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This free online event series for Student Services professionals in higher education offers a range of strategies and approaches designed to support wellbeing and growth to navigate the ever-changing sector. Join us over three events throughout the 2025/26 academic year to gain practical tools to care for yourself, foster a supportive team culture and take proactive and strategic steps to shape your professional development.
Supporting yourself, your colleagues and your future: shaping your professional development
Student Services professionals play a vital role in supporting student wellbeing, inclusion and success, often within emotionally demanding roles and increasingly constrained systems and funding. It can often be difficult to find the time to focus on personal career development.
In this session, Executive Search Consultant and Leadership Coach, Tessa Harrison (Executive Coach Ltd), will provide a reflective and practical approach to career development that recognises the realities of Student Services work and the values that underpin it. Drawing on experience as a senior higher education leader, Tessa will explore how Student Services professionals can prepare for career development and job search in ways that are realistic, sustainable and aligned with their professional identity and career aspirations.
The session will support participants to identify what has consistently motivated and sustained them in their work, clarify the skills they carry across roles and institutions, and understand how this experience is perceived in recruitment and career conversations. By grounding career development in values, contribution and capability, participants will be better equipped to take confident, purposeful next steps in their careers.
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