Ray is an experienced executive with over 30 years of experience with large organizations including CIBC and PWC. He has significant experience on both the provider and buyer side of outsourcing arrangements. He talked to us about outsourcing.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn what outsourcing is
• Learn how to use outsourcing to optimize your business
• Learn how CPAs can use their skills to become providers of outsourced services for organizations

Michael played a key role in the merger of the United Way of Toronto and the United Way of York Regions a couple of years ago. He talked to us about lessons learned through that experience and provides advice to help any merger go smoothly.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about barriers to achieving a successful M&A transaction and how to overcome them
• Learn about the practical issues of mergers such as the combination of offices and streamlining of processes
• Learn how to successful integrate cultures to achieve and bigger and better organization

Jennifer helps organizations solve problems, mostly to do with their people. She supports individuals who are figuring out where they want to go – particularly as leaders – and ensure they get there. She is passionate about moving organizations and people forward in effective, business-friendly ways. She uses science (specifically neuroscience but other scientific research and data as well) to further understand behaviours and reactions.

Jennifer talked to us about how to build learning organizations and why this is so important for today’s employees.

Learning outcomes:

*Understand what being a learning organization really means *Why it is important to build a learning organization? *Some tips on how you can change your organization and increase employee engagement.

Ilana is a human resources (HR) consultant with MaxPeople, a firm offering on-site HR and Employment Law services to organizations who do not have HR expertise in-house. As an experienced generalist, she provides clients with a full range of recommendations and support in all aspects of human resources.

Ilana talked to us about current workplace trends.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about workplace trends related to people, technology and processes
• Learn how to improve your employee engagement by changing your work environment
• Learn how working with the changing environment helps your bottom line

Heather is an experienced and positive consultant dedicated to optimizing employee productivity, enabling successful project delivery, driving purposeful collaboration and supporting change.

Heather talked to us about resiliency. What is resilience and how do we build resilient organizations. Learning Objectives:

• Learn what resiliency is
• Why is resilience important at the individual, team and organizational level?
• How do we build resiliency in ourselves and our organizations?

Daniel is a passionate and eminently capable consulting professional, with experience ranging from technology strategy through to all aspects of the implementation lifecycle. He is an expert in gathering, analyzing and defining business and functional requirements; managing client relationships; and providing change management support, targeted to increase stakeholder engagement and delivery success. He has the proven ability to lead teams towards project execution, with a focus on identifying avenues for subsequent improvements, and for utilizing innovative solutions and is deeply experienced in client interaction and facilitation. Daniel talked to us about the effective strategic planning.

Learning Objectives:

• The increasing importance of effective long term strategic planning in this age of rapid change
• Why the landscape has changed and why organizations must plan effectively to remain viable
• How to embed innovation in your strategic planning process