Mindset in Motion (MIM)

What can higher education institutions and employers do to support and empower those who are neurodivergent? Joined by Emily Raclaw, Director of On Your Marq, a neurodiversity support program at Marquette University, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this episode helps identify what it really means to be neurodivergent, how being neurodivergent influences approaches to learning and working, and the ways we can systemically champion neurodivergent learners and employees. 

In this episode of Mindset in Motion, we’re joined by Josh Meyer, a seasoned educationalist in the field of experiential education, who specializes in outdoor EL and is working to explore its concepts, implementations, and potential for creating intentional, compassionate, and effective educational frameworks. In this  conversation, we take a comprehensive look at what EL truly is and explore its evolving nature, encouraging post-secondary to take EL from ‘field’ to ‘pedagogy’ to ‘just good teaching’. 

Ja’Net Glover believes in the power of the next generation workforce to positively influence and shape our collective global future and holds deep respect for the responsibility of post-secondary institutions to prepare them to do so. This is her why – every day – and a proven foundation for an impressive twenty (plus) years leading at the helm of post-secondary student career-readiness, now working as Senior Director of University Career Services & the Career Connections Centre, at the University of Florida.  

Our Director of Mindset, Bill Heinrich, spoke with Ja’Net at NACE and we have this brief yet inspiring conversation here to share with you today. 

Thank you for joining us, Ja’Net! 

Skip Bowman is a highly respected leadership and organizational development expert for teams who aspire to leverage a global growth mindset and foster psychological safety to drive transformative change.

As the Founder and Chief Transformational Officer at Global Mindset, Skip has provided invaluable guidance to a wide range of businesses, including notable organizations such as Amcor, Merck, Danfoss, Siemens, Rambøll, BHP Billiton, Brüel & Kjær, HBM, GN, Ericsson, Nestlé, Mölnlycke, VELUX, SimCorp, and Tryg. With a focus on holistic improvement from within, these companies have sought Skip's expertise to elevate their performance and outcomes.

Renowned as Europe's foremost inspirational speaker on these subjects, Skip recently authored the book "Safe to Great - The New Psychology of Leadership", which delves into the importance of psychological safety in driving innovation, creating cultures of commitment rather than control, the 'four ages of our time', and more. 

In our recent podcast, Creating Cultures of Innovation and Purpose, we’re joined by Jonas Altman, author of the best-selling book Shapers: Reinvent the Way You Work & Change the Future, and a man searching for purpose, potential, and balance - for everyone. Jonas continues his over two-decade-long work to guide what’s next, strategizing with senior teams, executives, startups, and those open to listening, to make the world of work more human and humans more capable of incredible work. In this episode, he pulls from personal experience and findings to explore how we can universally gain value by rethinking approaches to work to support better outcomes - for employees and businesses. Importantly, Jonas asks us to consider, “How can we be truly innovative without inviting wrong answers or welcoming failure?”. Tune-in to hear incredible musings on where we are at, where we could be, what we can do, and who is leading the way...in the future of work.

 Skills identification, articulation, and translation are essential components when viewing the value of higher education through a career-readiness lense. So, how do we support students to recognize and translate what they learned in ways that their hopeful future employers will understand? In this episode, we're joined by Laura Fyfe, Skills Translation Coordinator in the department of Co-op, Career, & Experiential Education, at Brock University, and Katrina Volpini, Brock alumna and Med Plus Consultant in Career Education, to learn about the theories, frameworks, practices, and ongoing innovation of Brock's career development model. This episode explores quantitative and qualitative modelling and takeaways critical to strategically bridging  the metacognitive gap between learning and application. 

How can travel programs enhance students’ understanding of what they have learned and how it has impact on their lives? How does actually experiencing a destination or place in history change students' reflection on what's learned and how they can use their findings to pursue future careers? In this episode, Dr. Kathy Lease and Dr. Sara Lawrence share their work to develop and implement travel programs with impact.

How can institutions work together to support student resilience? What are anticipatory approaches to students' mental health and how can the classroom serve as a container for the whole student? In this episode, we learn from Dr. Bob Hackey on his work, approaches, and mindset to increase student resilience as they face learning, life, and the future of work.

In a dynamic and ever-changing labour market, we need to help students acquire, reflect on, and articulate competencies throughout post-secondary study. This encourages agency over their career paths by supporting their pursuits beyond their degree and within a variety of industries and career paths. Students and graduates can use their competencies to bring interdisciplinary skills to an array of opportunities. But how do post-secondary institutions build the right systems and uphold inter-departmental collaboration to drive competency development for learners? In this podcast, University of Manitoba explores their development of a competency framework and what they learned along the way. From promotion to uptake amongst stakeholders, building transparency, challenges, and hopes for impact, this episode informs anyone in education or employment curious about competency development or considering the role of competencies in the future workforce.