The Career Services Leadership Podcast invites senior leaders in the field of career services to discuss their approach to leadership and staff development. Hosted by Dylan Houle, Executive Director of the Career Center at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California.
Jeremy Podany is Founder and CEO of The Career Leadership Collective (https://www.linkedin.com/company/careerleadershipcollective/), 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 and offers a roadmap to institutional transformation.In this episode we discuss:
What motivated him to start The Career Leadership Collective, a first-of-its-kind consultancy and training firm for the field of career services.
His leadership philosophy, which is "radically others-centered" and draws inspiration from people who strove for systemic change in the face of intense resistance to change.
Why he wants to get rid of the question, "What can I do with this major?"
... and so much more!
Jeremy, thank you for a great conversation!
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'Alive Right Now' with Andy Rabitoy
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 & Employers), and recently served as MPACE President in 2022-2023.
In this episode we discuss:
The exciting once-in-a-career opportunity Andy had 13 years ago to build a new career center from scratch for the UW Foster School of Business (https://www.linkedin.com/company/uwfosterschoolofbusiness/), complete with moving into a new building and hiring a new team.
His "alive right now" leadership style, guided by themes of building personal relationships, extending high levels of trust, and being adaptable and transparent.
Why helping students get comfortable with being uncomfortable and exposing them to things and people outside their classroom and outside their peer group is so important to his team's strategy.
How a moment of disagreement and vulnerability in front of his team helped him access a new level of a leadership... and so much more!
Friends and colleagues mentioned in this episode: Craig Schmidt, Andy Ceperley, Neil Murray, and Susan Terry.
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