OCDA: Brain-Based Career Development

Ohio Career Development Association

December 2, 2025 12PM - 1PM ET

Session Objectives:

• Explain key principles of the Brain-Based Career Development (BBCD) model and illustrate how these principles can be applied to career guidance, advising, counseling, and coaching contexts.
• Analyze decision-making through a brain-based lens by identifying how cognitive processes such as attention, memory, and emotional regulation influence client or student career choices.
• Recognize signs of cognitive overload in clients and demonstrate strategies for managing it, such as task chunking, stress-reduction techniques, and prioritization frameworks
• Apply at least two brain-based strategies within their own career development practices to promote motivation, engagement, and effective problem-solving.

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