Schedule
Wednesday, January 30
7:45 AM
Leading Voices Amplify Call for Change: #MeToo
StrategyQualifies for CPD hours
10:00 AM
CPD Clinic
Professional Practice
10:30 AM
Ask an Expert
Health, Wellness and Safe WorkplaceQualifies for CPD hours
11:00 AM
Leveraging Strategic Workforce Planning to Have a Stronger Voice in the Boardroom
Workforce Planning and Talent ManagementQualifies for CPD hours
Current and Emerging Payroll Issues
Human Resources, Metrics, Reporting, and Financial ManagementQualifies for CPD hours
Fitting the Puzzle Pieces: The Law of Disability Management
Labour and Employee RelationsQualifies for CPD hours
Canadian Immigration: 5 Things HR Professionals Must Master
Workforce Planning and Talent ManagementQualifies for CPD hours
Business as Unusual: Maintaining a Kick-ass Culture Through Mergers, Acquisition and Growth
StrategyQualifies for CPD hours
Top-Down or Bottom-Up: What is the Best Approach to Change Management?
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
The Employee Experience: Designing for Moments that Matter
Total RewardsQualifies for CPD hours
Canadian Corporate Immigration: Don’t Get Caught with Your Foreign Workers Down
Professional PracticeQualifies for CPD hours
Substance Abuse In the Workplace
Health, Wellness and Safe WorkplaceQualifies for CPD hours
Restoring the Workplace: #AfterTheInvestigation
Labour and Employee RelationsQualifies for CPD hours
Work with a Mentor: Secret Sauce for Your Career Success
Professional PracticeQualifies for CPD hours
The Ego-Continuum: “Shitty Leadership 2.0 – So What Now?”
StrategyQualifies for CPD hours
Recruiting Outside Your Bubble
StrategyQualifies for CPD hours
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Nurturing Your Business and Maintaining the Law
Learning and DevelopmentQualifies for CPD hours
Misconduct at Work: Lessons from Behavioural Science
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
How does a Startup in San Francisco Compete for Top Talent?
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
2017 CSA Office Ergonomic Standard: Steps to Ensure Compliance
Health, Wellness and Safe WorkplaceQualifies for CPD hours
Motivating and Retaining Employees in Unionized Workplaces
StrategyQualifies for CPD hours
Practice Makes Perfect: Three Missing Pieces in Leadership Development
StrategyQualifies for CPD hours
Civility Matters
Health, Wellness and Safe WorkplaceQualifies for CPD hours
EY’s AI Journey: Our Success with Conversational HR and Beyond
StrategyQualifies for CPD hours
Building the Climate for Innovation
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
Self-Awareness Through Science: Improving Workplace Performance Through Cognitive Diversity
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
Managing Moments of Disconnect — The Gift of Authentic Leadership in the Age of Uncertainty
Workforce Planning and Talent ManagementQualifies for CPD hours
1:00 PM
Unlocking Creativity: How to Solve Any Problem and Make the Best Decisions
Qualifies for CPD hours
2:30 PM
We are Losing the Ability to Think and What to Do About It
Organizational Effectiveness
3:00 PM
The Implications of the Sexual Violence and Harassment Action Plan Act on Your Workplace
Learning and DevelopmentQualifies for CPD hours
Managing the Mental Game
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
The Future of Health Insurance is About Health, Not Insurance
Total RewardsQualifies for CPD hours
What to Do When the Inspector Arrives
Professional PracticeQualifies for CPD hours
Do Good to Lead Well: The Power of Humility
Workforce Planning and Talent ManagementQualifies for CPD hours
Building a Business Case for Employers to Actively Recruit and Retain People with Mental Illness
Health, Wellness and Safe WorkplaceQualifies for CPD hours
Workplace Appreciation — Learning 5 Languages that will Change your Culture
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
Beyond Canada 150: Bringing Indigenous Reconciliation to Life in Your Organization
StrategyQualifies for CPD hours
Behavioural Insights for HR: Lessons from the “Nudge Unit”
StrategyQualifies for CPD hours
