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GradFUTURES Retreat: Plan for Summer with Dr. Fatimah Williams, Creator of the Professional Pathways Planner

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Intensive workshop Career Management Careers & Professional Development Communication Skills Personal Well-being & Effectiveness Time Management Skills Wellness & Community Work/Life Balance

Sat, Apr 9, 2022

9 AM – 12:30 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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Plan for academic, professional and life success 90 days at a time. Learn the skills to balance the demands of academic life, making your mark as a graduate student and scholar, and living a thriving life in this interactive, hands-on training by Dr. Fatimah Williams, creator of the Professional Pathways Planner. By the session’s end, you will create a tangible 90-Day Action Plan for a productive, intentional and joyful summer.

Join us for delicious food, inspiring discussions and presentations, practical planning sessions, and plenty of free books and resources, including the Professional Pathways Planner! All graduate students who attend will have a space reserved for an upcoming consultation with The Academic Designer (@HigherEdPR) as well as the opportunity to receive a professional headshot.

Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the life planning process based on the Life Domains Method, which corresponds to the GradFUTURES Professional Development Competencies.
2. Develop an awareness of “achievement autopilot” and how to be intentional about success.
3. Review progress and evaluate goals from the outgoing academic year.
4. Select areas of focus from the Life Domains to target for a 3-6 month period.
5. Create a 90 Day Action Plan that includes your personally selected Life Domains.
6. Learn planning strategies to make consistent progress on long-term projects like article publication, thesis writing and professional skills development.
7. Identify strategic areas for mentorship and collaboration in support of targeted professional development and goal achievement.
8. Identify well-being practices and workflow practices to reduce burnout and overwhelm.
9. Determine key areas to set boundaries that support effective time management and goal achievement.
10. Describe strategies to periodically evaluate and adapt plans.
11. Understand corresponding Princeton GradFutures Professional Development Competencies:
Leadership & Collaboration; Personal Well-being & Effectiveness; Career Management
Food Provided (Hot Breakfast, Snacks, Coffee, and Lunch Provided!)

Speakers

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Fatimah Williams

Beyond the Tenure Track

https://www.linkedin.com/in/fatimahphd

Fatimah Williams, Ph.D. is the CEO of Beyond the Tenure Track, a professional development and career-planning firm that prepares graduate students, faculty, and PhDs for leadership roles and high-quality careers. As a global speaker and coach, her professional development guidance has been featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Education, Scientific American, University Affairs, numerous podcasts, and her book Be Bold: Launch Your Job Search or Career Change with Confidence.  She has  been  an  invited  speaker  at  leading  conferences  such  as  the Conference of  Southern  Graduate  Schools  and  the  69th Annual  Meeting  of  the  Association of Graduation  Schools,  the constituent  group  of  graduate  deans of the Association  of  American Universities.

Dr. Williams holds a doctorate in Cultural Anthropology from Rutgers University and bachelor’s degrees in Foreign Affairs and African American Studies from the University of Virginia. Awarded the nationally competitive Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2011, Dr. Williams has published scholarship in the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Latin American Perspectives, and Anthropology Now. She is the recipient of scholarly awards, including the Inter-American Foundation Grassroots Development Fellowship, New Jersey Minority Academic Career Fellowship, and Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (honorable mention), and is an alumna of The Philips Academy Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers.

Dr. Williams served as chair of the Workshops Committee of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology for three years and is a past member of the Graduate Career Consortium and the National Postdoctoral Association. Additionally, she is a former Associate Director of Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Advising at the University of Pennsylvania Career Services. Dr. Williams is a graduate of the Rutgers Business School Entrepreneurship Pioneer Initiative, a nine-month business accelerator.

When she’s not speaking or writing, she’s probably at the gym or on her way to grab an ice cream cone


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