Tuck Pathfinders will expose you to a broad range of career options and help you chart a path consistent with your strengths and interests. With an emphasis on “big picture” thinking and planning, you can expect to:
Pathfinders will also introduce you to the many resources available at the Dartmouth Center for Career Design (DCCD), from career coaching to free headshots.
Questions? Email: undergrad@tuck.dartmouth.edu
Nov 9, 2025 | 2:00–6:00 p.m.
Jan 11, 2026 | 2:00–7:00 p.m.
Feb 15, 2026 | 2:00–6:00 p.m.
Mar 8, 2026 | 2:00–6:15 p.m.
Apr 26, 2026 | 2:00–5:45 p.m.
Applications closed October 24, 2025
Eligibility: Open to Dartmouth first-years
All sessions will take place at the Tuck School of Business.
November 9, 2025 | Georgiopoulos Classroom
Leverage your unique strengths, learn professional communication, and apply how to present your skills while navigating the job market.
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1:00–2:15 p.m. | Orientation
2:20–3:20 p.m. | Clifton Strengths Assessment and Career Exploration Generator Results
Janice Williams, Center for Professional Development, Dartmouth
Students will complete the CliftonStrengths Assessment pre-program and then will be led through a facilitated in-person debrief that will help them understand their strengths and unlock their potential to lead to greater performance.
3:30-4:30 p.m. | Class: Professional Communications
Charlie Wheelan D’88, Clinical Professor of Business Administration, Tuck; Faculty Director, Center for Business, Government, & Society, Tuck
Understand the essentials of clear and purposeful writing and presentations.
4:30–5:30 p.m. | Resume Writing/Job Search Skills
Janice Williams, Center for Professional Development, Dartmouth
5:30–6:00 p.m. | Alumni Chat
Charlie Wheelan D’88, Clinical Professor of Business Administration, Tuck
Pam Codispoti Habner D’88, Head of US Branded Cards & Lending, Citi
Joseph Gerakos D’90, Bakala Professor of Business Administration, Tuck
January 11, 2026 | Georgiopoulos Classroom
Practice helpful negotiation tools, build an authentic personal brand, and harness the power of storytelling to connect and influence.
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2:00–3:00 p.m. | Class: Science of Happiness and Well-Being
Lindsey Leininger, Clinical Professor of Business Administration, Tuck; Faculty Director, Center for Health Care, Tuck
Learn about the behaviors and life activities most strongly associated with a life of meaning and happiness.
3:00-4:15 pm | Class: Negotiating with Influence
Aram Donigian T’08, Clinical Professor of Business Administration, Tuck
Negotiation isn’t just about pushing for what you need, but also about understanding the other person’s concerns to jointly create value. Discover how curiosity and creativity can help you become a more effective negotiator in every aspect of life.
4:30-6:00 p.m. | Class: What’s Your Brand?
Conwell Worthington
In this course, you’ll learn practical strategies and tools to build a personal brand that enhances your career opportunities, builds your credibility, and grows your professional presence. By the end of the session, you’ll have a clear game plan for sharing your value, connecting with your audience, and standing out from the crowd.
6:00-7:00 p.m. | Class: Story Telling
Joe Catrino, Executive Director, Dartmouth Center for Career Design
February 15, 2026 | Georgiopoulos Classroom
Understand diverse leadership approaches and envision a purpose-driven life.
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2:00–3:30 p.m. | Class: Career Crafting: Insights from Research and Lived Experience on Career Design
Sonya Mishra, Tuck
This session introduces the concept of career crafting, defined as designing a career that fits one’s life rather than optimizing for a single “perfect” path early on. Drawing on empirical research and personal experience across investment banking, entrepreneurship, and academia, Professor Mishra examines why nonlinear career trajectories are increasingly common and often advantageous. The talk challenges prevailing assumptions about success, leadership, and the expectation of early career certainty. Students will learn how different orientations toward work—job, career, and calling—serve distinct functions at different stages of life. The session also provides practical guidance on optimizing for career mobility, conceptualizing career transitions as a mechanism for skill accumulation and strategic repositioning.
3:40–5:10 p.m. | Class: Designing Your Life Part 1
Eugene Korsunskiy, Associate Professor of Engineering, Thayer
In this session, you will apply the innovation principles of “design thinking” to reframing some commonly-held misconceptions about your life and career, and creatively envision diverse pathways into joyful, thriving futures.
