SkillPlan

For over 20 years, Kyle Downie has worked both internationally and nationally leading educational and workforce development teams, developing and designing programming, instructing, and mentoring for both private and public industries. Currently, he is the CEO of SkillPlan where he focuses on developing strategies to improve the skills of workers in the unionized construction industry through the Building Trades unions and their affiliated contractors throughout Canada.

Today, with a large segment of the population retiring, displaced workers seeking employment and new skills, and vast numbers of young, diverse, and underrepresented workers joining the workforce, the need to ensure the effective transfer of knowledge is now. Successful mentorship is a critical element in building a high-quality workforce and has been shown to positively affect productivity, safety, quality, and client relations on the job. Learn how SkillPlan has developed and implemented an industry-proven mentorship model for the construction industry that can also transfer well to other settings.