Career Buzz
Since 2006, we’ve broadcast unrehearsed and informative conversations featuring extraordinary career stories of ordinary people, and insights from future-of-work thought leaders including National Geographic explorer-in-residence Wade Davis, former Member of Parliament, Helene Leblanc, and career experts Sareena Hopkins, Norm Amundson, Roberta Borgen, Rich Feller and many more. We also look at the intersection of real-world business practice and people’s career and life choices. We explore how individuals turn their personal passion for innovation into tangible commercial success. And we learn about innovation management best practices, and lessons learned. Listen to Career Buzz to hear inspiring career professionals share useful insights to increase awareness about the importance of career literacy and share tips to support you to clarify what’s next for you. Hosts: Mark Franklin, MEd,PEng, (he/him) leads CareerCycles, co-founded OneLifeTools, co-authored Who You Are Matters! and Online Storyteller, and teaches career management at University of Toronto. He received the Stu Conger Career Development Award. Mark consulted in his earlier engineering career, before earning a Masters in counseling then leading student services initiatives in universities. Mark started Career Buzz in 2006. Stephen C Armstrong, Professor of Innovation, University of Toronto and founder of AMGI Certified Management Consultants. A native of Belfast, N Ireland, Stephen is an award-winning state licensed Professional Engineer, Entrepreneur and Professor of Innovation at the University of Toronto. Initial pedigree in the aerospace industry. Founder (1993) of AMGI Management Inc, Certified Management Consultants. Stephen founded Innovation Nation on Career Buzz in 2014. Hoda Kilani (she/her), Certified Professional Career Coach and the Founder of Right Career Fit, a coaching practice that focuses on career education. Hoda is on a mission to have #careerliteracy trend across social media and works with a variety of media to create awareness including a YouTube channel and two podcasts released on a biweekly basis, Hoda’s Musings and Hoda’s Career Info. If you care to join her, reach out for a chat!
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Episodes
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Mentorship develops self awareness, a valuable trait when it comes to career development. Join Dr. Hoda Kilani as she raises Career Literacy with Life and Success Coach, Lametra Off who shares her dream and the reasons she values mentorship to fulfil a dream. In the second half of the episode, transformational executive coach and entrepreneur, Jared Bull, reminds us that if we see value in the work we do, then we should not be shy about talking about it.
Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
In this episode of Innovation Nation on Career Buzz with Stephen Armstrong, the topics of housing, career and employment are covered when he meets again with Bob Duff, the executive director of St. Simon’s Shelter in downtown Toronto. Bob Duff revisits his personal story and career trajectory from Bay street family man, to homelessness, to becoming a tireless front-line worker with the downtown homeless population.
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
In this week’s episode, host Mark Franklin has a conversation with Michelle and Olivier Wagner about traveling freely while working remotely. They explore the idea of workcation and being digital nomads, a way to reconcile work and leisure to design the life that we want. Many countries worldwide have created special digital nomad visas to allow people to stay and work longer than regular visitor visas. Canada announced its own digital nomad visa program in the summer of 2023.
What’s life like as a digital nomad? How do you get started? Michelle and Olivier Wagner have lived and worked in dozens of countries. Olivier is the CEO and U.S. tax expert of 1040 Abroad. He is also the author of the recently published Amazon Bestselling book, U.S. Taxes for Worldly Americans. Michelle is a director of finance for a Canadian organization.
Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
In this episode, Erica Mattison interviews with artist, entertainer, and restaurant manager, Ivanna Melay.
Tuesday Aug 15, 2023
Thursday Aug 03, 2023
Thursday Aug 03, 2023
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Dr. Hoda Kilani is raising Career Literacy one interview at a time. With support from his colleagues, David Reynolds took on a project to understand the impact of their work on the students they serve. How do you test the impact of the work that you do? And stay tuned as Jaide Massin explains that “There really is an art to how one presents their professional background and accomplishments while job searching” and why she thinks that “you are awesome!”.
Tuesday Jul 11, 2023
Tuesday Jul 11, 2023
This week's host Stephen Armstrong meets with Steve Wake to discuss the need to make project management disappear to ensure our projects succeed.
Friday Jun 30, 2023
Friday Jun 30, 2023
Dr. Hoda Kilani is raising Career Literacy one interview at a time. In this episode, we discuss ‘Contours of Courageous Parenting – Can we tilt towards better decisions?’, a book that strategist and futurist, Karena de Souza, published for parents struggling to equip their children with decision-making frameworks robust enough to survive unforeseeable futures such as a pandemic. And stay tuned as Jeff Morris shares the value of using the right KEYWORDS during a job search and talk about his reasons for launching CareerUSA and CareerDFW.