Sean O'Keefe

Sean O’Keefe is an award-winning professor and career coach at Santa Clara University, where he teaches business communication, business leadership, and career development courses for first-generation and low-income students. He is the founder and chief impact officer of Career Launch and cofounder and director of impact at Empowered Students, organizations focused on expanding students’ access to professional relationships and career opportunities.

He is the author of Launch Your Career: How ANY Student Can Create Relationships with Professionals and Land the Jobs and Internships They Want, published by Berrett-Koehler in 2021. The book presents O’Keefe’s Career Launch Method, an eight-step framework for helping students explore career options and pursue internships, jobs, and research opportunities through proactive relationship-building.