Shaping Our World Chris Tompkins

You’re a parent or maybe you work with young people in your job - but either way, you have a desire to inspire the young people in your life. Hi, my name is Chris Tompkins, a 20 plus years veteran of youth development. Both on the front lines and leading the youth development organization, Muskoka Woods. I’m also a dad.

Shaping Our World is a podcast that invites you into a conversation that will leave you more confident in inspiring and understanding the young people in your life.

A 25 year veteran of working with young people both with teens and business leaders, on today's episode Dr. Karyn Gordon discuses how families are struggling to keep up with culture change. 

As the CEO of Growing Leaders, an organization specializing in youth leadership programs and skills training. His most recent book, The Pandemic Population: 8 Strategies to Help Generation Z Recognize Hope, seeks to help our youngest generation come out well from the COVID-19 pandemic. 

On this episode, Tim and Chris Tompkins discuss learning and leading young people. 

Damon Ealey is a principal in the Greater Toronto Area and what he's seen in the ways different students have taken to online learning leads him to believe that remote learning and new ways of teaching will be here to stay. 

Chris Tompkins and Damon discuss how the pandemic of 2020 and 2021 has impacted education and what it means for the future of learning.