Pathways to Success: Tips to Accelerate Your Job Search
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Join Rachel Isaacs, program coordinator for JHU’s MS in Environmental Sciences and Policy programs, as she hosts a Green Jobs Network Founder Leonard Adler who will provide guidance and resources to students and professionals interested in working in sectors including conservation, sustainability, climate change, clean energy, and social entrepreneurship.
Gain frameworks for approaching job searches and practical strategies for locating opportunities – including leveraging LinkedIn, identifying useful job boards, and uncovering jobs in the “hidden job market.”
Leonard Adler is the Founder & CEO of Green Jobs Network, a career platform with a 15-year track record of supporting people who want to find meaningful work to make a positive social or environmental impact. The Green Jobs Network’s services provide connections through access to free career content and job boards, a 145,000 member LinkedIn community, and the green jobs newsletter.
Adler has spoken at venues including the Commonwealth Club and the annual meeting of the National Career Development Association. In the Fall of 2025, he served as the keynote speaker at Harvard’s Careers in Climate Action Speaker Series. HIs career also includes work in the legal sector, where he has promoted greater access to law and justice through roles at Equal Justice Works, FindLaw, Nolo, and Justia.
Adler has a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a Public Interest Law Scholar and co-founded the Georgetown Journal on Fighting Poverty. He has an MPP from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Stanford University. He is also an avid runner, finisher of more than 20 marathons, and certified running coach.
Sustainable Solutions Series Overview
The Sustainable Solutions Speaker Series is presented by the MS in Environmental Sciences and Policy and the MS in Energy Policy and Climate programs at Johns Hopkins University. Each talk features scholars and practitioners working to tackle ‘wicked’ environmental, energy, and climate problems. Speakers take us through how they leverage technology, policy, the private sector, markets, research, and field work to form innovative and lasting solutions. From water insecurity to climate adaptation, natural resource conflict to energy transitions, and food insecurity to sustainable agriculture, this series features the depth and breadth of Johns Hopkins University faculty and our greater community as we work toward a sustainable future.
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