January 31
7:00-8:00AM
Workforce Planning and Talent Management
The Leadership Intelligence Triangle
Organizational Effectiveness
Work Life Balance: How To Find Your Own Definition Of Perfect
8:15-9:30AM
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
10:00-11:00AM
Organizational Effectiveness
Cyber Intelligence & Social Media Intelligence Gathering
Labour and Employee Relations
Navigating the Tough Stuff Part 1 — Social Media Misuse and Off-Duty Misconduct
Workforce Planning and Talent Management
Canadian Job Market Trends: How to Leverage Labour Market Data to Recruit Top Talent
Learning and Development
The Shift from Trainer to Performance Consultant and Why It’s Necessary
Organizational Effectiveness
Intrapreneurship: Innovation Driven by a Culture of Learning and Smart Risk-Taking
Workforce Planning and Talent Management
The Next Brain Gain: Unpacking the Global Skills Strategy
Human Resources Metrics, Reporting, and Financial
Candidate Experience in Background Screening
Workforce Planning and Talent Management
Creating Inclusive Workplaces — From the Employer’s Perspective
Total Rewards
Optimizing Total Rewards
Learning and Development
How to Develop the Average Person into a Great Leader
Organizational Effectiveness
How HR Can Save or Destroy Agile
Professional Practice
Influencing Greatness in Workplaces Everywhere
Professional Practice
How to Understand Data — and Not Be Misled
Organizational Effectiveness
Working from Home: Strategies for Success for Employees & Employers
Labour and Employee Relations
Accommodating Employees with Disabilities: New Developments Every HR Professional Needs to Know
Professional Practice
How to Be a Resiliency Ninja
Professional Practice
Networking Lessons from a Reluctant Networker
Workforce Planning and Talent Management
How to Land Your Next Great Role in HR — Effectively Writing Your Resume, Improving Your Interviewing Skills and Enhancing Your LinkedIn Brand for Early Career HR Professionals
Professional Practice
Future of HR: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Disruption
Human Resources Metrics, Reporting, and Financial
The Business Case for Pay Equity
Health, Wellness, and Safe Workplace
Office Ergonomics: To Sit or To Stand at Work? ….That is the Question
Organizational Effectiveness
Creating a Plan for Resilience
Strategy
The Ego-Continuum — “Making Shitty Leaders Less Shitty”
11:00-12:00PM
Professional Practice
CPD Bootcamp
1:00-2:00PM
Globalization in Retreat
3:00-4:00PM
Professional Practice
Advancing your HR Career: Insights from HR Leaders
Health, Wellness, and Safe Workplace
Know the Essential Duties of Your Jobs — the Why & How
Learning and Development
How Your Emotional Intelligence Will Shape Your Career
Organizational Effectiveness
Organizational Design for HR Practitioners
Workforce Planning and Talent Management
The Future of Work — Top Trends in 2018
Organizational Effectiveness
How to Build True Enterprise Change Capability: A Practical Guide and Journey to Success
Total Rewards
Pharmacogenetics: What Plan Sponsors Need To Know
Strategy
The Intelligence Revolution — A New Age of Opportunity
Health, Wellness, and Safe Workplace
Supporting Employee Success When Mental Health is a Factor
Organizational Effectiveness
Basic Mediation Skills for HR Managers
Total Rewards
Getting to the Fundamentals — How to Pay an Employee
Human Resources Metrics, Reporting, and Financial
No Time or Resources: How to Maximize your Employee Benefits Plan
Organizational Effectiveness
Difficult Conversations — Interrupt Your Instincts
Organizational Effectiveness
The Secret of Highly Engaged Teams: Cultivating Passion, Commitment and Action
Professional Practice
Traumatic Mental Stress Claims Expected to Rise at WSIB: Practical Prevention Strategies
Learning and Development
So You Think You Can Listen
Professional Practice
Marijuana Legalization: Is Your Workplace Ready?
Workforce Planning and Talent Management
Preparing for the Future: The 5 Investments in Talent Acquisition Every Organization Needs to Prepare for 2020!
Labour and Employee Relations
Bad Ideas on How to Terminate
Organizational Effectiveness
Bring it on! Helping HR Employees Master Change Transitions in Business and in Life
Strategy
An Update on Brexit
Workforce Planning and Talent Management
All Talk, No Action: Making Diversity a Business Priority
Organizational Effectiveness
Real Recognition: You’ll Know It When You Feel It
3:00-4:30PM
Learning and Development
Oxygen Poker: Learn What Drives You!
