Meet Our Advisors

Our advisory board consists of highly-acclaimed Vocational Psychologists and other distinguished professors and doctors in the field.

Shiv Shukla

A proven executive with decades of executive (product and services companies) and board experience developing and leading organizations—enterprises, social enterprises, and foundations; start-up through scaling (including roll-ups) through sale; product development and professional services organizations; seasoned governance and board member.

Joel Garcia

Nadya A. Fouad is a faculty member in the Counseling Psychology area of the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is a university distinguished professor and the Mary and Ted Kellner Endowed Chair of Educational Psychology. She studies how people make work and career-related decisions, particularly in understanding the work choices for women and underrepresented minorities.

Shay Badiee

Lent is Distinguished University Professor in Counseling Psychology, University of Maryland. He has published extensively on career choice and decision-making, inclusion of women and students of color in STEM fields, career self-management and transitions, academic and work satisfaction, and technology and the future of work. Dr. Lent is a Fellow of Division 17 (Counseling Psychology) of the American Psychological Association and a recipient of the Leona Tyler Award for Lifetime Achievement in Counseling Psychology (Division 17) and the Eminent Career Award (National Career Development Association).

Hiral Shukla

Dr. James Rounds received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and is currently a Professor of Educational Psychology and Psychology and a College of Education Distinguished Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. James Rounds has received the American Psychological Association John L. Holland Award for outstanding achievement in career and personality research, American Educational Research Association Outstanding Research Award in Counseling and has been designated a Spencer Fellow and Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science. Recently, he has delivered invited talks on interest measurement at the US National Research Council and Universität Tübingen, Germany and keynote addresses In China at Beijing Normal and Shenyang Normal, National Taiwan Normal University, and University of Madras, Chennai, India. Since 1998, he has been consulting for O*NET, US primary source of occupational information, on the development of vocational interest and work value measures.

Nooria Esmaelzade

Pat Garriott is Associate Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Counseling Psychology in the Morgridge School of Education at the University of Denver. Dr. Garriott’s equity work focuses on the links between educational equity, vocational equity, and mental health, especially as they pertain to race and class.

Meredith Hall-Chand

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