Taking an Entrepreneurial Approach to Your Career Development

In today’s uncertain economy and highly competitive academic job market, graduate students and postdocs need more than credentials to succeed. You’ll also need the right mindset. Developing an entrepreneurial approach to your own professional development can help you recognize opportunities, navigate uncertainty with confidence, and create a fulfilling and purposeful career path, building on the skills you already have to grow, experiment, and adapt.

This workshop will be led by Dr. Natalie Lundsteen, director of entrepreneurship education for Alloy Therapeutics. Lunch will be served to registered participants.

About the Speaker:

As Director of Entrepreneurship Education for the Alloy Foundation with Alloy Therapeutics, Natalie Lundsteen manages innovation education initiatives and programs, including Alloy Futures, a Dallas-based biotech startup academy supporting the growth and development of the North Texas life science ecosystem.

With a background in career and professional development for graduate students and postdocs, Natalie has taught, mentored, and advised students, postdocs, faculty and alumni at Boston University, Stanford University, Oxford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Burnett School of Medicine at TCU, and the University of Rhode Island. She served as Assistant Dean for Career and Professional Development and Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UT Southwestern for nine years and is co-author of ‘ReSearch: A Career Guide for Scientists’. She holds a Ph.D. in Education from Oxford University, where her research examined how people develop professional identity and align themselves with workplace settings. Her continued research interests include workplace learning and growing professional expertise, along with creating innovation education programs and resources.