When I started as a freshman at W&L, I knew I wanted to be a journalist. So much in fact that I had started going by my middle name (Elliott) the summer before freshman year so that I would have an awesome pen name (J. Elliott Walker). I loved every second I spent inside the [...]

Surfing a Global Tidal Wave May 15, 2012 – I’m sitting in seat 21D in business class on CX318 from JFK to HKG on the due date of this writing assignment (in true W&L last minute protocol). We’re air-sailing at 575mph @ 32K over the polar ice cap and the camera on the belly of [...]

General Electric employs roughly 300,000 people around the world. CNBC, a subsidiary of GE during my entire 6 ½ year tenure at the network, had somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,500 employees while I worked there. I currently have five employees. In February 2006, I left my job as Managing Editor at CNBC/Dow Jones Business [...]

When I was a junior, I hosted several football recruits looking to play for and attend Washington & Lee University. It was my “job” to show them a good time and try to convince them to pick W&L. One of my roommates served as a tour guide in the Admissions Office; it was his “job” [...]

I have spent the past 14 years doing what I and those who know me well would call my “dream job.” I am the Director of Corporate Partnerships for the Philadelphia Phillies. My work combines many of my passions – business growth, advertising and marketing strategies, broadcasting and media management, relationship building, and career development [...]