17 Guest Speakers, Including Parents and Alumni, on Tap for Career Day

Career Day, a Sage Hill School event designed to expand career considerations among its students, will be held on Wednesday, March 14. This year’s event features 17 guest speakers.

These speakers connected to the Sage Hill community represent a broad range of fields share information about their careers — including everything from day-to-day routines to their career paths, lessons, successes and even meaningful failures, said Sholeh Satari, one of the Parent Association Career Day co-chairs.

Career Day will begin at 9:30 AM with the entire school gathering in the Peter V. Ueberroth Gymnasium for the keynote speech, before breaking off into the individual speaker sessions around campus. This year’s keynote speaker is Swish Goswami, an accomplished 20-year-old who is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, UN Youth Ambassador, LinkedIn Youth Editor and TEDx speaker.

“New this year, tables will be set up after the talks in Wilkins Town Square where students can seek out and engage with the speakers,” Satari said. “This allows students to get either more in depth information or to expand the number of careers they are exposed to.”

The Career Day committee, made up of volunteers from the Parent Association, have met about once a month this school year and nominated the speakers, who are mostly Sage Hill parents and several alumni.

“We try to cover a wide range of disciplines that Sage Hill students are interested to learn about. We also get input from current students and review previous surveys to determine which career fields would be most interesting to students,” Satari said.

Each speaker leads two 40-minute sessions to two different groups of students. The number of students in a session ranges from 15 to 50. Students are able to decide which speaker sessions they want to attend.

“I love hearing about the extraordinary careers that the speakers have had,” said Sandy Irani, a former parent co-chair for Career Day. “Most of the speakers come from the Sage Hill community and it continues to amaze me what an incredibly influential and accomplished group we are in.”

Here is this year’s list of speakers:

Bill Phillips, Former mayor of Aliso Viejo, Urban design consultant
Bradley Jeanneret, Construction Engineering
Dave Shah, CEO of Wve Labs, Serial Entrepreneur, Professional Kiteboarder, Pilot
Eden Phair, Honor Fraser Gallery Associate Director, OC Contemporary Collectors Chair
Joe Kiani, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Masimo, a global medical technology innovator
Larry Wilk, VP Worldwide Operations, VP Studio Operations & Strategy, Walt Disney Company
Lorellen Green, M. D., Physician, Medical Director, MemorialCare Medical Group; Modern dance choreographer/producer
Marci Miller, J. D., Special Education Attorney and Consultant, Miller Advocacy Group
Oscar Oo, Psy.D.; Matthew Koury, M.D., M.P.H., Clinical Psychologist; Child and Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist, Mind Health Institute
Paul Woodworth, M. D., Orthopedic Surgeon; Department Chief, Orthopedic Surgery, Kaiser Permanente, Downey
Randy Heyler, President and CEO of Ondax, Inc., Optical filters, laser sources, spectroscopy
Robyn Grant, Attorney, Writer, Co-founder of StyleCon
Satish Chitoori, VP of Global Supply Chain Management, Western Digital Corporation
Stephanie Soltis, Vice President, PIMCO; Major, United States Air Force Reserve
Stuart Palley, Environmental and commercial photographer
Trilby Robinson-Dorn, UCI Associate Dean of Lawyering Skills; professor of Lawyering Skills

For more information about each of the Career Day speakers, please click here.