Former UAS faculty member Julia Ivy shared her BE-EDGE instrument with faculty during a CELT workshop on March 4, 2019.
Former UAS faculty member Julia Ivy shared her BE-EDGE instrument with faculty during a CELT workshop on March 4, 2019. BE-EDGE is built to enhance graduates’ employability and uses consulting cases as a framework for final projects, capstone classes, and internship theses.
Julia Ivy is a professor of strategy and international business at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, Boston, MA. Julia Ivy possesses a PhD in Psychology and a PhD in Management (Strategy), which has helped her in developing the BE-EDGE method to assist graduates in shaping their space in the job market through conducting consulting cases.
During the workshop, Dr. Ivy described the E-D-G-E steps framework for integrating a consulting case assignment into personal strategy and job crafting efforts, and she also gave examples of a variety of projects her students have developed through the program. In addition, Dr. Ivy talked about the consulting case contest she developed through her work, which has reached students at universities worldwide.
Participants in the CELT workshop discussed ways to integrate consultancy projects into the fabric of experiential learning: as a part of both curricular and as extracurricular activities; as business cases and as non-business cases; as cases with given “clients” and given “issues”, as well as independent consultancy projects. If you weren’t able to attend the workshop, you can view the recording.