Sean P. Lybeck - Smoak

Biography

Sean Lybeck-Smoak is the Director of Experiential Learning and Career Education at Cardinal Stritch University.  In over seventeen years of higher education experience, he has managed numerous grant initiatives, specialized in the creation of high-impact co-curricular experiential-learning programs, centralized student employment operations, and organized community-engaged leaning opportunities designed to engage students in intentional personal/professional development and reflection. Sean contributed to the creation of the Career Ready Internship Program in 2013 and has worked since that time to secure additional grant funds to increase access to internships for students with need, centralize and improve internship operations across the University, embed career development into the curriculum, and to better resource students, faculty, and placement sites.  Sean is an active member of the Wisconsin Private College Career Consortium and a proponent that education should benefit the communities in which we live and serve. He earned his undergraduate degree from Centenary College of Louisiana and a graduate degree from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois.  

Education

• B.A., Centenary College of Louisiana
• M.A., Garrett - Evangelical Theological Seminary

Publications & Presentations

Recent Presentations Include 
•    “Online Interviewing Strategies and Using the InterviewStream Platform”  
•    “Resume, Cover Letters, and Job Search Strategies Workshop for Public Allies-Milwaukee.” 
•    “Informational Interviewing - A  Sociology and Criminal Justice Intern Workshop" 
•     “Experiential Learning and Professional Development at Stritch - A Presentation for First-Year Stritch Students.” 
•    “Professionalism and Internship Success Strategies.” Orientation workshop for Career Ready Internship Program (2015).
•     “Search For Meaning.” First Year Experience Instructor at Cardinal Stritch University (2013).