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...
by conversationsoncareers_ufelsl | Mar 4, 2026 | Blog Post
I called it three years ago: AI would drive the cost of applying to near zero. Volume would explode. Recruiters would drown. Good candidates would disappear into the noise.Business Insider confirmed what I’ve been hearing from alumni and seeing firsthand:...
by Gregory Heller | Feb 25, 2026 | Episodes
Layoffs are back in the headlines. Job postings are down. Hiring cycles are longer. What does that mean for MBA students and other professionals navigating today’s market? In this episode, I speak with Steve Jaffe, author of The Layoff Journey: From Dismissal to...
by Gregory Heller | Jan 21, 2026 | Episodes
Most presentation failures don’t happen because the presenter lacks insight. They happen because the artifact is wrong. If you’ve ever watched someone read dense slides out loud—or sent a slide deck as a pre-read only to get confused questions later—you’ve seen this...
by Gregory Heller | Jan 14, 2026 | Episodes
Data doesn’t persuade. Insight does. In this episode, I break down what effective data visualization really means—and why most charts fail to do their job. This isn’t about making slides look prettier. It’s about helping your audience think clearly,...
by Gregory Heller | Jan 8, 2026 | Episodes
The Glance Test is a simple but powerful rule for slide design: if your audience can’t understand the point of a slide within a few seconds, the slide isn’t doing its job. In this episode, I explain why slides that demand too much reading or decoding cause audiences...
by Gregory Heller | Jan 8, 2026 | Episodes
Many presentations fall apart not because the ideas are weak, but because the slides are doing too much at once. When a single slide contains multiple messages, charts, or competing points, the audience stops listening and starts decoding. In this episode, I explain...
by Gregory Heller | Jan 5, 2026 | Episodes
Foster Alumni Share What They Listen For When They Interview Job Candidates Every fall and winter, MBA students gear up for behavioral interviews with an understandable mix of anticipation and anxiety. We spend hours coaching them on frameworks, stories, and...
