Events

The Art of Leadership - Ottawa presented by Knightsbridge

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400

This one day conference features six internationally renowned bestselling authors and visionaries, who will share an exciting blend of cutting edge thinking and real world experience on today’s most critical leadership issues. Don’t miss out on your chance to gain a competitive advantage and network with over 1,000 of Canada’s most influential leaders.

Beyond the CEO: What Boards Can Do to Ensure Organizations have the Culture, Leadership, and Talent to Thrive

Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400

The quality of an organization’s leadership and collective human capital is becoming more important in an increasing competitive and complex business environment. A recent study conducted by Knightsbridge and the Clarkson Centre for Board Effectiveness (CCBE) in partnership with the ICD found that the majority of Canadian directors believe boards should be monitoring strategic talent management areas such as culture and employee engagement, succession planning, and training and development, in addition to compensation. However, many boards don’t seem to spend the time, and/or lack the information they require from management to effectively oversee human capital beyond the CEO’s office.

Join Courtney Pratt, Chairman of Knightsbridge Human Capital Solutions and an experienced corporate director, along with a panel of local directors to discuss how boards can advise and work with management to ensure the organization has the culture, leadership, and talent to thrive.

The panel will address some of the following challenges:

How to gain alignment among board colleagues, and/or management to focus on important human capital risks beyond the CEO?
What questions should directors ask to ensure their organization’s strategic plan sufficiently addresses all key human capital risks?
How boards can effectively and constructively work with the CEO and management to monitor culture, leadership, and talent risks?
What information should boards be asking for and discussing to ensure they fully understand the human capital capabilities and risks of the organization?
Why are so many boards failing at succession planning, and what can they do about it?
How boards can find the time to address strategic human capital issues?

ICD Newfoundland & Labrador Chapter Event
Date: May 10, 2012, 8am-9:15am
Location: Comfort Inn Airport, Ballroom (Salon A&B), 106 Airport Road, St. John's, NL

Panel:
- Bernard (Tanny) Collins, President, PF Collins International Trade Solutions.
- Ken Marshall, President, Rogers Communications Inc - Atlantic Region
- Susan Sherk, Senior Associate, AMEC

HRIA Conference 2012

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

The 2012 HRIA Conference; Inspire, Innovate and Evolve will empower HR and business professionals to become best-in-class when it comes to all aspects of managing human capital. By providing thought leadership, inspirational keynote speakers and the opportunity to network with like minded professionals the 2012 HRIA Conference is not one to miss.

Beyond the CEO: What Boards Can Do to Ensure Organizations have the Culture, Leadership, and Talent to Thrive

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

How to gain alignment among board colleagues, and/or management to focus on important human capital risks beyond the CEO?
What questions should directors ask to ensure their organization’s strategic plan sufficiently addresses all key human capital risks?
How boards can effectively and constructively work with the CEO and management to monitor culture, leadership, and talent risks?
What information should boards be asking for and discussing to ensure they fully understand the human capital capabilities and risks of the organization?
Why are so many boards failing at succession planning, and what can they do about it?
How boards can find the time to address strategic human capital issues?

ICD Ontario Chapter Event
Date: January 11, 2012, 7:30am-9:30am
Location: Fairmont Royal York, Imperial Room

Panel:
- Mary Jo Haddad, CM, LLD, MHSc, BScN, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Hospital for Sick Children
- J. Spencer Lanthier, C.M., F.C.A, F.ICD, Chair, EllisDon Inc.
- John H. Tory, Board Director, Rogers Communications Inc.

