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Wendy Dukes

Wendy Dukes

Director of Early Career Programs at Forté Foundation, a nonprofit advancing women in business leadership through MBA access and professional development.

Aug 12, 2026

9:35
What do you mean by this? What, what do you have in mind?
9:40
Right.
9:40
So when people hear the term networking, I think it's an automatic, um, corporate lever that goes off in their mind, like, "Oh, I can only network at, um, a work event or some kind of professional happy hour" and that is not the case.
9:59
I have found that you can network just about anywhere.
10:03
And, um, to give you an example, I, I networked on a cruise.
10:08
Um, so on cruise ships, y- you're always gonna be in some sort of line, and instead of just standing in line, um, looking in front of you, take a moment to talk to the people next to you on, on each side.
10:22
And I did that one time and I found out that the individual that was cruising with me, um, worked for a licensing company in the Midwest that, um, worked with all the Big Ten schools and, um, licensed their logos.

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