Charting Your Future Course: Determining Next Steps and Maximizing Success in Mid-Career

Name: Charting Your Future Course: Determining Next Steps and Maximizing Success in Mid-Career
Uploaded: 2026-05-11
Description: Join us for an enlightening webinar designed specifically for mid-career professionals in scholarly publishing who are looking to reinvigorate their career trajectory and make the most of their expertise. As…

Duration: 1 hr
Publication Date: February 2025

About the session

Join us for an enlightening webinar designed specifically for mid-career professionals in scholarly publishing who are looking to reinvigorate their career trajectory and make the most of their expertise.

As you enter the next phase of your career, new challenges and opportunities arise. This webinar will provide you with invaluable insights, strategies, and tools to navigate this crucial phase with confidence and success.

Key Topics:

· Assessing your career trajectory and setting new goals

· Leveraging your experience to take on leadership roles

· Adapting to technological changes in scholarly publishing

· Building and maintaining professional networks

· Balancing work-life integration for long-term career satisfaction

· Exploring new areas of specialization within scholarly publishing

· Mentoring and knowledge transfer to the next generation

Don't miss this opportunity to invest in your future and make the most of your valuable experience in scholarly publishing.

Keyword:: Career Development

Speakers

Chief Commercial Officer & Senior Consultant, Delta Think Inc

With more than twenty-five years of experience in society publishing and association management, Lori Carlin is a recognized expert in customer insight, market research, marketing strategy, and digital product development. Lori is currently the CCO and Senior Consultant at Delta Think, Inc., and has also held senior positions in Marketing, Sales, Online Content Delivery, and Subscriber/Member Services for a number of scholarly publishers and societies. As CCO, Lori is responsible for business development/new business opportunities and partnerships, as well as corporate marketing and corporate communications for Delta Think. On the consulting side, Lori actively engages with clients to support their needs in all areas, with a special emphasis on business strategy and analysis, customer insight, and market research and strategy implementing customer insight methodologies and building effective strategies for publishing programs and products, and has helped professional societies and corporations develop and deliver publishing products that best meet and exceed customer needs. She is also very active in the publishing industry, currently serving as SSP Annual Meeting Co-Chair, and held previous positions as a SSP Board Member, as well as numerous committee chair and member positions for SSP, ASAE, and PSP.
Managing Director, Harvard Data Science Review

Rebecca McLeod is the Managing Director for the Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR,) the open access platform of the Harvard Data Science Initiative. In this role, she oversees all business, publishing and program operations of HDSR including business development, production and editorial activities, and marketing. Rebecca has decades of experience in scholarly communications having worked in marketing, editorial development, operations, and relationship management roles for both nonprofit and commercial organizations including ThRebecca is very active in the scholarly communications industry having chaired and served on multiple committees for the Association of University Presses, the Professional and Scholarly Division of the American Publishers’ Association and the Society for Scholarly Publishing. She is a founding member of the Boston Women Information Network, a former member of the Board of Directors for the Society of Scholarly Publishing, and currently serves on the Steering Committee for the Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) and the Board of Directors for the National Information Standards Organization (NISO).e MIT Press, Aries Systems, and Copyright Clearance Center.
Senior Consultant, Delta Think

Heather Staines is Senior Consultant at Delta Think and Director of Community Engagement for the OA Data Analytics Tool. She currently holds the record for human with the highest number of annotations. She is a frequent speaker and participant at industry events including the COUNTER Board of Directors, the Charleston Library Conference, the STM Futurelab, Society for Scholarly Publishing, Council of Science Editors. She has a Ph.D. in Military and Diplomatic History from Yale University.

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