Speaker Listing

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Allinson, J. Scott

  • Escalator: Jobs for Youth Facing Barriers Initiative — A Project by CivicAction and HRPA

Ankersen, Rasmus

  • Hunger in Paradise

Antaya, Marie

  • Supporting Transfer of Learning in the Workplace

Arnold, Tim

  • Healthy Tension — Mastering Unsolvable Problems through Polarity Management

Atkins, Richard

  • Using Building Excellence (BE) to Maximize Human Capital ROI

Azmi, Shaheen

  • Addressing Racial Discrimination: What Employers Need to Know

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Balthazard, Claude

  • Meet Rebecca Durcan — HRPA’s Regulatory Counsel

Batina, Tania

  • Bring Data Science to HR: Empower your HR Strategy with the Intelligence of Thousands of Recruiters and Decades of Industrial Experience

Baum, Suzannah

  • Speak Up and Stand Out: How to Structure your Presentations, Master your Fears, Captivate your Audience, and Be Outstanding

Baynton, Mary Ann

  • Panel on Psychological Health and Safety – A Vision for your Future Efforts
  • Practical Strategies to Build Team Resilience

Bellows, Laurel

  • The Evolution of Regulating Human Trafficking and the Role of HR

Bernardi, Lauren

  • Difficult Employee or Employee with a Difficulty?

Blair, Lorraine

  • Best Workplace Branding – Strengthening your EVP

Boctor, Andrea

  • Sometimes Notice Just Ain’t Enough

Bomza, Janet

  • Canadian Immigration 101: What you Don’t Know can Hurt You

Boudreau, John

  • Lead the Work: Organizing New Organizational Forms, Intermediaries & Alternate Work

Boyd, Cory

  • Religious Accommodation in a Diverse Workplace

Britton, Jennifer

  • Five Core Essentials for Leading Virtual and Remote Teams

Burkett, Megan

  • To Pay or Not to Pay: The Termination Debate over Bonuses, Commissions, Stock Options and Pensions

Burkus, Alyssa

  • Make Shift Happen: HR’s Pivotal Role in Leading Organization Change

Bush, Cindy

  • Advancing your HR Career: Insights from HR Leaders

Byrne, Brian

  • Three Talent Mindshifts for High Performance Digital Enterprises

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Cade, Valerie

  • Handling the Politics of Workplace Bullying

Cameron, Ian

  • The Leadership Effect: How the Strength of your Leaders Impacts Recruiting

Campbell, Ryan

  • The Agile Workforce: Alternatives to the Traditional Full-time Employee
  • Accommodating Disabilities in the Workplace: How and When to Ask for More Medical Information

Carcasole, Rosanne

  • Coaching at the Executive Level to Increase your Influence

Casemore, Shawn

  • Building Engagement: Empowering People to Perform

Catney, Ruth

  • Soft Skills are the New Hard Skills

Caulfield, Timothy

  • Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?

Chabot, Pierre

  • The Pay Equity Journey: A Primer, the Pitfalls and the Positives

Chambers, Michelle

  • What Does it Really Take to Create High Performing Teams? Harnessing the Power of Collective Intelligence

Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas

  • Talent Identification in the Digital World

Chapman, Julian

  • For Your Own Good: Persuasion for Fun and Profit
  • How to Hold Someone to Account (Without all the Drama)

Charney, Daneal

  • “Why Should I Work for You?” Attracting the Best Talent to Your Business

Chevalier, Kathleen

  • Vacation Pay – The Next Class Action Frontier?

Chong Smith, Deirdre

  • The Pay Equity Journey: A Primer, the Pitfalls and the Positives

Citton-Battel, Lisa

  • The Core Elements of a Meaningful Recognition Program

Cockburn, Kristen

  • Barriers and Challenges for both the Aboriginal Communities and Organizations Seeking Aboriginal Employees in Northern Ontario

Cohen, David

  • Has the Annual Performance Review and Rating Really Been Blown Up? The Realities and the Myths Examined

Coleman, Paul

  • Rethinking Relocation and Risk: New Paradigms, New Exposures

Corcuera, Lorie

  • The Power of Mindfulness in the Workplace
  • Finding your Ultimate State of Flow

Craig, Katherine

  • The Walking Dread! Avoiding the Zombie Syndrome at Work by Building a Team that can Survive Anything

Cryer, Mark

  • Applying Lean Thinking to HR Delivery

Cryne, Stephen

  • Major Trends in Mobility

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Dacosta, Monika

  • Building a Values Based Recognition Program — Ryerson Case Study

Davis, Kelly

  • Advancing your HR Career: Insights from HR Leaders

Dawley, Jeff

  • A Business Leader’s Expectations of HR
  • The Expectation Gap: Who We Are, Who Others Think We Are, and Who We Should Be