4:30-5:30PM
Daring Leadership: The Four Pillars of Courage
February 1
7:00-8:00AM
Organizational Effectiveness
The Distraction Economy: Risks, Rewards and Remedies
Organizational Effectiveness
A Fresh New Approach to Productivity
8:15-9:30AM
Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways
10:30-11:30AM
Organizational Effectiveness
Build Bold Bridges: Transform from Traditional Change Management to Agile Change Management and Win Fast!
Strategy
Creating a Unique Take on Corporate Social Integration
Professional Practice
Indigenizing HR
Health, Wellness, and Safe Workplace
N-Quotient: Realizing a Productive Workplace through Lessons from Nature
Organizational Effectiveness
A Fresh Look at an Old Thorn: Performance Management
Labour and Employee Relations
Navigating the Tough Stuff Part 2 — Chronic Attendance Issues and Insubordination
Strategy
Become a Sought-out Trusted Strategic Advisor
Strategy
Canadian Corporate Immigration Issues for HR: Who Knew Canada Could Be So Cold?
Health, Wellness, and Safe Workplace
Workplace First Aid Includes Mental Health
Organizational Effectiveness
Neurodiversity: You Have No Idea of the Talent You Are Crushing
Labour and Employee Relations
Engaging the Workforce of the Future: The Emergence of Generation Z
Labour and Employee Relations
Managing Social Media Disasters
Learning and Development
How to Coach a Difficult Person Right Out of Your Office
Labour and Employee Relations
The Arctic Blonde (Greying) Workforce
Workforce Planning and Talent Management
Reciprocal Mentorship — Creative Programs and Demographic Perspectives Revisited
Strategy
Disciplined Chaos
Workforce Planning and Talent Management
The Future of Talent in the Gig Economy: Inside the New Paradigm of Work
Health, Wellness, and Safe Workplace
Alcohol and Drugs in the Workplace: A Clinical Perspective of the New Guidelines from the Canadian Human Rights Commission
Organizational Effectiveness
The Engaged Employee Blueprint: How Companies Can Build A Thriving Workplace Culture
Organizational Effectiveness
Innovation and Agility Drive Mission Critical Business Value
Leadership
Developing Psychologically Safe Leaders: Supporting Changed Behaviours in Our People Leaders
Linda Brogden, Elina Fonariov, Sarah Jenner, Christine McGregor
Health, Wellness, and Safe Workplace
Introducing or Rewriting an Employee Benefits Plan – Steps for Implementation and Lesson Learned
Workforce Planning and Talent Management
Using Social Recognition to Nurture, Develop and Retain Talent
11:30-12:30PM
Professional Practice
CPD Bootcamp
12:00-2:00PM
The Future of Authority and the Rise of AI
3:00-4:00PM
Workforce Planning and Talent Management
8 Essentials for Creating a Leadership Development Initiative
Strategy
Put Your Money Where Their Mouths Are
Total Rewards
The Need for Reward Innovation
Organizational Effectiveness
The Paradigm of Shattering the “Glass Ceiling” No Longer Applies: How to Create Inclusive Strategies Relevant to Today’s Modern Workforce
Strategy
Building a Talent Driven Company From Ground Zero
Health, Wellness, and Safe Workplace
Mental Health in the Return to Work Landscape: Tools to Help You Navigate
Strategy
A Year in Review: Trump, May, Macron and Merkel
Organizational Effectiveness
Changing the Conversation on Leadership! What is Leader Character and How Can You Bring It into HR Practices?
Strategy
The Evolution of the Canadian Workforce
Health, Wellness, and Safe Workplace
Stress Management & Well-Being Through Laughter
Organizational Effectiveness
Emotional Intelligence and Conflict Management
Workforce Planning and Talent Management
Who Will be Replaced by a Robot? What HR Professionals Need to Know
Organizational Effectiveness
Speaking with Confidence Even if You Feel Nervous
Health, Wellness, and Safe Workplace
Do Employers Have a Legal Duty to Provide a Psychologically Healthy Workplace?