ICD Ottawa Chapter Event
Date: January 16, 2012, 11:30am -1:30 pm
Location: Centre for Executive Leadership, Telfer School of Business
45 O’Connor St, Suite 350

Panel:
- Laurel Murray, CA, Director, Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO)
- Deborah L. Weinstein, Director, Open Text Corporation, Chair, Ashbury College and Director and Ottawa Heart Institute
- Steve West, Director, Ottawa Hospital Foundation, ISTP Canada and the Canadian Science & Technology Museums Foundation

ICD Edmonton Chapter Event
Date: February 8, 2012, 7am-9am
Location: Royal Mayfair Golf Club, 9450 Groat Road

Panel:
- Peter Stalenhoef, President and Chief Operating Officer, Heavy Industrial, PCL Constructors Inc.
- Michael Percy, Chair of Human Resources and Compensation Committee, EPCOR;Professor and former Dean, Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta; HR committee member, K‐BRO linen (tsx).
- Indira V. Samarasekera, President, University of Alberta, and Board Director,Scotiabank, STIC, and the National Institute of Nanotechnology (NINT) Council.

ICD Calgary Chapter Event
Date: Feb 9, 2012, 7am-9am
Location: Calgary Petroleum Club - 319-5 Avenue S.W.

Panel:
- Ken Hughes, ICD.D, Past Board Chair, Alberta Health Services and President, Alpine Insurance & Financial Inc.
- Jim Simpson, Chair of Human Resources & Compensation Committee, Suncor
- Stella Thompson, Chair of WaterSmart Solutions Ltd., and director of First Calgary Financial, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. and the Calgary Airport Authority

ICD Atlantic Chapter Event
Date: April 3, 2012, 12pm-1:30pm
Location: McInnes Cooper, Purdy's Wharf Tower II, 1300-1969 Upper Water Street, Halifax, NS

Panel:
- Lee Bragg, CEO, Eastlink and Director, Nova Scotia Power.
- Derek Oland, Executive Chairman, Moosehead Breweries Limited
- Sherry Porter, Chair, Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation

ICD Newfoundland & Labrador Chapter Event
Date: May 10, 2012, 8am-9:15am
Location: Comfort Inn Airport, Ballroom (Salon A&B), 106 Airport Road, St. John's, NL

Panel:
- Bernard (Tanny) Collins, President, PF Collins International Trade Solutions.
- Ken Marshall, President, Rogers Communications Inc - Atlantic Region
- Susan Sherk, Senior Associate, AMEC

The Art of Leadership - Vancouver Presented by Knightsbridge

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Retail Council of Canada - Retail Human Resources Conference

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400

The Retail Human Resources Conference addresses the most current issues facing HR professionals working in the retail industry. This full-day event offers the opportunity to network, discover new HR products and hear from industry experts on a wide variety of topics and issues.

CMHA BC's 9th Annual Conference - Bottom Line 2012

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), BC Division's annual Bottom Line Conference brings together business leaders, policy-makers, researchers, and workers to improve mental health in BC workplaces.

Beyond the CEO: What Boards Can Do to Ensure Organizations have the Culture, Leadership, and Talent to Thrive

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Mitigating risk is at the top on any corporate agenda. Economic challenges in Europe or our neighbours to the south are the backdrop to more localized concerns with financial risk, operational risk, regulatory risk, technological risk… and the list goes on. But what about “people risk?”What exactly does it encompass?

Just recently, the Institute of Corporate Directors, the Clarkson Centre for Board Effectiveness and Knightsbridge Human Capital Solutions co-authored a report which revealed that there was a wide disparity on the breadth of board governance pertaining to “people” or “human capital”risk. In fact, fully 1/3 of directors do not believe boards should monitor, or provide oversight, other than CEO hiring, compensation and succession. This finding is interesting, perhaps even surprising when one considers how many organizations publically state that people are their most valuable asset.

Panel:

Beth S. Horowitz, B.A, MBA, HSBC Canada Board Member, Trustee, Art Gallery of Ontario; Advisor, Schulich School of Business (Dean’s Advisory Board); Advisor, Catalyst Canada (Advisory Board); and Director, the Harvard Business School Club of Toronto.

