Innovate a career you love

Graduate students invest several years of their lives into their graduate studies. But what do they want to gain from them? What career path are they preparing themselves for? Given that a vast minority of students will end up becoming academics, graduate school is all about BYOB: Building Your Own Brand. What do students need to learn, experience, and develop in order to be the professionals they want to be?

 

Many graduate students have difficulties answering these questions because they don’t know exactly what they are passionate about or where their true talents lie; or maybe they suffer from forms of the “Impostor Syndrome:” self-doubt, self-sabotage, anxiety, or a lack of confidence. This interactive seminar gives participants the tools to pick a career that is right for them, and to best tailor their graduate years to get it.

 

Participants will leave the workshop with the tools to:

 

• learn a step-by-step approach to explore and evaluate career options.

• articulate a big-picture vision of what an inspiring career looks like to them.

• identify their unique skills, talents, and character traits that will make them succeed at that career.

• discover how to hear their inner voice of passion, and use it as a compass.

• draft a blueprint for a successful graduate education, by their own definition.

 

This workshop gives participants the ability to systematically identify and pursue a career that ignites their passions and talents, whether that is in academia or beyond. Participants leave the workshop with a sense of confidence that they can and will find a career that is right for them.

 

Managing Up: Navigating your Relationship with your PI or Advisor

The advisor-advisee relationship is arguably the most important in academia. Under the guidance of their PIs, graduate students and post-docs grow into strong, successful professionals. In exchange, these advisees perform the research that builds their PI’s reputation and scientific body of work. Despite the importance of the advisor-advisee relationship, relatively little instruction is given to either party in how to build a great relationship. This interactive workshop provides that instruction. Participants will leave the workshop with:

 

• a more productive way of relating to your PI/advisor.

• the tools to resolve issues with grace.

• a method to design “difficult” conversations to be positive, productive experiences.

 

The second hour of the workshop will consist of role-plays to practice these tools.

 

 

Personal Branding, from the Inside Out

Each person has a certain “way of being” that is well known by everyone around them. That is their personal brand. In this interactive seminar, Dr. Sutton leads participants on an intriguing and insightful journey to identify their innate personal brands, and hone them to reflect the most powerful and compelling version of themselves.

 

Participants leave the seminar with:

 

• a definition of their personal brand

• confidence in themselves and less fear of "looking bad,”

• the courage to take the risks that align with their brand.

 

This seminar shows participants how to live their daily lives from the most exquisite version of themselves, and have that reflected back in the results they get.

 

 

Train Your Brain to Work FOR your Goals, Not AGAINST Them

Although the solutions to their problems may seem obvious, many individuals still feel stuck in one or more areas of their lives. The reason is that the human mind is a complicated, emotional, associative place that produces staggering works of genius and also staggering amounts of self-sabotage. In this seminar, we teach participants:

 

• how to use their most precious asset, their brains, to work FOR their goals instead of AGAINST them.

• an understanding the mental processes underlying their daily decisions, stressors, and thoughts

• a set of exercises to leverage their minds in constructive ways.

 

Participants leave with a greater mastery of their most valuable asset: their mind.