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ENET Co-Executive Coordinator
Dr. Roberta Neault, PhD, CCC, RRP, GCDF
Life Strategies Ltd.
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Dr. Roberta Neault has over two decades of professional experience in career counselling, corporate consulting, adult education and entrepreneurial endeavours. Whether she is working with individuals, governments, universities or corporations, Roberta's mission remains constant. She strives to empower others to positively and proactively manage their career and life changes.
Roberta’s strengths lie in her professionalism, infectious enthusiasm for empowering individuals and “hands-on” experience working with diverse groups of people. Roberta has worked with groups ranging from established leadership/executive teams to newly formed post-merger project teams and from recently displaced managers to the long-term unemployed. Roberta has also worked with MBA students, functionally illiterate adults, immigrants, First Nations' people and individuals in all stages of their careers. She brings vivid anecdotes and practical examples to her workshops and consultations.
In 2002, Roberta’s peers recognized her success in and dedication to her field with the Canadian Career Development Foundation’s prestigious Stu Conger Award for Leadership in Career Counselling and Career Development in Canada. Roberta is also the President of the BC Chapter of the Canadian Counselling Association and sits on the national advisory board for NATCON, an annual consultation for over 1100 career development practitioners.
Roberta frequently speaks at national and international conferences and seminars promoting career management, lifelong learning and work/life balance. She teaches at several universities both online and in-person and is co-creator of a new program for career management professionals. Roberta is the author of Thriving Through Transitions: A Career Management Guide, Beyond the Basics: Real World Skills for Career Practitioners and several training "toolkits" for Personality Dimensions™. Roberta continues to research and write extensively about career issues in the global workplace.
As President of Life Strategies Ltd., Roberta is available to clients for consulting services, workshops, conference keynote addresses and presentations on issues related to career, change management and work-life balance.
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ENET Co-Executive Coordinator
Deirdre Pickerell, MEd, CHRP, GCDF
Life Strategies Ltd.
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Deirdre Pickerell has close to fifteen years experience as an educator, manager, and career management professional. She has made significant differences within the field of career development – locally, nationally, and internationally – through innovative program design, leading-edge education for career practitioners, inspiring facilitation and career coaching, and selfless leadership and mentoring throughout the sector.
Deirdre’s day to day work includes teaching, program development, facilitating seminars and workshops, and assessing/coaching private clients. In each of these areas, Deirdre “pushes the envelope” in the field – seeing needs, championing change, measuring outcomes, evaluating progress, and tirelessly working to ensure that her clients’ and colleagues expectations are constantly exceeded.
Deirdre chairs the BC Career Information Partnership (BCCIP) where she recently reconvened the BC Pan-Canadian Symposium team, inspiring other leaders in the field to move forward several of the BC Action Plan projects. She also participates on BCCIP’s Canadian Standards & Guidelines for Career Development Practitioners Sub-committee whose current focus is the development and implementation of a certification model for career development practitioners.
With a background in both career development and human resources management, Deirdre is working to create a stronger bridge between the career management and HR sectors. She is passionate about fully integrating career management principles within an organization’s HR strategy. Effective recruitment, retention, and talent management are all linked to the same core principle – the importance of a good career fit…getting the right people into the right jobs at the right time.
In recognition of her work, Deirdre was recently honoured with a 2006 Award of Excellence; presented by the BC Human Resources Management Association.
Deirdre inspires through her leadership but also through her respect – as one student said, “You’ve never made me feel silly for asking questions and you’ve responded as though you have discerned wisdom in our comments that we weren’t even aware of…”
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ENET Administrative Assistant
Fiona Glendinning
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In 2006, Fiona earned her Bachelor of Applied Psychology degree from Kwantlen University College. Fiona has been working full time for the last year in the career development field and is enjoying her diverse roles with ENET which include administrative duties, supporting members, organizing training days, and assisting in the production of the bi-weekly ENET News.
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ENET Bookkeeper
Lisa Patterson
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After five years working full time in the aviation industry Lisa has recently put down the tools to take care of her daughter and work part time from home. Lisa handles all bookkeeping responsibilities for ENET, along with some administrative support for the ENET Executive Coordinators.
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