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Career Services Leadership'The Momentum of Trying' with Dimitris SampsonidisDimitris 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 differences between the Greek and U.S. systems of career services in higher education, and even the differences between Greece and the broader European U...2025-06-0144 min
Career EverywhereHarnessing the Untapped Power of Career Services Leaders (feat. Dylan Houle)In this episode of the Career Everywhere podcast, host Meredith Metsker welcomes Dylan Houle, Executive Director of the Career Center at Santa Clara University, to discuss the misalignment between the importance of career outcomes for students and the positioning of career services in higher ed.In short: If career outcomes are a major reason most students choose to go to college, why are career centers so often underfunded, understaffed, and positioned as mid-level offices on campus. A former teacher, Dylan’s propensity for lifelong learning led him to career services and to start his own po...2025-05-1358 min
Career Services Leadership'Alive Right Now' with Andy RabitoyAndy 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 Fos...2025-05-031h 06
Career Services Leadership'Academic Capitalism' with Amie Hammond, Ed.D.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 early in her career when she decided she wanted to one day be a career services director.Her unique reporting to the AVP of Student Affairs and Equity and Transition and how being...2025-03-2955 min
KQED's PerspectivesDylan Houle: Help Others Find Their FootingDylan Houle shares about his experience supporting people searching for employment and the emotional toll it takes. 2025-03-2603 min
Career Services Leadership'Tone Setters in the Academy' with Andy CeperleyThe 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!). Andy is also a former President of the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).In this episode, we discuss:What inspired...2025-03-0156 min
Career Services Leadership'Grow Where You're Planted' with Dr. Audra VerrierDr. 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 development, and entrepreneurial skills for leaders in education. She earned a doctorate in psychology and her research focuses on women and BIPOC communities overcoming bias and adversity, career and leadership development, and first generation...2025-02-031h 06
Career Services Leadership'Taps on the Shoulder' with James Tarbox, Ph.D.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 and belonging.
In this episode, we discuss how his career has been shaped by "taps on the shoulder", why he developed and launched the new Stanford Purpose Summit, his unique reporting line to the...2024-12-2856 min
Career Services Leadership'There's Not One Way of Being Excellent' with Tony BotelhoTony 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 true to himself and committed to the development of those he leads.
In this episode, we discuss the rocky early start to...2024-11-3059 min
Career Services Leadership'You Work for Them' with Hilary FlanaganHilary 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 her leadership, why she prioritizes the development and wellness of her team, her experience launching a brand new center at Salve...2024-11-0354 min
Career Services Leadership'Horizon Scanning' with Aranee Manoharan, Ph.D.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 were matched together for the gift exchange. Later, I had the opportunity to hear her present on inclusive approaches to employability during one of the...2024-09-291h 02
Career Services Leadership'The Person Comes First' with Deborah Liverman, Ph.D.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 s...2024-09-0153 min
Career Services Leadership'Forming, Norming, Storming, Performing' with Suzanne HelbigSuzanne 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...2024-08-0445 min
Career Services Leadership'The Most Aggressive Employer Engagement Strategy Ever' with Mario VelaMario 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...2024-07-0154 min
Career Services Leadership'The Wisdom to Know the Difference' with Angela Schmiede, Ph.D.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 since moved up to Vice President.
As such, Angela is our first guest who is not currently the leader of a career services office, but rather oversees the Student Success and Strategic Planning...2024-06-0356 min
Career Services Leadership'Everywhere, All at Once' with Rosaria KielyRosaria 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 make sense of the new "multi-super-hyper-active" landscape in higher education; how she embeds employability into the curriculum; why creating a sense of psychological safety (and being willing to suffer a 'vulnerability hangover...2024-04-2855 min
Career Services Leadership'Find People Who Feel Like You Do' with Dr. Roshni D. LalRoshni 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 and when she first discovered she enjoyed being a leader, her "issues and initiatives" approach to 1:1 meetings with her staff, her visionary idea to rebrand...2024-03-291h 08
Career Services Leadership'Yes We Exist, Finally You See Us' with Carol LwaliCarol 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 perspective on higher education, her leadership philosophy of knowing when to lead, when to follow, and when to listen, why her word of the year...2024-03-191h 03
Voices of Santa Clara PodcastDylan Houle: Expert Insights to Unleash Career PotentialToday, we'll hear from Mr. Dylan Houle, who became the Executive Director of Career & Professional Development at the SCU Career Center about a year and a half ago. Dylan began his professional journey as an English teacher in the New York City area before transitioning into the field of career services. From assistant director roles at Pace University and USF to his most recent position at Menlo College as the executive director of internships and career services, Dylan consistently raises the bar for what it means to lead a career center.You can further explore his...2024-02-0343 min
Career Services Leadership'Eclectic Leadership' with Jon SchlesingerJon 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 fresh and useful insights from outcomes data.
