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Career Coaches ($$$): Need deeper transformation in your career journey? Hire an outdoor industry-oriented, coach specializing in all parts of the career journey to take you to the next level.
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Upcoming Workshops
Level up your career with hands-on workshops led by outdoor industry experts.
Outdoor Careers 101:
Mapping the Industry
Outdoor Careers 101: Mapping the Industry
A 90-minute virtual workshop with Geneviève Marchand
The outdoor industry is much bigger than the roles and brands most people see from the outside.
In this interactive 90-minute workshop, Geneviève Marchand will help you map the broader outdoor industry and uncover career paths across sectors you may not have considered, from brands and media to recreation, advocacy, policy, economic development, resorts, events, and beyond.
You’ll explore how your existing experience, strengths, and working style might translate across the industry, then learn a repeatable approach for researching unfamiliar sectors, companies, and roles with more direction.
This isn’t about starting your career over or casting a wider net just for the sake of it. It’s about understanding the landscape well enough to focus your search, recognize where you might fit, and make more intentional decisions about what to explore next.
You may not need to start over. You may need a bigger map.
Key Takeaways
See the bigger picture. Explore the breadth of the outdoor industry and discover sectors, organizations, and career paths you may not have considered.
Find where you might fit. Connect your strengths, interests, experience, and preferred way of working to different parts of the industry.
Recognize what you already bring. Identify transferable skills from your current or previous experience and begin translating them into an outdoor industry context.
Expand your search with intention. Move beyond the same familiar job titles and brands without simply casting a wider net.
Learn how to explore unfamiliar territory. Build a repeatable approach for researching new sectors, companies, and roles on your own.
Leave with a next step. Identify one specific action you’ll take to keep moving your career exploration forward.
Meet Our Most Recently-Added Experts
Sholeh Mirzai
Sholeh has spent 15+ years leading product management and merchandising at brands including YETI, The North Face, and Under Armour. She champions inclusive design and workplace equity, with deep expertise in product innovation, assortment planning, and consumer research.
Jen Gurecki
Jen Gurecki leverages 30+ years in the outdoor industry to support creatives, founders, and aspiring business owners in elevating and refining their voice, purpose, and niche to discover more meaning and sustainability in their work.
Jill Kinison
Jill helps others navigate career challenges with the insider perspective of an HR leader who’s been in the room where decisions happen, from hiring and promotions to performance and change.
Kelly Blake
Kelly Blake is a communications leader specializing in CPG, beverage, and outdoor sports brands. With agency and client-side experience, she creates authentic storytelling and integrated marketing campaigns that resonate with both B2B and B2C audiences.
Pancho Gomez
Pancho is a career transition coach who helps people find roles that make sense for who they are now. After nearly two decades leading teams in tech and the outdoor industry, he became an ICF-credentialed coach and has supported hundreds of people through job changes, leadership growth, and work-life resets. His coaching blends practical strategy with self-awareness, helping clients figure out what they want, tell their story with confidence, and navigate the job search without burning out.
Eboni Preston
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Justine Mulliez
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Kelly Neel
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Jessica Trimble
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Geneviève Marchand
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