Alum Connection with Ezra Zimbler: Transforming the Workforce and Leveraging a Michigan Degree Abroad

Passionate about customer success and helping others to get the best out of every situation they are put in, Ezra Zimbler leads a talent insights team who passionately works with marketing, sales and HR to make data-driven decisions to solve their clients’ organizational problems with the use of LinkedIn tools. The successful intrapreneur, a term used to describe a start-up within an existing company, has also navigated an international move and has lived and worked abroad. Ezra is coming back to talk with LSA students about how to be entrepreneurial in their paths and explore all the places a U-M LSA degree can take them….here and abroad.

About Ezra:
Ezra is a Talent Insights Leader at LinkedIn. Born and raised in upstate New York, he is a 2011 graduate of the University of Michigan where he studied Sport Management, and currently lives in Dublin, Ireland. His career has been mostly in sales, customer support, and leadership in the sports and tech industries. He has been at LinkedIn for almost eight years and in his current role he leads a team across Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America who work with clients on how to use LinkedIn data to make better business decisions. He is passionate about creating a level playing field, mentoring students to find their full potential and making education available to all. In 2017, he helped to co-found TransformHER which is a conference to help women of color break into and grow their careers in the tech industry.

You should attend this session if you are:
-A undergraduate U-M LSA student
-Interested in a career abroad after graduation
-Thinking about how to advance within a company or organization

What you’ll gain by attending:
-Make a valuable connection with a successful global alum
-Gain insights into the company sponsorship process to move abroad
-Find out more about the industry of talent insights, tech, and data


RSVP NOW to be part of the conversation. The link to join this Alum Connection will be emailed to you after you RSVP.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event will be hosted on Zoom (learn more about Zoom accessibility) and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Sairah Husain at sairah@umich.edu or 734-763-4674 so we can make arrangements.