85: Unleash your unique potential into the world with Jeff Hittner

Jeff leads Your Project X, a social venture dedicated to helping
people (re)discover their purpose to build careers they’ll love.
He has more than 18 years experience as an entrepreneur,
consultant, professor and changemaker. He is the founder of five
social ventures, including IBM’s Corporate Social Responsibility
(CSR) consulting practice. In 2011, he developed the curriculum
for the first MBA in Sustainability on the East Coast, at Bard
College, where he was the Leadership professor. He was also
two-time Chairman of the Carnegie New Leaders at the Carnegie
Council for Ethics in International Affairs.


Jeff’s passion has always been at the intersection of education
and entrepreneurship. Prior to your Project X, he ran a career
transition program for 64 New Yorkers, built global education
programs including a blended learning initiative for high school
dropouts in Latin America and career discovery programs for youth
in Europe. He is currently piloting a 4 month multi-country
internship and personalized leadership program for students in
NYC and Guatemala called CAREER X. Jeff received his Masters in
Cultures and Development Studies from the Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven in Belgium, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from
The College of William and Mary in Virginia where he was an elite
gymnast. As a thought leader, Jeff has been published in a half
dozen major publications, including Forbes. His most recent blog
posts can be found here.


I loved having Jeff on the show. He is the epitome of a
Successful Dropout and is now using his experience to help other
people step off the conveyor belt and explore the world of
possibilities. From an unconventional 5th year in college, to
moving to Boston, then Belgium, then Spain, being a strategy
consultant, starting an internet company and a multitude of other
projects as a social entrepreneur...Jeff has lived a life in
pursuit of work he loves. Now he's helping you discover what you
want to do, but more importantly, WHO you want to be. 


 


Quote: "Don't ask yourself what you want to do...ask
yourself who you want to be."
Resources

Your Project X

Jeff's blog

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