'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, 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.