Be Your Own Talent Agent: Career Self-Management for New HR Graduates
Professional PracticeQualifies for CPD hours
A Lot Can Happen in a Year of Employment (Standards): The ESA Amendments, One Year In
Labour and Employee RelationsQualifies for CPD hours
Financial Literacy in the Workplace — An Employee Engagement Strategy
Health, Wellness and Safe WorkplaceQualifies for CPD hours
Gig Work and the Evolving Talent Landscape: What You Need to Know to Succeed
Workforce Planning and Talent ManagementQualifies for CPD hours
Using People Analytics to Transform Businesses
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
What Do You Need to Know? Ask a Leading Employment Lawyer and a Senior HR Practitioner Your Burning Questions
Labour and Employee RelationsQualifies for CPD hours
A Moment on the Edge: How Small Encounters Change Lives
Health, Wellness and Safe WorkplaceQualifies for CPD hours
Social Learning — Collaborating to Create Solutions to Today’s Complex Issues
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
Learning Lessons Through Improv
Organizational Effectiveness
Gender Equality in Canada — How Are We Doing?
StrategyQualifies for CPD hours
A Step by Step Guide to Best Workplace Branding for Your Organization
Professional PracticeQualifies for CPD hours
Ask an Expert
Health, Wellness and Safe WorkplaceQualifies for CPD hours
Thursday, January 31
7:00 AM
True or False? 10 Science-Based Facts and Fictions About People in Workplaces
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
Strength-Based Leadership: How to Engage Employees to Improve Organizational Culture
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
8:15 AM
Minister of Labour’s Opening Remarks
Labour and Employee Relations
9:30 AM
CPD Clinic
Professional Practice
10:30 AM
AI for HR…What You Need to Know and the Future Ahead
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
A Taste of Mindfulness for Yourself and Your Employees
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
The Key to Leadership Success: Self-Awareness and Emotional Intelligence
StrategyQualifies for CPD hours
Leadership Lessons from the Non-Profit World on Becoming a Great Workplace
StrategyQualifies for CPD hours
HR and IT — Partners in Change!
StrategyQualifies for CPD hours
People Analytics at Rogers Communications: New Mindsets, Skillsets and Toolsets for Higher-Value Insight Generation
Human Resources, Metrics, Reporting, and Financial ManagementQualifies for CPD hours
The Bleeding Edge: Blockchain, AI and the Application of Technology
Workforce Planning and Talent ManagementQualifies for CPD hours
Investigating Organizational Culture from the Outside
Labour and Employee RelationsQualifies for CPD hours
Dances with Case Law
Labour and Employee RelationsQualifies for CPD hours
Advancing Your HR Career Panel Discussion: Insights from HR Leaders
Professional Practice
Marijuana, Alcohol and Other Drugs in the Workplace
Learning and DevelopmentQualifies for CPD hours
Building a Resilient Workplace & Personnel Through Crisis – The SHIFT Approach©
Health, Wellness and Safe WorkplaceQualifies for CPD hours
How Neuroscience Can Help Your Employees Take Responsibility for Their Own Engagement
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
You’re Only as Great as Your Candidate Experience
Professional PracticeQualifies for CPD hours
Experience Connection: HR & Marketing Can Rock the Bottom Line
StrategyQualifies for CPD hours
Humanizing Cultures: The Power of Love and Compassion in the Workplace
Health, Wellness and Safe WorkplaceQualifies for CPD hours
The Power of Networking to Advance Your Career in HR
Learning and Development
Hacking the Fear of Public Speaking
Organizational Effectiveness
Talent Impact Assessment
Learning and DevelopmentQualifies for CPD hours
Ask an Expert
Health, Wellness and Safe WorkplaceQualifies for CPD hours
12:00 PM
Your Ego is Not Your Amigo
Qualifies for CPD hours
2:30 PM
Spark New Ideas and Fuel Results
Organizational Effectiveness
3:00 PM
Allyship in Action: Supporting LGBTQ2+ Employees at Work
Health, Wellness and Safe WorkplaceQualifies for CPD hours
Do You Have a Well Defined Talent Philosophy?
