by Gregory Heller | Aug 7, 2026 | Blog Post
Ahmad Ghabboun spent about six years as a UX and product designer before starting Foster’s MSIS program. AI wasn’t even on his shortlist of post-graduation career interests — he was looking at security, program management, data analytics. That changed in...
by conversationsoncareers_ufelsl | Aug 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
MillionPodcasts.com named Conversations on Careers and Professional Life one of the Best 80 US Business School Podcasts — ranking #7, with a 5/5 Apple rating. That puts the show in company like The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway, HBS’s Cold Call, HBR IdeaCast,...
by Gregory Heller | Jul 20, 2026 | Episodes
Episode summary: Five Pacific Northwest climate tech investors — recorded live at Pacific Northwest Climate Week 2026 — break down where climate tech venture capital is actually flowing this year, why Seattle still trails Silicon Valley on VC dollars, and what...
by conversationsoncareers_ufelsl | Jul 7, 2026 | Blog Post
A year and a half ago, Hannah Hoffmaster was using AI to look up high-protein snacks. Today she’s running multi-agent systems she built herself, with no prior coding background. Bridging the gap between those two points was the Foster School of Business’s...
by Gregory Heller | Jul 6, 2026 | Blog Post
Nathan Fitzgerald spent his 20s as a lobbyist, then pivoted into marketing. In mid-2024, budget cuts ended that job. He looked at the market and made a bet: AI was about to become table stakes, and he needed hard technical skills to stay relevant. That bet brought him...
by Gregory Heller | Jun 23, 2026 | Episodes
Archit Gupta went from never having written a line of code to building AI tools that grade hundreds of student cases and a Socratic AI tutor for a graduate class — in one year. Archit is graduated from Foster’s MSBA (Master of Science in Business Analytics) in...
by Gregory Heller | Jun 17, 2026 | Episodes
First-year Foster MBA (Class of ’27) Tejash Bagri explains how he turned a stalled application into an interview by building a go-to-market prototype before reaching out — and what that says about standing out when every candidate has the same AI tools. A...
by Gregory Heller | Jun 11, 2026 | Episodes
Ahmad Ghabboun built a Demo Day–winning AI product during his MSIS program — after arriving with no plans to work in AI at all. He breaks down how his mindset shifted, how his design background made him a stronger prompter, and how to build AI fluency that actually...
by Gregory Heller | Jun 4, 2026 | Episodes
Hannah Hoffmaster went from a self-described two-out-of-seven in technical skill to building multi-agent AI tools in a single year at Foster. This episode is for anyone — technical or not — trying to understand what genuine AI fluency looks like and how to build it....
