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Accelerate action for International Women’s Day 2025

Here’s how we can work towards a more equitable future.
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2025 Global Outlook: What’s next for the economy and workforce?

Economic experts from the UBC community discuss what to expect in 2025.
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Embrace change to unlock your potential

This leadership coach wants to change how you think about change.
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Network your way to career success

A UBC career strategist shares her top tips for networking.
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Cultivate creativity in your work

Hear how to build a culture of collective creativity in your workplace.
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Diversify your mentorship mindset

Learn how to refine your mentorship skills in the ever-evolving workplace.
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Use your strengths to become a supercommunicator

Here's how to harness your strengths to make your greatest impact at work.
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Make the leap to leadership

An experienced recruiter shares her tips for securing a leadership position.
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Actualize your dream career abroad

Hear the honest truths about relocating, adapting, and working abroad.
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Razzmatazz your résumé

Craft a résumé that dazzles, with tips from two job search experts.
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Anchor your leadership in adaptability

How leaders can learn to thrive amid demanding and unpredictable situations.
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Negotiate your salary with confidence

How to articulate and assert the values you bring to the table.
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Financial foundations: Navigating post-university life with confidence

Learn practical tips and skills for achieving financial independence.
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Build the future with Gen Z

What you need to know about working with the future third of the global workforce.
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My financial life: How to build wealth

Demystify the realm of finance with two savvy fiscal wizards.
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International Women’s Day 2024: Aritzia CEO Jennifer Wong

From shoe buyer to company CEO, hear about Jennifer Wong's meteoric rise through Aritzia.
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Introduction to money management

Brush up on the basics of personal finance to secure your fiscal future.
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Empower Gen Z in the workplace

Learn how to work effectively with Gen Z and build a thriving multigenerational workplace.
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Capitalize on career uncertainty

Learn how to remain resilient and adaptive in today's shifting labour markets.
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Harmonize your work identities

Hold multiple jobs? Here's how to creatively use your work identities in different spaces.
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Revolutionize your career with LinkedIn resolutions

How to make this year a truly transformative one for your career.
Indy Batth and Louise Pitre

Exploring systemic racial equity in the workplace

Learn about tangible steps you can take towards achieving systemic racial equity at work.
Laura Dowling, BA’09, MSc, ECPC, PCC (she/hers) — Principal Consultant and Leadership Coach, LD Performance Consulting  Nikola Girke, BHK’99, PCC, CEC, OLY (she/her/hers) — Professional Performance and Executive Coach, Own Your Podium

Empower your career with Emotional Intelligence

Learn how developing EQ can increase your potential and success in work and life.
Three alumni UBC career coaches

Clarify your career with a coach approach

Learn how you can level up your workplace skills and move from stuck to unstuck.

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Forge ahead through career uncertainty

Discover actionable steps for moving forward in your career.

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Find an intentional career

Learn how to take proactive steps towards reaching a fulfilling and intentional career.

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Be your own advocate

Tips for finding the right assertiveness to best position yourself for success at work.

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Thrive at work with Emotional Intelligence

Learn 10 critical skills for relationship success.

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Advance your career with ChatGPT

Learn to combine human creativity with AI assistance to boost your job hunt.

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Using cultural intelligence at work

Everything you need to know about cross-cultural interactions in the professional world.

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Ace that interview

Learn interviewing skills to boost your chances of landing that job you really want.

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Navigating imposter syndrome as a newbie

How to tackle this common feeling when it arises, whether in your academic or career journey.

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Rebuilding your work boundaries

A career coach shares strategies for integrating your work and personal life.

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The Power of Community, Powered by PechaKucha

Meet UBC alumni making waves through community and collaboration.

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Developing desirable workplaces

What could, and should, the future of work look like? 

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Boost leadership with coaching skills

Explore how to increase your leadership impact while empowering others to do the same.

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Building back from burnout

Watch this webinar to find out how to take your work-life balance back into your own hands.

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Crack the job market

Bolster your chances of scoring that dream job by watching this webinar.

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Conquer life with creativity

Anyone can learn how to be innovative — and use that ability to overcome everyday challenges.

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Make your career move

Considering a new position? Here are some practical tips from a UBC alum and executive coach.

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Knowing your worth at work

Explore how to cultivate a sense of value, without relying on external recognition and praise.

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Think like an entrepreneur

Learn the skills of an entrepreneurial mindset and how to develop them for work and elsewhere.

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Activate your entrepreneurial mindset: Powered by PechaKucha

Learn how alumni have benefited from having an entrepreneurial mindset and how you can too.

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Shattering the glass ceiling: A conversation with Dr. Martha Piper & Dr. Katherina Tarnai-Lokhorst

Dr. Piper and Dr. Tarnai-Lokhorst discuss female leadership and breaking gender biases.

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Cultivating workplace belonging

Learn strategies to address inequitable practices to help create belonging for IBPOC.

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Responsible leadership: How should we face the future? What can I do?

Our panel of experts discuss values, ethics, and integrity for responsible leadership.

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How to build workplace trust and communication for healthy teams

Organizational health experts explain how to improve trust for better communication at work.

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Making a switch: Overcoming barriers to change

To navigate constant change around you, you need to start thinking and acting differently.

