Your Next Career Step

Pay attention to possibilities

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.

Exploring empathy: Become more understanding of others

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.

Create your own opportunity: Develop an entrepreneurial mindset

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.

How to cultivate a growth mindset

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.

Understanding employee motivation during change and uncertainty

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.