Making a Life in Education: Preparing Young Minds for Launch into the Workforce
October 26, 2016
Hosted by Alise Cortez, PhD
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The business of higher education is a challenging yet rewarding place to make a career and have tremendous impact on thousands of lives. Preparing young minds to successfully enter the workforce and connect them with opportunities requires a relentless laser focus and collaborative team effort, which is the strategic directive adopted by this episode’s guest. In this conversation, we talk about Dr. McMillen’s choice to pursue a career in education, the work he and his team are doing to serve its annual study body of 4,500 and get them productively into the workforce, discuss five trends that affect higher education and how it operates to affect student outcomes.
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Alise Cortez, PhD
Dr. Alise Cortez is affectionately referred to as “The Anti-Undertaker” as she awakens the often otherwise “walking dead” to discover and nurture their passion, inspiration, and purpose in life and at work. She is one part Chief Purpose Officer and Management Consultant specializing in meaning and purpose, and one part Inspirational Speaker, Author, and Radio Host. Having developed her expertise within the Human Capital / Organizational Excellence industry over the last 20 years, today she is focused on enabling organizations to lead from purpose and create cultures of meaning that inspire impassioned performance, energizing engagement and fulfillment, while encouraging a devoted stay within the organization. For individuals, she also facilitates the online Catch Fire global community and various retreats to enable people hungry for a more meaningful and purposeful life to discover and create it for themselves.
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