Event Details
When:
-
Location:
Online: Zoom
Price:
Free
Brought to you by:
College of Business and Economics, WWU Alumni Association
Description
Check out this video to watch the Western Insights Presents: Connecting with Your Career.
Graduating from college often feels like a path to finding the dream job. For most, though, the post-graduation career takes many ambiguous twists and turns and doesn’t always turn out the way people expect. This can leave some feeling a disconnect between their ‘dream job’ and their day job.
In this edition of Western Insights our panel will discuss how to find joy, value and purpose that aligns with your work whether you are in your first role or tenth. The panel will discuss the trials and tribulations of navigating career choices, finding purpose in any job, and what success really means.
Western Insights is an online panel series created to provide the broader region, Western alumni, friends, and students with access to information on current events drawing from the University's nationally respected experts. This series is offered entirely online and is open to everyone.
Featuring:
Morgan Widden
Director of Professional and Career Readiness at Western Washington University’s College of Business and Economics
Morgan graduated from Boston University with her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering before earning her M.Ed from the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. As a first-generation college student herself, Morgan is passionate about developing an equitable and accessible professional development program that allows all students to feel confident in their career journey.
Aniekan (Ani) Inoyo
Director of Digital Strategy and Executive Communications for DIRECTV (direct-tv) and has extensive experience in both customer and employee facing communications.
Ani graduated from the Boston University College of Engineering in 2015 with a bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering before joining AT&T. Ani took a series of roles with increasing scope and responsibility at AT&T starting with their college-hire rotational program, until joining the Communications and Public Relations organization. Ani supports the C-suite executive team of the newly independent DIRECTV, spun-off from AT&T, and now holds responsibility over the DIRECTV rollout of Workplace by Meta, and the reporting and creative suite for all corporate communications. Ani is an active part of the Boston and Dallas communities, a global thinker with a home base in both the US and Logos, Nigeria, and is passionate about connecting leaders with issues that matter to employees.
Elizabeth Delano
Manager of Communications at BAE Systems, Inc, an international defense, aerospace, and security company.
Elizabeth graduated from Emmanuel College in Boston, MA in 2015 with a degree in Business Management before obtaining a Master of Business Administration from the Suffolk University Sawyer Business School in 2021. After graduating from Emmanuel, Elizabeth joined Matter Communications as an Account Coordinator and took roles of increasing scope in communications, account management, and public relations. Elizabeth has taken these PR skills to BAE Systems, where she has owned both internal and external communications for the Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) for the US Marine Corp, the US Navy, and the US Army. Elizabeth’s work has been featured in Businesswire, Yahoo Finance News, and NASDAQ – Market Matter.
Accommodations and Other Details
Contact James McCafferty for this event. Feel free to email at James.McCafferty@wwu.edu or call (360) 650-2414 if you have any questions or comments.
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