
RISE 2025 Featured Workshop
Featured Workshop: Networking with Jean Chow
This year we are excited to share that as part of RiSE 2025, we will have a specially designed networking workshop by Jean Chow!

Jean Chow
Jean Chow is a part-time Sessional Lecturer at the University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine and an Instructor at the School of Continuing Studies. For the past eight years, she has been teaching networking, intercultural communications, career management, and leadership. Her previous four careers have been in audit and finance, international development, food manufacturing, and coaching (ongoing). Jean has a vast network, having lived and worked in Asia, Africa, and North America and travelled to all seven continents except Antarctica. She is currently based in Toronto, writing a field guide for professional networking and a collection of memoir essays. Jean plans to continue doing one of the best jobs in the world – teaching!
[Sam Allen, Digital Media Specialist, UofT School of Continuing Studies]
Thank you to our 2025 sponsors!

