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Barbara Bowen - Bill Schulz Lifetime Achievement in Career Development Award 2022

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For over 20 years, the MACD Bill Schulz Lifetime Achievement Award winner has been a catalyst and needle mover in breaking stereotypes and stigma within the sector.  A champion for women in trades and influencing the Aerospace and Aviation sector to become more diverse in their training selection, this winner has coordinated career development training not only for the Aerospace industry but partnered with other sector councils and organizations such as the Centre for Aboriginal Human Resource Development (CAHRD) to develop and leverage untapped talent.
 
This nominee was asked in a recent Prairie Manufacture magazine article why she focused on aerospace and aviation when contemplating her career plans and she stated due to it being a very honest industry. She states it is an industry where one can’t cut corners and is focused on accountability and integrity and individuals are held accountable for their errors and it is a culture of correction not penalization.
 
Barbara Bowen, the Director of Special Programs for Manitoba Aerospace is the epitome of a Career Development mover and shaker. She has sat as a Board member with Career Trek for over 15 years and served as Board Chair for a decade. She is engaged with community school programs and has the ability to connect with young people to clearly showcase the possibilities and opportunities that are available to them not only within the Aviation and Aerospace sector but to the numerous career and educational opportunities available provincially and nationally. Barbara has been inspiring the next generation of aerospace professionals through her collaboration with multiple industry sector and employment partners and provided opportunities for individuals that may not have originally believed they were capable of attaining.
 
Barbara stated that she is working on several projects at Manitoba Aerospace. Once the projects are “flying on their own” and she can see they are changing people’s lives she will call it a wrap and move onto the next one! MACD is proud to present the Bill Schulz Lifetime Achievement Award to Barbara Bowen and we hope you continue to soar at Manitoba Aerospace for many more years before deciding it is time to be grounded by retirement.

​What is the Bill Schulz Lifetime Achievement in Career Development Award?

Individuals who have demonstrated significant and long term commitment to the principles and experience outlined below. 
  • To celebrate individuals who have established themselves as leaders within our profession.
  • To recognize leaders who combine the role of researcher, educator, author, practitioner and career leader.
  • To encourage individuals in Manitoba, Canada and/or around the world to celebrate those around us who have contributed so much to our identity as career development professionals.
  • To establish a significant and uniquely Manitoba award that recognizes those individuals who have devoted their lives to the enhancement of career development practice, administration, research and education.
About Bill Schulz
In 2014, as a special commemoration and launch of a most prestigious award, the Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Bill Schulz as the inaugural recipient of achievement for his outstanding contributions to career development.  From 2016 and on, the Bill Schulz Lifetime Achievement award has been given to others who have mirrored his contributions. 
Bill Schulz had been a force in career development, counselling and ethics for over 40 years.  He is currently Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba.  He taught at the University of Manitoba for over 30 years as well as supervised and mentored hundreds of students in their pursuit of furthering education and more specifically in their pursuit of Masters and Doctoral work in the career development and counselling field.  In his most recent years of teaching, he taught graduate courses in Counselling Theories, Ethics, Career Development and Secondary School Counselling. He received the Olive Beatrice Stanton Award for excellence in University teaching.  

Bill has also been a guest lecturer, presenter, speaker and consultant; in Manitoba, nationally and internationally (United States, Poland, Hungary, Germany, Trinidad and Tobago, Thailand, Zimbabwe, Switzerland, France, and Chile).  He is a published author in English and German of close to 40 books and over 70 articles.  His writings include but are not limited to the development of career resources and guides for clients as well as practitioners; the evaluation of career centers and guidance centres; definition of the role of employment counsellors in Canada and abroad;  a casebook of counselling ethics; a global comparison of counsellor training programs; and the review, techniques and ethics in group counselling. He has been called to and reviewed 15 books in the field as well as served as Editor on the Canadian Journal of Counselling; the Manitoba Chapter of the Canadian Counselling Association and the Manitoba Counsellor.

He has led countless research and curriculum development projects as well as presented at 50 national and international conferences. Much of his work has been focused on furthering developing the field.  In the 80’s, Bill developed a training program for all Canadian Employment Counsellors.  In the 90’s the employment counselling field saw great change.  Bill along with  Stu Conger, Lynne Bezanson and Brian Hiebert wrote Ready for Change: Career Counselling in the 90’s; a position paper prepared for the Canadian Guidance and Counselling Foundation.  He later developed and piloted career development theories courses for universities as well as the development, piloting and evaluations of a ‘fundamentals of employment counselling course’ for Human Resources Development Canada in the 90’s.  His most recent work in Manitoba dealt with the evaluation of counselling services and the development of a comprehensive guidance and counselling program for the Manitoba School Counsellors’ Association. His work is endless.  Some of his personal creative works include:
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  • Code of Ethics for Employment Counsellors
  • Development of a graduate course on Counselling Ethics
  • A six course conflict resolution institute.
  • Leaders’ Manual for the Fundamentals of Employment Counselling for Human Resources Development Canada
  • Effective Group Leadership, a 200 page manual as well as a Leader’s Manual for National Service Needs Determination prepared for Canada Employment
  • A six-course certificate program on Career Development and Transitions for Brandon University
  • The Canadian Occupations Finder
  • Guidebook for the Canadian Classification and Dictionary of Occupations
  • Assessment Component of Employment Counselling
  • Two booklets: Careers and Self Awareness for young people and Career Exploration: Life Style and Awareness for junior high students

