“Yale Career Panels: A Fireside Chat - The Challenge of Major Career Changes”December 1,2016

This event is the first in a new series of fireside chats covering career-related issues. Unlike the “Yale Career Panels: A Candid View of Professions” series that focuses on specific careers, this series will be 45 minute conversations with one or two individuals about career related topics. The second fireside chat will be in January and will focus on “Serving on Boards”.

The first fireside chat will cover the challenge of making major career changes from one type of job or profession to a very different job or profession. We will be interviewing Nancy Yao Maasbach, who is a Yale SOM graduate. She started her career at Goldman Sachs in investment banking, but made three major moves subsequently. The first to become the Managing Director of the Corporate Program of the Council on Foreign Relations, the second as the Executive Director of the Yale-China Association, and the third to become the President of the Museum of Chinese in America.

She will comment on what drove her to make the career changes that she made, how she was able to make the career moves, and the challenges related to transitioning into very different professions. In particular, she will provide some practical “dos” and “don’ts” about both the personal decision process, how one convinces decision makers that they should hire you, and how you manage the transition into a new organization and profession.

The fireside chat will be broadcast via an interactive streaming video system. The fireside chat will last for 30 minutes and will be followed by a 15 minute Q&A session.

Time: December 1, 2016from 5 pm to 5:45 pm EST

Webinar: interactive streaming video

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Fireside Chat Interviewee:

Nancy Yao Maasbach

Nancy Yao Maasbach is the President of the Museum of Chinese in America (AB from Occidental College in Diplomacy and MBA from Yale School of Management)

After several years in investment banking at Goldman Sachs (Asia), Nancy re-located to New York to become the Director of Policy Research at Goldman's newly-created Global Markets Institute. Nancy also launched the Asia coverage at the Center for Finance and Research Analysis (now Risk Metrics). She served as the managing director of the corporate program her second time around at the Council on Foreign Relations. She had previously worked at the Council in the Asia Studies Program as a research associate. She also had the privilege of serving as an Associate Producer at CNN International during the Handover Coverage in 1997. Prior to becoming President of the Museum of Chinese in America, she was the executive director of the Yale-China Association, one of the oldest non-profit organizations dedicated to building U.S.-China relations at a grassroots level. Nancy has over twenty years of experience working in and covering Asia.

She received her MBA from the Yale School of Management and her AB in diplomacy and world affairs from Occidental College. She was awarded a CFR-International Affairs Fellowship in 2003. As an IAFJ, Nancy researched China-Japan economic relations amidst political tensions based at the Nippon-Keidanren in Tokyo. Nancy sits on the publicboards of The India Fund and The Asia Tigers Fund and the non-profit board of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas. She is the past President of the Women & Girls Fund of Greater New Haven. She lives with her husband and two children in Woodbridge, Connecticut.

Moderator and Organizer:

Peter Young, President and Managing Director, Young & Partners (Yale BA in Economics, NYU MS in Accounting, and Harvard Business School MBA)

Peter Young is President and a Managing Director of Young & Partners, a leading boutique investment banking firm focused on the life science and chemical industries. He manages the firm and is actively involved in client transactions and financings. Under his leadership, Young & Partners has established and maintained its position as a highly regarded firm.

The Series Sponsors

This series is jointly supported by various organizations at Yale University and Yale Alumni organizations, including Yale Office for Career Strategyies, the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA), the Yale School of Management, Students and Alumni of Yale (STAY), the Junior Class Council (JCC), the Yale Alumni Association of New York (YAANY), the Asian American Cultural Center, SOM Alumni-New York Chapter, and the Association of Asian American Yale Alumni (AAAYA).