De Simone, Emilia

  • The Evolution of Sales Compensation

Ducoffe, Stuart

  • Employment Standards: The Questions You Should Be (Afraid of) Asking

Dunin-Wąsowicz, Dr. Roch

  • Brexit: British, European and International implications

Durant, Ian

  • No More Report Cards: Why Ditching Performance Reviews and Embracing Development Plans is Good Business

Durcan, Rebecca

  • Meet Rebecca Durcan — HRPA’s Regulatory Counsel

Dyer, Maura

  • Talent Pipelining: Optimizing Your Talent Acquisition Function For Speed And Value Creation

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Erteki, Rick

  • Talent Pipelining: Optimizing Your Talent Acquisition Function For Speed And Value Creation

Evans, Scott

  • The Rapidly Changing Landscape of Performance Management

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Finley, Catherine

  • What’s Holding Women Back: A look at Female Ambition in Canada

Finnemore, Karen E.

  • Talent Acquisition Trends

Fletcher Wintrip, Carolynne

  • Powerful Questions to Enhance Team Effectiveness

Forman, Chris

  • The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: How Programmatic Marketing Techniques and Technologies are Quietly Changing Talent Acquisition Forever

Fox, Dr. Jason

  • The Game Changer: Craft a Culture Fit for the Future of Work

French, Chris

  • Building a High-performing, Highly-engaged Culture with Social Recognition

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Garaba, Agnes

  • Get Digital or Be Disrupted – Why Digital Transformation in HR is No Longer Optional

Gardiner, Ed

  • Applying Behavioural Science in Changing Behaviours
  • Applying Behavioural Science to Problem-Solving

Gendron, Renée

  • Taking the Workplace Bully by the Horns

Gibbon, Geordie

  • AODA: What you need to Know for Private Sector Organizations

Gokhale, Sundeep

  • Off Duty Conduct — When can Activity Outside the Workplace End the Employment Relationship?

Goodman, Scott

  • Advancing your HR Career: Insights from HR Leaders

Gottheil, Brian

  • Do We Have to Investigate? What Ontario’s Sexual Violence and Harassment Action Plan Act (Bill 132) Means for Employers

Green, Evan

  • Temporary Foreign Workers: Are you Ready for Compliance Reviews and Inspections?

Greenhalgh, Bill

  • The Future’s Not Ours to See

Grey, Ron

  • Advanced People Analytics to Drive Enhanced Business Outcomes

Grode, Jonathan

  • The Evolution of Regulating Human Trafficking and the Role of HR
  • What Every Canadian HR Professional Should Know about U.S. Business Immigration Law

Gundu, Sarika

  • Improving Mental Health at Work: Promising Practices for Employers to Adopt

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Harrison, Valerie

  • Bill 168 WVH — A Practical Translation and Application for Everyone in the Workplace

Hart, Nathaniel

  • Building a Values Based Recognition Program — Ryerson Case Study

Hauver, Heidi

  • Working from Home: Strategies for Success for Employees & Employers

Howatt, Dr. Bill

  • Are Employers Dealing with a Coping Crisis or a Mental Health Crisis?

Hughes Molina, Melodie

  • Canadian Immigration 101: What you Don’t Know can Hurt You

Hyatt, Michael

  • Leading with Grit, Passion & People: Evolve or Die

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Ingram, Cynthia

  • I Am Who I Am: Accommodating the Transgender Employee in the Workplace

Ishak, Adrian

  • Hiring Due Diligence

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Jack, Wade

  • Root Causes behind Poor Collaboration between Teams

Jacklin, Dana

  • Why Outsourcing Leadership Development is Bad for Your Business

Jamieson, Gene

  • Indigenous Inclusion: Tapping into the Indigenous Workforce Opportunity

Jensen, Peter

  • Thriving in a 24/7 World

Jinkerson, Kathleen

  • Evolving Total Rewards: Find, Keep & Reward the Talent You Need

Johnson Jr., E. Christopher

  • The Evolution of Regulating Human Trafficking and the Role of HR

Johnston, Keith

  • Make Them Believe They are Ferraris

Joscelyne, Kelly

  • How to Create a Social Movement

Joseph, Dr. Ivan

  • Leadership Tools for Team Excellence

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Kater, Anya

  • Thinking about Testing for Drugs and Alcohol? A Human Rights Approach

Klein, Paul

  • HireUp: Raising the Bar on Corporate Social Responsibility

Kleinman, Valerie

  • The Evolution of Regulating Human Trafficking and the Role of HR

Kuzz, Erin

  • Off Duty Conduct — When can Activity Outside the Workplace End the Employment Relationship?

