Career Development

Accelerate Your Future

Advance your career with the dedicated support of Minerva’s Coaching and Talent Development team. From personalized virtual support to collaborative coaching sessions, workshops, and resume reviews, you’ll get the guidance you need to clarify your goals and identify new opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Coaching Support Sessions

The Coaching and Talent Development team helps you create and pursue a meaningful life and career by exploring, testing, and developing the skills and characteristics that support you personally and professionally.
Spring Semester:
Engage in group coaching focused on values, strengths, and leadership skills.
End of First Semester:
Reflect on your experience and identify how to use your graduate education to achieve your goals.

Lifelong Career Development

Your partnership with the CTD team doesn’t end at graduation—it’s a lifelong resource for continued growth, connection, and career development. Throughout your Minerva experience, you’ll participate in:

One-on-one and group coaching sessions.

Workshops, labs, and networking opportunities.

Support to align values, strengths, and goals with your actions.

Guidance to reflect on work history and overcome obstacles.

Tools to identify new ways to add value in your organization.

Strategies to develop confidence, growth mindset, and professional relationships.

Student Perspective

My professional coach is a great source of inspiration and a thought partner to help me push forward. Whether it be finding my key strengths, reflecting on how to act on my interests and goals, or sharing my raw ideas on thesis topics, she is always there to refine my thoughts and carry on. Coaching is helpful for aligning the professional goals with who I am.

Seon Yeong Lee,
MDA Class of 2021

Outcomes for Our Alumni

Our graduates leverage the MDA to:

Advance into leadership roles.

Launch new ventures or pivot careers.

Drive organizational change.

Sharpen critical thinking and remain competitive in fast-changing industries.

Program Impact Stats:

90%
of graduating students were satisfied or extremely satisfied with the MDA’s impact on reaching their next career step.
30+
fields and areas of expertise represented in Minerva’s graduate student and alumni body.
55%
of Class of 2022 graduates changed jobs or founded new companies during or after their MDA experience.
25+
countries and territories represented in the graduate student and alumni community.
36%
of Class of 2022 graduates working full-time or part-time asked for and received a salary increase.
27%
asked for and received a promotion, based on additional knowledge and education gained at Minerva.

Student Perspective

The coaching sessions helped me clarify my goals and gave me actionable strategies to apply what I was learning in real time. I felt supported every step of the way.

Jennilie,
MDA Alum