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An exciting moment for @SkillsCampHQ . 10 years old this month, and we are now hiring what was previously my DREAM JOB: a Senior Learning Experience Designer at a remote-first, values-oriented, Canadian learning studio. We are architecting the future of work and leadership and ensuring people have the skills to thrive in that future.
This is a core role at our consultancy. The person will design inclusive, human-centred learning experiences, work closely with clients and facilitators, and help shape how our programs come to life across design, delivery, and storytelling. It’s a great fit for someone who sees learning as relational, grounded in theory and lived experience, and who enjoys building things with care.
If this sounds like you, or like someone wonderful in your network, please pass this along to them!
Job description linked in bio.
Deadline to apply: February 6
Anticipated start date: March 1
I spent the morning on BNN Bloomberg discussing employee wellbeing and engagement, corporate cultures, skills, and leadership. On this #BellLetsTalk day in 🇨🇦, it should go without saying that people cannot disassociate their brain when they come to work (even if that’s rewarded). Caring for the whole human’s experience of life is a good thing to do and good for business.
I talked a lot about the role leadership plays, and will share the full segment when I have it, but for now, here’s one clip where I talked about how we at @skillscamphq (and me as an individual) like to work with energy management and attention management when it comes to wellbeing—not just time management!
Thank you, @bnnbloomberg ! Looking forward to talking more about all things human in the world of business again soon!
We’re thrilled to be nominated for the Canadian Choice Award!
If our mission resonates with you, please take a moment to support our nomination (🔗link in bio).
The future belongs to teams who lead with empathy, communicate with clarity, and grow with purpose.
That’s the world we’re building at SkillsCamp — and your support helps us get closer. 💪
#LeadershipDevelopment #SoftSkills #LearningCulture #CanadianChoiceAwards
Change is constant. Hope makes it human.
From AI transformation to everyday leadership, the future belongs to those who lead with care, courage, and clarity.
🌐 Read Leadership in Technicolour: What If Hope Was a Strategy? > Link in Bio
We’re proud to share that Gina Uppal has joined SkillsCamp as our new Executive Director!
A strategic leader and learning designer with over a decade of experience at the intersection of leadership development, equity, and business growth, Gina brings a proven track record of scaling impact-driven ventures, designing inclusive learning experiences, and securing high-value partnerships across public, private, and nonprofit sectors.
Gina’s background includes leading large-scale talent and learning initiatives at MaRS Discovery District—one of the world’s largest urban innovation hubs, supporting the growth of science, tech, and social impact ventures. There, she launched upskilling programs for thousands of startups, authored sector-wide inclusion and equity research, and helped shape the future of work through systems-informed programming. She has also previously developed and facilitated leadership and emotional intelligence programs for mission-aligned organizations across North America and beyond, guided senior leaders in building people-first strategies, and grown platforms that have shifted national conversations on belonging and justice. Gina has also lived and worked in many different countries, giving her a global experience that matches the global nature of SkillsCamp’s partners.
At SkillsCamp, we believe the soft skills we teach are foundational to strong leadership and thriving workplaces. That belief has only become more urgent in today’s tech-enabled, hybrid, rapidly evolving, global, and intergenerational world of work. Gina brings insight into each of these shifts—helping leaders navigate complexity with empathy, clarity, and strategy. Her deep expertise in experience design also aligns seamlessly with how we approach learning: as something felt, co-created, and applied.
Please join us in welcoming Gina to the SkillsCamp team. The future of learning and leadership just got even brighter. 🌟
Can AI make performance reviews less terrible for leaders and employees alike? And maybe feel even MORE human? Short of the long is: yes. I had the pleasure of sharing just one small piece of my early research findings with @FastCompany Magazine in this new article.
