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!
- 1st Place: Team Meal at the Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club
2nd Place: Team Meal at the Commons in the Brodhead Center
3rd Place: Team Coffee at Beyu Blue Coffee at the Bryan Center
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
Concurrent Sessions II
Concurrent Sessions III
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!