3rd Women & Leadership in Technology


Date: February 23 & 24, 2016
Location: Toronto
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Highlights

Leveraging your personal brand to leadership positions

How to encourage better gender balance in your organization

Communicating effectively, leading with passion and strategically networking

Building future leaders through coaching and mentoring approaches

Communicating to ensure higher productivity

Women’s leadership strategies in corporate, SME and micro businesses

Affinity networking through social media

Understanding what makes an effective technical leader

Faculty

FACULTY
COURSE LEADERS
Tamara Doerksen, KPMG LLP
Tamara Doerksen is Director, Information Technology Services with KPMG LLP, where she has championed the women and diversity agenda for IT and founded the IT Women’s Interchange Network.
Daniela Crivianu-Gaita, Dynacare
Daniela Crivianu-Gaita joined Dynacare, a health solutions company, as Chief Information Officer in 2014 bringing extensive leadership experience in information and business technology management to her role.
CO-LECTURERS
Elizabeth Bidinoff, BITA Group
Elizabeth Bidinoff is the Founder and CEO of .BITA Group, a technology consulting firm focusing on in aligning IT with business goals and reducing IT costs.
Wendy Cukier, Ryerson University
Dr. Wendy Cukier as Vice-President of Research and Innovation at Ryerson University, where she leads the strategy to grow research and to promote innovation and commercialization.
Chala Dincoy-Flajnik, Coachtactics
Chala Dincoy is the CEO and Founder of Coachtactics. She is a Market Demand Expert who helps entrepreneurs package their unique expertise and tap into their Qualified Buying Market.
Dorothy Engelman, Q Media Solutions
Dorothy Engelman is Senior Partner & Owner at Q Media Solutions. She has been recently named as one of Canada's Most Powerful Women by the Women's Executive Network.
Sussannah Kelly, DHR International
Sussannah Kelly is Executive Vice President at DHR International, a global executive search firm.
Liz McKeown, Shared Services Canada / Government of Canada
Liz (Elizabeth) McKeown is Account Executive at Shared Services Canada with 15 years of experience within the Federal Public Services in many functions.
Della Shea, Symcor Inc.
Della Shea is Chief Privacy & PCI DSS Compliance Officer at Symcor Inc. with responsibility for overseeing highly effective Privacy, Records Management, and PCI DSS compliance programs.
Carmen Valle, Entertainment One
Carmen M. Valle is Director PMO at Entertainment One. She has worked with organizations to turn teams and individuals into consistently trustworthy, accountable, and high performance partners for success.
Gui Wong, The MasterCard Foundation
Gui Wong is Director of Information Technology at The MasterCard Foundation.

Program

COURSE PROGRAM
Creating & Building Your Personal Leadership Brand
In today's highly competitive high tech world, it is critical to create and maintain a strong personal brand in order to stand out. This session will discuss the power your personal brand has in shaping your career, the challenges women encounter in trying to build a brand and how to master it to achieve leadership success.

Establishing and communicating a brand that showcases your attributes and core strengths: essential elements of a great personal brand

How to effectively build your reputation

Challenges women encounter in trying to build a brand

Leveraging your personal brand to leadership positions

Women Leadership Issues in a Male-Dominated Environment
While women continue to make inroads as leaders in traditionally male-dominated industries such as the technology field, the reality is still less than perfect. This discussion takes an in-depth look at what it takes for women in leadership to succeed in a former male bastion.

Creating opportunities and opening doors for the next generation

Identifying and addressing challenges and barriers

Influencing change within a male-oriented industry

Facilitating attraction and enhancing retention of women in technology

Becoming A Change Agent To Meet Tech World Demands
Becoming a change agent to meet tech world demands is a constant in the world of high tech, particularly for women progressing through greater roles and responsibilities. This session will look at how to become a change agent through a complete process involving specific activities and personal skills.

How to assess the appropriate technical needs

How to generate innovative ideas

How to deliver and promote technical change

Attracting and Developing Top Female Talent in IT
Business initiatives that promote recruitment, retention and advancement of women are a growing trend in the IT world. This presentation will look at best practices for attracting and advancing women in technical roles.

Building leadership capability through coaching & mentoring

Identifying and addressing women's issues in the workplace to positively impact employee engagement

Influencing, championing and driving learning & development initiatives

Improving recruitment strategies to attract top talent

Achieving Work-Life Effectiveness
The challenges of dealing with competing demands of a fast-paced IT career and personal or family responsibilities is getting increasingly difficult. This presentation will explore strategies to achieve work-life harmony as well as provide insight into the benefits of flexible work options that employers in IT firms/departments can undertake.

Unique challenges IT staff face reconciling their work and personal lives

Determining your work-life strategy

Clarifying priorities: challenges and opportunities

Practical tips and advice for achieving better work-life effectiveness

Latest practices in leading employee wellness programs

Communicate Not Dictate: Essential Communication Skills For Leadership
One of the most effective ways for women to project confident leadership is through clear and persuasive communications. Learn how to resolve issues with your teams through better communication and overcoming communication obstacles.

