PhDs at Work

A Professional Network for PhDs across Industries

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Work sectors represented include corporate, non-profit, and entrepreneur and startup. We will be adding government and higher education in 2015.

Links will take you to the author's introductory post. To gain a meaningful understanding of their work, be sure to read their full "Week in the Life" posts, Monday through Friday, available to the right and at the bottom of each entry.

Startup & Entrepreneur

Barbie Decker | Team Beachbody

There’s a little wooden plaque hanging up in my home that reads: Where does your story begin?  I guess the story of my second and present career as an Independent Team Beachbody Coach and business developer begins as a worn out and overweight post-graduate student. Life had just put me through the wringer. With my […]

Jessica Collier | Independent Consultant

I filed my doctoral dissertation in December of 2012 and the next day went to work as a consultant for a small software company called Delicious Monster. In theory that’s true, but in fact it wasn’t quite that simple. I’m often asked about my transition from academia to industry as though it were a finite, […]

Peter Temes | ILO Institute

In one of my earliest memories, I’m sitting on my parents’ bed, watching them stuff envelopes promoting my father’s home-inspection business. That was his part-time enterprise, just launching; he had recently moved in his day job from a high school science post to a community-college gig teaching electrical technology. I think that’s where my own […]

Kristen Gwinn-Becker | HistoryIT

I am the founder and CEO of HistoryIT, a rapidly growing software and services company that works with institutional clients in various markets to help them develop and implement strategies to create truly accessible digital archives. I sincerely believe I have the coolest life. It’s a life I never would have dreamed of in graduate […]