Support this podcast: https://mysantaclara.scu.edu/giving/CareerCenter
Connect with me on Linked In: https://www.linkedin...2024-01-2751 min
Career Services Leadership'Operate Like a Business' with Mary WillisMary 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.
Support this podcast: https://mysantaclara.scu.edu/giving/CareerCenter
Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylanhoule/2023-12-1943 min
Career Services Leadership'The Ethos of "We"' with Leezel RamosLeezel 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.
Support this podcast: https://mysantaclara.scu.edu/giving/CareerCenter
Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylanhoule/
2023-12-0144 min
Career Services Leadership'What Keeps You Up at Night?' with Sue HarbourSue Harbour is the Associate Dean & Executive Director of Berkeley Career Engagement at UC Berkeley. In this episode, we discuss what keeps her up at night (and how her answer has changed over the years), the importance of having a strong relationship with your alumni and advancement offices, and why its critical for university leadership to see your office in action.
Support this podcast: https://mysantaclara.scu.edu/giving/CareerCenter
Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylanhoule/
2023-11-0456 min
Career Services Leadership'We're a Reality Shop' with Alex HochmanAlex Hochman is the long-time Senior Director of the Priscilla A. Scotlan Career Services Center at the University of San Francisco. In this episode, we discuss how he leverages FDS data to generate leadership buy-in, what he would do with $10M dollars, and why its critical that students know him know by name.
Support this podcast: https://mysantaclara.scu.edu/giving/CareerCenter
Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylanhoule/
2023-10-1546 min
Career Services Leadership'Setting Goals and Defining Roles' with Mary Beth StadtMary Beth Stadt is the Executive Director of the Career Center at St. Mary's College of California. In this episode, we discuss her approach to setting goals and defining roles, the relationship between loyalty and risk-taking, and the value of being in Academic Affairs.
Read the transcript and episode notes: https://bit.ly/marybethstadt
Support this podcast: https://mysantaclara.scu.edu/giving/CareerCenter
Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylanhoule/
2023-09-0538 min
Career Services Leadership'Living Three Years in the Future' with Daniel NewellDaniel Newell is the Executive Director of Career Services at San Diego State University. Listen to this episode to find out why I think Daniel is one of the most innovative and unique thinkers in the field of career services.
Read the transcript and episode notes: https://bit.ly/danielnewell
Support this podcast: https://mysantaclara.scu.edu/giving/CareerCenter
Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylanhoule/
2023-08-0146 min
Exploding Head MoviesXHM #608 - "Shuffling around Turtle Island" (2022 June 20)All the holidays are upon us as Bloomsday and Juneteenth have passed, then National Indigenous Peoples Day and Midsummer approach. We'll tackle all that along with Joe Strummer's score to the 1987 film Walker plus a preview of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. 1. Fontaines DC: Bloomsday (Skinty Fia, 2022) Partisan 2. Brian John McBrearty: Second Story Tune (Blue Twenty-Three, 2017) Blue Tapes 3. Charlotte Cardin: Daddy (Phoenix, 2021) Cult Nation/Atlantic 4. Gladys "Fatso" Bentley: June-Teenth Jamboree (Bob Dylan: Radio Radio - Theme Time Radio Hour: Volume 2, 1920) Mischief Music 5. Anthony Davis, James Newton & Abdul Wadud: Juneteenth (I've Known Rivers, 1982) Gramavision 6...2022-06-212h 04CiTR -- Exploding Head MoviesXHM #608 - "Shuffling around Turtle Island" (2022 June 20)All the holidays are upon us as Bloomsday and Juneteenth have passed, then National Indigenous Peoples Day and Midsummer approach. We'll tackle all that along with Joe Strummer's score to the 1987 film Walker plus a preview of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. 