Plenary Sessions and Optional Extras

April 24-27, 2024

Note: Items with a purple background are Optional Extras. These items are not included in the registration fee and can be purchased separately at any time.

Time

 ID

Event
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
8 – 11 am 411 PDI 1: Human-centric Career Design: A Devotion to Worker Welfare through Career Development by Dr. Brian Hutchison
Reinventing career development for the 21st Century requires career development professionals (CDPs) to change our own behaviors. As helping professionals, we witness clients struggle every day to change their behaviors and learn new skills. Theories, models, and frameworks that are based on evidence help us improve our effectiveness with clients. This Professional Development Institute (PDI) will provide you with a framework to change your own behavior and make strategic shifts in your current career development and education practice.This practice-based PDI will allow CDPs to enact the four shifts to be outlined in my keynote address. Specifically:
  • Participants will explore ideas about worker welfare including the impact of career development on our biological, psychological, and social functioning as components of human-centric career design.
  • We will “workshop” four shifts.
    1. Workshopping is a theatre technique that uses intensive group discussion and improvisation to explore aspects of a theatre production, for example a scene in a play.
    2. In this PDI, our “workshopping” will include instructor demonstration, group discussion, case examples, and participant practice and feedback in a positive and encouraging setting.
    3. Four approaches will be “workshopped” including ways to shift tasks, time, culture, and skills within our career development and education practice.
    4. This workshop session will be a positive, safe, and collaborative environment for learning in your own way, on your own terms. Participants do not need to demonstrate in front of others during this process, although some opportunities to do so may arise. These will be voluntary.
  • A culminating activity will help participants remember their learning and feel more connected to one another. Opportunity for follow-up with the instructor and an online community of support will be offered to all who attend.
11 am – 1 pm Lunch
6 – 8 pm Meetup Dinner:  Zam Zam Restarurant
Thursday, April 25, 2024
7:30 – 8 am Registration and Coffe
8 – 8:20 am 511 Opening Ceremony
8:20 – 9:20 am 521 Welcome Keynote: Reinventing Career Development for the 21st Century by Dr. Brian Hutchison The world of work has changed in recent years and workers’ expectations have evolved accordingly. Knowledge of work’s impact on our biology, psychology, and social functioning has deepened significantly in the past three decades, yet the day-to-day practice of career development looks very much as it did 30 years ago. While technology has changed the tools of career practice, our perspective on the work of career development remains largely the same. What would a paradigm shift in your career development practice look like? Join me for this keynote address focused on reinventing your current career development practice for the 21st Century. Reinvention requires a paradigm shift towards more human-centric career design approaches described here by four fundamental shifts in your work. I will describe the following: task shifts, time shifts, culture shifts, and skill shifts. Reinventing our practice along these four dimensions allows us to impact worker welfare, and take an affirmative human-centric approach. I believe you will leave feeling enthused about the future of your work as a career development professional.
9:20 – 9:40 am Coffee break
9:40 – 10 am 531 Awards Ceremony
10 – 11 am 541 Keynote: Supporting Young People to Find Success within a Constantly Changing Industrial Landscape by Matt Tompkins In a world that is constantly evolving and changing, how can educators adequately prepare their students for the rigors that lie ahead of them?  With the rapid development of ChatGPT, AI and machine learning, do our education systems need to change from teaching the knowledge and skills to answer the questions, to knowing how to ask the questions?  This is not a talk about technology, and predictions for the future.  In his address, Mr. Tompkins will look at how we prepare young people of today to consider opportunities that will face them in their future.
11 – Noon 551 Panel Discussion: Strengthening Theory-Practice Connections: What Now and What Next? by Dr. Nancy Arther, Dr. Mary McMahon, and Dr. Roberta Borgen How do you make selections about which career theory or model to use? Which theories and models will support the transition and transformation into Industry 5.0? As the world around us changes, we need theories and models that support us to work with people who are leading the way and with individuals who may be more challenged about changes in the world of work. In this session, we will emphasize how you can strengthen theory-practice connections, for your clients and for your ongoing learning. We will introduce a new tool to support practitioners to reflect about what they do, why they do it, and how they apply ideas to support their clients, now and into their futures.
11 am – 1 pm Lunch
1 pm – 5 pm Optional: Tour of the Indian Space Museum See description here: Space Museum Tour
6 – 8 pm Reception and Carnatic Singing, TechnoPark
Friday, April 26, 2024
7:30 – 8 am Coffee available
8 – 9 am 611 Keynote: Wired to Resist: The Neuroscience of Change by Dr. Britt Andreatta Nearly three-quarters of employees say the pace of change at work has increased, driving stress and attrition. Recent findings in neuroscience reveal surprising new information about how humans respond to change, giving us clear strategies for enhancing adaptability. Change occurs in a myriad of ways from shifting technology to reorganizing functions to seeking new customers and operating globally. Career development is filled with change, both planned and unexpected. While workplace change is common, it activates the survival systems in the brain, driving resistance and fatigue. Career development professionals are change facilitators. Leave this interactive session with strategies to boost the adaptability and resilience of people and organization.
9 – 9:20 am Coffee break
9:20 – 11 am 621 Panel Discussion: Career Development in India
11 – 11:30 am 641 Official Closing of 2024 APCDA Conference
11:30 am – 1 pm Lunch
1 – 5 pm Optional: Tour of Weavers Village in Balarampuram See description here:  https://asiapacificcda.org/conference-tips/#Weaver  Tour includes an hour drive (down the coast past Kovolam Beach, then into the hills), a tour of two workshops with looms, viewing woven products, and an hour drive back to your hotel. Tour begins at 1pm.  Ask about pickup locations when you arrive.
8 – 10 pm Board Dinner
Saturday, April 27, 2024
8 – 11 am 711 PDI 2: The Science of Guiding Others Through Change by Dr. Britt Andreatta

Building on the keynote, this workshop will do a deep dive into strategies for successfully leading others through change. Change is a journey, not an event. Typical approaches to managing change don’t take into account human biology and that we are wired to resist change. But once you understand the four brain structures activated by change, you can intentionally mitigate their effects, increasing people’s adaptability and resilience.

People are motivated for change based on how much choice they have and whether they want or desire the change. Learn to assess people’s motivation for any specific change and gain important insight about the skills needed to move them forward.

In this highly engaging workshop, you’ll gain several proven tools for helping people navigate the ups and downs of change especially as they relate to career development. Participants will get a free copy of the newly revised book, Wired to Resist, publishing in May 2024.

Dr. Britt Andreatta is an internationally recognized thought leader who uses her background in leadership, neuroscience, psychology, and education to create science-based solutions for today’s workplace challenges. Britt is the CEO of Brain Aware Training and former CLO for Lynda.com (LinkedIn Learning). She has over 10 million views worldwide of her online courses and is the author of several best-selling books on the brain science of success including Wired to Grow, Wired to Resist, Wired to Connect, and Wired to Become. In 2022, she was named a Top 10 Influencer in Learning, and in 2021, she was a Top 20 Learning Influencer and a Top 20 HR Influencer for Leadership Development. Dr. Andreatta regularly consults with organizations on leadership development and learning strategy.