Elevate HR: Bringing Today's Learners with Tomorrow's Leaders


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Date and Time:

Starts: 10/08/2025 5:00 PM

Ends: 10/08/2025 9:00 PM

Registration Closes:10/03/2025 10:00 PM

Event Type: Social or Networking Event

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Location:
Toronto Congress Centre 650 Dixon Rd Toronto, ON

Price:

HRPA Students & Members: $25

Full Time Student Non Members: $37.50

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Join us for an exciting evening of insight, inspiration, and invaluable networking at Elevate HR: Bringing Today's Learners with Tomorrow's Leaders a dedicated event for emerging HR professionals ready to take the next step in their careers. Designed with students, recent graduates, and Early Career HR professionals in mind, this in-person event is your opportunity to build meaningful connections, gain career-shaping advice, and explore the transformative value of HRPA membership and programming.

In alignment with HRPA’s Vision 2027 – Empowering Members, Inspiring Prosperity, we’ll explore how HR is adapting to a changing world of work and how today’s early professionals can become tomorrow’s inclusive and purpose-driven leaders.

Agenda:

Registration & Dinner (5:00-6:00PM): Tradeshow opens, Networking, headshots

Keynote (6:15-7:00PM): The SHIFT: Empowering Authentic Leadership in a World That's Ready for Change - Kristina M. Holle

Interactive Game (7:15-8:00PM): Jeopardy style panel with HR Professionals

Networking (8:00-8:45PM): Headshots and Tradeshow

The SHIFT: Empowering Authentic Leadership in a World That's Ready for Change

We’re in the midst of a global leadership reset. Today’s professionals are no longer inspired by outdated models rooted in control, burnout, or performance at all costs. In this keynote, Kristina introduces The SHIFT Model—a powerful framework designed to help early-career HR professionals lead with authenticity, emotional intelligence, and purpose. Drawing on her extensive HR experience and personal transformation journey, Kristina empowers attendees to embrace their unique leadership style, trust their inner compass, and boldly step into the future of HR with confidence and clarity.

Attendees will:

  • Discover the five pillars of the SHIFT Model and how they apply to personal and professional growth.
  • Understand the power of authentic leadership and how to embody it early in their HR career.
  • Gain tools to develop emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and resilience in the workplace
  • Learn how to navigate change with confidence while staying grounded in their values and purpose.

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Kristina M. Holle

Kristina M. Holle is a recognized leadership coach, transformational speaker, and author of The Authentic You: Unleash Your Leadership Potential. With over 25 years of senior HR leadership experience across global organizations, Kristina now helps individuals and companies shift from burnout and performance pressure to alignment, authenticity, and thriving. Holding the CHRE designation, she brings both strategic insight and deep emotional intelligence to her work. As founder of The Authentic You Coaching and Holle Consulting, Kristina empowers leaders to embody authenticity and lead with courage, empathy, and purpose. Her dynamic talks and frameworks—like the SHIFT Model—guide audiences toward real change and lasting impact.

Our Panel of HR Professionals

Paul Horton

Paul Horton is an HR Executive with absolutely no relation to Tim Horton. He does have a love of coffee and a passion for finding new and better ways to help people be their best at work and to achieve success in their career and in life outside of work. 

Paul dabbled in website design and moonlighted as a professional wedding photographer - but at his core, Paul is an HR Guy with 25 years of HR experience
across a range of industries, including Deloitte, JDS Uniphase, Brookfield (BGIS) and JP Morgan Chase.  

A local Ottawa product, Paul attended Carleton University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce and met his wife, Jodi. Today they are the proud parents of 4 teenage daughters and a dog named Max. 

Once an aspiring professional athlete and now a beer league hockey player, Paul is a hopeless Beatlemaniac and a Habs fan in good times and bad. 

Paul is currently the Chief Human Resources Officer at Recollective, an Ottawa-based developer of the leading qualitative market research and online communities platform.

 

Gladys Bamba

Gladys's journey is an inspiring example for those starting their careers in Human Resources.  

Originally from the Philippines, she moved to Toronto seven years ago as an international student, driven to build a successful future in Human Resources.

Gladys took full advantage of her Student membership with HRPA by attending webinars, conferences, and Employee Networking Groups (ENGs), which helped her connect with HR professionals and expand her network. She also dedicated her time to numerous volunteering opportunities both on and off campus, including being one of the volunteers for the HRPA Toronto Student Liaison Committee in the last 4 years.

Josie Lee

Josie Lee is a Certified Human Resources Leader (CHRL) with over 15 years of HR experience within the financial services industry. Currently, she is a Director, HR Business Partner at CNA Insurance where she leads a team supporting all functional areas of HR within Canada and previously held HR roles at Deloitte and EY.

Josie holds a specialization in HR and French from Western University, along with certifications in HR Business Partnership and Advanced HR Law from Osgoode. A dedicated volunteer for over 20 years, she’s actively involved with the HRPA, currently serving on the Experience Assessment