Coffee With Convery

Brien Convery
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Explore how success isn’t just about climbing the corporate ladder, sometimes it’s about building your own jungle gym. From students to seasoned professionals, this career development podcast is your launchpad for job search strategies, personal branding, leadership growth, and workplace success. Dive into real-life career transitions, resume tips, interview preparation, mentorship, and future-ready skills. Produced by talent, for talent to empower emerging professionals, entrepreneurs, and executives to thrive in today’s evolving job market. Listen now to level up your career!

  1. From Students to Industry Innovators: The Power of Co-op and Work-Integrated Learning

    1D AGO

    From Students to Industry Innovators: The Power of Co-op and Work-Integrated Learning

    Coffee With Convery – Special Edition | Live with Northeastern University Toronto Students Today’s Special Edition features four exceptional graduate students from Northeastern University Toronto who are navigating the Canadian job market as innovators, newcomers, and future leaders. Meet the Guests John Justice Abban John is a biotechnology graduate student with experience spanning GMP manufacturing in Canada and regulatory operations in Ghana. From placing 2nd in an AI in Life Sciences Hackathon to researching HER2-targeted biologics, he’s building a career at the intersection of biotech manufacturing, compliance, and data science. Rita Aladi Rita is a Project Management graduate student and ONYX Scholar who specializes in stakeholder coordination and operational efficiency. With experience leading teams across Nigeria and North America, she brings a data-driven, customer-centric mindset to every project she touches. Victor Adekunle Victor is a Project Management professional with a foundation in architecture and systems thinking. Skilled in governance, Agile and Waterfall methodologies, and cross-functional collaboration, he is positioning himself as a high-impact co-op candidate ready to drive measurable results. Alexis Hercules Alexis is a biotechnology graduate student passionate about translating molecular research into therapeutic impact, particularly in women’s health. With hands-on experience in antibody research, GMP/GCP/GLP principles, and student leadership as President of BioNeXt, she is committed to advancing equitable innovation in drug development.

    52 min
  2. From Hiding to Headlining with Ava Val

    MAR 5

    From Hiding to Headlining with Ava Val

    Most people are not stuck because they lack talent. They are stuck because they are hiding. Hiding their voice. Hiding their truth. Hiding who they really are. Today’s conversation is about what happens when you stop editing yourself and start owning the stage. My guest is Ava Val. She is a John Candy Award winning comedian, musician, and actress. She has written for This Hour Has 22 Minutes, appeared on Roast Battle Canada, and stunned audiences on Canada's Got Talent with a full sweep of yeses. She is also the first trans performer to break multiple barriers across Canadian comedy and television. But this episode is not about credits. It is about courage. It is about identity. It is about leading with truth.

    35 min
  3. From Practice Rooms to the Podium with Vasili Palantzas

    FEB 26

    From Practice Rooms to the Podium with Vasili Palantzas

    Welcome to Coffee With Convery, the podcast that’s your launchpad for career inspiration. Today’s guest is someone who proves that passion isn’t just something you love, it’s something you build with. Vasili Palantzas is a musician, educator, and leader whose career has been shaped not by shortcuts, but by discipline, curiosity, and a deep respect for craft. From early practice rooms to leading ensembles, mentoring young musicians, and shaping the next generation of creative talent, Vasili’s story is about what happens when commitment meets creativity. This episode is for anyone navigating a non-linear path, building mastery over time, or wondering if what they love can truly become a life’s work.

    48 min
  4. From Power Lines to Powerful Influence with Barry Moline

    FEB 19

    From Power Lines to Powerful Influence with Barry Moline

    Welcome to Coffee With Convery, the podcast that’s your launchpad for career inspiration. Today’s guest, Barry Moline has spent nearly four decades leading in some of the most complex, high-stakes environments imaginable energy, water, infrastructure, public service, disaster response, and now ethical influence and leadership development. He’s been a CEO for 29 years. He’s led statewide and national associations. He’s worked in government, utilities, nonprofits, global organizations and today, he helps leaders learn how to connect, persuade ethically, and build teams that actually work. Barry is also the author of CONNECT! How to Quickly Collaborate for Success in Business and Life, a book that challenges how most of us think leadership is supposed to look.

