Matt’s passion is in post-secondary education and student success.  Joining Sheridan College in 2014, he created the Career-Integrated Learning department and serves as the elected President for Co-operative Education and Work-Integrated Learning (CEWIL) Canada.  Matt is a graduate of an Executive MBA program, a CivicAction Fellow, and earned a Doctor of Education degree. 

Associate Professor Michelle J. Eady lectures in Curriculum and Pedagogy in the Faculty of the Arts Social Science and the Humanities (ASSH) at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Michelle is a proud Fellow of the International Society of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL), a Fellow of HERDSA and a senior fellow of AdvanceHE (SFHEA). Awarded a national Office of Teaching and Learning (OLT) citation for excellence and innovation in teaching, her current research interests include teacher education, work-integrated learning (WIL), communities of practice, and Indigenous strengths. Most recently, she has served as a research lead at Elon University Centre for Engaged Learning (CEL) institutes (2019-2021 and 2022-2024) researching connections between WIL and writing transfer and WIL and student voice. Professor Eady proudly serves as the incoming ISSOTL President and director of the Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN) and World Association for Collaborative Education (WACE) and looks forward to continuing advancing important WIL and SoTL work worldwide through collaborations with colleagues and students.

Kristina Johansson is an associate professor in work integrated learning she is also a head of department for national economy, law and statistics. She is one of five research leaders in WACE, World Association of Cooperative Education. Together with colleagues she is also one of the founders of Global WIL. The research is right now focusing on students learning, leadership, validation of knowledge and curricula design. The teaching assignments is fore most within the PhD Education in WIL at University.

Dr. Charles Lebon Mberi Kimpolo is the Director of the Industry Initiative and Head of the Next Einstein Forum (NEF) at the Global Network Secretariat of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences – Next Einstein Initiative (AIMS-NEI). For the last couple of years, Charles brought strategic oversight and direction to the AIMS Industry Initiative across the Network, with the aim to broaden the scope and breadth of partnerships with industry in Africa and beyond. Charles leads the implementation of Work Integrated Learning programs at AIMS to develop new industry needs-driven capacity development programs and support AIMS graduates in their transition to employment, entrepreneurship and further study. Charles’s dream is to position AIMS-NEI as the industry’s leading academic partner in Africa that achieves industry and economic advancement of the continent.

Employer Showcase - The Future of work: engaging work-integrated learning to achieve innovation, entrepreneurship & economic recovery in an uncertain world

Moderated by Dr. Norah McRae and featuring panelists from various organizations who participate in work-integrated learning (WIL), this panel discussion will showcase the employer perspective on how WIL can achieve innovation, foster entrepreneurship and contribute to economic recovery.

               Norah McRae

            Ruhuni De Alwis           Amaryllis Jones                 Stephen Harrington                 Naveed Zahid