Going from academics to environmental consulting with success

How do you go from academics to private sector consulting and succeed? You need humility, persistence, and people skills. You will come in to the workplace vastly overqualified in some areas, and extremely under-qualified in others. You will need to learn a whole new way to work, in teams, quickly, and without achieving perfection. But the work you do will affect the real world far more directly than most academic work, and what you do can change people’s lives.