Parents as Career Coaches Podcast: Wisdom from Career Development Superstars

Episode One: Wisdom from Career Development Superstars

Guests: Dave Redekopp, Sareena Hopkins, and Tricia Berry

Tricia Berry is a Learning Specialist with the New Brunswick Government. Her work includes career guidance at the secondary level, teacher development within post-secondary education programs, and, currently, provincial implementation of career education across K-12. Berry is a Canadian Certified Counsellor (C.C.C) with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA).

Sareena Hopkins is Executive Director of the Canadian Career Development Foundation. She has been instrumental in a wide range of strategic leadership initiatives in Canada and internationally. She facilitated the International Symposium on Career Development and Public Policy in Seoul (June 2017) and was lead author of the policy communiqué “Building the Talent Pipeline and Providing Youth with Hope for the Future” (2015). She also worked with the Council of Atlantic Ministers of Education and Training and the Council of Ministers of Education Canada on their policy frameworks for career education and successful student transitions.

A winner of provincial and national awards in career development, Dave Redekopp has devoted over twenty-five years to the development of better career development and workplace concepts and practices. His work has addressed a wide arrange of issues, from helping at-risk teens manage their career paths to working with executives to make their companies more career friendly. Dave has also been a Governor of the Canadian Career Development Foundation, a Director of the Canada Career Consortium, and the Director of Program Development for the Centre for Career Development Innovation.