Conversations on Careers and Professional Life

About Conversations on Careers and Professional Life

Host Gregory Heller is a member of the Faculty and a Career Coach in the MBA program at the University of Washington, Foster School of Business. On each episode, he has conversations with faculty, staff, alumni, executives, current MBA candidates and other experts relating to career development, career planning, job search advice, professional communication, AI and other topics. If you're navigating a career change, pursuing your MBA, or looking to develop a resilient mindset to help you with your job search, this podcast may be for you!

Publisher

Gregory Heller

Category

business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Oct 2018

Latest episode

20 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

16 of 118 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   20 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   PNW Climate Week: State of Climate Tech VC in the PNW Round Table

   Industry experts Gabriel Scheer, Ben Shwab Eidelson, Susan Su, Jonathan Azoff, and Dr. Christine E. Boyle discuss current climate tech VC trends and investor evaluations in the PNW.

2. 

   23 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   AI Ready: Archit Gupta on Overcoming the Cold Start and Building a Socratic Tutor With AI

   Host [Host Name] interviews Archit Gupta, a Foster MSBA graduate, about building AI tools for grading and a Socratic tutor, sharing insights on overcoming the AI "cold start" and rapid iteration.

3. 

   17 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   AI Ready: Tejash Bagri's AI Prototype Landed Him an Interview

   Foster MBA candidate Tejash Bagri shares how his AI prototype secured an interview, offering insights on standing out in competitive recruiting processes.

Inside a recent episode

PNW Climate Week: State of Climate Tech VC in the PNW Round Table

Published 20 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And some of those were made for less positive reasons, like offshoring all of our industrial capabilities. And so what's happened and happened before the data center boom, to Gabriel's point, was we started to re-industrialize of it here. We started to shift transportation from oil at the pump to electricity plugged in at your house. And those things were going. And then you had the data centers hit, which brings in this kind of like, not irrational, but a different rationality around time to power and kind of pulls it all forward and accelerates what was already happening. Yeah. And so now, you know, current forecasts like we need three times the grid capacity by 2050, which is, you know, on one hand insane. […]

Who has been a guest on Conversations on Careers and Professional Life

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• Gabriel Scheer
• Ben Shwab Eidelson
• Susan Su
• Jonathan Azoff
• Dr Christine E Boyle

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YouTube views

6,697

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

23 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 63 / 100

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Quality

65

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

85