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Tevis arrived in Canada at the University of Western Ontario for an adventure into the unknown. Altering his original plans to return home to Bermuda after his studies in political science, Tevis opted to remain here, rediscovering his love for creative work in a new career path at a strategic marketing consultancy. Let’s hear his story.

Adam Kreek used to represent Canada on its National Rowing Team in 2021. Since then, Kreek won three Olympic gold medals for Canada. After his athletic career, Kreek's work has focused upon executive leadership and performance, and in 2019 he published his first book The Responsibility Ethic: 12 Strategies Exceptional People Use to Do the Work and Make Success Happen. As Adam Kreek says, “The grit that’s required for success in athletics is the same grit that’s required for success in business.” Today he is an author, executive business coach, and speaker.

Former F.U.N.® program graduate and team lead Taylor talks with us about her experience in the program, balancing the demands of school at the same time as a multi-hat role in financial services, innovating around the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Let’s talk to an employment counsellor in the London Ontario area about how Covid-19 changed the labourmarket landscape and as a result,  the nature of her work. Leanne has been decorated for her achievements in her role and her insights are greatly benefitted by the employers she talks to every day about their current needs and expectations for their growing workforces.

It’s so great to have Noah back on our podcast! After his internship with us he’s back at OCAD and has been working on some truly amazing projects with his peers, bringing into the fold his innovation experience in the F.U.N.® program and the marketing and branding experience that he acquired with us as an intern. Noah has also gotten involved with a really exciting food-related ecommerce startup and is bringing fresh ideas to his peers and the company at large. We love these stories, as they practically never end. And seeing what paths enrapture our program grads as they chart their destinies along their chosen career paths never ceases to be rewarding for the entire Prepr team. Listen in and hear why.

Tristan came to our F.U.N.® program ambitious and eager to learn! A self-taught developer, he applied his talents to his team’s innovation and showed a lot of fledgling leadership experience and an affinity for an entrepreneurial spirit that wanted to understand everything about bringing an idea to market. Shortly after the program, Tristan worked with our dev team as an intern and also a little bit with Adam on the freelancing side in branding a personal passion project. Soon afterwards, Tristan was hired on to a fast-paced development team and only a year later finds himself leading that team! We couldn’t be prouder of his success. Let’s hear Tristan’s story.

Adam’s colleague Ben shares with us his story in which — to the chagrin of his teachers, and as a secondary student with great grades all around — he was determined to pursue “the only thing that he was truly passionate about” as a creative professional.

As impressed as we always are with our F.U.N.® program’s teams of learners, Team Stylism not only got off to a swift start but they leveraged this momentum in an accelerated workflow that saw them come up with a retail-focused solution that was truly visionary. The path to success wasn’t always visible and what they indicated that they took away from the program far exceeded their expectations going in. Let’s hear their story.

The first thing you notice about Noah is that he thinks BIG! A clearly bright and visionary young man, Noah utilizes no shortage of design-thinking approaches in tackling problems. In fact, the opportunity to tackle problems in this way is probably what drives him most. Without much experience at all, Noah eagerly took on a lot of marketing projects, working closely with Adam and other Prepr team members in developing copy for email journeys, webpages, landing pages, and more. Here’s his internship story.

Nolan came to the Prepr team as our first digital nomad! It was always exciting every time he turned his camera on and the whole team got envious of the various tropical and oceanic backdrops that characterized his always-changing workspace. Nolan put to work his video storyboarding, editing, and production skills that he acquired through his extensive vlog documentation of his travels. Nolan also joined the Prepr team on contract and continued to work with us as a part of the team, creating tonnes of awesome video content for the Prepr brand, helping us to tell our story. Here is his internship story.

Matt worked very closely with the development team on our website but also on our collaborative problem-solving platform, PreprLabs.org. Everyone really enjoyed working with him due to his keen insights, positive attitude, and sense of humour. Here is his internship story.

Nathalie worked diligently both with development and machine learning on the Prepr team. As our resident French translator she was responsible for converting countless pieces of copy for web, ebooks, and our collaborative problem-solving platform, PreprLabs.org. She is a great team player and is never afraid to ask questions and grow as a person and as a professional. Here is her internship story.

Another friend to the Prepr ecosystem and volunteer mentor to our F.U.N. program participants, Chris Gostling's 23 year long career journey took him from the trenches of graphic design, to figuring out how to build his own marketing agency, to learning how to be a leader of great teams. Along the way he picked up a lot of expertise that accelerated him along his career path as he learned by doing, arriving at the understanding that despite industry buzzwords and a litany of role-related hats that he’d worn, his professional value was really about getting better at asking the important questions. It’s always a pleasure to have Chris join us and share his stories.

Our UX intern Nicole has been supporting Prepr’s online growth in terms of our website, our campaign landing pages, and updated views for users of different levels of access on our platform - PreprLabs. Nicole entered our F.U.N. Program and discovered a passion for user-experience design. Little did she know at the time that she’d soon be bringing what she’d learned — along with a combination of her existing graphic design skills — to the Prepr team. Let’s hear her story that has accelerated her on her career path of choice… while she continues her studies, no less!

One of Adam’s students from when he was a college instructor, Zhasmina graduated top of her class! She joins us in this episode to share what she loves about marketing, her role as a marketing coordinator, and what she sees as being in store for the future of the discipline.

Our interns here at Prepr are so talented and impress us every day. A few weeks ago we got a chance to speak to Jennifer about her internship experience.

A former college student of our host’s, Ashley has achieved a great deal already! From leadership roles in team-based collaborations focusing on sustainable communities to being entrusted with client success, Ashley wants to talk about her journey from the classroom to career advancement.

Michelle has brought her much-needed design acumen to Prepr and we’re so lucky to have her as a member of this team. In this eipsode we’ll hear from her about her lifelong journey in becoming a master design-thinker and creative professional.

Danielle Kenedy has charted a non-linear path to an exciting role as a design team lead for an EdTech firm that helps International Students apply to post-secondary learning programs here in Canada! How did she get here and what does she love about the rewarding work she does? Let’s find out in what has been one of our deepest dives yet!

Our interns here at Prepr are so talented and impress us every day. A few weeks ago we got a chance to speak to Jiazheng about his internship experience.