Center for Staff Life Design

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Johns Hopkins established staff life design to provide access to personal and professional growth opportunities through a well-designed life. Life design is an innovative approach to navigating your career and living your best life. It harnesses a constant growth mindset to help you purposefully pursue what you want to do in life and how you want to do it.

The Center for Staff Life Design (CSLD) was developed to help achieve one of the university’s goals in the Ten for One strategic framework: to become a national employer of choice that recognizes, celebrates, and supports its staff and offers multiple pathways to professional and personal advancement for themselves and their families.

get curious & design your work life by:

Accessing the self-paced eLearning Course – Design Your Work Life
Registering for the 2025 In-Person Workshops

How Does Life Design Work at JHU?

Staff life design is a process that can help you reach your personal and professional goals. If you want to make a change in your life, career, or well-being, the CSLD has resources to help you.

JHU’s life design process includes four key activities described below.

Design Your Work Life at Johns Hopkins

The CSLD tools, workshops, courses, and experiential learning are highly engaging and packed with valuable information to help you bridge where you are today with what you want to do tomorrow, as well as how you want to do it. Participate in person or online by department, group, or individually.

Explore ways to grow or change your life or career through the following virtual or live courses

Navigate to myLearning, search “Staff Life Design” and select one of the following workshops:

Boost a skill tailored to your interests

Take a course through LinkedIn Learning.

Update your resume

Consider this course on MyLearning: Resume Writing and Interview Skills that Work for You.

Strengthen your communication skills

Earn an Executive Certificate in Business Communication from the Carey Business School.

Search for a new opportunity at JHU

Browse current opportunities.

Get help navigating a life event or personal challenge

Contact the Johns Hopkins Employee Assistance Program (JHEAP).

Connect with a life coach

Life coaching, available through the Johns Hopkins Employee Assistance Program (JHEAP), is designed to help you explore your potential, build confidence, and celebrate your successes.

Improve your well-being

Explore one of JHU’s physical, mental, social, or financial well-being programs.

The Bridge Between Today and Your Future

The Center for Staff Life Design enables JHU staff to explore career interests, develop skills and competencies, connect and build networks with peers and colleagues, and navigate JHU’s career architecture and internal recruitment processes.

CSLD fosters transformative experiences that encourage you to reimagine, design, and build the career and life you want, no matter where your skills, goals, talents, curiosity, and interests may take you.

Ready to Design Your Life?

Register for Staff Life Design Courses by visiting the myLearning website (and searching for “Staff Life Design”). Have questions? Reach out to us at [email protected].

At Johns Hopkins we aspire to:

Be a best-in-class employer of choice
Create pathways for momentum in social and economic mobility
Assure that every employee experiences a sense of belonging, pride in their work, and empowerment to be at their best