HRPA Meeting Details

Executive Real Talks featuring Cheryl Fullerton, Susan O’Dowd and Chris Taylor

Date and Time:

Starts: 11/24/2016 4:00 PM

Ends: 11/24/2016 7:30 PM

Registration Closes:11/24/2016 5:00 AM

Event Type: Executive Programs

2.5 Hours Hour(s)

Location:

Silver Screening Room - The Hazelton Hotel 118 Yorkville Ave Toronto, ON

Price:

HRPA Members:
$225 + Taxes
Non-Members:
$270 + Taxes
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Availability

Additional Information

Registration Deadline:
November 23, 2016

Event Sponsor

HRPA’s executive Real Talks features challenge, conversation and networking between HR Leaders.

Open to senior HR Executives, Real Talks is a unique, high-level opportunity to build your own conversation around your interests, challenges and passions.

Bring your Real Talk to the table and get feedback from your HR executive peers.

Event open for Registration to Senior Executives. CEOs welcomed. Please submit registration requests toituka@hrpa.ca

Presentations; Cocktail between Sessions: 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Networking: 7:00PM - 7:30PM

Featured Themes for November 24th Meeting:

1. Global View:

Globalization affects any organization’s business approach. From exposure to a wider market and inexpensive labour to the HR challenge of adapting to foreign workplace cultures, your business has to devise strategies to maintain clientele and remain competitive globally.

Topic: Managing employee expectations in a world-class organization

If you are privileged enough to work for a world-class organization, you count yourself lucky. Clearly, your organization does several things extraordinarily well, in order to achieve its world-class status amongst its peer group. What does this mean, however, from a human resources standpoint? Does this also mean that every function and program offered by the human resources team is world-class? Can you afford to be “world-class” in everything? If not, how do you focus on the right things to support the organization and ensure talent attraction and retention is possible?

In this session, Susan O’Dowd, VP of Human Resources & Commercial Services at the Hospital for Sick Children, will discuss how to make the most effective, impactful use of your resources to provide the greatest value proposition for employees – and in turn, to attract and retain truly world-class talent.

Presenter:

Susan O’Dowd,VP of Human Resources & Commercial Services, Hospital for Sick Children

2. Disrupted by Technology:

Technology is quickly becoming one, if not the, greatest driver of business change. New technologies bring huge opportunities, but also new threats to markets, values and business models.

Topic: Leadership in a World Gone Social

Great leaders are always on the lookout for shifts in the world around them, assessing for opportunities and threats. Then they adapt their approach, and evolve in tandem with the world around them. Good leaders do this even when the changes make them uncomfortable, because ignoring realities means getting left behind.

Leaders have adapted their businesses at varying levels of maturity to operate in an online world. But have they adapted their leadership approach? And should they? In this session, Cheryl Fullerton, EVP of People and Communication for Corus Entertainment will lead a discussion on Leadership in a World Gone Social. She will explore why many leaders have been slow to exploit the opportunities presented by social media, as well as share stories of leaders who are leading the way.

Presenter:

Cheryl Fullerton,EVP of People and Communication, Corus Entertainment

3. Future is Now:

The future hasn’t happened yet, but many people act as if it has. The truth is that the future will catch us by surprise – but that doesn’t mean we can’t prepare for it.

Topic: Change at the Speed of our Customer

The retail sector is a fast-paced and challenging landscape to operate in, and the pace of change is unfolding rapidly. Retail is changing as quickly as technology is, and leading organizations in the retail space have to be nimble, forward-thinking and flexible in order to keep up.

Best Buy Canada has faced all of the challenges of keeping up in an ever-changing retail landscape, and it has evolved to meet those challenges. Join Best Buy Canada’s Vice President of Human Resources, Chris Taylor, to hear how Best Buy evolved its model and HR practices to both adapt and excel. From massive organizational change to reinvented customer engagement programs, Best Buy is delivering progressively positive results through transparent communication and a relentless focus on employee engagement.

Presenter:

Chris Taylor,Vice President, Human Resources at Best Buy Canada

Space is limited to 28 attendees.

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Speaker bio(s)

Cheryl Fullerton, CHRE, EVP People, Corus Entertainment

Cheryl Fullerton is Executive Vice President, People and Communications at Corus Entertainment. Cheryl is accountable for the leading the creation of a high performance culture, and integrated, high impact people solutions to support the exceptional creativity and performance of the company’s 4,000 people. Communications responsibilities include internal and external stakeholder communications strategies and execution for Corus’ roster of market-leading television networks, radio stations and associated assets. Cheryl also oversees Corus’ corporate social responsibility programs including the organization’s company-wide philanthropic initiative, Corus Feeds Kids.

Cheryl is a member of the HR Professional magazine Editorial Advisory Board and the CHRO Advisory Council of the HR Professional Association, and has been granted a Certified Human Resources Executive (CHRE) designation. She also currently chairs the Board of Spectra Community Support Services, a volunteer-driven, community-based organization providing emotional support and crisis intervention for the Region of Peel. She has a Bachelor of Science summa cum laude and an HRCCC designation from McMaster University

Susan O'Dowd, CHRP, CHRL, Senior Vice President, HR, The Hospital for Sick Children

Susan’s career spans over 30 years in increasingly responsible HR roles in seven industries. These include Transportation, Retail, Consumer Packaged Goods, Financial Services/Insurance, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Diagnostics Services and the Hospital sector. Susan possesses expertise in designing performance appraisal systems, including technology and workflow solutions, along with innovative leadership development programs that yield results. Accomplishments include creating high performance, engagement and accountability cultures such that previous and current employers have won coveted employer awards including The Top 100 Best Employers to Work For in Canada. Susan’s academic credentials include an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto, a certificate in Advanced Strategic Organizational Design from the University of Southern California, and her CHRL designation. Susan has been with The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto as Vice President, Human Resources and Commercial Services since April of 2012.

In her personal time, Susan sits on two external Boards of Directors for charitable organizations relating to animal health. Susan was a dog-handler and veterinary assistant in the 2012 Iditarod – the 1,000 mile dog-sled race across Alaska. Susan also volunteers at Ian Anderson House, a 6 bed hospice for end-of-life cancer patients.

Chris Taylor, Vice President, Human Resources at Best Buy Canada

Chris Taylor is the Vice President of Human Resources at Best Buy Canada located in Burnaby, British Columbia. Best Buy is Canada’s leading consumer electronics total retailer with over 190 locations across Canada and the country’s leading “Brick and Click” eCommerce and marketplace site.

Chris holds a CHRP designation along with an MBA, and leads the HR Services teams supporting Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores, two distribution centres as well as the corporate office in Burnaby. Prior to joining Best Buy, Chris also held territory-level HR roles with Home Depot and Office Depot.