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2024 OneDuke Conference

The Future of Work: Adapting to a Changing Landscape

Thursday, May 30  //  8:30am-4:00pm
Kirby Reading Room at the Fuqua School of Business

The OneDuke Conference is an annual conference where the career services professionals from
across Duke University gather for a day of professional development and networking.


Please note: Registration for the 2024 Conference is currently closed.

Key Details

Check-in will open at 8:30am in Kirby Reading Room, and the program will start promptly at 9:00 am. 

Parking will be available by request in the Science Drive Parking Garage. See the venue & parking page to request a parking pass, view the location map as well as how to navigate to the conference space. 

Casual attire is highly encouraged! We’d love to see you represent your school, your career center, or Duke, but it is optional. 
We recommended wearing appropriate walking shoes for the afternoon Goose Chase Scavenger Hunt. Feel free to bring your water bottle.

Morning refreshments of coffee, hot tea, and light breakfast fare will be provided along with boxed lunches from Saladelia. Please be sure to indicate any dietary restrictions in your RSVP!

After our final concurrent session, we will kick off an afternoon Goose Chase Scavenger Hunt. Teams will be assigned at morning check-in and during lunch you will pick your team name and design your team emblem.

The top three teams will receive prizes, which will be awarded at 3:00 pm during closing remarks. Teams must be present to receive their prizes!

More details coming soon!

Keynote

Embracing the Entrepreneurial Mindset: Transforming Career Services in a Dynamic Work Landscape
Presented by Josh Cohen

While career services and entrepreneurship may seem unrelated at first glance, they share striking similarities in today’s dynamic work landscape: ambiguity, constant change, and the necessity for adaptability.

Drawing from his dual roles at Fuqua’s Career Management Center and Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Director of MBA Entrepreneurship Programs and Startup Recruiting Josh Cohen will challenge the audience to reframe their approach to their work with students, employers, and other stakeholders by embracing an entrepreneurial mindset. By dissecting key components of the entrepreneurial mindset and relating it to the tactical work of career services professionals both today and into the future, Cohen will empower the audience to apply these principles to their own work, fostering innovation and resilience in an ever-evolving career landscape.

Josh Cohen is the Director of MBA Entrepreneurship Programs and Startup Recruiting, a unique role serving both Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship as well as the Fuqua School of Business Career Management Center.

Josh’s mission is to empower impactful leaders. The son of two teachers, he has integrated this spirit of helping others achieve their fullest potential throughout his career.
After graduation from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he developed programming to support students and young alumni at the UNC General Alumni Association. He then helped recruit senior leaders in the sports industry as an executive recruiter for a boutique sports consulting business.

Josh began his management career after graduating with an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business as CEO at real estate startup Domo Life. As one of TransLoc’s earliest employees, Josh served as director of business development and director of strategy and partnerships, generating revenue to fund company operations and creating relationships to better meet the needs of their clients prior to TransLoc’s 2018 acquisition by Ford Motor Company.

Beginning in 2018, Josh inaugurated the National Director of Policy role at TransLoc. He interviewed the best minds in the mobility space to identify what was needed to achieve an equitable, accessible, and verdant mobility future as host of The Movement Podcast. He collected some of this wisdom into a leadership framework, Leadership Upside Down, as well as an e-book, Starting a Mission-Driven Podcast: Nine Questions to Ask Before You Get Started.

In his spare time, Josh coaches and mentors leaders at Mobility Leadership Advisors and recently concluded eight years of service on the board of the Diaper Bank of North Carolina, a non-profit that distributes diapers, period products, and adult incontinence products to people throughout the state of North Carolina. He also roasts his own coffee and smokes his own NC-style barbecue

Concurrent Sessions

Concurrent Sessions I

Data in Career Services: Data Collection, Cleaning, Analysis, Interpretation, and Presentation with Nadia Chamberlin — HCA Auditorium
This presentation equips career service professionals with data management skills, covering collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation to improve program effectiveness and decision making.
Today’s TrendZ: What You’re Noticing from Gen Z Students with Courtney Sullivan and Margi Strickland  — Leaman Classroom
Career center staff discuss Gen Z student trends: AI use in applications, job preferences, career readiness, and communication styles.
The Future of Employer Engagement with Teri de Leon and Shawn Pulscher  — Dansby Classroom 
Explore strategies for career centers to secure employer engagement even without on-campus recruiting, focusing on alumni networks and brainstorming sessions.

