Career Services Leadership

Jeremy Podany is Founder and CEO of The Career Leadership Collective , a consultancy that has done business with over 1,000 colleges and universities since 2017 on the systemic career development needs of higher education. Recently, Jeremy published The Career Ecosystem Era in Higher Education , a fascinating new book that captures the current zeitgeist happening in the field of career services an...

Dimitris Sampsonidis is a Career Counsellor at the University of Crete in Greece. He was recently ranked one of the most influential people on LinkedIn in Greece and he has been a strong advocate for advancing and promoting the field of career services in Greece. In his spare time, he's pursuing a Ph. D. from the University of Crete on the topic of polymathy and multipotentiality. In this episode...

Andy Rabitoy is the Executive Director of Foster Career Services for the UW Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.  Andy’s 23 years in career services spans three campus environments. He is active in the industry and has held key committee positions in major associations including National Association of Colleges and Employers and MPACE (Mountain Pacific Association of Colleges...

Amie Hammond, Ed. D. is the executive director of Career Services at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly). Amie has nearly three decades of experience in higher education and recently earned a doctorate in educational leadership from California State University, Fresno. She is also an active leader within the MPACE (Mountain Pacific Association of Colleges & Employers). In this e...

The Career Services Leadership podcast is thrilled to welcome Andrew "Andy" Tracy Ceperley, PCC , author of the new teaching memoir, Tone Setters in the Academy: How to Build an Inspired Life as a University Administrator. With a career spanning the U.S. and abroad, Andy is a university leader, lecturer, facilitator, author, and coach (and he was once in my exact seat as the director of the Santa...

Dr. Audra Verrier is the Associate Vice Provost of Career and Professional Development at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. She has been a leader in higher education for the past 20 years and is a sought-after facilitator and educator on topics as such as strategic planning and organizational development in the non-profit sector, the psychology of leadership, ecopsychology and system...

James Tarbox, Ph. D is the Assistant Vice Provost and Executive Director of Stanford Career Education in Stanford, California, a position he assumed after a storied 15-year career at San Diego State University. James' leadership embodies active commitments to student development, to aligning career development with meaning and purpose, and to strengthening individuals and communities by actively e...

Tony Botelho is the Managing Director of the Career Centre at The University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. In our field, Tony is well know for his humor and he had me laughing from the very first moment we met at the Global Career Services Summit! After 22 years at Simon Fraser University, Tony's now at the helm at UBC. Throughout this transition, and throughout his entire career...

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...

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 Su...

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...

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 fi...

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 w...

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 Interns...

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 &#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 to...

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 iden...

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...

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 a...

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 effectiv...

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. Support this podcast:  ht...

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. Support this podcast:  https://mysantaclara.scu.edu/giving/CareerCenter Connect with me...

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. Read the transcript and episode notes: https://bit.ly/marybethstadt Support this podcast: https://mysantaclara.scu.edu/givin...

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. Read the transcript and episode notes: https://bit.ly/danielnewell Support this podcast: https://mysantaclara.scu.edu/giving/CareerCenter Connect with me on LinkedIn: https:...