Workforce Planning and Talent ManagementQualifies for CPD hours
It’s Not You, It’s Me — Personal Development Is Leadership Development
StrategyQualifies for CPD hours
“Can We Talk?”
Labour and Employee RelationsQualifies for CPD hours
Top 10 Tips for Communicating Effectively
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
Labour Market Impact Assessments: How to Maximize Your Success
Workforce Planning and Talent ManagementQualifies for CPD hours
How to Survive a Pay Equity Audit
Human Resources, Metrics, Reporting, and Financial ManagementQualifies for CPD hours
The Voice of Business Leader on HR – A Panel Discussion
Professional PracticeQualifies for CPD hours
Employee Benefits – How to Prepare for Your Renewals
Total RewardsQualifies for CPD hours
Managing Social Media Disasters
Labour and Employee RelationsStrategy
Laughter and Chocolate: Endorphin Golden Gate
Health, Wellness and Safe Workplace
Living Leadership: How to Create a Culture Where Everyone Acts Like a Leader…Regardless of Their Title or Role
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
The EQ Leader in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Learning and DevelopmentQualifies for CPD hours
Leadership in the Times of #MeToo — A Values Proposition
Health, Wellness and Safe WorkplaceQualifies for CPD hours
Empathy, Vulnerability and Gratitude — Soft Skills That Lead to Big Results
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
Growth Through Acquisition: How You Can Standardize Your Health and Safety Program
Health, Wellness and Safe WorkplaceQualifies for CPD hours
TLC = RC Recipe© — Wellness that is Baked In, Not Bolted On, Means Progress
Health, Wellness and Safe WorkplaceQualifies for CPD hours
Addressing Sexual Harassment with Institutional Courage
Health, Wellness and Safe WorkplaceQualifies for CPD hours
Squirrel — The New Norm
Health, Wellness and Safe Workplace
Freedom and Flexibility: How to Manage the Rise of the Remote Worker
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
Applying Lean Thinking to HR Delivery
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
Separation and Divorce are Workplace Issues: Helping Organizations Reduce the Costs of Separation and Divorce in the Workplace
Health, Wellness and Safe WorkplaceQualifies for CPD hours
4:30 PM
Friday, February 01
7:00 AM
Unstoppable Tracy Schmitt: Crush Your Leadership Roadblocks
Learning and Development
What HR Strategy Can Learn from Marketing
StrategyQualifies for CPD hours
10:00 AM
Troublesome Terminations: Ending the Employment Relationship in Difficult Circumstances
Professional PracticeQualifies for CPD hours
Digital Video AI in the Interview Process — Transforming Talent Insights and Competency-based Hiring
StrategyQualifies for CPD hours
How to Modernize L&D for the Millennial Mindset
Learning and DevelopmentQualifies for CPD hours
The New Reality: Immigration and Doing Business in the United States
Workforce Planning and Talent ManagementQualifies for CPD hours
Why Emotional Intelligence isn’t Enough: Developing Social Intelligence in a Social World
Health, Wellness and Safe WorkplaceQualifies for CPD hours
5 Ways You Can Boost Company Sales
Personal LeadershipQualifies for CPD hours
Bodies Don’t Lie… Body Language and the Significance of Colour in Wardrobe
Learning and Development
Keep Calm and Call Your Business Partner: A Presentation and Panel Discussion on the Future of the HRBP Role
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
H Not R: Communicate Like They’re Humans — Not Resources
Total RewardsQualifies for CPD hours
5 Ways to Use Mindfulness to Combat Stress In the Workplace
Health, Wellness and Safe Workplace
Influence Greatness: 6 Key Elements to a Highly Effective Organizational Culture
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
Shifting Your Circadian Rhythm for Shift Workers
