Rosaria Kiely is the Manager of Career Development and Employability at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. As our first international guest, Rosaria brings a fresh new perspective to the conversation on career services leadership, but we also discuss the seemingly universal challenges we all face in doing this work.
In this episode, we discuss why Rosaria uses a 'systems thinking' approach to make sense of the new "multi-super-hyper-active" landscape in higher education; how she embeds employability into the curriculum; why creating a sense of psychological safety (and being willing to suffer a 'vulnerability hangover') is so important as a leader; and much, much more.
(P.S. Listen to the very end: Rosaria shares a personal testament to the generational power of higher education that is such a clear articulation of why this work is so important.)