Career Services Leadership

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 we discuss:

• The similarities and d...

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 serv...

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 episode we discuss:

• The moment ear...

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 Clara University Career Center!). An...

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 systems thinking, professional developme...

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 engaging diversity, equity, inclusion...

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, Tony has remained authentically t...

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 a Coast Guard veteran influences he...

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 Summit in Washington, D.C. when we wer...

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...

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 discus...

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 earl...

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 Internships and Career Services and has sin...

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 'systems thinking' approach to ...

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 today.

In this episode, we discuss how...

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 identity as Black woman has shaped her ...

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 intersectional lens to extract fres...

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 as who champions it.

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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 effective than having the right answers.