In this episode of Illuminate Universe’s podcast - The Cast, Illuminate founder Alina Huang interviews business superwoman: Jessica McNaughton.   Jessica is both an entrepreneur and an ‘intraprenuer’. She shares her inspiring and captivating professional journey and how she created her own consulting firm and startup memoryKPR - a digital time capsule. Listeners will enjoy hearing Jessica’s advice on how to find your passions and strategies to demonstrate high performance while leveraging emotional intelligence in any professional work environment.

In this episode of Illuminate Universe’s podcast, Illuminate’s director of business development Richelle Nitelet and Brandon a Student Regional Lead at Illuminate Universe interview Mashruf Chowdhury who is a cyber risk advisory analyst at Deloitte. Listeners this week will enjoy hearing advice that Mash has for students both starting University and leaving university ready to start their professional careers, they'll learn about the increasing importance of leadership skills in the workplace and recommendations for managing a proper work-life balance.

In this episode of Illuminate Universe’s podcast, Illuminate’s director of business development Richelle Nitelet and Illuminate Leadership Academy student Erin Sun, interview Dan Kiernan, a career coach at Said Business School. Listeners this week will enjoy hearing Dan’s story on how he got to where he is today. He discusses one of his fundamental life lessons which is following your interests instead of your passions. He provides insightful insight on how to deal with change in your professional journey and gives advice to aspiring business leaders.

In this episode of The Cast, Don Coulter the president and CEO of Concentra bank explores the different steps he took to finding his long-term passion and becoming the success story he is today. Listeners this week will enjoy listening to Don's professional journey and navigating through a non-linear path by working hard and being passionate!

David Kerr, Deloitte Technology consulting partner, shares over 35 years of leading industry experience and global business knowledge in the first episode of Illuminate's podcast. Having worked as a partner at both Accenture and IBM prior to Deloitte, David has completed projects for many leading global insurance companies, and has lead teams in 18 countries worldwide. With a wide variety of experience in IT, industry solutions, business and market development, program delivery, strategic consulting, multiple forms of outsourcing, team building and governance, people from all career paths can learn from David.  Follow David along in his journey from his time at Waterloo University to the place in his career today! He talks about facing change in the ever-evolving business world, the importance of keeping your options and your mind open, and the most critical skills for any business leader.