Workforce Planning and Talent Management
Transforming Performance Management: 2018 Trends
Learning and Development
Building a Coaching Culture — Leaders Unite
Labour and Employee Relations
Avoiding Liability: Discuss How to Protect your Organization from Costly Common Employment-Related Mistakes
Organizational Effectiveness
Resilience: The New Culture Building Block
Strategy
The Psychologically Safe Leader: A New Assessment Tool to Assess Leader Impact on the Work Environment
Organizational Effectiveness
Coaching for Cultural Transformation
Professional Practice
Clearing the Haze: The Impacts of Marijuana in the Workplace
3:00-4:30PM
Organizational Effectiveness
Imagination Intelligence: The Final Piece of the Intelligence Puzzle
4:30-5:30PM
Changing My Mind
February 2
7:00-8:00AM
Health, Wellness, and Safe Workplace
A Motivated Mind: The Brain Science of Motivation
Organizational Effectiveness
How the Best Airlines in the World Drive Employee and Customer Engagement
8:15-9:30AM
Leadership
Purpose Revolution — How Leaders Create Engagement in an Age of Social Good
10:00-11:00AM
Total Rewards
Pay for Performance — How to Design and Manage a Short-Term Incentive Plan
Organizational Effectiveness
Mind The Gap: Improving Your Culture With Data
Workforce Planning and Talent Management
Video Interviewing — How One-Way Video Interviews are the Greatest New Tool in the Talent Acquisition Arsenal
Learning and Development
Communicating with Influence — What your Audience Needs from You
Organizational Effectiveness
World Class Virtual Teamwork
Workforce Planning and Talent Management
Labour Market Impact Assessment: Will You Be Successful?
Strategy
Bridging the Gap from Consultant to Executive
Human Resources Metrics, Reporting, and Financial
Metrics: Measuring HR’s Business Impact
Labour and Employee Relations
Marijuana in the Workplace: Exploring Significant and Emerging Issues
Organizational Effectiveness
“Going Gig”: How to Lead and Manage the Contingent Workforce
Organizational Effectiveness
Hard Fun: LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® for Team Building & Development
Strategy
Building your Army of Allies: The Evolution of Profitable Relationships
Professional Practice
The ESA: What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You
Strategy
Cultural Capital: Measuring and Mobilizing Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage
Learning and Development
CHANGE YOUR BRAIN, Change your Results!
Workforce Planning and Talent Management
Employer Branding through Social Media Initiatives
Professional Practice
Managing HR Operations in Dismal Times
Workforce Planning and Talent Management
Workforce Strategies in an Uncertain Time
Organizational Effectiveness
Great Place to Work FOR ALL: Creating a Consistent Culture of Inclusion
Workforce Planning and Talent Management
Legislative Changes CDN/US: How To Survive
Health, Wellness, and Safe Workplace
Ignite Positivity! Workplace Practices That Transform Culture
Strategy
Youth Inclusive Hiring Practices
Workforce Planning and Talent Management
Using the Right Data to Make Better HR Decisions
11:00-12:00PM
Professional Practice
CPD Bootcamp
12:00-1:00PM
Organizational Effectiveness
It’s Time We All Work Happy™— The Secrets of the Happiest Companies and Employees
Organizational Effectiveness
Mind the Gender Behaviour Gap
Health, Wellness, and Safe Workplace
Tools to Build a Health and Safety Culture at Your Workplace
Workforce Planning and Talent Management
Trends Shaping the Global Labour Market: What You Need to Know to Tap into Top Talent
Leadership
Executive Presence
Organizational Effectiveness
Fourth to the Fourth Power: Leading the Way to AI + HI = Renaissance
Strategy
Creating Inclusive Workplaces — From the Employee’s Perspective
Health, Wellness, and Safe Workplace
Adopting the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace: Our Journey
Learning and Development
Microlearning: Learning Trends to Engage Your Employees
Learning and Development
The Resilient Leader — Tap into Your Tenacity & Create Your Legacy
Professional Practice
Does Your LinkedIn Profile Need a Makeover?
Organizational Effectiveness
The Voice of Business Leader on HR
Health, Wellness, and Safe Workplace
The Cost of Caregiving — Employer/Employee Perspectives Relating to Family Status and Flexibility in the Workplace
Organizational Effectiveness
Can HR Change the World?
Workforce Planning and Talent Management
Talent Communities: Generating More Robust, Engaged and Consistent Candidate Pipelines
Labour and Employee Relations
New and Evolving Issues in Workplace Accommodation
Human Resources Metrics, Reporting, and Financial
Current & Emerging Payroll Issues
Learning and Development
Nine Minutes on Monday
Workforce Planning and Talent Management
Advanced People Analytics for Driving Enhanced Business Outcomes
Organizational Effectiveness
The Annual Merit Increase and Performance Review Process — An Alternative to the ‘Same Old, Same Old’
Organizational Effectiveness
Mindfulness in the Workplace
1:00-3:10PM
