I lead an extremely talented team of dedicated career and community engagement professionals at Lawrence University. Lawrence provides students an exceptional education and we offer extremely well-prepared, competitive, and sought-after candidates for career employment and graduate/professional schools.
Reviewer: I am a NACE-trained external reviewer, using the NACE Professional Standards for College & University Career Services.
Consultant: I offer interactive trainings that focus on developing (or re-connecting with) core values, vision, mission, goals, and objectives. I am an intercultural trainer promoting personal growth of each and every participant.
Career counseling: I offer students and alumni a safe space to explore and act within the intersections of passion, purpose, meaning, and life direction.
TCK: I am a "third culture kid," having grown up in Malaysia as a US passport holder. I learned to speak Malay and traveled alone at age 14 into remote areas of Malaysia. I have discovered how cultural differences are strengths and how inclusion is essential. I have lived and worked as a professional in Indonesia and have traveled internationally.
Specialties: Organizational development; strategic planning; intercultural development and training; survey design & analysis; student learning outcomes; college student mental health, the international student experience; culture shock; career development and planning; career counseling; job search process; psychotherapy.
Character Strengths (Values in Action Survey):
Kindness, Zest, Fairness, Creativity, Curiosity, Judgment, Love of Learning
Strengths (Clifton):
Ideation, Strategic, Learner, Deliberative, Futuristic