3 CE Hours
Course Overview: Artificial intelligence is becoming a routine tool in career counseling, coaching, higher education, and workforce development, however, most practitioners are unaware of its environmental cost. Every AI prompt draws on energy-intensive data centers that consume electricity, water, and mined resources, contributing to carbon emissions and environmental strain. These impacts add up quickly when AI is used frequently and inefficiently across institutions and programs.
This course shows why environmental responsibility in AI use is now part of ethical, professional practice in career services. More importantly, it demonstrates how small, reasonable changes can meaningfully reduce environmental impact without sacrificing service quality.
Career professionals are educators, role models, and decision influencers. By adopting sustainable AI practices, participants can protect the planet, strengthen professional credibility, and lead clients, students, and organizations toward more responsible technology use.
Learning Objectives:
Explain how everyday AI use in career services contributes to environmental harm, including energy, water, and resource consumption.
Review practical, sustainable AI principles to reduce environmental impact in counseling, coaching, and workforce development tasks.
Apply and evaluate best practices within realistic career services experiences.
Your Instructor: Dr. Janet Wall, CCSP, JCTC, NCDA Fellow
Dr. Janet E. Wall, CCSP, NCDA Fellow has worked at the federal, state, and school district levels in the areas of assessment, evaluation, and career development. Her work has spanned the public and private sectors from the Pre-K level through executive development.
She is an author of several books, articles, products, and an assessment called the Ability Explorer. During her time with the US Department of Defense she created the ASVAB Career Exploration Program which served more than a million high school and postsecondary school students each year, and she worked with ACT’s DISCOVER, a similar program in the private sector.
Her current passion is Career Planning Academy https://careerplanningacademy.com, an award winning program that provides NCDA-approved online courses, certifications, and webinars for career development professionals. She also has taught the Facilitating Career Development program to counselors and career services individuals in several states and online. Her most recent awards include the President’s (Obama) Lifetime Service Award, ACA’s Government Relations Award, Mid-Atlantic Career Counselors’ Association Professional Contribution Award, and NCDA Merit Award, among others.
She is an early adopter of technology tools and uses it to encourage and teach others to bring tech into their lives.
