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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