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Larsen, Chris

  • DNA 360 – A Self-assessment Tool to Evaluate the Performance of the HR Function in a Systematic, Methodical and Constructive Manner

Lash, Rick

  • Purpose-driven Leadership: Talent Strategies to Turn your Company into a Socially Conscious Organization

Latimer, Helen

  • Networking Lessons from a Reluctant Networker

Laws, Gayle

  • Creating a Fair Workplace: What You Need to Know about Pay Equity

Lay, Jacob

  • Pillars of Health — Truly Sustainable Health and Wellness in the Workplace

Leavitt, Joel

  • Why Outsourcing Leadership Development is Bad for Your Business

Lemoine, Alex

  • Vacation Pay – The Next Class Action Frontier?

Lockwood, Kathy

  • I’ve Just Been Promoted…HELP! How to Succeed as a New Leader

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Mayhew, Bruce

  • How to Hire, Support and Retain Inspired and Loyal Employees
  • What Kind of Leader Do You Want to Be?

McBean, Marnie

  • Be a Career Champion: Training to Win on the Bad Days Too

McCully, Mik

  • Metrics-Driven Recruitment: Using Data Insights to Attract Great Candidates in the Canadian Markets

McGarry, Dan

  • Avoiding Liability: How to Protect your Organization from Costly Common Employment Related Mistakes

McGill, Teresa

  • How Innovative L&D Helps Integrate Internationally Trained Employees
  • Culturally Intelligent Talent Management — New Ways to Recruit, Develop, and Retain Internationally Trained Talent

McKay, Karen

  • How Engagement Surveys are Ripe for Disruption

Minaudo, Joe

  • Talent Pipelining: Optimizing Your Talent Acquisition Function For Speed And Value Creation

Mitchell, Rachel

  • Health & Safety in your Pocket: There’s an App for That

Morgan, Jacob

  • Employee Experience: Creating an Organization where People Want to Show Up, Not Need to Show Up

Morgan, Linda

  • Deep Dive into Collaboration

Morose, Tanya

  • Health & Safety in your Pocket: There’s an App for That

Moxam, Carol

  • Tipping Point of Leadership Consciousness & Balance

Muir, Patricia

  • Reigniting the Desire to Return to Work after Critical Illness

Murray, Iain

  • Know your Criminal Background Check — Hiring More Confidently in Canada and Abroad

Mutte, Jean-Louis

  • In a World of Disruption, Do We Still Need HR?

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Nanji, Zaheen

  • Building Your Resilience Reflex – How to Shift from Chaos to Control

Nazareth, Linda

  • Economorphics: The Trends Turning Today into Tomorrow

Nolan, Michael

  • Characteristics of High Performance Learning Organizations
  • The Role of HR and L&D in Coaching Activities

Notarfonzo, Mara

  • Building a High-performing, Highly-engaged Culture with Social Recognition

Nyamayaro, Elizabeth

  • How to Create a Social Movement

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O'Connor, Brandin

  • Employer Do’s and Don’ts in Responding to a Union Organizing Drive

O’Donnell, Julie

  • Employer Do’s and Don’ts in Responding to a Union Organizing Drive

Oliver, Dr. Tim

  • The Five W’s of Brexit: What, who, where, when and why of Brexit

Osiel, Stephen

  • NSFW (Not Safe For Work) Compensation: A Case Study

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Pallett, William

  • Ten Tips for Improving your Ability to Attract and Retain Millennials

Pariseau, Jay

  • Indigenous Inclusion: Tapping into the Indigenous Workforce Opportunity

Pasricha, Neil

  • Happier People, Happier Organizations

Pawley, Krista

  • Culture and Reputation by Design — Aligning Business Decisions and Purpose to Win with Employees, Customers and Shareholders

Pfeffer, Jeffrey

  • Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time

Poirier, Corey

  • The Business of Storytelling

Pomeroy, Emily

  • Building a Values Based Recognition Program — Ryerson Case Study

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Quinlan, Maureen

  • New and Evolving Issues in Workplace Accommodation

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Ramalho, Nancy

  • The Do’s and Don’ts of Drafting Employment Documentation

Rampersad, Asha

  • Do We Have to Investigate? What Ontario’s Sexual Violence and Harassment Action Plan Act (Bill 132) Means for Employers

Rewari, Nitika

  • Improving Mental Health at Work: Promising Practices for Employers to Adopt

Riddell, Adam

  • Advancing your HR Career: Insights from HR Leaders

Roberts-McCabe, Glain

  • Why Outsourcing Leadership Development is Bad for Your Business

Robertson, David

  • Talent Acquisition Trends

Ross, Diane A.

