February 1
7:00-8:00AM
Leadership
Leadership Tools for Team Excellence
Organizational Effectiveness
Brexit: British, European and International implications
8:30-9:30AM
Strategy
Lead the Work: Organizing New Organizational Forms, Intermediaries & Alternate Work
10:00-11:00AM
Labour And Employee Relations
The Do’s and Don’ts of Drafting Employment Documentation
Health, Wellness, And Safe Workplace
Panel on Psychological Health and Safety – A Vision for your Future Efforts
Learning And Development
The Power of Mindfulness in the Workplace
Total Rewards
The Evolution of Sales Compensation
Learning And Development
Supporting Transfer of Learning in the Workplace
Organizational Effectiveness
Deep Dive into Collaboration
Organizational Effectiveness
Powerful Questions to Enhance Team Effectiveness
Health, Wellness, And Safe Workplace
Health & Safety in your Pocket: There’s an App for That
Professional Practice
Employer Do’s and Don’ts in Responding to a Union Organizing Drive
Labour And Employee Relations
How Could I Have Assumed that a Release on a Facebook Page Would Be Grounds for Dismissal? Social Media & Employee Dismissal
Learning And Development
Get your Managers to Step Up and Lead – Transforming Managers into Leaders
HR Metrics, Reporting & Financial Management
Employment Standards: The Questions You Should Be (Afraid of) Asking
Workforce Planning & Talent Management
HireUp: Raising the Bar on Corporate Social Responsibility
Organizational Effectiveness
The Business of Storytelling
Strategy
Major Trends in Mobility
Organizational Effectiveness
Make Them Believe They are Ferraris
Learning And Development
For Your Own Good: Persuasion for Fun and Profit
Organizational Effectiveness
Growing Intrapreneurship: Three Key Steps to Engaging Innovation in your Organization
Learning And Development
The Future of Work: How the Internet Economy is Reshaping Markets for Talent
Professional Practice
Meet Rebecca Durcan — HRPA’s Regulatory Counsel
Organizational Effectiveness
The Power of Inspired Employees
Total Rewards
Pay for Performance: Canadian Executive Compensation Overview
Professional Practice
Everyday Coaching for HR Professionals
Organizational Effectiveness
Get Digital or Be Disrupted – Why Digital Transformation in HR is No Longer Optional
1:00-2:00PM
Organizational Effectiveness
How to Create a Social Movement
3:00-4:00PM
HR Metrics, Reporting & Financial Management
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: How Programmatic Marketing Techniques and Technologies are Quietly Changing Talent Acquisition Forever
Organizational Effectiveness
How Innovative L&D Helps Integrate Internationally Trained Employees
Professional Practice
Thriving in the Age of Distraction
Labour And Employee Relations
Medical Marijuana in the Workplace: Balancing Safety Concerns, Accommodation and Choice of Medication
Workforce Planning & Talent Management
The Evolution of Regulating Human Trafficking and the Role of HR
Laurel Bellows, E. Christopher Johnson Jr., Valerie Kleinman, Jonathan Grode
Labour And Employee Relations
Reigniting the Desire to Return to Work after Critical Illness
Total Rewards
Building a Values Based Recognition Program — Ryerson Case Study
Emily Pomeroy, Monika Dacosta, Roy Saunderson, Nathaniel Hart
Health, Wellness, And Safe Workplace
Taking the Workplace Bully by the Horns
Strategy
A Business Leader’s Expectations of HR
Workforce Planning & Talent Management
Temporary Foreign Workers: Are you Ready for Compliance Reviews and Inspections?
Health, Wellness, And Safe Workplace
Thinking about Testing for Drugs and Alcohol? A Human Rights Approach
Strategy
The Future’s Not Ours to See
Professional Practice
Advancing your HR Career: Insights from HR Leaders
Adam Riddell, Cindy Bush, Leslie Shank, Kelly Davis, Scott Goodman
Labour And Employee Relations
The Agile Workforce: Alternatives to the Traditional Full-time Employee
Labour And Employee Relations
Family Matters: Helping Employers Navigate Requests for Family Status Accommodation in the Workplace
Health, Wellness, And Safe Workplace
Are Employers Dealing with a Coping Crisis or a Mental Health Crisis?
Workforce Planning & Talent Management
Five Core Essentials for Leading Virtual and Remote Teams
Labour And Employee Relations
To Pay or Not to Pay: The Termination Debate over Bonuses, Commissions, Stock Options and Pensions
Health, Wellness, And Safe Workplace
Religious Accommodation in a Diverse Workplace
Strategy
Make Shift Happen: HR’s Pivotal Role in Leading Organization Change
Organizational Effectiveness
Applying Behavioural Science in Changing Behaviours
Workforce Planning & Talent Management
Advanced People Analytics to Drive Enhanced Business Outcomes
Labour And Employee Relations
Avoiding Liability: How to Protect your Organization from Costly Common Employment Related Mistakes
4:30-5:30PM
Organizational Effectiveness
Happier People, Happier Organizations
February 2
7:00-8:00AM
Professional Practice
Speak Up and Stand Out: How to Structure your Presentations, Master your Fears, Captivate your Audience, and Be Outstanding
Leadership
Connecting the Leaders of Today with the Leaders of Tomorrow
8:15-9:30AM
Leadership
Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time
10:30-11:30AM
Health, Wellness, And Safe Workplace
Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?
