Calendar of Events

Join us for the Labour Law Summit, presented by VanBuskirk Law!

This premier event will bring together leading legal experts to explore key issues in labour law, providing valuable insights for HR professionals, business leaders, and legal practitioners. Hosted by Kelly VanBuskirk, the summit will feature presentations from five distinguished legal counsel, each addressing critical topics shaping the ever-evolving landscape of labour law.

Don't miss this opportunity to gain expert guidance, stay informed on legislative changes, and engage in meaningful discussions that impact workplaces today.

Amidst persistent economic headwinds, rising inflation, and skills shortages across Canada, leaders are under mounting pressure to perform in ambiguity. This webinar explores behavioural agility as a core leadership capability—especially relevant for Canadian organizations navigating stalled growth, organizational restructuring, and employee uncertainty.

Designed for senior HR leaders, this session provides actionable insight into how to develop behavioural agility in your leadership pipeline. We’ll explore how to nurture self-awareness, shift mindsets, and support leaders in adapting their behaviours to meet the evolving needs of their teams, their organizations, and the broader business context—especially in times of volatility and change.

Working with difficult stakeholders can be one of the toughest challenges HR professionals and leaders face—especially when you're expected to influence without formal authority. This webinar will explore how to shift your mindset, identify what’s truly within your control, and adopt new strategies that move the needle in even the most resistant relationships. We’ll break down the common patterns that keep conversations stuck, and show you how to build credibility, confidence, and connection—without burning out or backing down.

Whether you're navigating tough personalities, high-stakes conversations, or old dynamics that just won’t budge, this session will give you practical tools and fresh thinking to help you turn friction into forward movement.

Join us for an engaging and interactive professional development session on “AI in the Workplace” using the World Café format. This session will explore the impact of artificial intelligence on various aspects of work, discuss its benefits and challenges, and brainstorm actionable strategies for effective AI integration. Participants will rotate through different discussion tables, each focusing on a specific aspect of AI in the workplace, and collaborate to generate ideas and solutions.

What’s a World Cafe?

A World Café professional development session is a structured conversational process that facilitates open and intimate discussions in small groups, and links ideas within a larger group to access the collective intelligence or wisdom in the room. Here’s how it typically works:

1. Setting: The environment is designed to resemble a café, with tables for small groups.
2. Welcome and Introduction: The host begins with a warm welcome and an introduction to the World Café process, setting the context, sharing the Café Etiquette, and putting participants at ease.
3. Small-Group Rounds: The process starts with the first of three or more twenty-minute rounds of conversation for small groups. At the end of each round, participants move to a different table, and a new round begins. One person may stay as the “table host” to welcome the next group and briefly fill them in on the previous conversation.
4. Questions: Each round is prefaced with a question specially crafted for the specific context and desired purpose of the World Café. The same questions can be used for more than one round, or they may build upon each other to focus the conversation or guide its direction.
5. Harvest: After the small groups, individuals are invited to share insights or other results from their conversations with the rest of the large group. 

Join us for a free, engaging, and interactive virtual Tech Tok Series designed specifically for HR professionals. This series explores the transformative role of technology and its impact on the key competencies outlined in the CPHR Competency Framework.

As organizations adapt to digital advancements, HR professionals must navigate new challenges and opportunities. This series breaks down how technology intersects with HR practices, explores the significance and impact of digital fluency and tips on embracing the change, all while helping you stay ahead in a rapidly evolving landscape.

In today’s fast-paced business environment, technology is at the heart of organizational transformation. Attendees will explore how digital tools and strategies are shaping the future of work, driving strategic change, and supporting long-term development. We’ll cover how to leverage technology to align teams with organizational goals, enhance employee engagement, and streamline change management. Plus, we’ll delve into the role of data, AI, and automation in improving decision-making and future-proofing your organization for success in a rapidly evolving landscape. 

Let’s be real: HR isn’t swamped because there’s too much work. It’s swamped because we’re still doing way too much of it manually. If you're still screening resumes with spreadsheets, formatting job postings like it’s 2006, or writing policies from scratch — that’s not “busy,” that’s avoidable.

In this session, we’re cutting through the hype and the fears. We’ll talk about what parts of HR are already being automated (yep, right now), what’s safe (for now), and what’s on the chopping block over the next 2–3 years. We’ll also discuss why HR is behind the curve compared to departments like Sales, Marketing, and Operations. 

But this isn’t about replacing people. It’s about using AI to actually do the things we always say we want to do: be more human, more strategic, more fair, and way less bogged down in admin hell.

Join us for a free, engaging, and interactive 3-part virtual Tech Tok Series designed specifically for HR professionals. This series explores the transformative role of technology and its impact on the key competencies outlined in the CPHR Competency Framework.

As organizations adapt to digital advancements, HR professionals must navigate new challenges and opportunities. This series breaks down how technology intersects with HR practices, explores the significance and impact of digital fluency and tips on embracing the change, all while helping you stay ahead in a rapidly evolving landscape.