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Establishing your financial future

Understand your relationship with money, change your mindset, and build a financial plan.

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alumni UBC Around the World: USA

Hear about filmmaker and music video director Cole Walliser's path from UBC to Los Angeles.

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Nerve: Lessons on leadership from two women who went first

UBC alumni share their career experiences and discuss their new book on leadership.

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alumni UBC Around the World: Latin America & the Caribbean

UBC Journalism alum Alexander Villegas discusses career path, motivation and exciting projects.

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How to take charge of your time and energy

Explore some actionable strategies that can help you restore your motivation and energy.

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Cultivating safe and supportive workplaces

To cultivate a healthy and inclusive workplace, start with learning about psychological safety.

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How to be a savvy networker

Learn how to network effectively, what to avoid, and why networking still matters.

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Tips for giving highly effective feedback

A UBC alum teaches a practical framework and tips for giving confident, effective feedback.

Antonio Balogh

Rethinking Conflict with Debate

Learn how debating can be shifted to instead be a tool that wins hearts and minds collectively.

Christian Monks

Managing anxiety with mindfulness

A counsellor explains what anxiety truly is and how mindfulness can help make things easier.

Mark Cole

It’s 2021… Now What? Simple Habits to Boost Productivity and Navigate Uncertainty

The trillion-dollar question for 2021 is “how much longer are we going to be in this pandemic?”...

Navigating your Career

Navigating your Career in the Midst of COVID-19 with The LinkedIn Guys

As the long-term economic impacts of COVID-19 are still uncertain, job-seekers face a...

Cybele

Intrapreneurship: Taking Charge and Making Change During Times of Adversity

During times of adversity, there are often great opportunities to face challenges, build skills...

Managing Up, Down and Across

Managing up, down and across: How to navigate the workplace with courage

The workplace is a web of complexities, with the push and pull of projects, deadlines, and...

pivot to digital

Pivot to Digital: Stories of Business Transformation

With rapidly changing technology, international markets and global social disruptions (like a...

Debiasing your workplace

Debiasing Your Workplace

Today’s workplaces are expected to be equitable, diverse and inclusive. One of the biggest...

Leah

Generational Differences in the Workplace: Fact or Fiction?

There are many assumptions in the workplace about how different generations prefer to conduct...

Rebecca Paluch

Leading Diversity & Inclusion

Diversity and inclusion (D&I) at work is more important now than ever before. Stories of anti...

AJ

Switching Careers Without Starting from Scratch

You’re smart and good at what you do. You’ve built out skills through your experience that...

How to tell a great story

How to tell a great story using data

Storytelling has earned its place as the most important tradition humans possess. How can we...

Faris Khalifeh

Quiet Leadership featuring Faris Khalifeh

Do you feel like your career path or leadership effectiveness is somehow hindered by your...

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Overcoming impostor syndrome

At one point or another, many people have experienced feeling like a fraud or an impostor in...

Isabeau Iqbal

Leveraging Your Perfectionism

Achieve your goals through a positive approach to perfectionism.

Many of us have aspirations...

Leadership Lessons: Leading Teams Through Conflict featuring Lori Charvat BA, JD, LLM'02

The workplace is a complex adaptive system, connected through people and webs of relationships...

Engaging Employees through Career Discussions, Featuring Colleen Egli, BA'09

Knowing how to increase employee engagement remains elusive for many people managers at a time...

Cannabis Regulation and the Workplace, featuring Michael Litchfield, BA’00, LLB’04

The legalization of cannabis in Canada in 2018 brought with it uncertainty for management and...

Inclusive Hiring: Autism and neurodiversity in the workplace, featuring Karen Bopp, BA’92, MSc’95, PhD’06

It is estimated that Canada will experience a labour shortage of close to 2 million workers by...

Managing Your Energy at Work: Simple habits for better productivity and creativity, featuring Cole Nakatani, BCom'11

Energy, in a human context, is your capacity to do work, play and be creative. It’s the...

Networking with Style featuring Katherine Lazaruk, BMus’93, BEd’95

Have you ever attended a professional event and felt nervous and awkward when starting a...

Overcoming fear in the second act of your career

People are creatures of habit, associating change with risk and seeing it as something to fear...

Building a Culture of Employee Engagement featuring Nicole Yeasting, BA'11 and Julie Jenkins, MA

Take a moment and think about your engagement at work. If you had to give yourself a rating...

Your Best Team - featuring Magdalena Blasiak, BA'99

Who runs the world? Teams! At the heart of any organization you will find people. And what do...

Working in the Age of Automation: Myths and Realities, featuring Viet Vu, BA’16, MSc

In this webinar, Viet Vu, BA’16, MSc, a researcher from the Brookfield Institute for Innovation...

Thriving in the Workplace featuring Miranda Massie, BA'08

Maintaining a successful career is so much more than landing the perfect position. A prosperous...

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Say YES to success

Have you ever noticed how often we create barriers to our own success? Whether it’s caused by...

Think for a Living: The Rise of the Knowledge Worker and Gig Economy - featuring Jody Shakespeare

What you need to know about the trending gig economy, how to use your knowledge to cash-in and...