What does a post-MBA climate career look like? Join us to talk with MBA alumni about their climate jobs -- what they do, what they find rewarding (and frustrating) about their current role, and what skills they use on a regular basis.
Speakers:
John Kim, Graduate Programs Career Advisor + Part-Time Lecturer, University of Vermont’s Grossman School of Business
Kelsey Niehoff, Manager, Decarbonization Projects, CF Industries
Rosie Sharp, Sustainability Manager, PepsiCo
David Wang, Director Energy Portfolio Management, CoreWeave
John Kim is the Graduate Programs Career Advisor and a Part-Time Lecturer at the University of Vermont’s Grossman School of Business. Previously he served as the Head of Impact and Strategy at 1Row, a boutique marketing and consulting firm focusing on purpose-driven start-ups, nonprofits, and other ventures. Before this, he spent 10 years in CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) and ESG (environment/social/governance) roles at The Walt Disney Company and Herman Miller (now MillerKnoll). Prior to that he worked at Lipman Hearne, a branding and marketing agency focused on the nonprofit sector, supporting higher education institutions, large foundations, and member associations.
Earlier in his career, John served in the Peace Corps in Morocco, worked on food insecurity impacting communities in the Washington, DC area and South Africa, and evaluated programs for the United Nations World Food Programme in Malawi. He’s also the creator of the blog, Virtuous Cycle, which highlights changemakers using bikes to do good, serves as an advisor for zero-emissions last-mile delivery company, Coaster Cycles, and is a board member of Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (VBSR).
He received his master’s in public policy (MPP) from Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy and his bachelor’s from Cornell University. He lives with his family in Montpelier, VT.
Kelsey Niehoff is the Manager of Decarbonization Projects at CF Industries, where she originates, negotiates, and manages the commercial aspects of decarbonization projects. Her work includes developing commercial agreements for carbon capture, transportation and storage, renewable power, and differentiated natural gas to enable low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia production. She also executes commercial transactions related to CF Industries' carbon compliance positions and monitors policy developments across the sectors in which she negotiates commercial agreements. Her career has spanned process engineering, product innovation, and commercialization of first-of-a-kind technologies across leading industrial chemical manufacturers and an early-stage direct air capture startup. Kelsey brings a practical perspective to scaling emerging technologies and navigating the commercial challenges of industrial decarbonization. Kelsey holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.