5:15–6:00 p.m. | Alumni Chat
Lenny Gail D’85, Founding Partner and Trial Lawyer, Massey & Gail
Kate B. Hilton D’99, Co-Founder & Principal, Innovation Capital
March 8, 2026 | Georgiopoulos Classroom
Develop your financial knowledge, personal decision-making ability, and creative mindset to build a fulfilling career.
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2:00–3:00 p.m. | Class: What is Finance?
Joseph Gerakos D’90, Professor of Business Administration, Tuck
Finance will touch most aspects of your personal and professional lives: financing your education, buying a house, saving for retirement, starting a business, purchasing car insurance, making investment decisions at work... Moreover, some of you will likely work in the finance industry. In this session, we cover the fundamental concepts of finance: risk and time. We cover how to apply these concepts in a framework that will improve your interactions with financial products and markets.
3:00-4:30 p.m. | Class: Personal Finance
Brian Melzer, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Tuck
Managing one’s own finances is something most of us will need to do over the course of a lifetime. Decisions like how much to borrow to buy a home or how much to save for retirement, or the monthly budget choices we might make to balance necessary and desired spending with net income, all affect our personal well-being. This module is designed to expose students to the key the building blocks of making sound financial decisions as well as to resources that can be leveraged to help instill healthy financial habits.
4:45-6:15pm | Class: Designing Your Life Part 2
Eugene Korsunskiy, Associate Professor of Engineering, Thayer
In this session, you will apply the innovation principles of “design thinking” to reframing some commonly-held misconceptions about your life and career, and creatively envision diverse pathways into joyful, thriving futures.
Tuck School of Business: Clinical Professor of Business Administration
Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Aram Donigian served in the U.S. Army for 21 years as an infantry and public-affairs officer, deploying three times to Afghanistan. Donigian cofounded the West Point Negotiation Project and is the coauthor of several articles on negotiation within the military context. Donigian currently teaches the Negotiations course at Tuck and works closely with the Tuck Business Bridge Program.
Tuck School of Business: Bakala Professor of Business Administration
Joseph Gerakos studies markets for financial services and is currently conducting research on competition in the audit market and the performance of the asset management industry. He teaches Managerial Accounting.
Thayer School of Engineering: Associate Professor of Engineering
Eugene Korsunskiy is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth College, where he teaches courses on human-centered design. Prior to arriving at Dartmouth, he taught at Stanford University's d.school, where he helped to develop the "Designing Your Life" curriculum. Eugene is Co-Director of the Design Initiative at Dartmouth (DIAD), and the Executive Director of the Future of Design in Higher Education (FDHE), a global community of educators dedicated to creating and sharing best practices in design pedagogy. Eugene was the 2020 recipient of the Woodhouse Excellence in Teaching Award at Dartmouth, and the 2018 recipient of Dartmouth's Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. He has also received a Fast Company Innovation by Design Award, and has been a speaker at several TEDx events and the Aspen Ideas Festival. Eugene has an MFA in Design from Stanford University and a BA in Art & Art History from Williams College.
Tuck School of Business: Clinical Professor of Business Administration; Faculty Director, Center for Health Care
Dr. Lindsey Leininger specializes in data-driven health policy, with a focus on the health care safety net and community health. She has a longstanding interest in publicly funded health insurance programs, with related research spanning quality measurement, risk segmentation, and program evaluation. Her community health work focuses on health education and promotion initiatives. Highlights include leading an award-winning crisis communication campaign during the COVID-19 pandemic; designing and delivering a nationally recognized curriculum for public benefits navigators; and leading the data and research efforts for a home-visiting program for high-risk pregnant women in Wisconsin. At Tuck she teaches courses on data-driven decision-making in the health sector. She also serves as Faculty Director for the Center for Health Care. Prior to Tuck, Lindsey spent a decade designing and leading research and technical assistance projects for Medicaid agencies, both as an academic and as a think-tank researcher. She holds a PhD in health policy from the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy.
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Brian Melzer is an economist who studies household finance, real estate, financial intermediation, and financial regulation. He has held positions as a senior financial economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and as an assistant professor of finance at the Kellogg School of Management, where he taught corporate finance for MBA students. Professor Melzer has published in leading economics and finance journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Finance. He teaches courses in real estate at Tuck.
