Over the last ten years, higher education has felt the increased pressure to tell their story of success, through transparency and data about the outcomes of their graduates. Many asked, was an investment in college really worth it for a growing number of Americans going to college and bearing its cost? I spent most of those 10 years as the Executive Director of the Career Center at Pepperdine, where, like many campuses and career centers, reporting more robust first-destinat

Happy New Year, 2019! The new year brings renewed energy to so many personal and professional goals for individuals, and as such, I wanted to share the 5 career services trends that we believe will make a substantial impact on universities everywhere in 2019. We encourage you to consider inserting them into your goals over the course of 2019. Our team has enjoyed many hours spent listening and learning alongside hundreds of upper-administrators and career staff teams throug

It’s hard to believe that it’s been just a little over a year ago since we’ve embraced RADICAL COLLABORATION as one of our mantras this past year. As we look back, we can see the impact of these two powerful words which empowered our team to start taking considerable action with each other, our students, and now on to our campus partners. In Designing Your Life Bill Burnett and Dale Evans describe radical collaboration this way, ”You are not alone...many of the best ideas ar

Seventy percent of all change efforts fail according to Gallup, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review. A McKinsey & Co. study on radical change weighs in with only 38% of change efforts having a solid impact on performance and around 10% completely failing. Add the fact that most employees resist (even sabotage) change, why would anyone take on a transformational change effort, especially in higher education? A few years ago, I left the corporate world after long career at Ac