Lisa Taylor
President and Founder, Challenge Factory
Sareena Hopkins
Executive Director, Canadian Career Development Foundation (CCDF)
Kay Castelle
Executive Director, CERIC
Seanna Quressette
Coordinator, Continuing Education, Douglas College
Donnalee Bell
Managing Director, The Canadian Career Development Foundation
Jamie Noakes
Chairperson, Career and Experiential Learning Department, Thompson Rivers University
Candy Ho
Faculty, Educational Studies, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Aziz Mimoudi
Lecturer/PH.D. student, Sherbrooke University/UM6P
Sue Kersey
Certified Career Development Professional, SK Career Consulting
Dinuka Gunaratne
Director of Career Development and Experiential Learning, Northeastern University - Vancouver
Catherine Stace
Career Services Manager, Max Bell School of Public Policy, McGill University
Deirdre Pickerell
Program Director, Canadian Career Development Foundation
Barbara Wilson
Career Coach | Career Consultant |Trusted Advisor, Thrive Career Consulting
Roberta Borgen
President, Life Strategies Ltd.
Bill Borgen
Professor of Counselling Psychology, UBC
Norman Amundson
Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia
Gayle Takahashi
Director, Career Development Practitioners Certification Board of Ontario
Dave Redekopp
President, Life-Role Development Group Ltd.
Kathy McKee
Executive Director, Nova Scotia Career Development Association
Barbara MacCallum
CEO Emerita CCPA, CCDF
Gillian Johnston
Director/Chairperson, Career Development Practitioners Certification Board of Ontario (CDPCBO)
Michael Ford
Coordinator, International Co-op Office, Simon Fraser University
Annika Laale
Project Director, CCDF
Emree Siaroff
Vice President, Challenge Factory
Dr. Tannis Goddard
CEO, MixtMode Consulting
Vera Wu
Career Consultant & Training Designer, CERIC Research Committee
Akshay Arora
Career Advisor, Yorkville University
Charlene McLean
Board Chair, Saskatchewan Career Development Association
Mike Quinn
Regional Director Working NB Region 4: Southwest New Brunswick, Working NB a branch of Post-Secondary Education Training & Labour
Lynne Bezanson
Executive Director Emeritus (CCDF), Canadian Career Development Foundation
Glorian Welton
LMI Publisher, The Employment Journey on PEI
Gail Langlais
Consultant / Past Chair Manitoba Association for Career Development, Gail Langlais Consulting
Rudi Genovese
Executive Director, Institute for Performance and Learning
Kevin Maynard
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Canadian Foundation for Economic Education
Sharon Ferriss
Senior Director, Marketing and Communications, CERIC
Yvonne Rodney
President, Inner Change Consulting
Michel Turcotte
Ph. D., Professeur à temps partiel et chercheur en sciences de l'orientation, Université d'Ottawa, Université Laval
Patrick Hebert
Conseiller développement du potentiel de l'individu et de l'organisation, Carrefour des savoirs
Sue Watts
Executive Director, Employment + Education Centre
Trina Maher
President, Bridging Concepts Inc.
André Raymond
Directeur, Service du développement organisationnel, Université Laval
Lorraine Godden
FUSION National Lead, career development educator, Carleton University
Riz Ibrahim
President & CEO, The Counselling Foundation of Canada
Mathieu Fex
Président, AQPDDC
Adriano Magnifico
Career Lead, Louis Riel School Division
Nayelli Perez
Assistant Director Student and Alumni Career Advising and Success, New Jersey Institute of Technology - Career Development Services
Paul Cox
Executive Director, CESBA (The Ontario Association of Adult and Continuing Education School Board Administrators)
Tony Botelho
Managing Director, UBC Career Centre
Candace Stewart-Smith
Director, Centre for Experiential and Career Education, University of the Fraser Valley
Janet Morris-Reade
CEO, Association of Service Providers for Employability and Career Training (ASPECT BC)
Beverlie Stuart
Vice President, Business Development and Community Initiatives, MITT
Michael Sangster
Chief Executive Officer, National Association of Career Colleges
For a list of all signatories click here.
References
[1] Lisa Taylor and Taryn Blanchard, “Hidden Sector, Hidden Talent: Mapping Canada’s Career Development Sector,” CERIC, 2024,
www.challengefactory.ca/hiddensector.
[2] Department of Finance Canada, “Budget 2024: Fairness for Every Generation,” His Majesty the King in Right of Canada, 2024, pp. 208. Employment and Social Development Canada, “Labour Market Transfers,” Government of Canada,
https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/programs/training-agreements.html.
[3] Linda White, “Annual Career Checkups: Reviewing Career Direction Vital to Success,” Toronto Sun, February 28, 2024,
https://community.challengefactory.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Annual-Career-Checkups-Toronto-Sun.pdf.
[4] Canadian Career Development Foundation, “The Pan-Canadian Competency Framework for Career Development Professionals,” 2021,
https://cdpc-cedc.ca/our-profession/competency-framework/.
[5] OECD, “Challenging Social Inequality Through Career Guidance: Insights from International Data and Practice,” OECD Publishing, Paris, 2024,
https://doi.org/10.1787/619667e2-en. Florian Kadletz, Janna Kettunen, Pedro Moreno da Fonseca, and Raimo Vuorinen, “Developing National Career Development Support Systems: Pathways to Enhance Lifelong Career Guidance, Career Education, and Career Development Support for Workers,” International Labour Organization and European Training Foundation, 2021,
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https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/a-national-careers-strategy-would-help-win-in-the-future-of-work-heres-how/article_17546cb6-241b-11ef-ab0a-dfb09c662256.html.