Tuck School of Business: Assistant Professor of Business Administration; Wei-Chung Bradford Hu T’89 Faculty Fellow
Sonya Mishra is an assistant professor of management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Her research investigates how diversity operates within various forms of hierarchy (e.g., power, status) to shape social perceptions and, ultimately, the workplace outcomes of underrepresented individuals. Her research has been published in outlets such as Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Drawing on her expertise in organizational diversity, Mishra is responsible for designing and teaching the MBA elective Leading Diverse Organizations. In addition to research and teaching, Mishra consults with global organizations that are committed to addressing issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Prior to obtaining her PhD from University of California’s Haas School of Business, Mishra studied finance at Georgetown University and worked in investment banking.
Tuck School of Business: Clinical Professor of Business Administration; Faculty Director, Center for Business, Government & Society
Faculty Director, Tuck Pathfinders
Charlie Wheelan D’88 is the faculty director for Tuck’s Center for Business, Government & Society. Prior to joining the Tuck faculty, he was a senior lecturer and policy fellow at Dartmouth’s Rockefeller Center for Public Policy. He teaches courses related to business and public policy. The winner of the 2020 Dean of the Faculty Teaching Award, he was also selected by the Dartmouth classes of 2011 and 2020 to be their Class Day speaker and has been recognized in the Aegis as one of Dartmouth’s ten best professors by six other graduating classes.
Prior to coming to Dartmouth, Wheelan taught at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, where he also earned his Ph.D. Wheelan’s most recent book is Write for Your Life: A Guide to Clear and Purposeful Writing and Presentations, which was published in 2022. Wheelan is the author of the “naked books”: Naked Money, Naked Statistics, and Naked Economics. In 2023, Naked Economics was named by Princeton finance professor Burton Malkiel in the Wall Street Journal as the best business book of all time. Wheelan is also the author of The Centrist Manifesto and the founder and chair of Unite America, a movement of Democrats, Republicans, and independents working to foster a more representative and functional government.
Marketing
Conwell Worthington III is an experienced educator with over 20 years in executive arts management coupled with faculty positions in marketing at both Babson College and Bentley University.
Prior to transitioning into academia, Worthington served as an executive in arts management. Worthington acted as the Associate General Manager at The Huntington Theatre Company and the Theater Manager at the Charles Playhouse, both in Boston, MA. Career production highlights include management positions on shows nationally and internationally: Broadway (Billy Crystal: 700 Sundays, Boeing Boeing and 33 Variations); international engagements (Australia and Canada); national tours (The Lion King, Billy Crystal: 700 Sundays, and The Book of Mormon); and regional theatre (The Laramie Project, Sister Act: The Musical, Fences, Purlie, Ray Charles Live! and Blue). Worthington also acted as Worldwide Associate to the Production Supervisor for The Lion King, helping coordinate productions in China and the Netherlands. Worthington served as Associate Producer on In a Booth at Chasens at The Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Currently he is working as a management consultant for The Obsidian Theatre Festival in Detroit, MI and J&B Theatricals in California.
Head of US Branded Cards & Lending at Citi
Founding Partner and Trial Lawyer at Massey & Gail
Bakala Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business
Joseph Gerakos studies markets for financial services and is currently conducting research on competition in the audit market and the performance of the asset management industry. He teaches Managerial Accounting.
Co-Founder & Principal, Innovation Capital
Tuck School of Business: Clinical Professor of Business Administration
Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Aram Donigian served in the U.S. Army for 21 years as an infantry and public-affairs officer, deploying three times to Afghanistan. Donigian cofounded the West Point Negotiation Project and is the coauthor of several articles on negotiation within the military context. Donigian currently teaches the Negotiations course at Tuck and works closely with the Tuck Business Bridge Program.
Tuck School of Business: Bakala Professor of Business Administration
Joseph Gerakos studies markets for financial services and is currently conducting research on competition in the audit market and the performance of the asset management industry. He teaches Managerial Accounting.
Thayer School of Engineering: Associate Professor of Engineering
Eugene Korsunskiy is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth College, where he teaches courses on human-centered design. Prior to arriving at Dartmouth, he taught at Stanford University's d.school, where he helped to develop the "Designing Your Life" curriculum. Eugene is Co-Director of the Design Initiative at Dartmouth (DIAD), and the Executive Director of the Future of Design in Higher Education (FDHE), a global community of educators dedicated to creating and sharing best practices in design pedagogy. Eugene was the 2020 recipient of the Woodhouse Excellence in Teaching Award at Dartmouth, and the 2018 recipient of Dartmouth's Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. He has also received a Fast Company Innovation by Design Award, and has been a speaker at several TEDx events and the Aspen Ideas Festival. Eugene has an MFA in Design from Stanford University and a BA in Art & Art History from Williams College.
