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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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