Organizational Effectiveness
Employee Experience: Creating an Organization where People Want to Show Up, Not Need to Show Up
Learning And Development
The Walking Dread! Avoiding the Zombie Syndrome at Work by Building a Team that can Survive Anything
Professional Practice
Finding your Ultimate State of Flow
Strategy
The Leadership Effect: How the Strength of your Leaders Impacts Recruiting
Strategy
Using Building Excellence (BE) to Maximize Human Capital ROI
Learning And Development
Healthy Tension — Mastering Unsolvable Problems through Polarity Management
Labour And Employee Relations
Addressing Racial Discrimination: What Employers Need to Know
Organizational Effectiveness
The Expectation Gap: Who We Are, Who Others Think We Are, and Who We Should Be
Health, Wellness, And Safe Workplace
Improving Mental Health at Work: Promising Practices for Employers to Adopt
Workforce Planning & Talent Management
“Why Should I Work for You?” Attracting the Best Talent to Your Business
Learning And Development
Soft Skills are the New Hard Skills
Labour And Employee Relations
Sometimes Notice Just Ain’t Enough
Labour And Employee Relations
Difficult Employee or Employee with a Difficulty?
Strategy
The Applicant is the Customer! Giving a Great Experience in the Interview Process
Organizational Effectiveness
Culturally Intelligent Talent Management — New Ways to Recruit, Develop, and Retain Internationally Trained Talent
Organizational Effectiveness
What Does it Really Take to Create High Performing Teams? Harnessing the Power of Collective Intelligence
Strategy
Canadian Immigration 101: What you Don’t Know can Hurt You
Organizational Effectiveness
Building Engagement: Empowering People to Perform
Health, Wellness, And Safe Workplace
Thriving in a 24/7 World
Health, Wellness, And Safe Workplace
NSFW (Not Safe For Work) Compensation: A Case Study
Strategy
Finding the Strategy in HR Analytics: Linking HR to Business Value
Strategy
How Engagement Surveys are Ripe for Disruption
Workforce Planning & Talent Management
The Rapidly Changing Landscape of Performance Management
Organizational Effectiveness
The Five W’s of Brexit: What, who, where, when and why of Brexit
1:00-2:00PM
Workforce Planning & Talent Management
Hunger in Paradise
3:00-4:00PM
Organizational Effectiveness
Has the Annual Performance Review and Rating Really Been Blown Up? The Realities and the Myths Examined
Workforce Planning & Talent Management
Colleges: Your Talent Recruitment Partner
HR Metrics, Reporting & Financial Management
Rethinking Relocation and Risk: New Paradigms, New Exposures
Organizational Effectiveness
Coaching at the Executive Level to Increase your Influence
Total Rewards
Current and Emerging Payroll Issues
Total Rewards
The Pay Equity Journey: A Primer, the Pitfalls and the Positives
Labour And Employee Relations
Vacation Pay – The Next Class Action Frontier?
