Physics colloquium: “Sustainable Networking-Create a Virtuous Cycle of Success”

Christina Willis

ColdQuanta

Abstract: Sustainability applied to networking is about treating professional support and assistance like a resource and creating more of it than you take. This workshop introduces how to use sustainable networking to create mutually beneficial professional relationships and to set and accomplish career goals. Through individual and group activities, participants will come away with personalized goals and a practical action plan for how to incorporate sustainable networking into their professional lives.

Bio: Christina C. C. Willis is a laser scientist, author, and public speaker with a passion for public policy. She served a year in the United States Senate as the 2019-2020 OSA / SPIE Arthur H. Guenther Congressional fellow and currently works as a Senior Analyst at the Boulder-based quantum technology company ColdQuanta. In her free time she teaches yoga and volunteers as a firefighter. You can download her book Sustainable Networking for Scientists and Engineers for free from SPIE Press (https://spie.org/christinawillisbook), find her on Twitter @willischristina, or learn more at https://sustainablenetworking.net/.

All lectures in CoorsTek 140 unless otherwise noted