David R. Shaw, Founder and CEO of Knightsbridge Human Capital Management Inc, Board member on the Queen’s School of Business Advisory Board, the Junior Achievement of Canada Foundation Board, the Amrop Board (an international organization), the Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee Inc. Board of Advisors and two publicly traded boards, Fiera Sceptre Inc. and Brick Brewing Co. Limited.

Sylvia Chrominska, Group Head, Global Human Resources and Communications,Scotiabank Group, Member of the Dean's Advisory Board at the Richard Ivey School of Business and the Junior Achievement of Central Ontario’s Board of Governors. Chair, Capital Campaign for Women’s College Hospital. Member of the International Women’s Forum, Women’s Executive Network,and the Institute of Corporate Directors. Board of Director,Emera Inc., and the Bank of Nova Scotia Jamaica Limited.

The Art of Executive Leadership

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Join Food and Consumer Products of Canada (FCPC) and host of CBC's Dragon Den, Dianne Buckner, to understand what is driving successful business leadership and learn more on how to develop leadership potential both in your corporate culture and in your career. This full day symposium provides an exciting opportunity to hear from workplace experts and executives from leading CPG companies about the winning strategies for leadership and insights into succeeding in business.

What You Will Learn:

- Insights into the skills needed by the next generation of leaders from a CEOs perspective – roundtable discussion with three CPG CEO's
- The War for Talent - how to identify, attract and retain leaders in the post-recession economy
- The importance of differentiating yourself and your company through a strong leadership culture
- The legal requirements relating to personnel, interaction with competitors, the competition bureau, relationships with retailers, and other responsibilities
- How to identify and showcase the leader within to drive your success

Managing the CEO and Succession Planning

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Managing succession planning ensures organizations have the ability to sustain excellence in leadership over time, with seamless transitions from one leader to the next. Changing the head of an enterprise has various implications within and outside the business. Effective succession planning requires a well-defined plan that ensures a highly capable professionals is ready to assume the role.

Join a panel of experts discuss the importance and steps to effective succession planning.

Panel:

- Mathé Grenier, Principal and National Lead-Client Solutions, Knightsbridge Human Capital Solutions
- Ken Martin, Chief Executive Officer, Pacific Blue Cross
- Doug P. Hayhurst, Independent Corporate Director

HRPA Annual Conference - HR: 2012 and Beyond Inventing the Future

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Join HRPA for Canada’s top HR professional development experience. Over three days—February 1 - 3, 2012—we’ll be sharing ideas, challenges and opportunities with HR professionals from around the world, examining the latest HR issues, and engaging with some of the world’s leading business minds.

You’ll network with some of the best in the profession, build understanding into the future of work and come away with the tools to prepare your organization—and yourself—for the massive change that will transform the workplace.

HR Summit West 2011: Driving Attraction and Engagement Through Trust

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500

Join us for our 2011 HR Summit in Toronto or Calgary, to understand leadership’s vital role in building trust and engagement, and how to optimize that role to improve performance. Benefit from the experience of the human resource thought leaders,and get ideas to help solve your greatest HR challenges:

Learn about new tools and techniques for taking employee engagement to a new level
Find out how “leadership with purpose” can transform your organization, motivate all employees, and engage stakeholders
Discover the link between employee engagement, trust, and positive customer service
Exchange ideas, leverage your knowledge, and gain new insights into today’s leadership and engagement challenge

The Art of Leadership - Calgary Presented by Knightsbridge

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500

Join us in Calgary for this one day conference featuring six internationally renowned bestselling authors and visionaries. Don’t miss out on your chance to gain a competitive advantage and network with Canada’s most influential leaders, entrepreneurs, senior executives and business leaders.

Toronto HR Leadership Summit

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0400

The Governing Body of HR executives who create the agenda understand that there is 'strength in numbers', and the challenges and opportunities faced by one organization are echoed across many. At this meeting, you will learn about best practices and how to develop leadership skills.

