Climate Callings: Find Your Place in the Climate Space
Free pizza dinner provided—space limited; register here by Nov 11th to reserve a spot!
Because of the tremendous needs for implementation of climate mitigation and climate adaptation strategies, there are more opportunities than ever before in the history of humanity to do meaningful work—work that matters to your community and to the world.
Students—Are you interested in contributing to positive climate action in your future work life? Join us to explore the wide range of professional opportunities to work on climate solutions. We will:
- hear from sustainability leader Drew Wilkinson how to “make every job a climate job;”
- learn about App State alumni who have climate-related careers; and
- develop skills to forge your own professional path in the climate space.
QEP thanks our partners Mountaineer Climate Corps, the Career Development Center, and the Common Reading Program*
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Drew Wilkinson, who will be joining us by Zoom, provides consulting services for employee engagement through the Climate Leadership Collective, helping organizations make sustainability part of everybody’s job. He works with employers to create top-down programming to engage the entire workforce in sustainability, and with employees to create bottom-up initiatives to make every job a climate job. Drew weaves together elements of change management, leadership development, communities of practice, and green skilling to transform sustainability from an operational task driven by a single team, into a cultural value every team and employee feels responsible for and empowered to contribute to. With 10 years of experience in sustainability from nonprofits to Big Tech, Drew has the unique ability to work with top executives and to dig into the weeds with everyday employees. He spent 7 years at Microsoft where he co-founded the company’s first global employee sustainability community and grew it to 10,000 members – one of the largest and most influential green teams in the world – while cementing its status as a central part of the company’s sustainability strategy.
* Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work is this academic year’s Common Reading Program book selection. From legendary American radio producer and documentarian Dave Isay, this book is an inspiring tribute to rewarding work and the American pursuit of happiness. Callings presents unforgettable stories from StoryCorps about people doing what they love, demonstrating how work can be about much more than just making a living, and that chasing dreams and finding inspiration in unexpected places can transform a vocation into a calling. StoryCorps, whose mission is to “help us believe in each other by illuminating the humanity and possibility in us all—one story at a time,” is committed to the idea that everyone has an important story to tell, and everyone’s story matters. In Isay’s own words, StoryCorps is “a project about permanence in an ever more disposable society. It reminds us of what’s really important in the midst of all of life’s distractions. It encourages us to connect despite endless temptations to detach and disengage.”