Workforce Planning & Talent Management
What Every Canadian HR Professional Should Know about U.S. Business Immigration Law
Labour And Employee Relations
Hiring Due Diligence
Professional Practice
Peak Performance in Unforgiving Climates, Changing Industries & Unstable Markets
Health, Wellness, And Safe Workplace
Practical Strategies to Build Team Resilience
Health, Wellness, And Safe Workplace
Accommodating Disabilities in the Workplace: How and When to Ask for More Medical Information
Organizational Effectiveness
How to Hold Someone to Account (Without all the Drama)
Professional Practice
How to Say “No” without Feeling Guilty
Learning And Development
Characteristics of High Performance Learning Organizations
Organizational Effectiveness
Applying Behavioural Science to Problem-Solving
Workforce Planning & Talent Management
How to Hire, Support and Retain Inspired and Loyal Employees
Workforce Planning & Talent Management
Talent Pipelining: Optimizing Your Talent Acquisition Function For Speed And Value Creation
Organizational Effectiveness
Applying Lean Thinking to HR Delivery
Total Rewards
The Core Elements of a Meaningful Recognition Program
Learning And Development
DNA 360 – A Self-assessment Tool to Evaluate the Performance of the HR Function in a Systematic, Methodical and Constructive Manner
Labour And Employee Relations
Privacy, Confidentiality and the 21st Century Employee: The Top 5 Legal Developments you Need to Know
Strategy
Building a High-performing, Highly-engaged Culture with Social Recognition
4:30-5:30PM
Professional Practice
Economorphics: The Trends Turning Today into Tomorrow
February 3
7:00-8:00AM
Professional Practice
Be a Career Champion: Training to Win on the Bad Days Too
Workforce Planning & Talent Management
Talent Identification in the Digital World
8:15-9:30AM
Workforce Planning & Talent Management
The Game Changer: Craft a Culture Fit for the Future of Work
11:00-12:00PM
HR Metrics, Reporting & Financial Management
What’s Holding Women Back: A look at Female Ambition in Canada
Professional Practice
What Your CEO (Senior Management) Expects From HR
Organizational Effectiveness
Indigenous Inclusion: Tapping into the Indigenous Workforce Opportunity
Total Rewards
Evolving Total Rewards: Find, Keep & Reward the Talent You Need
Learning And Development
The Role of HR and L&D in Coaching Activities
Health, Wellness, And Safe Workplace
Bill 168 WVH — A Practical Translation and Application for Everyone in the Workplace
Total Rewards
Working from Home: Strategies for Success for Employees & Employers
Labour And Employee Relations
I Am Who I Am: Accommodating the Transgender Employee in the Workplace
Labour And Employee Relations
On the Clock: Time Theft, Unpaid Overtime and the Disappearing Lunch Hour
Organizational Effectiveness
Leading with Grit, Passion & People: Evolve or Die
Organizational Effectiveness
Root Causes behind Poor Collaboration between Teams
Labour And Employee Relations
Off Duty Conduct — When can Activity Outside the Workplace End the Employment Relationship?
Organizational Effectiveness
Purpose-driven Leadership: Talent Strategies to Turn your Company into a Socially Conscious Organization
HR Metrics, Reporting & Financial Management
Creating a Fair Workplace: What You Need to Know about Pay Equity
Professional Practice
Networking Lessons from a Reluctant Networker
Workforce Planning & Talent Management
Three Talent Mindshifts for High Performance Digital Enterprises
Strategy
In a World of Disruption, Do We Still Need HR?
Workforce Planning & Talent Management
Barriers and Challenges for both the Aboriginal Communities and Organizations Seeking Aboriginal Employees in Northern Ontario
Workforce Planning & Talent Management
Unleashing Excellence — The Employee Experience
Workforce Planning & Talent Management
Know your Criminal Background Check — Hiring More Confidently in Canada and Abroad
Professional Practice
3 Secrets to Managing Reactions in Difficult Conversations
Total Rewards
Point-Counter-Point: The Future of Employer-Sponsored Prescription Drug Plans in Canada
Professional Practice
Disruptive Technologies and Business Opportunity
Workforce Planning & Talent Management
Bring Data Science to HR: Empower your HR Strategy with the Intelligence of Thousands of Recruiters and Decades of Industrial Experience
1:00-2:00PM
Professional Practice
Tipping Point of Leadership Consciousness & Balance
Strategy
Talent + Engagement = Performance. An Integrated Approach to HR Transformation
Learning And Development
No More Report Cards: Why Ditching Performance Reviews and Embracing Development Plans is Good Business
Labour And Employee Relations
New and Evolving Issues in Workplace Accommodation
Organizational Effectiveness
Culture and Reputation by Design — Aligning Business Decisions and Purpose to Win with Employees, Customers and Shareholders
Workforce Planning & Talent Management
Talent Acquisition Trends
Workforce Planning & Talent Management
Metrics-Driven Recruitment: Using Data Insights to Attract Great Candidates in the Canadian Markets
Workforce Planning & Talent Management
Best Workplace Branding – Strengthening your EVP
Workforce Planning & Talent Management
Ten Tips for Improving your Ability to Attract and Retain Millennials
Organizational Effectiveness
What Kind of Leader Do You Want to Be?
Learning And Development
Building Your Resilience Reflex – How to Shift from Chaos to Control
Learning And Development
Why Outsourcing Leadership Development is Bad for Your Business
Dana Jacklin, Carla Sharkey, Joel Leavitt, Glain Roberts-McCabe
Health, Wellness, And Safe Workplace
Pillars of Health — Truly Sustainable Health and Wellness in the Workplace
Labour And Employee Relations
Do We Have to Investigate? What Ontario’s Sexual Violence and Harassment Action Plan Act (Bill 132) Means for Employers
Organizational Effectiveness
I’ve Just Been Promoted…HELP! How to Succeed as a New Leader
Strategy
Evolution of Canadian Workplace Mental Health Strategies over the Last Ten Years
Organizational Effectiveness
AODA: What you need to Know for Private Sector Organizations
Health, Wellness, And Safe Workplace
Handling the Politics of Workplace Bullying
Escalator: Jobs for Youth Facing Barriers Initiative — A Project by CivicAction and HRPA
3:10-4:10PM
Organizational Effectiveness
