Academic careers can be challenging, but you can still thrive! This 60-minute coaching session involves understanding and navigating the career experience in a way that leaves you informed, equipped, and proud of the experience that you have. Allow me to guide you as you navigate this landscape.

Coaching Session Topics

Coaching topics may include, but are not limited to the following:

Navigating Doctoral Training

• Understanding opportunities and challenges in different phases of doctoral training.

• Taking and passing qualifying exams

• Acing your Proposal Defense with mock proposal defense services

• Dissertation Defense with mock defense services

• Choosing your dissertation committee

• Applying for and securing grants

• How to build great relationships with other students in your program and why you should

Preparing and Succeeding in the Academic Job Market

• Preparing your materials such as the cover letter, research statement, teaching statements, diversity statement

• Preparing for the Job Talk including mock Interviews

• Preparing and rocking your campus visit

• Negotiating a job offer that makes you fulfilled

• What to know before you sign your contract

Understanding and Navigating the Tenure-Track Experience

• The importance of establishing your absence

• Creating a publication pipeline

• Understanding academic politics

• Understanding working in academia as a person from a marginalized background

• Dissecting common mental health issues along the tenure track and how to deal with them

Creating and Running Your Organization Based on Your Doctoral Work

• Understanding the difference between running a business, social enterprise, and nonprofit organization

• Turning your dissertation into its own organization

• Becoming a public figure

• Working with media to mobilize and legitimize your cause

• Setting prices

• Running online, local, and global programs