Congratulations to the 2014 Stu Conger Award Recipient!
CCPA wishes to congratulate Dr Deirdre Pick- erell, the 2014 recipient of the Stu Conger Award for Leadership in Career Counselling and Career Development. Below is a biogra- phy of Deirdre prepared by Lynne Bezanson, Executive Director of the Canadian Career Development Foundation, the organization which presents this annual award. The Stu Conger Award includes a scholarship to be awarded to an individual selected by the recipient as an emerging leader in the ca- reer development field. Deirdre has chosen Jessica Isenor, PhD student at the University of Ottawa, to receive the scholarship. Jes- sica is an active member of CCPA as Student Representative for the University of Ottawa (Anglophone) and President-Elect of the Ca- reer Counsellors Chapter. Congratulations, Jessica!
Biography
Deirdre exemplifies the type of leadership in career development in Canada (and beyond) that the Stu Conger award is intended to recognize.
Ten years ago, Deirdre joined Life Strategies and is now its Vice-President. She has been a consistent innovator including developing the first fully online certificate program
for career development practitioners. She mapped this program to the Canadian Stan- dards & Guidelines, the Center for Creden- tials and Education’s Global Career Develop- ment Facilitator (GCDF) competencies, and International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance’s Educational and Voca- tional Guidance Practitioner (EVGP) compe- tencies and has worked closely with training providers across Canada to get their curricula approved as meeting the GCDF-Canada cri- teria. This has opened the door to hundreds of career practitioners to receive global rec- ognition for their sector-related training. Her most comprehensive and innovative research project, however, was her recently completed doctoral dissertation examining the career engagement of Canadian career develop- ment practitioners. Her dissertation is recog- nized as showing considerable promise for theory, research, and practice.
Deirdre has devoted many hours to leader- ship roles within several different career development organizations and associations. She has served as Co-Executive Co-ordi- nator of ENET, Vice President of the Career Colleges Association, Chair of the BC Career Information Partnership, Co-ordinator of the Career Advancement Network for the BC Hu- man Resource Management Association, and is currently serving as the Bylaws Director for the Asia Pacific Career Development Associ- ation. She has served on numerous commit- tees including work to develop and recently revise the Canadian Standards and Guide- lines for Career Development Practitioners and is a highly respected leader throughout the career development sector, both in Cana- da and internationally.
Deirdre’s work has been described as transformational in regard to workforce en- gagement and career planning. She is an exemplary leader in the field of career devel- opment and a deserving recipient of the Stu Conger Award.
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