Alaina G. Levine

Create Your Unicorn Career!

Travels from Tucson AZ, USA

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Speaks on:

Communication

Belonging

Career Development

Influence

Innovation

Mental Health

Speaks to:

Associations & Membership Orgs

Higher Education & Vocational

Other / Cross-Industry

Formats:

Breakout

Workshop

Training

Fireside Chat

Keynote


Audience members say

Alaina electrifies audiences with her authentic approach to career transformation, tackling self-doubt and professional hurdles with refreshing honesty. She captivates listeners with her "inspiring" and "empowering" presentations, blending vulnerability, humor, and practical wisdom that makes attendees feel "uplifted" and convinced they "really CAN do it." Her talks deliver actionable strategies for career transitions, salary negotiations, and networking, equipping professionals—especially academics moving to industry—with tangible tools to combat imposter syndrome and showcase their value.
Key Audience Outcomes
  • Participants gained actionable strategies for career advancement and job searching.

  • Attendees felt more confident in their ability to negotiate salaries and market their skills.

  • Listeners experienced a boost in self-esteem and motivation to pursue their career goals.

  • Individuals developed a new perspective on networking and how to build meaningful connections.

  • Attendees learned practical tools to combat imposter syndrome and reframe negative thoughts.

Alaina's Bio

Alaina G. Levine is an award-winning professional speaker, career and speaking coach, TEDx speaker, science writer and corporate comedian. She is the author of two books, Networking for Nerds (Wiley, 2015), which beat out Einstein (really!) for the honor of being named a Top 5 Book by Physics Today, and Create Your Unicorn Career! (forthcoming). As President of Quantum Success Solutions, LLC, she is a prolific speaker and writer on career development and professional advancement for scientists, engineers, and communicators. She has delivered ~1000 speeches, workshops and webinars for clients in the US, EU, Mexico, Canada, Africa, Asia, and South America.


Alaina Offers the Following Talks

Career DevelopmentCommunication

Create Your Unicorn Career!

  • Learn a data-driven, step-by-step process for identifying what Your Unicorn Career can be (and how to land it)

  • Experience how to perceive and convert your current job into Your Unicorn Job, and thus be more productive, creative, and innovative at work

  • Finetune and understand the power of networking, which involves win-win relationships built on a foundation of generosity, to uncover hidden career, client, and collaboration opportunities

  • Discover how much power, choice, and value you have to create Your Unicorn Career when you effectively market and celebrate your successes (and how doing so gives permission to your colleagues to do the same)

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BelongingMental Health

Farewell to Frauding: Create Belonging by Combatting Impostor Syndrome

  • Develop an understanding of how the menace of Impostor Syndrome and Not-Good-Enough impede innovation and growth

  • Understand novel mechanisms to remove them from our brains and help our teammates fight them

  • Clarify the relationship between success in your organization, industry, and career, through the lens of fighting these syndromes

  • Create a new culture of belonging and inclusivity, where everyone can bring their full voice, brain, and self to solve the toughest problems and serve all of our clients and constituents effectively

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ResilienceInnovation

The Exquisite Fabulousness fo Reframing Failure as Fuel

  • Gain a data-driven framework to reframe and shift failure into growth and innovation opportunities for your organization, team, and project

  • Learn techniques to identify where and when failure could occur and train yourself and your team to implement a strategy to enable success in a challenge or crisis

  • Discover a process-oriented approach to grieve from and navigate any kind of professional failure, loss, or challenge

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Relationship BuildingCommunication

Networking for Nerds: Craft win-win alliances everywhere

  • Discover novel ways to connect with colleagues and cultivate partnerships to advance organizational, industry, and professional goals

  • Reframe networking as a value-driven experience, built on the principle of generosity, that solves a problem for another party

  • Gain specific verbiage, strategies, and tactics that ensure networking is realistic, easy, simple, and even fun

  • Engage in this Highly Experiential program, meet and network with other attendees, and gain a blueprint for how to optimize their time at your conference!

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Public SpeakingInfluence

Speak to Spark: Public Speaking Masterclass to increase influence and land fat stacks of contracts

  • Learn the essence of what makes a great speech

  • Develop techniques to improve clarity of messaging and storytelling

  • Gain an understanding of a simple formula to shift every presentation into a powerful connection with the audience

  • Discover how to reduce speaking anxiety, engage the audience, and leverage speaking as a means to land fat stacks of contracts and funding

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