Career Advice, Coastal Projects, and Navigating the Workplace with Hollie Schmidt

Share your Field Stories!Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick! On today’s episode, we talk with Hollie Schmidt,  Director, Resilient + Sustainability Business Advisory at Jacobs about Career Advice, Coastal Projects, and Navigating the Workplace.   Read her full bio below.Help us continue to create great content! If you’d like to sponsor a future episode hit the support podcast button or visit www.environmentalprofessionalsradio.com/sponsor-form Showtimes: 1:37  Nic and Laura discuss career paths6:54 Interview with Hollie Schmidt starts13:55  Hollie's career advice19:31  Hollie discusses her coastal projects32:27  Hollie talks about navigating the workplacePlease be sure to ✔️subscribe, ⭐rate and ✍review. This podcast is produced by the National Association of Environmental Professions (NAEP). Check out all the NAEP has to offer at NAEP.org.Connect with Hollie Schmidt at https://www.linkedin.com/in/hollie-schmidt/Guest Bio:Hollie Schmidt is Director of the Resilience + Sustainability Business Advisory. In her 26 years of practice, she has honed an integrated planning and delivery approach, with a particular focus on master planning and site selection. Serving a broad range of projects, she leads large, diverse teams of planners, architects and the full spectrum of engineers and technical experts to assist with decision-making, scenario evaluation and implementation plans. With a strong foundation in facilitation, coordination, communication, and problem solving, she has a long history of successfully leading mega, complex projects for clients with large real estate and facilities holdings and delivering sustainable and resilient solutions.Hollie’s area of practice includes a focus on resiliency planning either as a preventative or recovery service for larger-scale clients who are experiencing vulnerabilities to natural or man-made disasters particularly as it relates to climate change. She has led inter-disciplinary teams that deliver sustainable solutions across the natural and man-made environments for multi-billion-dollar programs as well as more moderate facilities. She also supports resilient and sustainable solutions through extremely compelling business case analysis focused on life-cycle savings and non-financial benefits such as wellness, environmental and community impact and market recognition.Music CreditsIntro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace MesaOutro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs MullerSupport the showThanks for listening! A new episode drops every Friday. Like, share, subscribe, and/or sponsor to help support the continuation of the show. You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and all your favorite podcast players.