Yonette Thomas
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October 3, 2021
The frustrations that come with being the underdog aren’t anything new and continue along your journey. This also includes the professional experience.
Episode Abstract
The frustrations that come with being the underdog aren’t anything new and continue along your journey. This also includes the professional experience. You’re passionate and heck you’re probably qualified for your dream job – but you seem to be delayed by the never-ending stairs that lead to someone else’s castle. The factors that lead many to consider you an underdog will help you to be a problem solver. How so? First, you have the capacity to recognize that a problem exists and possess a different antidote to a chronic ailment that has gone untreated. Your experiences have taught you that business as usual will not lead to progress.
During my career, one of the most important skills that I often use is to know why I’m here and what I am here to do. Simplistic as this may be, it is a time-tested value of reasoning. My background is rooted in humble beginnings. However, the more positions I held, and the more I traveled around the world and engaged with heads of state, prime ministers, diplomats, college presidents and various top brass university cabinet members, it became clear to me that there is no deficit in knowledge to improve the human condition. By carrying the perspective of those who are less empowered, less educated, and underexposed, I had the tools that many of my contemporaries do not possess.
Meet DR. JOHN GRAHAM
John is the Campus Leader at Potsdam University, SUNY Potsdam.Dr. Graham serves as the Officer-in-Charge at the State University of New York at Potsdam. As the campus leader he provides executive leadership at one of the oldest public higher institutions in the United States. SUNY Potsdam is a comprehensive college comprised of 3,300 undergraduates and post-graduate students that study in the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Business, School of Education and Professional Studies and the world-renowned Crane School of Music. Dr. Graham has held several leadership positions during his career most recently serving as Senior Advisor to the Chancellor and Student Advocate at SUNY and prior to that, Vice Provost for Student Affairs and University Life. He also held faculty appointments and taught in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
