The Career Planning Show

Louise Claire Johnson is a Toronto-based writer and the author of BEHIND THE RED DOOR. Her work has appeared in The Globe & Mail, The Huffington Post, and Darling Magazine. Featured by Notable as a “Young Professional to Watch,” she is a graduate of The Richard Ivey School of Business and Harvard University. Louise has studied and worked in Hong Kong, Switzerland, New York, and Boston...

Gerard Keledjian is the Founder and Managing Director of New Horizons Media, a multicultural social enterprise for video production and content creation, where he works with a team of internationally-trained media professionals, and Canadian born young graduates and people with disabilities to assist Canadian non-profits and small businesses with storytelling and brand messaging through content creation...

Kassandra Marling serves as Youth Job Connection Program Coordinator at The Yonge Street Mission, a 125 year-old non-profit development agency in Toronto that focuses on responding to immediate needs and helping people move from surviving to thriving through wraparound support and services. She is passionate about working with job seekers as they grow both professionally and personally while caring for their holistic wellbeing...

Networking expert J. Kelly Hoey is the author of Build Your Dream Network: Forging Powerful Relationships In A Hyper-Connected World (Tarcher Perigee/ Penguin Random House) and hosts the Build Your Dream Network podcast...

Chief Experience Officer Dionne Bishop has 15 years of experience in the marketing and events industry. Dionne has navigated a career that spanned from in-house corporate professional to event freelancer and now owner of Events by Dionne, an event agency for diverse voices. The ability to take intangible experiences and provide tangible results is something Dionne is excited to provide her clients across North America and the Caribbean...

Andrew Matte is a Technology Executive with expertise in data science, software engineering and artificial intelligence. Andrew is a language-agnostic technologist who strives to work on meaningful projects. His primary reason for learning to write software was to develop artificial intelligence applications and has found joy in developing several such production systems...

Nicolas Del Valle is an Asset Manager with over 20 years of experience managing facilities including hotels, convention centers, cruise lines, as well as commercial and residential projects. Nicolas serves as the CEO of the Canadian division of Conkrite Capital.
Connect with Nicolas Del Valle on LinkedIn and visit ConkriteCapital.com to learn about their asset management solutions...

Our guest on today's episode of The Career Planning Show is Daniel Verkoeyen. Daniel wants to make the most of this gift of life that he’s been given. He strives to be the best husband and father that he can be, and maintain healthy and positive interpersonal relationships all around. He works as a Funeral Director with a heart to serve the people and families in his Windsor and Essex County community. His life motto, which directs his way, is to love God and love others...

Gail Kastning is a Certified Career Strategist and the owner of Purposeful Careers and DIY Career School ™. She equips job seekers and Career Coaches with knowledge of portfolio careers, independent careers and SMART side hustle strategy helping people build an income streaming mindset. Based in Calgary, Alberta, Gail holds a Bachelor of Education from the University of Regina and the Certified Career Strategist certification from the Career Professionals of Canada...

J.P. Michel is the creator of the Challenge mindset and the Founder of SparkPath. He has partnered with hundreds of school districts and postsecondary institutions to reimagine career exploration for the future of work. As an industrial-organizational psychology consultant, he worked with hundreds of leaders from some of the world’s largest organizations...