Conversations on Careers and Professional Life

On this episode, I speak with Professor Warren Boeker, the Douglas Olesen/Battelle Chaired Professor of Management  at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business .  I invited Professor Boeker on the show to talk about innovation and design thinking, and how MBA candidates can prepare for roles that involve innovation. Professor Boeker's recent research has examined the dynamics of st...

On this episode, I speak with Rebecca Lovell. Rebecca holds an MBA from Foster, since she graduated her career has included roles with the City of Seattle office of economic development, Geekwire , the Northwest Entrepreneur's network, and Alliance of Angels . She teaches in the Technology Management MBA program at Foster, is a mentor for Techstars and the Female Founders Alliance and is a board d...

Sam Ushio, founder of Ikigai Lab , host of the Ikigai Stories podcast and fellow Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach joins me for a conversation that will appear on both podcasts. We talk about how we both got to where we are today, the Japanese concept of Ikigai -- or your reason for being -- and moai -- a group of life long friends that support each other -- wellbeing, purpose and meaning and how i...

Back in 2019, I had the opportunity to attend a two-day Search Inside Yourself training lead by Tony Back and Larissa Benson sponsored by the UW Resilience Lab. It was an amazing opportunity to learn about, and have the lived experience of brining mindfulness practices into my daily life and work. I wanted to have them on the podcast to talk about Search Inside Yourself and some of the mindfulness...

On this episode I share some tips for improving your behavioral interviewing. Find out more at http://conversationsoncareers.com

I speak with former journalist and current technology leader Kristin Graham about business communication advice for normal times and this moment in 2020/2021 when we are working and learning remotely during the Covid-19 Pandemic.  Check http://conversationsoncareers.com for the full show notes.

Foster MBA Career Coach Julie Boden and I discuss reframing internship application rejection and put it into the broader context of an MBA career plan, and the application and review process. For more episodes, visit http://conversationsoncareers.com

On this episode, I speak with researcher, author, and speaker, Alexandra Samuel, PhD. Alex is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal and JSTOR. We talked about networking during the Covid Pandemic, digital wellness, and more. Find longer show notes at http://conversationsoncareers.com

Steve Dalton, Program Director For Career Services at Duke's Fuqua School of Business and author of the 2-Hour Job Search talks about the method and how the Covid pandemic has impacted job searching with it.  Visit http://conversationsoncareers.com for full show notes.

On this episode I sit down separately with Foster 2nd year MBA Career Coach Elaine Newtson and 1st year/evening MBA Career Coach Stacy Duhon to talk about tips and best practices for informational interviews. Students and job seekers can use informational interviews -- sometimes called "coffee chats" or "expert interviews" or "prototyping conversations" -- to learn about companies and roles. The o...

Peter Boyd, lecturer at the Yale School of the Environment and Yale School of Management, and Resident Fellow at the Yale Center for Business and the Environment joins me to discuss his webinar, " The Hunt: Charting The Path to your next career move. " Peter explains what he calls the Connected Leadership Framework's four Ps: Purpose Priorities Potential Performance And how these factor into, and...

In part 2 of 2 of my conversation with Adam Schmidt (Foster MBA 2020) we talk about how he achieved his double career pivot (function and industry). Visit http://conversationsoncareers.com for show notes

Adam Schmidt (Foster MBA 2020) talks about the importance of credibility as an MBA candidate. He breaks it down with 5 stakeholder groups: fellow students, faculty & staff, alumni and employers. This is Part 1 of 2. In the second episode, Adam talks about his career pivot.

I speak with author, speaker, consultant and friend Nikki Pava , about her career experiences, MBA and book, Green Wisdom: A Guide for Anyone to Start, Engage and Energize a Sustainability Team which profiles initiatives at a variety of companies.  Visit ConversationsOnCareers.com for the full show notes

Ryan Fehr 's work focuses on building more positive organizations - organizations that leverage things like gratitude, compassion, and forgiveness to make work more fulfilling and enjoyable. In this conversation we talk about his research into gratitude, how and why you might want to work to increase your gratitude through interventions like journaling, the gratitude letter and acts of appreciatio...

A short episode featuring a conversation with two Evening MBA 2019 Alumni about how they leveraged the resources of MBA Career Management at the Foster School of Business to make pivots in their careers.

Visit ConversationsOnCareers.com for full show notes. I speak with Prof. Andy Hafenbrack about mindfulness, his research, stress, self-compassion and other related topics. Resources mentioned on the show: FreeMindfulness.org Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright Search Inside Yourself by Chade Meng Tan Mindful Work by David Gellis The Mindful Elite by Jamie Kucinskas McMindfulness by Ron Purser Me...

A conversation with Foster School of Business, Evening MBA Class of 2019 graduates Joel Graves and Dan Charbonneau about their experience competing in -- and winning -- the 2019 ACG Cup Case Competition. Learn more about the ACG Cup at http://www.acgcupnw.org.

Foster MBA Career Coach Elaine Newtson and I have a quick discussion about strategic approaches to crafting behavior interview answers. Elaine has provided career coaching to Foster MBA Students since 2014. She brings 15+ years of corporate experience in global talent acquisition, university programs and leadership development to her coaching practice. Her pre-Foster career included leadership rol...

Rob Cottingham has 30 years of experience as a speech writer and speech coach. I've known Rob for nearly half that time through our attendance at the same conferences including Web Of Change and NTEN, a conference for the nonprofit sector and have always been impressed by his presentations, and communication skills writ large. Were it not for social media, I fear that I would have lost touch with...

Craig Murphy, Foster MBA Class of 2019, shares his experience switching from a career as an engineer in oil and gas services to a full-time role in management consulting with a general management summer internship in manufacturing. Craig talks about how he prepared for case interviews, and sharpened his behavioral interview delivery.

You can learn more about the Foster Technology Club at http://uwfostermbaa.com Shobhit mentioned the blog https://stratechery.com/ , the A16Z Newsletter  https://a16z.com/tag/newsletters/ and the podcast Planet Money. I plugged the Indicator Podcast by Planet Money, both available from NPR, and the A16Z Podcast. 

Philip Bozarth Dreher, Foster MBA 2019, pivoted from a career in architecture to career in management consulting. Philip talks about re-contextualizing his past work experience for consulting interviews, preparing for case interviews, Designing Your Life and CliftonStrengths. Philip mentions a few books at then end and the podcast EconTalk,  http://www.econtalk.org/

Asal Mirsalimi, Foster MBA 2019, on how she used the Foster MBA Career Management Office resources, and what she learned about informational interviewing during her time at Foster. Asal conducted dozens of informational interviews (or prototyping conversations as we sometimes call them) during her first year in the program, and then had 50 such interviews with colleagues at Starbucks during her su...

Three conversations about national MBA career conferences including National Black MBA Career Expo, Prospanica and National Association of Women MBA's Career Conference with Foster 2019 MBAs Jamie Young and Johnathan Duong and MBA Career Management's Bronica Sam. For more information about national career conferences, Foster students can visit you Foundations of Professional Development course on...