HR Summit 2011: Driving Engagement and Trust Through Leadership

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Discuss the latest leadership, trust, and engagement thinking with the experts and your peers.

Benefit from the experience of the human resource thought leaders, and get ideas to help solve your greatest HR challenges:

Learn about new tools and techniques for taking employee engagement to a new level
Find out how “leadership with purpose” can transform your organization, motivate all employees, and engage stakeholders
Discover the link between employee engagement, trust, and positive customer service
Exchange ideas, leverage your knowledge, and gain new insights into today’s leadership and engagement challenges

Executive In The City

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Executive in the City™ is focused on inspiration by leaders for senior leaders and seasoned entrepreneurs who are expected to lead people and executive teams to business success. Located in different cities such as Toronto and New York, Executive in the City™ will connect leaders to ideas and people that will make a difference in how they think and act as leaders.

FEI Canada 2011 Conference: Capitalizing On The Future

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Financial Executives International (FEI) is the leading advocate for the views of corporate financial management. Its 15,000 members hold policy-making positions as chief financial officers, treasurers, and controllers. FEI enhances member professional development through peer networking, career planning services, conferences, publications, and special reports and research.

The 2011 Annual FEI Canada Conference will be held at the Westin Ottawa Hotel,in Ottawa from June 8-10, 2011. The conference content will focus on the and social programs second to none. Please Join us for the experience!

The Art of Leadership Presented by Knightsbridge

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0400

This inaugural one day conference features five internationally renowned bestselling authors and visionaries, who will share an exciting blend of cutting edge thinking and real world experience on today’s most critical leadership issues. Don’t miss out on your chance to gain a competitive advantage and network with over 1,000 of Canada’s most influential leadersJoin over 1,000 of Canada's most influential entrepreneurs, senior executives and business leaders as they gather to gain the insights shared by today's experts in leadership, human resources and talent management at this highly anticipated conference.

Exclusive Invitation for SHRPs: The Role and Future of HR - the CEO’s Perspective

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Last Fall, Knightsbridge interviewed a number of CEOs about their views of the role and future of Human Resources. On May 17, the findings of the survey will be discussed with some of the CEOs who participated in it. Attendance at this event is being offered exclusively to SHRP members. Please join us for a morning filled with stimulating conversation.

Elevate Your Influence - Women of Influence Inc. & Knightsbridge

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Women of Influence Inc. produces inspiring, progressive, and celebratory events across the country. Our programs serve to fill the gap for women looking for mentors, looking to connect with likeminded individuals on their path to success, or looking for unique corporate entertainment.

The ability to strategically influence across and outside your organization is increasingly identified as a key skill required for achieving business success. Elevate Your Influence provides you with Knightsbridge's thought leadership around successful influence in a two module learning experience, which is designed to help you leverage strategies and tools in influencing situations you are facing right now...

View the brochure.

Join MICA and CEO and President Halley Bock of Fierce, Inc

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Halley will explore with you why words like: Engaged, Connected, Authentic and Transparent are essential to the success of the 21st century leader. Research clearly shows that a highly engaged workforce translate to increased productivity, better revenue and higher profits.

If you could have one Fierce Conversation® today, what would it be?
For more information or to register for the event, please contact Michelle Kaplan, via email, or at (416) 928-4603 by April 25.

The Canadian Institute’s 11th Annual Winning HR Practices of the Best Employers in Canada

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400

This conference is a highly interactive, solution-focused program that features case studies and best practices from some of Canada’s most HR-savvy organizations.

Whether you are the CEO or HR Manager, from a large multi-national or SME, employ contract, part-time or unionized employees, you will benefit from attending this thought-provoking event and hearing first-hand what these multi-award-winning employers do behind the scenes to attract, retain and develop their high performing workforce.

HRPA 2011 Annual Conference & Tradeshow

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0500

HRPA's 2011 Annual Conference & Trade Show is about identifying and capitalizing on the trends, demographic, economic, and technological that are revolutionizing the workplace at the start of the second decade of the 21st century.