And I intend to share many more practical strategies with you all over the next while about all things AI, leadership, digital wellbeing, and soft skills. What an intersection to be at right now! ☺️
READ AT LINK IN BIO
@skillscamphq@centerfordigitalwellbeing@bayloreddonline
#humanresources #baileyparnell #skillscamp #aileadership #leadingwithai #digitalwellbeing #HRinsight #AIinHR #performancereviews #HRleaders
My first baby is 9 years old. 🎉 Happy business birthday to SkillsCamp, my leadership and soft skills development company.
Entrepreneurship has been the most liberating, most gratifying, most trying expression of myself into the world. This business has brought me to the highest highs, traveling the world, learning, adapting, and controlling my time. It has also gotten me through the lowest times when I was able to immerse myself in something positive while grieving the loss of my Mom, the miscarriages, the pandemic, and so much more.
For many years, you could find me breathing life into every single part of @skillscamphq —colours, learning design, client calls, etc. But my greatest lessons have come from releasing control and letting others take over… which is still an ongoing lesson to let SkillsCamp walk on its own two feet (it really sounds like a child, doesn’t it?! 🤣)
9 years ago, we saw there were skills being taught in student affairs (outside of the classroom)—skills like resilience, professional communication, leadership, and time management—that were making students more successful. It was clear EVERYONE needed to be taught these skills well into their careers, so we started. It wasn’t perfect then and I’m sure it still isn’t, which is kind of part of the fun. We’ve been able to help so many people grow and improve their teams, organizations, and communities.
And we’ve expanded our offerings beyond workshops (and finally got a new website to mark the occasion!).
⭐️ Leadership development
⭐️ Skills training
⭐️ Assessments & psychometrics
⭐️ Custom curriculum & instructional design
⭐️ Coaching
⭐️ Online courses
WEBSITE: https://skillscamp.co
I’m so looking forward to celebrating the most successful year yet at our decade celebration one year from now. 🎉
The complex part of organizational change is PEOPLE.
Why? Because people are complex.
It seems almost too simple.
If no people are involved, change can be as easy as the flick of a switch.
But there are people... with brains, paradigms, habits, fears, and much more.
But even knowing this, I often see organizations and leaders overly focused on the process of change. When? Where? What tech? While understandably important, there’s less emphasis on what the complex part—the people—need to not just experience change, but make the full and successful transition to the new way. What do they need to believe to be true? What skills and supports do they need?
I had the pleasure of speaking to members of Canada’s 2SLGBTQI+ Chamber of Commerce (@theCGLCC ) last week about leading through change, and we chatted about this exact idea. A reframing of the goal (transitions over change) alters priorities (people over processes) and change efforts can become less complex.
To understand this approach to change, reach out to me: .
To actually build the skills, mindsets, etc., reach out to @SkillsCampHQ https://skillscamp.co.
Sometimes, you really can’t offer a customer that service or give them the discount they want. Sometimes, you really just don’t have any shirts left in the size they need or you sold out of the dish they want. Sometimes, you can’t meet a customer’s “rational needs”.
When we have been the customers in these scenarios, we have all FELT the difference between customer service caring for us or treating us like a burden. That feeling stays with us, regardless of whether they have the shirt or not.
In a recent article, @IncMagazine explored training seasonal employees for customer service. I was happy to comment more on rational and emotional needs and share some of what we do at @SkillsCampHQ . 🎉
Check out the article in my bio.
At @SkillsCamphq , we take skills that some people think you’re born with— like leadership— and break them down into behaviours that can be taught. Behaviours, practiced over time, become skills. What would it look like to have AI support the skill of leadership? What would it look like to have AI support employee happiness, thriving, and learning?
I was honored to explore these questions on a panel with some of my distinguished colleagues from around the world as part of the UN Science Summit at the UN General Assembly (#UNGA79). You can now watch the full panel with Hamza Khan (@hamzak ), Lawrence Eta (@the.lawrence.eta ), Anitta Krishan (@anittakrishan ), Declan Edwards (@declanedwards_bu ), and I at the link in my bio. @CenterForDigitalWellbeing
#UNScienceSummit #unitedNations
