Western (St. Catharines): HYBRID Crush It Without Crushing Yourself in HR & Recent Developments in Mental Health Case Law


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Date and Time

Starts:05/07/2025 7:30 AM

Ends:05/07/2025 12:00 PM

Registration Closes:04/28/2025 8:00 AM

Event Type: Professional Development

3 CPD Hour(s)

Location:
Rodman Hall, 109 St. Paul Cres., St. Catharines, ON

Price:

HRPA Members: FREE (included in membership dues)

Non-Members:
IN-PERSON: $65 + tax

Non-Members:
VIRTUAL: $35 + tax

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Event Sponsor

Crush It Without Crushing Yourself in HR, presented by Stephanie Edward

This interactive session provides HR professionals with practical tools to navigate high-pressure environments while fostering resilience, emotional intelligence, and sustainable well-being. 

The session will explore the 5Rs of the Compassionate Confidence Framework, focusing on building self-awareness, reframing challenges, and strengthening both personal and professional connections. 

Participants will engage in self-reflection activities and group discussion that will help them cultivate key strategies for balancing workplace demands with personal wellness, enhancing individual performance and contributing to a healthy, effective workplace culture. 

Attendees will leave with actionable techniques that empower them to support their own wellness and the health of their teams. 

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify the five elements of the Compassionate Confidence Framework and their application to fostering resilience and well-being in HR.
  • Describe strategies to build emotional intelligence and self-awareness that can be applied to workplace challenges and stress management.
  • Explain actionable techniques to enhance personal and team well-being while balancing the demands of a high-pressure HR environment.


Navigating the Landscape: Recent Developments in Mental Health Case Law, presented by Casey Dockendorff

We will explore recent developments in mental health case law, including from the Human Rights Tribunal, Labour Arbitrators and the Courts.

Learning Objectives:

  • understand the breadth of "mental health" as a disability
  • understand the duty to accommodate arising out of mental health claims
  • understand recent case law developments to assist you with your accommodation issues

AGENDA:

7:30am-8:30am      Registration, Breakfast & Networking
8:30am-10:00am    Crush It Without Crushing Yourself in HR - Stephanie Edward
10:00am -10:15am   Break
10:15am-11:45am     Navigating the Landscape: Recent Developments in Mental Health Case Law - Casey Dockendorff
11:45am-noon         Wrap Up

Registration Difficulties or Questions: Please reach out to Tracey Gallacher, Specialist, Member Engagement

Speaker bio(s)
Stephanie Edward

Stephanie Edward is a trainer, speaker, consultant, and coach with nearly two decades of experience in high-pressure roles in banking. She founded LORA Concepts Inc. to help professionals develop the skills and mindsets needed to succeed in demanding environments. Through people-centric training, engaging keynote presentations, and transformative consulting, Stephanie delivers solutions that build resilience, cultivate self-awareness, and support stress management, while enhancing other critical workplace skills like focus and relationship-building. She is passionate about helping new hires start strong, equipping them with tools to thrive from day one. As host of The Compassionate Confidence Podcast and author of the Compassionate Confidence blog, Stephanie shares strategies for sustaining success and performing at their best under pressure. Whether guiding leaders or optimizing onboarding, she provides a clear path to achieving results while safeguarding well-being.

Casey Dockendorff

Casey is a partner with Fiion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP, where she practices out of their London, Ontario office. Casey practises in all areas of labour and employment law. She acts for a wide variety of union and non-union clients in both the public and private sectors. Casey's practice focuses on public sector work, where she represents a number of municipalities, school boards, hospitals, and other broader public sector clients. Casey spends a considerable amount of her time on employment-related civil litigation matters, including wrongful dismissals, constructive dismissals, breach of restrictive covenant claims, and human rights disputes. Casey has acted as counsel in many arbitrations, wrongful dismissals, and proceedings before the Ontario Labour Relations Board and the Human Rights Tribunal. She provides regular and ongoing advice to her clients in respect to all labour and employment matters.