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Career Continuum

GBA recognizes the career of a geoprofessional includes several stages of experience and knowledge. Each career stage requires support at different levels for professional development to accelerate competencies of consultants. In support of this lifelong journey, GBA launched the Career Continuum to address all stages of a geoprofessional’s career.


Early Professional Class
Embark on Your Consulting Career

The Early Professional Class (EPC) is the first class of the Career Continuum. EPC introduces early-career geoprofessionals (less than four years of experience) to the essential skills, knowledge, and consulting tools needed to thrive. Designed to lay the foundation for a successful consulting career, the EPC blends real-world project scenarios with professional competencies that participants can immediately apply in their daily work.

Each Class includes 24 representatives of GBA member firms who have high potential as consultants and business leaders within their firms. If you are looking to accelerate the growth and unleash the potential of your future leaders and your firm, GBA can help by:

• Building your Early Professional’s business acumen by providing introductions to key consulting fundamentals.
• Optimizing your future leader’s business performance through interaction and training with other top-notch professionals.
• Exposing your Early Professionals to the wide array of GBA benefits and resources.
• Providing a time- and cost-efficient approach with 10 live virtual sessions moderated by an experienced GBA speaker and facilitated by an expert adult education instructor.

Your key people will not want to miss out on this opportunity!

The Early Professional Class consists of 10 live, virtual sessions occurring bi-weekly on important business and consulting-related topics, including:

  • Consulting Fundamentals
  • Communication
  • Ethics
  • Proposals
  • Contracts
  • Risk Management
  • Project Management

Classes are taught predominantly using GBA reference materials, led by experts from GBA member firms, and facilitated by an expert in adult education. The classes also help these Early Professionals develop a network of other professionals in a similar career stage across North America. Upon successful completion of the class, each participant will receive a Certificate of Completion to acknowledge and document their achievement.

For additional information or with questions, please email info@geoprofessional.org or Sara Menase at sara@geoprofessional.org.

We appreciate your interest in GBA’s Career Continuum and the Early Professional Class.