1. Fontaines DC: Bloomsday (Skinty Fia, 2022) Partisan 2. Brian John McBrearty: Second Story Tune (Blue Twenty-Three, 2017) Blue Tapes 3. Charlotte Cardin: Daddy (Phoenix, 2021) Cult Nation/Atlantic 4. Gladys "Fatso" Bentley: June-Teenth Jamboree (Bob Dylan: Radio Radio - Theme Time Radio Hour: Volume 2, 1920) Mischief Music 5. Anthony Davis, James Newton & Abdul Wadud: Juneteenth (I've Known Rivers, 1982) Gramavision 6...2022-06-212h 04Exploding Head MoviesXHM #608 - "Shuffling around Turtle Island" (2022 June 20)All the holidays are upon us as Bloomsday and Juneteenth have passed, then National Indigenous Peoples Day and Midsummer approach. We'll tackle all that along with Joe Strummer's score to the 1987 film Walker plus a preview of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. 1. Fontaines DC: Bloomsday (Skinty Fia, 2022) Partisan 2. Brian John McBrearty: Second Story Tune (Blue Twenty-Three, 2017) Blue Tapes 3. Charlotte Cardin: Daddy (Phoenix, 2021) Cult Nation/Atlantic 4. Gladys "Fatso" Bentley: June-Teenth Jamboree (Bob Dylan: Radio Radio - Theme Time Radio Hour: Volume 2, 1920) Mischief Music 5. Anthony Davis, James Newton & Abdul Wadud: Juneteenth (I've Known Rivers, 1982) Gramavision 6...2022-06-212h 04
CiTR -- Exploding Head MoviesXHM #608 - "Shuffling around Turtle Island" (2022 June 20)All the holidays are upon us as Bloomsday and Juneteenth have passed, then National Indigenous Peoples Day and Midsummer approach. We'll tackle all that along with Joe Strummer's score to the 1987 film Walker plus a preview of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival.
1. Fontaines DC: Bloomsday (Skinty Fia, 2022) Partisan
2. Brian John McBrearty: Second Story Tune (Blue Twenty-Three, 2017) Blue Tapes
3. Charlotte Cardin: Daddy (Phoenix, 2021) Cult Nation/Atlantic
4. Gladys "Fatso" Bentley: June-Teenth Jamboree (Bob Dylan: Radio Radio - Theme Time Radio Hour: Volume 2, 1920) Mischief Music
5. Anthony Davis, James Newton & Abdul Wadud: Juneteenth (I've Known Rivers, 1982) Gramavision
6. They Might Be Giants: Moonbeam Rays (Book, 2021...2022-06-2100 min
Canadian Cycling Magazine PodcastKevin Field and Premier Tech u23 have an ambitious plan to put more Canadians in the WorldTourWhen the Premier Tech u23 Cycling Project debuted this past November, the team said it wanted to get some of its riders in the WorldTour by 2024. By 2026, the outfit—which includes Dylan Bibic, Carson Miles, Charles-Étienne Chrétien, as well as seven others—is hoping to have placed five or six riders into the top ranks of road cycling. It’s an ambitious plan. One of the people behind it is Kevin Field.Field has been dubbed the Moneyball of Canadian Cycling because of his ability to crunch data to help achieve successes for this country’s athletes...2022-03-0346 min
Heinous InvestigationsEpisode 18 - Three Men and A Little Lady's Adventures in Babysitting (Part 1)When Miriam needs a babysitter for Rachel, Carlton happens to be the first person she asks. Now the child-averse investigator must join forces with manchild Frank and apathetic Orville to watch one powerful little girl, plus Frank's prodigy younger brother. And with an illusive coven of witches thrown into the mix, things are bound to take a wild turn.
Hey fellow Investigators! Don’t forget to check out our Patreon Page at patreon.com/wildelypods for all kinds of fun bonus content and the chance to help us make more episodes! You can also follow us on so...2022-01-1925 min
Leverage Your PotentialEpisode 1: Launching the PodcastJoin your podcast hosts, Dylan Houle and Kelly Davis, in learning about the new podcast "Leverage Your Potential" from Menlo's Office of Internships, Career Services & Study Abroad. In this first episode, you'll learn about the goals of the podcast, as well as get to know the career trajectories of Director Dylan Houle and Assistant Director Kelly Davis and how they ended up working for Menlo College.
Edited by: Menlo's Content Creation Club2020-05-2032 min