About Us
About Us
Our expertise has been gained on the front lines of the career development field.
We have experienced the challenges of limited resources, short timelines, and the need to create new ways to equip clients to navigate the work world. Along the way, we have cultivated the belief that learning is the core of success with clients and the practitioners who serve them.
What we want you to know about us
We are leaders.
As subject matter experts, we continue to strengthen the Career Development sector’s ecosystem through training, consulting, and resources. We are invited to share our knowledge in career conferences and work with national and international governments to leverage career services for the health and well-being of their communities.
We are educators at heart.
Through the years, we’ve confirmed our belief that a learning approach to career services is the foundation of effective practice. A client’s potential for a successful outcome is increased when they are given the opportunity to reflect and make meaning of their career planning process.
We are innovators.
Research and development has always been an essential part of our work. We are committed to developing future-oriented career development service models to adapt to the changing labour market and to ensure that all individuals can navigate toward their preferred future.
Learn about our journey and what sparked our passion for transforming the career development field
A BRIEF VERSION OF A LONG STORY
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Our Roots
MixtMode was created by a core group of career practitioners at Training Innovations, a career services agency in British Columbia, Canada. For 25 years, we ran various provincial and federal government-funded career services. Training Innovations (Tii) was known throughout the sector for excellence in programming and client service. In 2005, we created and facilitated the first-ever online career planning program to accommodate the geographically disparate communities of Vancouver's North Shore. Since the inception of this program, we continued to incorporate information and communication technology into most of our client services - what we call ‘multimodal career service’.
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MixtMode is Launched
In 2012, MixtMode began providing consultation services. Our main focus was to create tools and train career professionals who wanted to add an online component to their client services. Tannis Goddard, CEO of MixtMode, has dedicated the latter part of her career to disseminating the importance of multimodal career service. She has completed her Ph.D. and has been invited across the globe to present at conferences. The MixtMode team continues to promote techniques and strategies in this area as the need for more flexible service increases.
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Innovating Career Services
In recent years, MixtMode has been invited to collaborate with agencies, organizations, and government on various initiatives to strengthen the career development sector. Some of our more recent projects include co-creating a Career Development Professional Centre with CCDF (Canadian Career Development Foundation) to provide foundational training and resources, and designing and piloting new workforce-oriented services for employers in Nova Scotia’s Career Centres.
To explore more of MixtMode's work, please visit our Project Showcase.
Our Team
Our team has a combined 65+ years in the career development field. We each bring a unique skill set to a project and love to collaborate.
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Tannis Goddard
CEO
I’m responsible for leading our team of learning consultants into exciting new territory in the field of career learning. My specialty is communicating new ideas about design, development and deployment of career learning.
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Louise LeBlanc
LEARNING CONSULTANT
I focus on producing engaging and effective content for professional development. My understanding of practitioner and client learning needs comes from my 20+ years of practice in employment services.
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Mariana Braga
LEARNING CONSULTANT
My job is to deeply understand new ideas and complex concepts and turn them into consumable learning solutions that are simple, modern, visually appealing, and, above all, easily understood.
Partners and Collaborators
Our thoughtful collaborative approach allows us to achieve and exceed project results. We have learned along the way that each project requires a specific set of skills and we partner with exceptional professionals and organizations to bring fresh and unique talent to our team. Here are some of the exceptional organizations we have recently partnered with:
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We acknowledge that our business operates on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Kwikwetlem (Coquitlam), Tsleil-Waututh, and Katzie Nations. We are grateful to live and work on this land and honour the enduring connection Indigenous peoples have with it. We are committed to fostering respectful relationships and supporting reconciliation through our actions and partnerships.