Naviance and Podcast

This past summer I have had the pleasure of connected with Naviance, a company dedicated to planning and advising systems for secondary education.  I learned of Naviance when I worked at the Cate School in Carpinteria and then I connected with Joe Berry at Naviance who asked me to do a Podcast for the Community portion of the Naviance website!  The topic of the podcast was “What to expect your first semester” — It was so much fun!

Naviance then had an amazing summer institute where counselors from all over the world gathered for workshops.  100 of my books, The Little College Handbook, were given away as prizes so 100 counselors throughout the U.S. are getting my book!

It’s such a small world too because while I have been working with Joe Berry, his boss Don Tollman, the VP of Enterprise Sales, asked Joe “Is this the Melissa Mellott who went to Colorado State University?”  Don was one of the first admissions counselors I worked with in the Office of Admissions at CSU when I was an undergrad and just starting to work in higher ed admissions!  Don is such a great person, very funny and an amazing higher ed professional!

My experience working with Naviance thus far has been incredible!  They are change agents, making a difference and improving structures of organization in education.