Careers in Sustainability Workshop with Katie Kross

Join us on October 24th from 12 -1pm in Nelson Hall 1130 when the Poole College Business Sustainability Collaborative and the NC State Net Impact chapters will partner to host Katie Kross, author of Profession and Purpose: A Resource Guide for MBA Careers in Sustainability and Managing Director of the Center for Energy, Development and the Global Environment at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. This Careers in Sustainability workshop is open to all NC State undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, staff and alumni. Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP. We hope you can join us!

About Profession and Purpose

This bestselling resource guide offers MBAs a comprehensive and inspiring guide to launching a career in the field of sustainability. Entirely new career paths are opening to MBAs, but the career paths that fall under the broad umbrella of "sustainability" are as diverse as the students themselves. Because of this diversity, it is often hard for business schools' career management centers to address sustainability-related career options in a comprehensive way.

Profession and Purpose has been written to address this urgent need. Whether you are focused on an off-campus search or participating in the on-campus recruiting process, there are a host of sustainability-specific career resources you should know about. Through hundreds of conversations with MBA students, professionals, and recruiters, as well as her own personal experience, the author has compiled the key job search resources and tips for MBAs interested in sustainability careers. With new sections, references, and profiles, it directs you to the best resources and helps you to fine-tune your sustainability job search strategy. It's the sustainability career coach MBAs have been waiting for.

About Katie Kross

Katie Kross is an educator, career coach, and author of Profession and Purpose: A Resource Guide for MBA Careers in Sustainability (2nd edition, Greenleaf Publishing, 2014). She has counseled and inspired hundreds of MBA students to go on to sustainability careers with Fortune 500 companies, social and environmental nonprofits, mission-driven companies, and startups. Her practical, solutions-oriented approach to the sustainability job search has led professionals and students alike to seek her out as a career coach.

Katie is managing director of the Center for Energy, Development, and the Global Environment (EDGE) at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in Durham, North Carolina. A sought-after speaker, she has presented to business school audiences across the country. She has served on the boards of the U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development and the North Carolina Sustainability Center.

Katie is a regular contributor to publications on topics related to careers in sustainability and publishes career search resources and strategies on her blog at www.professionandpurpose.com. She holds a BA from Davidson College and an MBA from UNC.