Achieving Competitive Advantage through Difference and Innovation:

The Next Great Opportunity for Career Professionals

One of many exciting insights from our “Forces & Shifts at Work” dialogue in October was the economic opportunity for career professionals to ‘shift’ their influence as traditional job coaches, to business advisors who can optimize leadership development.

With “innovation” being acknowledged as the key stimulus for competitive and economic advantage, many questions arise regarding how we listen for, coach and ultimately promote an open mind of inquiry. Particularly in the GTA - offering THE most culturally ‘different’ workforces in the world – the benefits of innovative workplaces remain on the periphery because we aren’t ‘thinking outside of the square’, as they say in Australia.  

To transcend diversity (which labels groups), we must now consider difference of thinking in order to acquire competitive advantage: 

• Explore what does innovation look like in organizations,
• How can career professionals bring their expertise to drive this innovation imperative around talent management?
• Where can we lead ourselves and our profession to create tangible results in the minds (and bottom lines) of our clients?

Join our stellar line up as they share accumulated wisdom in fostering innovation within difference:

Diana MacKay, Director, Education, Health and Immigration, The Conference Board of Canada

Herman Tange, Chief Sales & Treasury Officer, ING DirectCanada

Colleen Neil-Dal Bello, Sr. Career Management Consultant, Right Management

Moderator: Taimour Zaman, Co Founder,One Million Acts of Innovation

Learn their strategy, what’s working, what’s missing, and the role career professionals might play in being innovation ‘advocates and provocateurs’ for their own clients

Date:  

Tuesday, Feb 28, 2012

Time:

5:30 - 6:15pm: Registration & Networking                 

• Light Food and Refreshments Provided
• Photographic Images on display: Courtesy members of Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
• Inquiries welcome. Gallery44.org

6:15pm - 8:30pm: Welcome & Presentation         

Location:

Royal Canadian Yacht Club, 141 St. George St., North of St George Subway, Toronto, Ontario

Event Fee:

Members $40

Non Members $55

Students $32

Online Registration Only

www.acptorontofeb28event.eventbrite.ca 

Limited Registration

Note to attendees: This event will earn you 1 Professional Development Credit towards your career certification with the Institute of Career Certification International (ICCI). Please save the detailed event information in manner convenient to you for transcribing to your ICCI Application Form. 

 This event is proudly sponsored by:

FranNet of Southern Ontario