Location: Classroom 565 (Fifth Floor, 225 Dyer Street)
Keynote Address: Create Your Unicorn Career!
The career of your dreams is not limited by your discipline or degree. Rather, you can create a Unicorn Career, a customized career that is aligned with your authenticity, allowing you to weave together your unique interests into a profession which brings you joy, meaning, AND money (because you should be compensated appropriately for your contributions to society). In this energetic and value-packed keynote, you will:
- Learn a data-driven process for identifying what Your Unicorn Career can be
- Follow a step-by-step strategy to build and launch Your Unicorn Career
- Discover how to collect hidden information about opportunities and ecosystems through networking
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Clarify how much power, choice, and value you have in creating Your Unicorn Career!
Speaker: Alaina G. Levine
Alaina G. Levine is an award-winning professional speaker, career coach, speaking coach, TEDx speaker, science writer and corporate comedian. She is the author of two books, Networking for Nerds (Wiley, 2015), which beat out Einstein (really!) for the honor of being named a Top 5 Book by Physics Today, and Create Your Unicorn Career! (forthcoming). As President of Quantum Success Solutions, LLC, she is a prolific speaker and writer on career development and professional advancement for scientists, engineers, and communicators. She has delivered ~1000 speeches, workshops and webinars for clients in the US, EU, Mexico, Canada, Africa, Asia, and South America (including over 100 engagements in 2020), and has written close to 500 articles in publications like Science, Nature, Scientific American, National Geographic News Watch, World Economic Forum, and Smithsonian. Most recently, she wrote “Your Unicorn Career”, a careers column for Science Magazine (#1 scientific journal in the world). As a career coach and consultant, she helps clients in diverse professions create their own Unicorn Career, and as a speaking coach, Levine guides leaders to hone their speaking abilities and build a sustainable revenue stream as a professional speaker. She holds bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and anthropology from the University of Arizona, and studied at the American University in Cairo as a US Department of Defense Boren Fellow.