{"id":3260,"date":"2024-08-29T14:03:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T18:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/business\/?p=3260"},"modified":"2024-08-29T14:05:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T18:05:29","slug":"hes-father-frank-to-the-younger-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/business\/2024\/08\/29\/hes-father-frank-to-the-younger-students\/","title":{"rendered":"He\u2019s \u2018Father Frank\u2019 to the Younger Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frank Galindo \u201920 hadn\u2019t set foot in a classroom in 20 years when he enrolled in the Feliciano School of Business\u2019 MBA program in 2018 at age 43. \u201cThey called me \u2018Father Frank,\u2019 a term of endearment because of my age,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was a culture shock but not unexpected.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As assistant vice president for public relations and stakeholder engagement at Lincoln Tech, Galindo engages with legislative staffers, many of whom are his junior. Being part of a cohort comprising younger individuals provided him access to a range of perspectives and insight into managing personalities and improved his communication skills with this generation. \u201cIt really opened my eyes. We\u2019re talking about a bunch of different personalities, much younger than myself, who are more attuned to the modern-day working world. Learning to communicate with those folks has really helped me,\u201d says Galindo.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While still a student, Galindo was invited to share his experience at both the MBA and graduate school open houses. As an alumnus, he was invited with a handful of other alumni for dinner with President Koppell to share his experience while at Montclair and provide feedback that could benefit future cohorts. Now, Galindo mentors MBA students one-on-one in the Accelerated MBA program, dispensing career advice and insight. \u201cMy experience at MSU helped me and inspired me to do this volunteer work because I had to take myself, personally and professionally, to the next level to do all these other things. Montclair State University was a great springboard for me,\u201d says Galindo.<\/span><\/p>\n

Galindo feels compelled to give back to the university that gave him his professional life back. \u201cIt\u2019s a wonderful experience to pass on a lot of the knowledge that I had learned and the tools, tips and tricks that I\u2019d picked up over the years,\u201d says Galindo. \u201cI didn\u2019t have that growing up. I didn\u2019t have that guidance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>In addition to his duties at Lincoln Tech, throughout 2022 and 2023, Galindo was the executive vice president of partner relations for the New Jersey chapter of the Association of Latino Professionals for America, offering professional development programs that connect Latinx students with American corporations, like Moody\u2019s, Bank of America, Merck and Bristol Myers Squibb. \u201cThe goal is to help the next generation of Latinx students make their way as quickly as possible to roles in corporate America and upper management through upskilling and networking,\u201d says Galindo.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frank Galindo \u201920 hadn\u2019t set foot in a classroom in 20 years when he enrolled in the Feliciano School of Business\u2019 MBA program in 2018 at age 43. \u201cThey called me \u2018Father Frank,\u2019 a term of endearment because of my age,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was a culture shock but not unexpected.\u201d\u00a0 As assistant vice president […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":3263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-magazine","category-feliciano-school-of-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3262,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions\/3262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}