Career Path of a Vice President Head of ESG at Compass Diversified
Zoe's career journey began with a Bachelor of Business and Commerce, focusing on management and organizational behavior, supplemented by retail work experience during college. After an internship as a health and safety assistant at a services and infrastructure company, Zoe progressed through roles as a health and safety assistant and manager, eventually transitioning into sustainability, leveraging "skills around people" gained from early work experiences.
Career Development, Sustainability, Health and Safety, Leadership, Management
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Zoe Koskinas
Vice President, Head of ESG
Compass Diversified
University of Western Sydney
UCLA Anderson School of Management - EMBA
Business & Related
Finance (Banking, Fintech, Investing)
Climate, Environment and Sustainability
Worked 20+ Hours in School
Video Highlights
1. Zoe pursued a Bachelor of Business and Commerce, majoring in management and organizational behavior, gaining valuable workforce experience through retail work during college.
2. She secured an internship and later a job in health and safety at a services and infrastructure company, showcasing her career progression through taking on increasing responsibility.
3. Zoe transitioned from health and safety management to a sustainability-focused role, demonstrating adaptability and career evolution into a field directly related to ESG.
Transcript
Could you walk me through your career path, starting with your experiences in college? Please include any internships or jobs you had before your current role.
I studied a Bachelor of Business and Commerce, majoring in management and organizational behavior. That was over four years, and during that time, I worked most of the time I was at college. I was working in retail, which gave me skills around people and the workforce.
While I didn't do any internships in college, I was certainly working. After finishing college, I did an internship related to my career goals. I interned at a services and infrastructure company that built and maintained roads, so it was also engineering.
I was the assistant to the health and safety manager on that site. Ultimately, they offered me a job at that company as the health and safety assistant. I then progressed from health and safety assistant to health and safety manager.
One of the companies that partnered with this company offered me a job as a health and safety manager. From there, I progressed into sustainability.