For three days February 2 to 4, 2011, you will exchange ideas with HR peers from around the globe, examine the latest HR issues, challenges and opportunities, and engage with some of the worlds leading business minds.

Attend the Canadian Business Leadership Forum 2010

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Now in its seventh year, the Canadian Business Leadership Forum is Canada's premier event for business leaders, sharing first-hand accounts of successful strategies that teach attendees new skills and demonstrate how to be an agent of change, rather than a victim of it.

This exclusive, day-long program, sponsored in part by Knightsbridge, provides an opportunity to learn best practices from revolutionary thinkers with direct experience in crisis management, brand turnarounds, social media, viral marketing and strategic leadership. Both inspiring and motivating, the Canadian Business Leadership Forum will help your organization achieve a competitive advantage in today’s challenging business world...

Team Inoculation - Immunize your team to protect against common dysfunctions

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Imagine if you could engrain healthy behaviours and practices in your teams, so that when the unavoidable dysfunctions arise - ineffective decisions, conflict, low productivity - teams are better able to diagnose and treat them before they undermine their effectiveness.

Join Liane Davey, Principal, Knightsbridge Leadership Solutions, for a breakfast and interactive session on building effective teams.

For more information or to register for the event, please contact Cindy Lake, via email, or at (604) 678-9344.

For an article on Knightsbridge's Team Inoculation process, please click here.

Toronto Homecoming

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Knightsbridge is proud to sponsor the Toronto Homecoming Event. Toronto Homecoming is a non-profit initiative designed to help talented Canadians make the move back to Toronto after time abroad. As our city competes for global talent, Toronto Homecoming hopes to facilitate personal and professional networking with expatriates...

Elevate Your Influence - Women of Influence Inc. & Knightsbridge

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Women of Influence Inc. - the organization dedicated to the enhancement of professional women, partners with Knightsbridge - the experts in building leadership capacity, for a unique, year long program combining formal professional development and facilitated peer-mentoring groups. Elevate Your Influence is a program designed for women who fit one of three leader community groups:

High-potential emerging business leaders
Entrepreneurs
Trailblazers approaching the summit of their careers

The ability to strategically influence across and outside your organization is increasingly identified as a key skill required for achieving business success. Elevate Your Influence provides you with Knightsbridge's thought leadership around successful influence in a two module learning experience, which is designed to help you leverage strategies and tools in influencing situations you are facing right now...

Click here for more information on the program. Click here to view the brochure with more details.

Leadership 2009: Developing Strategic Management Capacity

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Knightsbridge and The Conference Board of Canada invite you to change how you view leadership in your organization, learn about tools to build leadership capacity, and get answers to your toughest leadership questions, including:

What skills and qualities do leaders need now and in the future?
How to develop or find skills quickly enough to make a difference?
How can leaders energize and build readiness for an unknown future?
As the economy rebounds, do you have the right leaders in the right roles?

Leadership 2009: Developing Strategic Management Capacity will help you refine your organization’s leadership capabilities and ensure it’s able to successfully execute its business strategy. This event combines the in-depth expertise of KnightsbridgeMICA with the perspectives and insights of Canadian leaders who have faced unique leadership challenges. If you’re still struggling with “leadership as usual,” you can’t afford to miss this multidimensional, thought-provoking, and practical event. As a valued Knightsbridge customer, we are pleased to offer you a special rate for this exclusive session. Join us, and ensure your human capital strategy increases leadership capacity and genuinely addresses the needs of your business.

Career Management - Young Women of Influence

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Join Kathryn Lockhart, Business Leader for Knightsbridge's CAREEGO, to discover how this career expert and Harvard graduate negotiated working for Toronto based Knightsbridge, while living in Germany. After spearheading the world's most compelling and innovative career management website, Careego.com, she wants to enable others to take control of their careers with the cutting-edge tools Careego provides...

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:01:03 -0400