Your Next Career Step – Details, episodes & analysis

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Your Next Career Step

alumni UBC

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Frequency: 1 episode/14d. Total Eps: 8

Do you want to feel motivated and inspired? Find out how, in the middle of a pandemic, our alumni from around the world are rethinking what it means to be a leader. Your Next Career Step is a podcast miniseries where we will learn from industry experts and alumni about career and professional development.

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🇨🇦 Canada - Careers
13/06/2025
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Pay attention to possibilities

Episode 8

Wednesday, August 26, 2020 • Duration 31:06

On this episode, host Nicole Yeasting, BA’11, Manager of alumni UBC’s Career Program is joined by Kari Marken, PhD’19. Kari is a Lecturer at the UBC Sauder School of Business. She holds a PhD in Curriculum Studies from the UBC Faculty of Education. Her research focuses on imagination and storytelling in teaching and learning. Join us to learn how you can pay attention to your own possibilities and how it may broaden your perspectives as you start your career.

Supported by the alumni UBC Pillar Partners, TD Insurance Meloche Monnex, BMO alumni UBC Mastercard and Manulife Financial.

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Exploring empathy: Become more understanding of others

Episode 7

Thursday, August 13, 2020 • Duration 23:31

In this episode, host Nicole Yeasting, BA’11, Manager of alumni UBC’s Career Program is joined by Carina Koo, BCom Candidate‘23, and Chirag Jadhwani, BCom Candidate‘22, hosts of the podcast, “The Empathy Show”. These two UBC students focus on the themes of empathy and emotional intelligence in their podcast that they launched last fall.

Carina is a second-year student studying commerce and specializing in organizational behavior and human resources, with a minor in Sociology. Chirag is a third-year student at UBC studying commerce and computer science. Learn how these two students use empathy to address issues that exist in their daily lives and how we can all bring more empathy and change to our communities.

Supported by the alumni UBC Pillar Partners, TD Insurance Meloche Monnex, BMO alumni UBC Mastercard and Manulife Financial.

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Create your own opportunity: Develop an entrepreneurial mindset

Episode 6

Tuesday, July 28, 2020 • Duration 28:19

In this episode, host Nicole Yeasting, BA'11, Manager of alumni UBC’s Career Program speaks with alumnus Grant Munro, BSc'01. Grant is a serial entrepreneur who recently founded a B2B venture studio aimed at launching 3-4 new SW businesses a year. Prior to that, he was the founder of Flashstock Technology, a leading provider of on-demand visual content for the world’s leading brands.

Flashstock was acquired by Shutterstock in 2017 for $75 million Canadian. To date, Grant has helped more than 250 enterprise marketing teams, including AB InBev, L'Oréal, Nestlé, and McDonald's amongst many others, change the way they think, develop, and source creative content at scale.

Supported by the alumni UBC Pillar Partners, TD Insurance Meloche Monnex, BMO alumni UBC Mastercard and Manulife Financial.

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How to cultivate a growth mindset

Episode 5

Wednesday, July 15, 2020 • Duration 24:23

In this episode, host Nicole Yeasting, BA’11, Manager of alumni UBC’s Career Program speaks with alumnus Zain Meghji, BA’00. Zain currently resides in Vancouver and is the head of video for Daily Hive, where he serves as the Creative Director of Video for their branded content arm, Hive Labs. Zain was a Bollywood actor in Mumbai, taught high school drama in England, and more recently was a broadcaster for a morning television show, and has interviewed Hollywood celebrities including Oprah, Beyoncé, Will Smith and Lady Gaga.

Supported by the alumni UBC Pillar Partners, TD Insurance Meloche Monnex, BMO alumni UBC Mastercard and Manulife Financial.

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Understanding employee motivation during change and uncertainty

Episode 4

Wednesday, July 1, 2020 • Duration 25:16

In this episode, host Nicole Yeasting, BA ’11, Manager of alumni UBC’s Career Program speaks with Leah Allinger Pezer, BA’02. Leah is a Researcher at the University of Calgary and Principal CoFounder at Lead the Future. She shares her experience as a professional athlete, how sport and leadership are intertwined and how to better understand employees motivations during change and uncertainty.

Supported by the alumni UBC Pillar Partners, TD Insurance Meloche Monnex, BMO alumni UBC Mastercard and Manulife Financial.

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How to build resilience during challenging times

Episode 3

Wednesday, June 17, 2020 • Duration 24:10

In this episode, host Nicole Yeasting, BA’11, Manager of alumni UBC’s Career Program speaks with Dr. Wendy Carr, MEd’97, Professor of Teaching and Senior Advisor to the Dean of the Faculty of Education at UBC. They discuss how to define and build resilience during challenging times. Dr. Carr has had a long career in education in the school system as teacher and district level consultant, as well as in post-secondary, as a teacher educator and administrator. Her work in recent years in mental health literacy education has included the co-creation of a curriculum for pre-service teachers to develop their understanding and skills related to youth mental health.

Supported by the alumni UBC Pillar Partners, TD Insurance Meloche Monnex, BMO alumni UBC Mastercard and Manulife Financial.

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Effective ways to lead virtual teams

Episode 2

Wednesday, June 3, 2020 • Duration 26:06

In this episode, host Nicole Yeasting, BA'11, Manager of alumni UBC's Career Program, speaks with Magdalena Blasiak, BA'99, a UBC alumna, Certified Leadership Coach, Project Management Professional, and owner of Shine Forward Consulting about what we can do as individuals and leaders to lead effective teams while working remotely.

Supported by the alumni UBC Pillar Partners, TD Insurance Meloche Monnex, BMO alumni UBC Mastercard and Manulife Financial.

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Adapting through change: Rethinking what it means to lead

Episode 1

Wednesday, May 20, 2020 • Duration 23:28

In this episode, host Nicole Yeasting, BA ’11, Manager of alumni UBC’s Career Program, speaks with Adel Gamar. A UBC Sauder Executive Education instructor and CEO and Co-Founder of Gamar Leadership Group. An expert on adaptive leadership, organizational strategy, and change management.

Presented in partnership with UBC Sauder Executive Education.

Supported by alumni UBC’s affinity sponsors, TD Insurance Meloche Monnex, BMO alumni UBC Mastercard and Manulife Financial.

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