Speaker Information
Alaina G. Levine is a professional speaker, award-winning entrepreneur, STEM career consultant, TEDx speaker, science journalist and corporate comedian. Her book, Networking for Nerds (Wiley, 2015), beat out Einstein (really!) for the honor of being named a Top 5 Book of 2015 by Physics Today. As President of Quantum Success Solutions, LLC, she is a prolific speaker & writer on career development and professional advancement for engineers and scientists. She has delivered over 850 webinars and speeches for clients in the US, EU, Mexico, Canada, Africa, Asia, and South America (including over 100 gigs in 2020), and has written over 450 articles in publications like Science, Nature, Scientific American, National Geographic News Watch, Word Economic Forum, and Smithsonian. She also writes “Your Unicorn Career”, a careers column for Science Magazine about finding your professional bliss. Levine authored two online courses for Oxford University Press on career development and entrepreneurship, is a consultant, speaker, and writer for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, and served as the event manager for an international conference on phononics. As a career coach and consultant, she has helped 1000s of clients in diverse fields, professions, industries, and regions create and land their own Unicorn Career. She holds bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and anthropology and a certificate in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Arizona, and studied at the American University in Cairo as a US Department of Defense Boren Fellow.
