Amie Hammond, Ed.D. is the executive director of Career Services at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly). Amie has nearly three decades of experience in higher education and recently earned a doctorate in educational leadership from California State University, Fresno. She is also an active leader within the MPACE (Mountain Pacific Association of Colleges & Employers).

In this episode we discuss:

• The moment early in her career when she decided she wanted to one day be a career services director.
• Her unique reporting to the AVP of Student Affairs and Equity and Transition and how being in the Equity and Transition unit influences her approach to the work.
• Her dissertation research which examines the values congruence of student affairs practitioners in a neoliberal context (and where I first learned the term "academic capitalism"!).

• Why she identifies strongly with an Authentic Leadership model and how she uses Bolman and Deal's Four Frames model... and so much more!

Amie, thank you for a great conversation!

P.S. If you are curious about Amie's dissertation, check it out here: https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/concern/theses/r207tw66g