NEADS + Wavemakers

Pathway to Success: With NEADS as the foundation, Wavemakers offers a powerful next step to help students move forward with confidence.

What is Wavemakers?

Wavemakers helps students build the skills, mindset, and confidence to thrive in the workplace.

Flexible and inclusive: It’s designed to fit into any busy schedule, with a virtual campus, a welcoming environment, and a focus on equity and access.

A community that cares: Students join a cohort with other like-minded students across Canada, caring and compassionate mentors, and industry expert speakers, building lasting relationships and learning to work across cultures and disciplines.

Real experience: Students work on real-world challenges and projects that reflect what employers are looking for.

Built-in network: The program connects students directly with top employers and professionals from across Canada.

Future-proof skills: Wavemakers focuses on the capabilities that matter most, like communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and adaptability.

Nicholas Kiproff, Wavemakers Alum

“Wavemakers is a place where anyone can join and feel welcomed. They are so accepting of anyone with diverse needs. The online, fully accessible environment helps make anything possible. I feel more confident after Wavemakers because I gained so much experience from it. I was able to build a network that cares and I just feel more calm because I have that.”

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  • Impactful Next Step On Your Journey

    For students working with NEADS, Wavemakers isn’t an add-on. It’s a practical next step, a chance to try things out, build a larger network, and start shaping the kind of career that aligns with every individual student and what they are working toward.

    Wavemakers is a free, meaningful career-building program to add to your journey.

    Thanks to the innovative Wavemakers Virtual Campus, you can participate in this career-building program from anywhere.

    What You Get as a Wavemaker

    - Fits easily into schedule, manageable workload

    - Virtual reality campus: accessible from anywhere

    - Differentiate yourself in a competitive market with in-demand career skills and a professional network

    - Exclusive access to career networking and development events

    - Digital completion certificate for your LinkedIn

    - Build meaningful connections with peers, mentors, and employers.

    Wavemakers is one more step on your career journey that you can take with confidence.

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  • A Community That Cares

    One of the things that makes Wavemakers different is how much the people behind it genuinely care about your success.

    From the moment you join, you're supported by a team that wants to see you grow. That includes mentors who listen, offer advice, and help you work through real challenges.

    You’ll also get to know the Wavemakers team who are there to guide you through the program, check in with you, and help you feel seen and supported.

    And that connection doesn’t stop when the program is over.

    You’ll still have access to a network that’s rooting for you plus the opportunity to join the Ambassador Program.

    Alums stay in touch after they graduate, and the team is always open to helping however they can.

    Join a community that wants you to succeed on your own terms, and sticks with you as you figure out what that looks like.

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