Elon University

The Elon Student Professional Development Center (SPDC) is recognized as one of the leading career services offices in the nation. 

• Develop an operational plan for engaging alumni through meaningful career services offerings by assessing alumni needs, developing programming, and implementing and evaluating key KPIs
• Provide 1:1 coaching, professional development workshops, and webinars to Elon's 35,000+ alumni
• Serve as the career services liaison to Elon's 35 regional alumni chapters and 4 affinity groups and support their professional development offerings through in-person and virtual workshops
• Coordinate with Alumni Programs and University Advancement to increase and track alumni engagement

Associate Director of Career Services for Alumni

Ama La Vida

• Coach professionals from all industries and experience levels on topics ranging from career exploration and resume building to LinkedIn optimization and interviewing

Career Coach

Bryan School of Business and Economics at UNCG

The Bryan School is one of the largest business schools in North Carolina. The School holds dual accreditation in business and accounting from the AACSB – a distinction held by only 1% of business schools in the world.

• Teach multiple sections of BUS 415: Leadership Development (Online) and BUS 216: Blueprint to Personal and Professional Development (Online) to 120+ students semesterly
• Spearheaded course redesign for BUS 216: Blueprint for Personal and Professional Development (Online) by creating a new LMS shell and 20+ video lessons for the course, improving student learning outcomes in each of top 10+ key areas
• Coached students from all Bryan School graduate and certificate programs (~700 students) on career readiness topics including resume building, LinkedIn, interviewing, internship/job search, and strategic career planning tailored toward students’ target industries

Lecturer

University of South Florida

USF is a Preeminent Research University and AAU member with campuses across the Tampa Bay region. USF is the fastest-rising university in America, according to U.S. News and World Report’s 2023 Best Colleges rankings.

• Developed and facilitated a year-long professional development workshop series for 80+ undergraduate student employees to develop job-specific skills and core career readiness competencies that support job performance
• Spearheaded an organizational culture assessment for a division of 180 employees through a series of focus groups and data analysis to identify core culture principles that impact strategic talent management efforts and implement a refreshed organizational culture using change management best practices
• Created and oversaw a design thinking-based innovation workflow to crowdsource ideas from all levels of the organization by building a framework for submitting, implementing, and iterating ideas and recruiting, training, and coaching eight internal innovation coaches who support the colleagues who submit ideas for the innovation process
• Designed and assessed talent development and performance evaluation strategies for 180 internal stakeholders from new hires to the executive leadership team to optimize engagement and productivity in a hybrid working environment

Assistant Director of Talent Management, University Advancement

The Bryan School is one of the largest business schools in North Carolina. The School holds dual accreditation in business and accounting from the AACSB – a distinction held by only 1% of business schools in the world.

• Develop learning objectives, lesson plans, slideshows, activities, digital resources, and learning management system shells for 40+ personal, professional, and leadership development lessons that are a part of the Bryan Blueprint Series, a four-year curriculum designed to accelerate the career readiness of over 4,000 undergraduate business students 
• Lead professional learning sessions on using technology to increase student engagement to 15+ adjunct instructors
• Teach multiple personal, professional, and leadership development courses for an average of 150 first-year, transfer, and senior business students semesterly in face-to-face, virtual, and hybrid settings 
• Oversee the Team Leader Program by offering mentorship, designing and delivering in-person and virtual learning modules, and coordinating recruitment of 30+ student employees who serve as peer mentors to 900+ business students
• Provide 300+ hours of custom one-on-one and group career coaching to individual students and student organizations
• Administer Bryan Gold, an award-winning, app-based career readiness program and generate a 50% increase in student engagement by designing new incentive structures and learning opportunities for participating students
• Collect, interpret, and use quantitative and qualitative data to implement process improvements on the Bryan School’s personal, professional, and leadership development programming offered to 3,500 undergraduate business students

Professional Development Specialist

Puolustusvoimat - Försvarsmakten - Finnish Defence Forces

Logistics Officer Award: Given annually to one conscript leader from the Logistics Company, who has demonstrated exemplary leadership skills and strategic abilities as they relate to the company's mission.

• Served as second-in-command for a squad of 30 soldiers, planning and overseeing the squad’s daily logistics, operational training, and regular physical and mental development, ensuring uninterrupted deployment readiness
• Optimized squad’s efficiency by mentoring soldiers to discover and assess their individual strengths and delegating tasks based on their ability to complete ordered assignments within given time constraints
• Structured, supervised, and assessed the success of Tactical Casualty Combat Care training for 1,200+ conscripts

Sergeant

Center for Creative Leadership

The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®) is a top-ranked global provider of executive education. Consistently ranked among the world's Top 10 providers of executive education by Financial Times, CCL has nearly 5 decades of experience working with tens of thousands of diverse organizations in more than 160 countries across 6 continents, helping more than a million leaders at all levels.