Concurrent Sessions II

The Coach Approach: Learn from a Duke Panel of Certified Coaches with Jenny Johnson  — HCA Auditorium
This panel explores the benefits of adopting a coaching approach with students, featuring insights from credentialed coaches. 
Panelists: Cameo Hartz, Meg Flournoy, Dr. La Tondra Murray
Unwritten Rules: What Social Science can Teach us about Hiring with Doug Mayes — McClendon Auditorium
Pull back the curtain on hiring at elite firms, revealing the influence of social class, cultural capital, and networks, and equipping career advisors to empower students for success.
Hello Out There: Strengthening Staff-Student Communication through Student Group Liaisons with Elizabeth Hoodless, Marion Pratt, and Nadia Chamberlin  — Leaman Classroom
Sanford Career Services piloted a program using student group liaisons to improve communication post-COVID. They’ll share their findings and invite discussion on this approach.
Fostering Intercultural Learning and Competency in Higher Education with Allison McIntyre, Sue Mathias, and Ilana Palmer  — Dansby Classroom
This roundtable discussion explores the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) and strategies to enhance intercultural understanding and competency for educators, coaches, and consultants working in diverse environments. 

Concurrent Sessions III

Best Practices in Teaching a Career Class with Laura Lane and Panel — HCA Auditorium
Duke career professionals share best practices for teaching career classes, offering options and possibilities for new and experience instructors, through an interactive session. 
Panelists: Shawn Pulscher, Angelica Blanks, and Nadia Chamberlin
The Federal Advisor Certificate with Elise Goldwasser, Katy Hogan, Kelly Schwehm, and Shakeerah Lawerence  — McClendon Auditorium
Career Advisors discuss the new Federal Advisor Certificate program, designed to help them guide students towards federal government careers.
ChatGPT for Career Services: Best Practices and Ethical Considerations with Amanda Chamberlain  — Leaman Classroom
This workshop dives into using ChatGPT ethically in career services, exploring its potential for research, application materials, and interview prep.

Conference Schedule

8:30 – 9:00 | Registration, Light Breakfast, and Networking  Kirby Reading Room

9:00 – 9:05 | Welcome to the OneDuke Conference — Kirby Reading Room

9:05 – 10:05 | Keynote with Josh Cohen — Kirby Reading Room

10:05 – 10:15 | Break

10:15 – 11:00 | Concurrent Sessions I — Breakout Rooms

11:00 – 11:15 | Break

11:15 – 12:00 | Concurrent Sessions II — Breakout Rooms

12:00 – 12:45 | Lunch, provided by Saladelia — Kirby Reading Room

12:45 – 1:30 | Concurrent Sessions III — Breakout Rooms

1:30 – 1:45 | Break

1:45 – 3:00 | Goose Chase Scavenger Hunt — Kirby Reading Room

3:00 – 3:30 | Closing Remarks, Loco Pops, Awards — Kirby Reading Room

Committee

Ana Bessias

Speaker Coodinator
Nicholas School of the Environment
ana.bessias@duke.edu

Ashley Nagy

Activites
Law School
ashley.nagy@law.duke.edu

Carl Thompson

Surveys & Data
Duke Career Center
carl.thompson@duke.edu

Jasminka Vujic

Finance
Law School
jasminka.vujic@law.duke.edu

Margi Strickland

Activities
Duke Career Center
margi.strickland@duke.edu

Pegeen Ryan-Murray

Chair | Venue & Parking
Pratt School of Engineering
pjm15@duke.edu

Scarlett Oakley

Catering
Fuqua School of Business
scarlett.oakley@duke.edu

Sierra Stubblefield

Co-Chair | Communications
Fuqua School of Business
sierra.stubblefield@duke.edu

Suz Allen

Secretary
Sanford School of Public Policy
suz.allen@duke.edu

We would like to thank Leslie Allen, former representative from the Law School, for all her hard work in early conference planning.
She has taken a new role and stepped down from the committee. We wish her the best of luck in her future endeavors!