Bill’s devotion has helped to advance the field to where it is today.  He has not only made countless achievements but been an outstanding model for all of those in the career development field.  He has been a leader, a researcher, an educator, author as well as mentored a myriad of people. 

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2021 Award winners

Adriano Magnifico - Bill Schulz Lifetime Achievement in Career Development Award 2021

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The 2021 Bill Schulz Lifetime Achievement Award Winner was Adriano Magnifico.  Over the past 30 years, Adriano has contributed significantly to the career development field, locally, provincially and nationally.

As a teacher in the Louis-Riel School Division, Adriano has continually sought out the best practices to develop programs and build partnerships and connections with community in order to help youth discover how they ‘fit’ in the world.

Beyond his tireless work in the school setting, Adriano has led, contributed to and supported many different projects and groups in the field. Many know Adriano as a consultant, a coordinator, a mentor, a coach, and a teammate. Contributing to advancement of career development knowledge and practice are the hallmarks of Adriano’s work in our field.

Adriano’s leadership, vision and passion for both helping kids set and achieve their goals and his dedication to the field of career development make him an ideal candidate for this award. Congratulations Adriano!

Freda Lepine - Leadership in Career and Workforce Development, Individual

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Due to a technology glitch, many participants were unable to hear Freda's acceptance speech. Therefore, we have uploaded it here for all to read.  Thank you for sharing Freda.

​Tansi and Hello

First, I acknowledge the organizers or this event and the sponsors, nominators and particpants. It has been an incredible week, and I am so full of thankfulness, joy and humility to receive this honour.  To be named the woman to receive the leadership in Career and Workforce Development Award is truly unexpected.

I am proud of my Award but am also proud of how I feel I may have earned it, so I will start with my life’s journeys, where I came from and what I have done as an Indigenous Woman.  My parents definitely instilled in me to be humble and help others always, to walk the middle road, respecting and learning from both sides.  Always remember where I came from born and raised on a trapline, then living in the small community of Wabowden until I had to leave for school at the age of 14. This is when my life began to change, as I had to leave home and go to the City where I lived with a family I did not know prior to arriving in Winnipeg.  The school I attended was 4x the size of my community, so I quickly had to fend for myself. I experienced what the youth from our First Nation Communities have to endure when they leave home and come to Thompson or Winnipeg.  It is a Culture Shock!  Luckily, I remembered my teachings of not to give up and always give it your best, so I threw myself into my studies.  My parents did not have funds for me to come home often so I only got to see them at Christmas then summer.  After a year of that I was able to go to a boarding school where they were many Indigenous Youth, there I got very involved in Sports and excelled at many.  I was asked to represent the Youth at a Manitoba Indian Brotherhood Conference in Winnipeg and became the youngest person to participate at the Conference that saw the formation of the Manitoba Metis Federation as the Metis particpants felt they were not being represented at MIB.

I experienced many positive Role Models throughout my life and always removed myself from those who were negative, belittling or racist.  I read books, I spoke to Resource People, on any issues I felt had a negative affect on me.  I learned to build my self esteem and not to be afraid to speak up.

We need visionaries, mentors, elders and caregivers to share and give us power to build, unite, partner and share our knowledge on any subject.  I suggest learning your Medicine Wheel and learning how to use all the teachings is a great help.

I am now going to Thank all those wonderful youth, students from Apprentices, Point, Rangers, Commuters, Class 5 Driver Trainees, Class 1 Driver Trainees, Heavy Equipment Operator Trainees, Women in Non Traditional Jobs etc., as they helped me see the difficulties and at the same time I was also able to Advocate and Mentor many of them with Issues by being part of the Project Management Teams that we were able to attach to the Programs.  It was extremely helpful to have willing Companies that assisted in the Work Experience and or the Employment for the Students upon graduation.  VALE hired almost all our Point Students and they are now actively employed in various departments within VALE some are even Shift Boss or Union Reps., others moved to other employment such as HUDBAY and other Mining Contractors, while the Class 1 Drivers are out there driving those semis.  The youth that were involved in the Rangers and Commuter Program were also successful, one joined the Army, one worked in the Bank, others went to local Agencies to work, and some went on to University and or College.  I highly recommend Mentors be attached to every training program as Mentor you see the struggles, some are the regulations of the College, University or Province, some are jurisdictional, some are lack of life skills, there are so many but yet they can be overcome if there is someone advocating for them.  I am not saying that all students will succeed but it definitely makes a huge difference when they have someone encouraging them, when they are not near parents to help them.
I am very thankful for all my mentors that supported me over the years, my co-workers, elders and colleagues from the various Corporations and Education and Training Establishments.

