Mark Franklin | CareerCycles

Team building & career development in organizations | SWIFT framework

Why are team-building and career development critical for creating engaged, high-performing workplaces? How do trusting relationships between employees lead to stronger collaboration, better productivity, and lasting success for organizations? Heidi Heung and Mark Franklin and Rich Feller lead and coordinate the teams at OneLifeTools and CareerCycles. Our teams of career professionals have helped thousands of employees navigate [...]

August 27th, 2025|Tags: author, career development, team building|0 Comments

Why an Entrepreneurial Path is Hard

Entrepreneurship is the process of identifying a commercial opportunity and putting it into action by developing new products, services, or business models, often involving innovation and risk-taking. It encompasses a wide range of activities, from starting a small business to launching a scalable startup, and can occur independently or within an existing organization, such as through intrapreneurship. At its [...]

August 20th, 2025|Tags: entrepreneur|0 Comments

Career Play

In this special episode, Dr Michael Stebleton and Dr Abby Razink present an engaging discussion about a new concept they are playing with, namely, Career Play. Explore the meaning of Career Play and its value for your career and life success. Listen & join Hoda and her guests on Career Buzz to increase your Career Literacy. [...]

August 13th, 2025|0 Comments

Career development is everyone’s responsibility ~ Career Buzz hosts Professor Michael Stebleton

How can everyone a student meets help them in their career exploration? Professor Michael Stebleton from University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and colleagues argue in their publications that anyone can be a “career influencer” and that career conversations can be effective when everyone on campus adopts this helpful mindset. Tune into this wide ranging conversation with [...]

August 6th, 2025|Tags: career development|0 Comments

The Path From Industrial Designer to Manufacturing Entrepreneur

Industrial design is a process of design applied to physical products that may be manufactured by mass production. It is the creative act of determining and defining a product’s form and features, which takes place in advance of the manufacture or production of the product. Industrial Design can also be described as “creative problem solving”. At [...]

July 30th, 2025|Tags: industrial design|0 Comments

What’s it like to work in the world of simulators?

You know those giant pieces of heavy equipment you see on construction sites like cranes, bulldozers, backhoes? Ever wonder how people learn to operate them? And how the decide to get into that work in the first place? Imagine a heavy equipment simulator so good you can use it to train people, and even explore [...]

July 16th, 2025|Tags: career journey, manager, simulator|0 Comments

Part 2: Navigating the Future: AI, Gen AI, and Managed Services in Management Consulting

As technology grows day by day, businesses also grow to stay ahead, or else be obsolete. Part 2 of the Innovation Nation episode with Pranav Bhardwaj explores how AI and Generative AI are reshaping management consulting. It covers strategic implications like new business models, managed services, and outcome-based pricing. The discussion highlights data governance, compliance challenges, [...]

July 9th, 2025|Tags: AI, Generative AI, management consultant|0 Comments

The One About Careers: Careers & Parenting

Thrilled to have Devon Turcotte, and Sarah-Jane VandenBerg join us to talk about careers, parenting and their podcast, The One About Careers. Listen & join Hoda and her guests on Career Buzz to increase your Career Literacy. Guest Bios Sarah-Jane VandenBerg is a Career Coach, Author and Speaker. She is a Certified Career Development Practitioner and a Holistic Narrative Career Professional [...]

July 2nd, 2025|Tags: author, parenting, podcast|0 Comments

“A new story that works changes everything”: Angus Fletcher on Career Buzz

Is it true that children are more creative than computer AI? How can we use literature, art, and stories to increase innovation, resilience, and joy in the era of AI? These are the research questions of Career Buzz guest, Angus Fletcher. We had an inspiring conversation covering Angus’s own career and education story from studying life [...]

June 25th, 2025|Tags: AI, author, literature, resilience|0 Comments

Part 1: Navigating the Future: AI, Gen AI, and Managed Services in Management Consulting

As technology grows day by day, businesses also grow to stay ahead, or else be obsolete. AI and Gen AI is impacting the MC industry requiring a major transformation in operations and services. The MC industry is a $1T business globally and is expected to rise to $5T by 2028. This paradigm shift is both a [...]

June 18th, 2025|Tags: AI, Generative AI, management consultant|0 Comments