Liv Pennie

Liv Pennie, Co-Founder & CEO of BECOME Liv brings together unique experience from the worlds of academia and innovation. She holds an MA in Psychology, a Graduate Certificate in Education & Career Development combined with 18 years in advertising developing winning strategies, communications and innovative digital products at some of the best agencies around the world. All this combined with 4 years of service as a Board Director of SchoolAid was the perfect backswing for launching BECOME.

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Beware of the Shortcuts

Liv Pennie: Oct 17, 2023 10:39:37 AM

The case for slowing things down when it comes to K12 Careers Education Traditionally in Career Development, it's all about efficiency -- especially in a school environment with so many competing priorities and limited resources. How do we remove...

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Designing your life from the inside

Liv Pennie: Sep 8, 2023 1:19:04 PM

We’ve written before about the three main pitfalls of careers tests. The kind of tests that promise to deliver The Answer, The Solution, The One True...

Career Education Career Development Career Success Schools

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The secret ingredient for subject selection

Liv Pennie: Aug 7, 2023 12:30:57 PM

Student agency. It's the secret ingredient that we're all after. By agency, we mean young people taking active control over their life and...

Career Development Schools Aspirations Goals

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The Most Powerful Thing you Can Do...

Liv Pennie: May 16, 2023 12:19:40 PM

... before they leave Primary school. If you could give your students one big thing before they leave Primary school, something that would set them...

Career Education Career Development Schools

The BECOME.ME app bridge for sport and pro sport

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BECOME.ME 4.0

Liv Pennie: May 5, 2023 10:15:00 AM

The latest App update Next time you check in to the BECOME.Me app, you should be seeing the latest version, v4.0.

Career Education Schools Technology

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Funding a Career Test Doesn’t Mean You're doing Careers Education

Liv Pennie: Aug 28, 2022 7:11:51 PM

Why and how tests should be used with caution, and in context. This article by Liv Pennie was first published in Education Today, August 2022, and...

Career Education Schools Assessment

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Making a Difference in the World (as long as it's in medicine or law)

Liv Pennie: Aug 19, 2022 2:59:08 PM

I’m an optimist. But wow, that bubble has been a bit deflated reading the Monash Uni discussion paper, Young Women Choosing Careers: Who Decides?

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The many faces of student futures

Liv Pennie: May 6, 2022 3:21:01 PM

When we were planning upcoming Reimagining Careers Education sessions, we asked our community what they liked from the last two years of live, online...

Career Education Future of Work Chaos Theory of Careers Career Talks

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Joining Forces with PBLWorks

Liv Pennie: Feb 24, 2020 3:15:00 PM

Last week, our team was fortunate enough to attend the first workshop of the 2020 calendar with PBLWorks alongside 150 leading educators. Scroll...

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Artificial Intelligence or Art Therapy

Liv Pennie: Dec 6, 2018 1:00:00 PM

The seismic shifts created by technological advancement have profound implications for how future lives and careers will pan out but despite all the...