Making the Invisible Visible: Celebrating Career Practitioners in the Age of AI
Monday, January 26, 2025, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm ET
Our service delivery model has continuously evolved to meet our clients’ complex needs. During each evolution era, career development practitioners (CDPs) have upskilled to maintain client service excellence. We have strived to help our clients flourish during their most challenging life stages.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is in the spotlight! It affects us and our clients in unknown ways. Our challenge is to learn how to ethically integrate AI into our client service delivery without dehumanizing our clients and de-legitimatizing our profession.
This keynote brings to light CDPs’ invisible work by taking you on a thought-provoking journey.
- How can we maintain our career identity as AI merges into our work?
- How do we serve as a vital link between our clients and AI?
- How do we measure the benefits of CDPs’ work and AI?
During this technological era, CDPs must explicitly state our contributions. It is time to celebrate our accomplishments!
Speaker
Sonny Wong
Sonny Wong is a Registered Psychotherapist in Toronto, Canada – who practises career-focused positive counselling. With over 25 years of progressive experience as a CDP, he started his career as a community researcher identifying the needs of marginalized-displaced workers, served as program developer for matured workers/newcomers, and eventually a career/employment consultant for clients on provincial financial assistance. Sonny’s grassroots lived experience has fostered his keen awareness of professional/ethical service delivery practices. During the last 16 years, Sonny has been a psychotherapist working in post-secondary institutions assisting clients to reconcile their intersectionality identities with their career identity. The passion in his work spans beyond his psychotherapist role; he is a lecturer, writer, trainer and clinical supervisor for CDPs. Sonny’s professional contributions have been constantly recognized by numerous national and provincial service awards.
Learn more about his keynote: Making the Invisible Visible: Celebrating Career Practitioners in the Age of AI
Sonny Wong is a Registered Psychotherapist in Toronto, Canada – who practices career-focused positive counselling. With over 25 years of progressive experience as a CDP, he started his career as a community researcher identifying the needs of marginalized-displaced workers, served as program developer for matured workers/newcomers, and eventually a career/employment consultant for clients on provincial financial assistance. Sonny’s grassroots lived experience has fostered his keen awareness of professional/ethical service delivery practices.
During the last 16 years, Sonny has been a psychotherapist working in post-secondary institutions assisting clients to reconcile their intersectionality identities with their career identity. The passion in his work spans beyond his psychotherapist role; he is a lecturer, writer, trainer and clinical supervisor for CDPs. Sonny’s professional contributions have been constantly recognized by numerous national and provincial service awards.