Below are descriptions of presenters who will be speaking at the Campus Recruiting Forums in Toronto / Vancouver

Additional Presenter Biographies Will be Available Shortly.

Shannon Costigan

Shannon Costigan, Ph.D.

Senior Recruitment Partner
Student & Graduate Strategies
BMO Financial Group

Shannon Costigan completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Saskatchewan in 2006.  In 2005, she participated in the Facilitator Development Program with McKinsey & Company.  Shannon has worked with a variety of clients in corporate and community settings and practiced as a psychologist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto.

She has lectured at universities and colleges across the country and was cross appointed to the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.  Her work has primarily focused on shifting mindsets and behaviours with individual and groups and large scale behavioural change. She has extensive experience in staff development, creating and implementing structured change programs, and project management. She joined the Office of Strategic Management within the Bank of Montreal in Performance Delivery in September, 2007.

She was head of Orientation Programming for the Advanced Leadership and Managerial Development Program with the Institute for Learning and began work as the Sr. Campus Recruitment Partner, Student & Graduate Strategies in January, 2011.   She is actively involved in charitable work in the community with her primary focus being the Bay Street Hoops Basketball Tournament which has raised over 2.5 million dollars for children’s charities in Toronto.

Graham Donald

Graham Donald

President
Brainstorm Strategy Group, Inc.

Graham Donald is Canada’s leading expert on campus recruiting and career services management.

Over the past 20 years he has advised dozens of the country’s major employers and developed a national network of university and college clients. In the past several years he has worked with numerous US employers and colleges as well.

As a co-author of the annual From Learning to Work Report, Canada’s benchmark study of student attitudes towards careers and employers, he has developed a unique understanding of tomorrow’s workforce. He uses this expertise and his extensive experience in the campus recruitment marketplace to advise major employers when developing programs to attract, recruit, retain, and manage new student hires.

His primary role as a consultant with career centres and other student services is to facilitate the strategic planning process or external reviews to help support student engagement and success.

He was Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Career Educators and Employers (CACEE) for seven years. In 1996, he conceived and launched Campus WorkLink, which quickly became Canada’s largest job posting site for students and graduates. Campus WorkLink was sold to Workopolis.com in 2001 where he worked as part of the senior management team until starting Brainstorm Strategy Group, Inc. in 2003.

Through Brainstorm Strategy Group, Inc., he has developed a series of Campus Recruiting Forums in cities across North America for employers of post-secondary students and graduates. He also created The Canadian Institute for Career Centre Management – a management training program for campus career centre directors – and the Career Services Summit for leaders of campus career centres. More recently, he launched the Strategic Enrolment Marketing & Management Forum (SEMM Forum).

Earlier in his career, he was owner and president of Turl Street Publications Ltd.; a founding director of the Career Edge National Internship Program; and a founder, past president, and life member of the Young Entrepreneurs Association of Canada. He is also a former owner and director of a children’s canoe tripping camp, Camp Temagami. He received both his BA and MBA from the University of Toronto.

Darren Evans

Darren Evans

Director, Brand and Creative Strategy
Calabash Creative Engagement Inc.