Developing a Coherent Career Story

Helen oversees the digital programs including the NAA Career Webinar Series along with the NAA Career Podcast, Northwestern Intersections, to provide career advancement resources for the alumni network. She is passionate about engaging alumni to share their stories of how Northwestern has impacted their lives.

Amy Conn might describe herself as “quadruple-purple,” having earned an undergraduate degree from Bienen School of Music (1993), a certificate in Organizational and Leadership Coaching (2018), a Masters of Learning & Organizational Change (2019) both from the School of Education and Social Policy, and now serving on the staff side as a Learning & Organization Development Specialist within Human Resources since 2018.

Her first career “chapter” was as a professional classical singer and teacher, before shifting into the non-profit world as a development professional, and finally entering graduate school to take her into her current path. She has worked on her own career narrative quite a bit, in an effort to create coherence for herself and others. She is an active Leadership Coach, and heads-up efforts at Northwestern to develop managers and evolve Performance Management. Amy focused her Masters capstone research on contemporary careers and expectations employees and employers around career development today.