I am especially thankful for the support of my family as I had to leave them a lot when they were growing up, but they always supported any initiative I was working on.

I also give thanks to other participants and Organizations, Business that have helped along the way: VALE, Northern Manitoba Sector Council, Apprenticeship, HudBay, Tolko, many local businesses and the MKO First Nations that participated and/or sent students to the various training that was being offered.  Partnering works. All play a part in the success of the student!

My advice for future trainees, believe in yourself, believe in your advocacy, stand up and be heard, get involved in your community starting at a young age and stay involved, ignore negativity.  Think positive! Be Positive!

Lastly, I want to thank Tara Ritchie from VALE for nominating me for this award, I am grateful to have worked with Tara and she was always a positive Role Model for the Students, and active participant in our Project Management Teams, as well as assisting with other projects we were working on.  I am also thankful to Ryan Land for his confidence in me throughout the time we worked together on various projects with VALE and MKO.

Again, thank you and I will hang my award proudly in my home.  Ni Ni Nan Nas Koo Mon (I thank you)
 
Respectfully Submitted
Freda Lepine

Royal Bank of Canada, Western Region - Leadership in Career and Workforce Development, Organization

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Shawn Mahoney - Leadership in Research and Innovation,  Individual 

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2020 award winners
Manitoba Career Development Award of Excellence
Bill Schulz Lifetime Achievement in Career Development
Christine Rhodes


Manitoba Career Development Award of Excellence 
Leadership in Career and Workforce Development  
Individual 
Lisa MacPherson 
 
Manitoba Career Development Award of Excellence 
Leadership in Career and Workforce Development  
Organization 
University of Manitoba Career Services 
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2019 award winners
Manitoba Career Development Award of Excellence
Bill Schulz Lifetime Achievement in Career Development
Pat Britton


Manitoba Career Development Award of Excellence 
Leadership in Career and Workforce Development  
Organization 
Reaching Equality Employment Services (REES) ​
 2018 AWARD WINNERS
Manitoba Career Development Award of Excellence
Bill Schulz Lifetime Achievement in Career Development
Beverlie Stuart

Manitoba Career Development Award of Excellence
Leadership in Career and Workforce Development 
Individual
Gail Langlais
 
Manitoba Career Development Award of Excellence
Leadership in Career and Workforce Development 
Organization
Osborne Village Resource Centre
2017 AWARD WINNERS
Manitoba Career Development Award of Excellence
Bill Schulz Lifetime Achievement in Career Development
Darrell Cole
 
Manitoba Career Development Award of Excellence
Leadership in Career and Workforce Development 
Individual
Aaron Goldman
 
Manitoba Career Development Award of Excellence
Leadership in Career and Workforce Development 
Organization
Career Trek Inc.
2016 ​AWARD WINNERS
Manitoba Career Development Award of Excellence 
Bill Schulz Lifetime Achievement in Career Development
Elizabeth Boyle

Manitoba Career Development Award of Excellence
Leadership in Career and Workforce Development
Organization
Manitoba Start
 
Manitoba Career Development Award of Excellence
Leadership in Career and Workforce Development
Individual
Ahniko Handford
2015​ AWARD WINNERS
Manitoba Career Development Award of Excellence 
Bill Schulz Lifetime Achievement in Career Development
Ron Bartlette

Manitoba Career Development Award of Excellence
Leadership in Career and Workforce Development
Organization
Master's in Development Practice Program, University of Winnipeg
 
Manitoba Career Development Award of Excellence
Leadership in Career and Workforce Development
Individual
Ryan Land
 
Manitoba Career Development Award of Excellence
Leadership in Research and Innovation
Individual
Jan Stewart
2014​ AWARD WINNERS
Manitoba Career Development Award of Excellence
Lifetime Achievement in Career Development
Bill Schulz
  
Manitoba Career Development Award of Excellence
Leadership in Career and Workforce Development 
Individual
Roberta Hewson
 
Manitoba Career Development Award of Excellence
Leadership in Career and Workforce Development 
Organization
Tec Voc Career Education Program
 
Manitoba Career Development Award of Excellence
Leadership in Research and Innovation
Dawn Sutherland
 
Manitoba Career Development Award of Excellence
Leadership in Research and Innovation
Katherine Levine
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