Annual Membership Breakfast

When:
January 23, 2018 @ 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
2018-01-23T09:00:00-05:00
2018-01-23T10:30:00-05:00
Where:
152 Founders College, Founders Assembly Hall
Keele Campus
Cost:
Free
Contact:
CPMEA Member Relations & Programming Cttee

Chase away the winter blahs with a delicious hot breakfast and time spent with your CPM colleagues. Enjoy a fully interactive session titled Networking PAYS - where participants will explore how to network purposefully, positively, authentically and effectively. Session outcomes include:

  • new ideas about networking
  • a pitch you can use to start conversations with new contacts
  • maybe even some new York connections!

 

Karen Elkin is a dynamic coach, facilitator, trainer and consultant with over 20 years of experience in the public and nonprofit sectors. Karen’s career has included roles in organizational and leadership development, strategic human resources consulting, transformation and change management, marketing/communications, and music education, as well as board/executive membership for several nonprofit organizations.

Since launching her independent business in 2015, Karen has worked with clients in industries such as healthcare, research/technology, manufacturing, government, and telecommunications, and music. Her career in the Ontario Public Service spanned several ministries and roles. Previously, she leveraged her love of music both through her marketing and communications work with the Royal Conservatory of Music and its affiliates, and in her earliest jobs teaching music and playing piano for children’s dance classes.

Karen is passionate about learning and personal growth, and inside organizations works with managers and staff at all levels to inspire leadership development and a culture that supports the achievement of individual and organizational goals and success. As a coach, Karen’s insight, intuition, and recognition of her clients’ strengths foster increased self-awareness, clarity and confidence. As a facilitator, Karen creates a safe environment that encourages personal reflection and draws upon the participants’ experiences to support everyone’s learning and engagement as well as the workshop objectives. She believes that each of us has the power to choose ‘who’ we want to be in each moment, to lead ourselves, others, and our lives.

Karen is an iPEC Certified Professional Coach, Energy Leadership IndexTM Master Practitioner, an EmergeneticsTM Certified Associate, and a VIA Character Strengths (Positive Psychology) practitioner. She holds a BA in Arts Management from the University of Toronto and a MBA from the Schulich School of Business/York University, where she focused on Organizational Behaviour and Nonprofit Management & Leadership. She is a mother, a yoga and fitness enthusiast (most days), and can often be heard singing whether she has a willing audience or not.