  • How to Say “No” without Feeling Guilty
  • 3 Secrets to Managing Reactions in Difficult Conversations

Rudner, Stuart

  • Avoiding Liability: How to Protect your Organization from Costly Common Employment Related Mistakes

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Sado, Anne

  • Colleges: Your Talent Recruitment Partner

Sairanen, Sari

  • Panel on Psychological Health and Safety – A Vision for your Future Efforts

Samra, Dr. Joti

  • Evolution of Canadian Workplace Mental Health Strategies over the Last Ten Years

Samuel, Anil

  • How Innovative L&D Helps Integrate Internationally Trained Employees

Sasseville, Sébastien

  • Peak Performance in Unforgiving Climates, Changing Industries & Unstable Markets

Satok, Dr. David

  • Panel on Psychological Health and Safety – A Vision for your Future Efforts

Saunderson, Roy

  • Building a Values Based Recognition Program — Ryerson Case Study

Shank, Leslie

  • Advancing your HR Career: Insights from HR Leaders
  • Everyday Coaching for HR Professionals

Sharkey, Carla

  • Why Outsourcing Leadership Development is Bad for Your Business

Sheen, Alex

  • Because I Said I Would

Shirreff, Rhonda

  • Privacy, Confidentiality and the 21st Century Employee: The Top 5 Legal Developments you Need to Know

Smallboy, Bartholemew

  • Barriers and Challenges for both the Aboriginal Communities and Organizations Seeking Aboriginal Employees in Northern Ontario

Smith, Matthew

  • Talent + Engagement = Performance. An Integrated Approach to HR Transformation

Smith, Tracey

  • Finding the Strategy in HR Analytics: Linking HR to Business Value

Steinhorst, Curt

  • Thriving in the Age of Distraction

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Tapscott, Alex

  • Disruptive Technologies and Business Opportunity

Tate, Scott

  • Pillars of Health — Truly Sustainable Health and Wellness in the Workplace

Thomlinson, Christine

  • Family Matters: Helping Employers Navigate Requests for Family Status Accommodation in the Workplace

Thomsen, Joanne

  • How Engagement Surveys are Ripe for Disruption

Ticoll, Tamara

  • The Do’s and Don’ts of Drafting Employment Documentation

Trowell, Mike

  • Point-Counter-Point: The Future of Employer-Sponsored Prescription Drug Plans in Canada

Tsai, Tony

  • Building a High-performing, Highly-engaged Culture with Social Recognition

Tufford, Dr. Lea

  • Barriers and Challenges for both the Aboriginal Communities and Organizations Seeking Aboriginal Employees in Northern Ontario

Turner, David

  • Medical Marijuana in the Workplace: Balancing Safety Concerns, Accommodation and Choice of Medication

Tyrie, Heather

  • No More Report Cards: Why Ditching Performance Reviews and Embracing Development Plans is Good Business

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Van Alstine, Steven

  • Current and Emerging Payroll Issues

vandenHoven, Natasha

  • Sometimes Notice Just Ain’t Enough

Varma, Manu

  • The Power of Inspired Employees

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Walker, Kevin

  • The Future of Work: How the Internet Economy is Reshaping Markets for Talent

Weiss, David

  • How Engagement Surveys are Ripe for Disruption

Welsh, Shona

  • Growing Intrapreneurship: Three Key Steps to Engaging Innovation in your Organization

Wetherow, Jen

  • The Power of Inspired Employees
  • Advanced People Analytics to Drive Enhanced Business Outcomes
  • The Rapidly Changing Landscape of Performance Management
  • The Core Elements of a Meaningful Recognition Program
  • Best Workplace Branding – Strengthening your EVP

Whyte, Sonya

  • Talent Pipelining: Optimizing Your Talent Acquisition Function For Speed And Value Creation

Wilkin, Dave

  • Connecting the Leaders of Today with the Leaders of Tomorrow

Williams, Laura

  • How Could I Have Assumed that a Release on a Facebook Page Would Be Grounds for Dismissal? Social Media & Employee Dismissal

Williams, Leon

  • What Your CEO (Senior Management) Expects From HR

Wolpert, Stephen

  • On the Clock: Time Theft, Unpaid Overtime and the Disappearing Lunch Hour

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Yang, Caroline

  • Pay for Performance: Canadian Executive Compensation Overview

Yanovitch, Teri

  • The Applicant is the Customer! Giving a Great Experience in the Interview Process
  • Unleashing Excellence — The Employee Experience

Ymana, Geraldine

  • Colleges: Your Talent Recruitment Partner

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Zigelstein-Yip, Jodi

  • Get your Managers to Step Up and Lead – Transforming Managers into Leaders

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