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....
by Gregory Heller | May 22, 2026 | Episodes
Nathan Fitzgerald didn’t come up through tech. He spent years as a lobbyist, moved into marketing, got laid off in 2024, and treated that moment as a forcing function: how do I build a skill set that doesn’t become obsolete? That question led him to...
by Gregory Heller | May 15, 2026 | Episodes
Anshula Singh came into Foster’s MBA program with five years of software engineering experience — building products at Salesforce and ServiceNow, working with machine learning, helping train early LLMs from the inside. She wasn’t new to AI. She was already...
by Gregory Heller | Mar 17, 2026 | Episodes
Ted Jordan spent 24 years at Microsoft as a global program and account manager before becoming a consultant, professional speaker, and guest lecturer at UW Foster School of Business. His talk — From Outsider to Ally — reframes how we think about networking: less about...