    45 min
  5. From Talent Strategy to Leadership Activation with Tiffany Smye

    FEB 12

    From Talent Strategy to Leadership Activation with Tiffany Smye

    Welcome to Coffee With Convery, the podcast that’s yourlaunchpad for career inspiration. Today’s guest is a powerhouse in the world of human resources, a certified coach, and a master at building high-performing leadership benches. Please welcome Tiffany Smye,  Founder and Principal Consultant at TCSTalent Consulting and former Senior Director of Talent, Learning & Development at MLSE.  Tiffany’s career is a masterclass in evolving within the talent space. She has led massive recruitment and development portfolios for global giants like RBC and Deloitte,managing everything from campus programs for over 650 annual hires to overseeing HR for banking operations with more than 9,500 employees.  Today, she uses that deep expertise to help organizations solve business challenges through a people-and-culture lens, focusing on leadership effectiveness and talentinnovation.  Whether you’re a student navigating your first campus recruitment cycle, a professional looking to pivot your career, or a leader trying to build a culture of trust and performance, Tiffany’s insights will change how you think about talent.

    50 min
  6. From Self-Erasure to The Blue Hour Gospel with Colin Belcourt

    FEB 5

    From Self-Erasure to The Blue Hour Gospel with Colin Belcourt

    Welcome to Coffee With Convery, the podcast that’s your launchpad for career inspiration. Today’s guest doesn’t just work inside systems -- he questions them, rewrites them, and asks who they were actually built for in the first place. Colin Belcourt is an author, certified sustainability practitioner, award-winning DEI & belonging leader, business intelligence professional, and a queer systems thinker. Colin’s career didn’t start with a title or a straight line. It started at the front desk…and moved through administration, HR, recruitment, project management, DEI leadership, international talent, public-sector innovation and now into technology, AI governance, and authorship. His journey is proof that your first job doesn’t define you - but how you learn, adapt, and stay true to yourself absolutely does.

    52 min
  7. From Chapters to Careers with Ella Weartherilt

    JAN 29

    From Chapters to Careers with Ella Weartherilt

    Welcome to Coffee With Convery, the podcast that’s your launchpad for career inspiration. Today’s guest understands something most people don’t realize until much later: careers aren’t ladders — they’re stories. Ella Weatherilt is the Director of Talent Acquisition at Medcan, with leadership experience at Walmart Canada, Spin Master, and across agency recruiting. But beyond titles, Ella is a storyteller at heart - an English Literature grad who turned narrative thinking into a career helping people move from one chapter to the next. She doesn’t just hire talent. She helps people make sense of their futures.

    36 min
  8. From Wall Street to Redefining Purpose with Christine Lai

    JAN 22

    From Wall Street to Redefining Purpose with Christine Lai

    Welcome to Coffee With Convery, the podcast that’s your launchpad for career inspiration. Today’s guest is someone who didn’t just notice a broken system, she chose to stand between families and it. Christine Lai is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Special Education Legal Fund. Since 2018, her work has helped provide over $1.3million in grants and thousands of hours of legal support to families navigating special education, families who too often feel unheard, overwhelmed, or alone. Christine’s journey spans Wall Street to nonprofit leadership, but this conversation isn’t about titles. It’s about advocacy. About translating skills into meaningful impact. And about building systems that protect families when they need it most.

    40 min
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Explore how success isn’t just about climbing the corporate ladder, sometimes it’s about building your own jungle gym. From students to seasoned professionals, this career development podcast is your launchpad for job search strategies, personal branding, leadership growth, and workplace success. Dive into real-life career transitions, resume tips, interview preparation, mentorship, and future-ready skills. Produced by talent, for talent to empower emerging professionals, entrepreneurs, and executives to thrive in today’s evolving job market. Listen now to level up your career!

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  • Creator
    Brien Convery
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    263
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Brien Convery
  • Show Website
    Coffee With Convery