Career Webinars

This workshop will empower Gen Z alumni and their supporters with a practical framework for navigating the quarter-life career crisis, a period marked by uncertainty, pressure, and unrealistic expectations. Attendees will gain insight into the real drivers of early career stress while reframing the 20s as a time for exploration rather than perfection. The session also provides networking tools, a career strategy guide, and wellness practices to reduce anxiety, build clarity, and take confident next steps in an evolving career journey.

Bonus: Don’t miss your chance to win a free one-hour coaching session with Scott. Join live and stay through the end to be eligible. Open to U‑M alumni only.

Midcareer can bring a collision of success, stagnation, and shifting priorities, often labeled a “midlife career crisis.” In this interactive webinar, participants will use Scott Doyne’s four stages of career transition — Realize, Explore, Articulate, Activate — to turn uncertainty into a structured reset. Each stage includes practical exercises and reflection so attendees leave with tangible outputs, not just ideas.

Participants will be equipped to:

• Realize: Pinpoint key drivers of dissatisfaction and define what must change.
• Explore: Generate and prioritize realistic pathways and low-risk “test” options.
• Articulate: Craft a clear midcareer story for networking and interviews.
• Activate: Build a 30-60-day action plan with next steps, accountability, and resources.

Bonus: Don’t miss your chance to win a free one-hour coaching session with Scott. Join live and stay through the end to be eligible. Open to U‑M alumni only.

Retirement today is less a finish line than a transition into a “third act” of life and work. This webinar explores how to step away from a primary career with confidence, identity clarity, and a sense of purpose. We will discuss common emotional and practical challenges — including shifting routines, relationships, and meaning — and strategies for designing what comes next.

Together, we will:

• Identify key nonfinancial questions to answer before retiring: purpose, structure, community, health, and identity.
• Assess readiness for change and anticipate common transition pitfalls.
• Create a simple “third act” plan with near-term experiments: volunteering, part-time work, learning, caregiving, and entrepreneurship.
• Develop language to communicate your transition goals with family, colleagues, and mentors.

The pace of work and the pressure to deliver create just the right conditions for tension to build in teams. You may leave interactions feeling frustrated, wondering why your team keeps having the same conversations, avoids the hard ones, or allows small issues to escalate into major misunderstandings.

If only other people would pull themselves together, everything would go smoothly, right?

Here’s something you may not realize: your communication style may be unintentionally contributing to the very dynamics that frustrate you.

In this session, you will learn how to spot the patterns underneath your team’s stuck conversations — and what to do about them. We will explore the four modes of communication that show up in every conversation, how missing actions create conflict, and the five common stuck patterns that play out in teams every day.

You will leave with a practical framework you can use immediately — in your next meeting, your next hard conversation, or your next moment of “here we go again.”

What you will learn:

• How to shift the role you might be playing in your team’s stuck patterns
• How to spot the communication patterns that keep your team going in circles
• The four modes of communication present in every conversation, and what happens when one goes missing
• The five most common stuck patterns that show up in teams
• Practical moves you can make to change the conversation in real time

Considering graduate school, a professional degree, or a career-changing certification? Before making a major investment of time and money, join this webinar to learn how to make a confident, informed choice by breaking down the real costs, career outcomes, and return on investment of continuing your education.

We will explore:

• Tuition costs and earning potential
• Employer tuition assistance and funding options
• Alternatives such as industry certifications and upskilling programs
• Strategies for evaluating long-term career value and alignment with your goals

Whether you’re advancing in your field, pivoting careers, or planning your next move, this session will help you assess which educational path offers the strongest value for your future.

Even the most brilliant ideas can fall flat if they aren’t delivered with conviction. True impact doesn’t just come from what you say — it comes from the delicate balance of confidence, passion, and authenticity behind how you say it.

In this webinar, Dr. Barbara Lash, a 20-year TV broadcast journalist, media coach, and doctoral researcher, will explore how to step into your power and own your narrative. Drawing on her extensive experience coaching professional athletes, celebrities, and corporate executives, Dr. Lash will use actionable guidance and live demonstrations to show you how ideas can be shaped into words that inform, persuade, and move people.

Whether you are stepping onto a stage, leading a boardroom, or looking to elevate your everyday influence, you will learn some of the leadership communication strategies high-profile leaders use to command a room and create buy-in through authenticity.

By the end of this webinar, you will be able to:

• Tap into your authentic voice to naturally build trust and credibility with your audience.
• Develop grounded confidence to navigate nerves and establish a steady, engaging presence.
• Channel your genuine passion so your core message truly connects with listeners.
• Adapt your communication for different scenarios while remaining true to your personal brand.

Remember when “learn to code” was the answer to every career question? Now, AI can code better than most humans. And computer science grads face higher unemployment than philosophy majors.

But here’s the truth nobody’s telling you: This wave isn’t about AI replacing you. It’s about AI changing what the world needs from you.

Join former LinkedIn and Khan Academy executive Jeremy Schifeling, MBA ’12, to discover exactly how to become the professional that AI makes more valuable, not less.

You will master:

• The SURF Framework: The four human and AI skills that make you unstoppable, no matter what comes next
• The 20X Playbook: The key human techniques that give you a 2,000% advantage over other job seekers, even in the toughest hiring markets
• The Portfolio Career: The essential strategies that keep your career sustainable — both today and tomorrow

The wave is almost here. Grab your board. Let’s ride.

This event is offered in partnership with the University Career Center, the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and the School of Kinesiology.