Communicating to ensure higher productivity

Tips for projecting clarity and inspiring confidence

Cultivating essential listening skills to capture what is not being said

Ways to convey greater confidence and precision in communication approaches

Cultivating Competencies of High Potential Tech Leaders
To achieve success, there are core competencies you must master in order to lead successfully while continuing your own professional growth. This session will focus on leadership qualities to be nurtured and developed for high potential women candidates in the high-tech field.

Uncovering the qualities needed to become tomorrows leaders

Understanding what makes an effective technical leader

Building on your natural skills and working at using them as effectively as possible

Qualities perceived to be career-limiting

Business Networking Skills For The Online Social Age
Networking is an effective career-building tool that, if executed properly, can go a long way in establishing your personal brand and realizing your leadership potential. With the growth of social networking dominating business and life, this session will explore how women can develop cutting edge skills for networking in the social age.

Promoting successful adoption of social media networking tools

Power of personal connections and social media engagement to build your personal brand

Affinity networking through social media

Leveraging strategic business relationships through collaboration

Qualities To Lead; Qualities That Hinder Success
While it is impossible to establish a set of qualities that can be attributed to all women, certain leadership qualities are critical to the long-range success of organizations. This session will focus on the leadership qualities to be nurtured and developed for high potential women candidates in the technology field, while addressing some qualities that can hinder success.

Uncovering the qualities needed to become tomorrow's leaders in technology

Developing emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills

Developing your natural skills

Qualities that hinder success: the need for diagnosis and remedy

Navigating through Career Changes
As women leaders, we recognize the need to be adaptable in the face of change, finding a way to make the most of opportunities. Career progression is a voyage of discovery, and this presentation will share experiences and insights into navigating the twists and turns of a career of change.

Capitalizing on opportunities to broaden experience

How do you transfer experience and skills to different sectors?

Continuous development: demonstrating competence in a new realm

Deepening your networks and support systems

Multimedia Presentations

MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION
Achieving work-life effectiveness
Julia Hanigsberg
Ryerson University
Attracting & advancing top female talent in tech
Wendy Young
Oakville Hydro Corporation
Executive coaching & mentoring
Catherine Mossop
Sage Mentors Inc.
Becoming a change agent to meet tech world demands
Fariba Anderson
Municipal Property Assessment Corporation
Leveraging leadership style to overcome gender stereotypes
Sandra Saric
Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC)
Cultivating competencies of high potential tech leaders
Debi Senger
The Hospital for Sick Children
Leadership in troubled times
Gillian Buergin
The Rhema Group
Leading in a man’s world
Connie Linder
GreenPages Directory Inc.
Surmounting the glass-ceiling in a traditionally male industry
Barbara Dunfield
Newport Exploration Ltd.
Creating conditions for the next generation
Connie Fair
BC Assessment
Effective leadership communications
Pam Aikman
Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA)
Enhancing your leadership capacity through strategic systems thinking
Yael Blum
INtwoIT Leadership Development & Coaching
Qualities to lead, qualities that hinder
Jane Lindstrom
Northern Health Authority
Enhancing emotional intelligence
Carolyn Stern
Carolyn Stern and Associates Inc. (CSI)
Transcending preconceptions – Essential leadership attributes for women leaders
Susan Tomaine
Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP
Negotiation skills
Patricia Towler
Regent College
Entrepreneural leadership
Melanie Rupp
Reputations
Leading & living the brand
Linda Bilben
Reputations
Community leadership
Deborah Edwards
Coastal Community Credit Union
Using our natural talents and strengths as leaders
Charlene Higgins
Yellowhead Mining Inc. (TSX: YMI)
Career passion
Julia Yan
TMX Equity Transfer Services
The three Cs of influential leadership
Laura Jones
Canadian Federation of Independent Business
Building resilience
Stephanie Hollingshead
Sierra Systems Group Inc.
Power of mentoring
Kelly Stark-Anderson
Silver Standard Resources Inc.
Achieving success through collaboration
Nicole McNeill
MPAC

Participants

BITA Group

Coachtactics

DHR International

Dynacare

Entertainment One

KPMG LLP

Q Media Solutions

Ryerson University

Shared Services Canada / Government of Canada

Symcor Inc.

The MasterCard Foundation


Who should attend

CTOs, CIOs, VPs, Directors, Sr. Managers & professionals improving skills in leadership, conflict resolution, work-life balance, negotiations, communications, networking & talent mentoring

Price

Price list:-
  • Course: $1975
  • Webcast only : $1575
  • Webcast and Proceedings : $1874
  • Course and Proceedings : $2274
  • Proceedings Only: $799
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REGISTRATION:
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LOCATION:
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CONDITIONS:
Registration covers attendance for one person, the supplementary course material as described in this document, lunch, morning coffee and refreshments during breaks are provided for registered duration. The proceedings of the event will be captured on audio or video. Multimedia proceedings with all slides and handouts can be purchased separately on a CD-ROM which will also include the event material.
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TIME:
Registration begins at 8:00 a.m. The morning sessions start promptly at 9:00.
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