The SectorShift study is a dissertation research project that examines the lived experiences of those with prior careers in the for-profit world who have shifted the focus of their work and career to the nonprofit sector. The personal accounts of such career changers should help us understand if and how they made sense of their experience during the transition. The analysis of their narratives should help others who make similar career changes be better prepared to address the experiences they are likely to face in their own lives.
Principal Investigator for the SectorShift study is Burt Woolf, a doctoral candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Education. In 2004, following his tenure as Executive Director of the Creative Education Foundation, Burt decided to set his 30-year professional career aside, in order to pursue a doctorate in educational policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Education. Since then, he has been a full time student, interspersing occasional professional assignments amidst his doctoral course work, research, and graduate assistantships. Burt expects to earn his doctorate (Ed.D.) in early 2011.
Visit www.burtwoolf.com for complete information about Burt and his professional interests in community improvement programs, life coaching, facilitated consensus-building, motivational speaking, and international service-learning travel.
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