• Designed, implemented, and assessed a New Hire Survey to identify and correct pain points and generate actionable ideas for onboarding initiatives to expedite new hire time to productive in all 10 CCL offices globally
• Collaborated with executive-level management to restructure the organization’s employee value proposition to stimulate recruitment and increase employee commitment, satisfaction, and retention
• Coordinated efforts between CCL’s Americas, EMEA, and APAC offices to analyze the organization’s talent assessment strategy, including the development of a future talent profile
• Facilitated focus groups and analyzed collected qualitative and quantitative data to generate and present recommendations to the executive team on supporting and improving employee retention efforts

Global Human Resources Analyst Intern

Going to college is a big investment. 

You’re investing time, money, and other (limited) resources of yours to be there. 

And depending on your actions as a student, your investment leads to:

1) a strong network, relevant skills, and a job* at hand before you even graduate
2) a pile of debt and no clarity on your post-graduation plans

(*Or admission to graduate school)

I help students make sure they belong to the former group. 

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👉 Weekly Content (Mon / Wed / Fri — Make sure to hit the bell!)
👉 Workshops to Students, Interns, and Career Services Staff

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I've partnered with 15+ universities (including UCLA, Cornell, and U of Tennessee) to lead workshops on college strategy, internship/job search tactics, and various career readiness topics. 

And I'd love to partner with you too!

My most popular workshops:

"Leveraging LinkedIn as a College Student" (facilitated to 15+ universities nationwide)
"Leveraging AI in Your Internship and Job Search"
"How to Ace Your Internship: The Before, During, and After

You’ve spent 10+ weeks in classrooms with your peers.

You’ve had a front-row seat to see who raises the bar.

Who engages rather than hides.
Who asks sharp questions.
Who thinks differently.
Who’s driven and curious.
Who clearly operates at a higher level.

Go introduce yourself to those folks before the semester ends. It’s one of the easiest, highest-ROI moves you can make.

Finding a handful of high-performing peers is a massive unlock.

Yet many students spend all their energy building relationships “upward” — with professors, advisors, staff, recruiters.

Nothing wrong with that. But don’t overlook the people sitting five feet away.

They’re navigating the same challenges, the same deadlines, the same early-career decisions.

And because of that, they can:

• push you
• inspire you
• challenge you
• offer honest feedback
• keep you accountable

And the best part? Peers stick with you for years.

(I still stay in touch with classmates from my own college days — and many of them are crushing it in their careers. When I need help, I can call them.)

All it takes is a quick intro at the end of class.

Start small, stay consistent, and let the relationship grow naturally — especially if you’re taking more classes together, in the same student orgs, or around the same parts of campus.

Everyone talks about the value of alumni networks (and they definitely are valuable). 

But a strong peer network (when built intentionally) is one of the most overlooked assets you’ll create in college.

Lasse Palomaki

Going to college is a big investment. 

You’re investing time, money, and other (limited) resources of yours to be there. 

And depending on your college strategy, this investment leads to:

1) a strong network, relevant skills, and a job* at hand before you even graduate
2) a pile of debt and no clarity on your post-graduation plans

(*Or admission to graduate school)

I help students make sure they find themselves in the former group. 

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Over the past years, I've taught and coached 1,500+ undergraduate and graduate students on college strategy, internship/job search tactics, and career readiness topics, helping them land their target internships, full-time roles, and grad school admissions. 

Are you a current student looking to attain these outcomes? 

Let me help - here's how:

👉 LI Content

I post actionable advice for students and interns every MWF – make sure to hit the bell! 

👉 1-on-1 Coaching

I coach individual students on building a college strategy that leads to their target internships, full-time roles, and grad school admissions — DM me if you’re interested in working together!

👉 Workshops

I facilitate workshops for campus offices (e.g. Career Services), student organizations, student leadership programs, and internship programs — DM me if you’re interested in working together!

My most popular workshop (which I have facilitated for 10+ universities nationwide):

"Leveraging LinkedIn as a College Student"

I help college students turn their degrees into offers | Founder @ The Strategic Student | Led career workshops to students at 40+ universities | Associate Director of Career Services | Lecturer

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