Lost? Good. That's Where Interesting Careers Start

Join us for a special talk with , a technology executive with 20+ years of experience leading developer and product initiatives at Microsoft, Intuit, Atlassian, Roblox, MongoDB, and Cisco.

Most students feel pressure to have their careers figured out early—pick the right major, lock in a plan, don’t mess it up. I was working my way through college, bounced between possibilities—civil engineering, surveying, just getting a job that paid—without a clear direction. Then, in a completely unexpected moment, a physics professor suggested I consider a tech career that involved travel and public speaking. It sounded absurd. I was terrified of speaking and couldn’t see how any of it connected. Years later, it turned out to be strangely accurate.
This talk is about why careers aren’t supposed to make sense upfront, how exploration and strong peer communities shape growth, and why early “wrong turns” often become advantages later. If you feel behind, unsure, or like you picked the wrong thing—good.
You’re not lost—you’re just early in a story that hasn’t finished revealing itself yet.

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