Health, Wellness and Safe WorkplaceQualifies for CPD hours
Enter the Champion — A Guide to Onboarding Senior Leaders
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
The New/Old ESA Under Bill 47 and Bill 66
Labour and Employee RelationsQualifies for CPD hours
Professional Business Email Etiquette and Multigenerational Communication
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
The Evolution of Employee Voice — 2019 Trends
Workforce Planning and Talent ManagementQualifies for CPD hours
Does Your Retirement Plan Measure Up? A New Approach to Attracting Talent, Reducing Stress, and Improving the Bottom Line
Workforce Planning and Talent ManagementQualifies for CPD hours
Bad Boss or Bully? How to Know the Difference and What to Do About It
Professional PracticeQualifies for CPD hours
How to Grow Human Capital Using Financial Intelligence
Human Resources, Metrics, Reporting, and Financial ManagementQualifies for CPD hours
Deciding What to Change: Key Insights from Behavioural Science
Professional PracticeQualifies for CPD hours
4 Day Weekend: Designing our Work Schedule Around Our Needs
Organizational Effectiveness
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Human Resource Management
StrategyQualifies for CPD hours
11:00 AM
CPD Clinic
Professional Practice
11:30 AM
Ask an Expert
Health, Wellness and Safe WorkplaceQualifies for CPD hours
#MeToo: A Year in Review
Professional PracticeQualifies for CPD hours
12:00 PM
Budgeting 101: The Myths, Realities & How to Cross the Finish Line Together
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
Getting it Together: Integrating Best Policy and Practices for Cancer and Chronic Disease in the Workplace
Health, Wellness and Safe WorkplaceQualifies for CPD hours
Difficult Conversations
Learning and DevelopmentQualifies for CPD hours
The Art of Intentional Optimism
Strategy
Legal Update on Chronic Mental Stress Claims Under WSIB
Labour and Employee RelationsQualifies for CPD hours
Failure is an Option: Creating Space in Our Work Lives to Take Risks
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
Dynamic Leadership: Leading the Way in a VUCA World
Workforce Planning and Talent ManagementQualifies for CPD hours
The Human in HR Analytics
Professional PracticeQualifies for CPD hours
Brand New You: Developing Your Personal Brand as an HR Professional
Professional Practice
Carving Recognition Budget Out of the Total Rewards Pie for Higher ROI
Total RewardsQualifies for CPD hours
Your Best Ten Minutes a Day
Organizational EffectivenessQualifies for CPD hours
Anonymized Recruiting: Unconscious Bias
Workforce Planning and Talent ManagementQualifies for CPD hours
The Heart of the Matter: Conducting a Successful Investigation Interview
Labour and Employee RelationsQualifies for CPD hours
How to Leverage Data in an Increasingly Competitive Talent Landscape
Workforce Planning and Talent ManagementQualifies for CPD hours
Innovation in Total Rewards
Total RewardsQualifies for CPD hours
Coaching: An Indigenous Lens
Learning and DevelopmentQualifies for CPD hours
Fired Up & Focused: Navigating Change and Creating a Culture that is Fired Up and Focused on Delivering Exceptional Results
StrategyQualifies for CPD hours
Is Non-Disclosure a Non-Starter? The Appropriateness and Enforceability of NDAs in the Workplace
Labour and Employee RelationsQualifies for CPD hours
#AfterMeToo: What Does this Mean for Your Company?
Professional PracticeQualifies for CPD hours
Pro Tip: How to Give Career Advice (from a Career Development Professional)
Professional Practice
Leading Integrity
StrategyQualifies for CPD hours
Practical Strategies for Managing Chronic and Traumatic Stress Claims in the Workplace
Health, Wellness and Safe WorkplaceQualifies for CPD hours
Agile Project Management for eLearning Development
Learning and DevelopmentQualifies for CPD hours
1:10 PM
Good is the New Cool
Qualifies for CPD hours