Know Your Ikigai. Make Your Next Career Move.

Know Your Ikigai. Make Your Next Career Move.

Know Your Ikigai. Make Your Next Career Move.

How can you move your career forward?

This question stops many in their tracks. However, many professionals have taken proven steps to successfully move along their meaningful career journey. They are in roles that allow them to use their strengths to make a difference, they have financial security and on top of all that, they are building more joy in their lives.

What are the proven steps? One of the steps is to understand your ikigai.

What is your ikigai? It is a Japanese word that means "your reason for being".

At this 90-minute, interactive workshop you will learn how to uncover your ikigai by identifying what you are good at, what you love, what the world needs, and what you can get paid for. This will inform you as to your next career move.

Stephanie and Louann, Career Coaches from PeerSpectives Consulting, will guide you through activities to uncover your ikigai and ways to re-energize your current role or inform your next career move


About your Guides & Workshop Leaders

Stephanie Koonar
Stephanie Koonar
Co-Founder
PeerSpectives Consulting, MBA, BA Psychology

Marketing professional, academic, career coach and workshop facilitator. Award-winning post-secondary instructor who has taught over 4,000 students. Certified Career Educator. Mentor of the Year.

Author of Amazon bestselling book “Backpack to Briefcase, A Student’s Guide to a Meaningful Career Journey”.


Louann McCurdy
Louann McCurdy
Co-Founder
PeerSpectives Consulting, B.Sc. (Engineering), B.Ed

Careers as Engineer, I/T Programmer, Analyst and Project Lead, Teacher, Coach and Workshop Facilitator.

Lived & worked in Canada, USA, Singapore, France and India. International Coach Federation Certified coach. Past Chair of the Status of Women and Human Rights at University Women’s Club of Vancouver.Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach

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LOT

This event is presented by The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's Leaders of Tomorrow (LOT) Program. The LOT Program is our mentorship program that connects top post-secondary students with leading industry professionals. Launched in 1999, LOT is recognized as the premier mentorship program in British Columbia. Based on the pillars of mentorship, leadership, networking and volunteerism, LOT candidates go through a competitive and rigorous selection process to experience a year of accelerated professional and personal growth. Discover more..