Services at San Diego State University. Listen to this episode to find out why I think Daniel is one of the most innovative and unique thinkers in the field of career services.
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