Tuck School of Business: Clinical Professor of Business Administration; Faculty Director, Center for Health Care
Dr. Lindsey Leininger specializes in data-driven health policy, with a focus on the health care safety net and community health. She has a longstanding interest in publicly funded health insurance programs, with related research spanning quality measurement, risk segmentation, and program evaluation. Her community health work focuses on health education and promotion initiatives. Highlights include leading an award-winning crisis communication campaign during the COVID-19 pandemic; designing and delivering a nationally recognized curriculum for public benefits navigators; and leading the data and research efforts for a home-visiting program for high-risk pregnant women in Wisconsin. At Tuck she teaches courses on data-driven decision-making in the health sector. She also serves as Faculty Director for the Center for Health Care. Prior to Tuck, Lindsey spent a decade designing and leading research and technical assistance projects for Medicaid agencies, both as an academic and as a think-tank researcher. She holds a PhD in health policy from the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy.
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Brian Melzer is an economist who studies household finance, real estate, financial intermediation, and financial regulation. He has held positions as a senior financial economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and as an assistant professor of finance at the Kellogg School of Management, where he taught corporate finance for MBA students. Professor Melzer has published in leading economics and finance journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Finance. He teaches courses in real estate at Tuck.
Tuck School of Business: Assistant Professor of Business Administration; Wei-Chung Bradford Hu T’89 Faculty Fellow
Sonya Mishra is an assistant professor of management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Her research investigates how diversity operates within various forms of hierarchy (e.g., power, status) to shape social perceptions and, ultimately, the workplace outcomes of underrepresented individuals. Her research has been published in outlets such as Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Drawing on her expertise in organizational diversity, Mishra is responsible for designing and teaching the MBA elective Leading Diverse Organizations. In addition to research and teaching, Mishra consults with global organizations that are committed to addressing issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Prior to obtaining her PhD from University of California’s Haas School of Business, Mishra studied finance at Georgetown University and worked in investment banking.
Tuck School of Business: Clinical Professor of Business Administration; Faculty Director, Center for Business, Government & Society
Faculty Director, Tuck Pathfinders
Charlie Wheelan D’88 is the faculty director for Tuck’s Center for Business, Government & Society. Prior to joining the Tuck faculty, he was a senior lecturer and policy fellow at Dartmouth’s Rockefeller Center for Public Policy. He teaches courses related to business and public policy. The winner of the 2020 Dean of the Faculty Teaching Award, he was also selected by the Dartmouth classes of 2011 and 2020 to be their Class Day speaker and has been recognized in the Aegis as one of Dartmouth’s ten best professors by six other graduating classes.
Prior to coming to Dartmouth, Wheelan taught at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, where he also earned his Ph.D. Wheelan’s most recent book is Write for Your Life: A Guide to Clear and Purposeful Writing and Presentations, which was published in 2022. Wheelan is the author of the “naked books”: Naked Money, Naked Statistics, and Naked Economics. In 2023, Naked Economics was named by Princeton finance professor Burton Malkiel in the Wall Street Journal as the best business book of all time. Wheelan is also the author of The Centrist Manifesto and the founder and chair of Unite America, a movement of Democrats, Republicans, and independents working to foster a more representative and functional government.
Marketing
Conwell Worthington III is an experienced educator with over 20 years in executive arts management coupled with faculty positions in marketing at both Babson College and Bentley University.
Prior to transitioning into academia, Worthington served as an executive in arts management. Worthington acted as the Associate General Manager at The Huntington Theatre Company and the Theater Manager at the Charles Playhouse, both in Boston, MA. Career production highlights include management positions on shows nationally and internationally: Broadway (Billy Crystal: 700 Sundays, Boeing Boeing and 33 Variations); international engagements (Australia and Canada); national tours (The Lion King, Billy Crystal: 700 Sundays, and The Book of Mormon); and regional theatre (The Laramie Project, Sister Act: The Musical, Fences, Purlie, Ray Charles Live! and Blue). Worthington also acted as Worldwide Associate to the Production Supervisor for The Lion King, helping coordinate productions in China and the Netherlands. Worthington served as Associate Producer on In a Booth at Chasens at The Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Currently he is working as a management consultant for The Obsidian Theatre Festival in Detroit, MI and J&B Theatricals in California.
