Each year, the CPMEA offers our membership the opportunity to connect and engage with fellow CPMs across our campuses to help enhance their professional networks, all while receiving the benefits of learning programming and skills development opportunities through several lunch & learn sessions, Membership Breakfast and Annual General Meeting.
Join your CPM representative on the All University Pension Committee for an overview of upcoming proposed changes to York's Pension Plan. Darus Suharto will review the proposal and explain how changes will impact CPMs.
More and more, unique skill sets 
are needed to implement institutional change initiatives. In this session, participants will learn how to leverage Change Intelligence to build successful Implementation Teams. Using real examples from the Kuali/Curriculum Management Implementation Project, Project Lead Jodi Tavares will walk participants through identifying how change is led, how to build partnerships between complimentary team members, and leading a multi-approach implementation team.
Takeaways: participants will leave with - A clear understanding of change leadership styles - An outline on building complimentary partnerships within an implementation team - Lessons on leading a multi-approach implementation team.
Details to be confirmed.
Join your colleagues for the seventh annual CPMEA Membership Breakfast. Enjoy a hot breakfast, networking opportunities and a session on Developing Greater Life Satisfaction, presented by keynote Dr. Louise Hartley (PhD), director of York University’s Psychology Clinic.
Details of Session: 2018 was a difficult year with the long strike and the a newly elected provincial government which always leads to uncertainty about funding levels for us. So if you have noticed increased stress levels and a decreased sense of overall satisfaction – then you are not alone because these types of events and uncertainty will do that to you. This presentation will look at what each of us can do to assist ourselves in feeling greater satisfaction in our daily lives. Topics that will be covered include determining where to put our energy and how to let go of things that we can’t control; the power of language and optimism and what research tells us about happiness and how to increase it.
Dr. Louise Hartley 
is the director of York University’s Psychology Clinic. She is a registered, clinical psychologist and also holds a corporate coaching certificate. Dr. Hartley has expertise in the field of organizational development which includes both individual and team interventions designed to build healthy, engaged work environments. She is a mother of 2 adult children who has worked at York for 10 years.
Looking to gain insight and understanding on the health challenges post-secondary students face? In this Lunch and Learn, the Student Success Centre provides valuable information on how the unit supports the student community, explains who Health Education and Promotion are, and provide awareness and understanding about the strategies and initiatives that this department employs to bolster health and well-being outcomes at York University.
Helen Lee is a Registered Nurse of 21 years and has been a member of the York University community for just under 4 years. She spent 3 years in the Office of the University Registrar providing support on advancing strategic priorities and projects across the unit. She recently joined the Student Success Centre as Manager of Well-being and Health Promotion. Prior to this role, Helen spent 12 years at the Hospital for Sick Children as a Registered Nurse which included strategic program development. She has also held a variety of administrative positions within the private sector that combined planning, organizational development and resource management.
Shaila Khan has recently joined as the Health Educator & Training Specialist she brings eight years of student transition experience, where she created programming to address key barriers or challenges that students face every day within the academic student life-cycle. She is passionate about holistic approaches to wellness and empowering student voices through initiatives, programming and giving opportunities to deepening conversations that impact student success. She is currently completing her part-time Masters in Dance with a focus on dance movement therapy and somatics for wellness.
Suruthi Ragulan joined York University in August 2018, as the Project Coordinator - Special Initiatives in the Health Education and Promotion department. She completed a Master in Public Health from the University of Alberta in 2017 and has developed a variety of public health programs that focus on mental health and wellness both locally and abroad.
Takeaways:
- Who is Health Education & Promotion and how does the unit support the student community?
- Gain insight on the health challenges post-secondary students face
- Awareness and understanding about the strategies and initiatives the department employs to bolster health and well-being outcomes at York
We live in a time when it is becoming increasing difficult to rationalize what we should truly worry about. In this Lunch and Learn, look to gain insights into the hazards that present a risk to York University and develop an awareness and understanding of the strategies and initiatives that the Community Safety Department employs to bolster disaster and emergency resilience of our community.
Takeaways: Participants will gain an understanding of how to achieve personal and community disaster resilience. Increase awareness and understanding about the strategies and initiatives the Community Safety Department employs to prepare for Disasters and Emergencies, and learn how to be part of the program, including incident management training, emergency warden training and business continuity planning.
Presented by Mike O'Brien
Mike O’Brien is the Manager of Emergency Preparedness for York University. He spent twenty years in the Canadian Forces where he deployed on operations as diverse as peacekeeping in the Balkans, the Manitoba Flood of the Century and Afghanistan. His operational experiences inspired him to transition into a career in Emergency Management where he has previously worked a variety of positions in the municipal sector. Mike has completed a Master’s Degree in Disaster and Emergency Management at Royal Roads University and is a Certified Business Continuity Professional, and he is also the President of the Ontario Association of Emergency Managers. In his spare time, he perpetually drives his kids to-and-from sporting events, and he also runs slowly and gardens badly.
Join your CPM colleagues for our Annual General Meeting. In addition to elections and an update on 2019 activities, enjoy a hot breakfast, a chance to network with colleagues and a hear from our guest speakers!
Join your CPM colleagues for a hot breakfast, table games and an opportunity to build your York network! Let's celebrate the start of a new academic year!
Catalyze your inventive problem solving!
The smallest unit of innovation is the idea - the experiment to try. The common approach to generating ideas is brainstorming. Unfortunately, too many brainstorming sessions get dominated by early ideas and loud voices. Toward the end, brainstorming can feel like a chore with each idea you think of looking too much like earlier ones. To get past that feeling, catalyze your thinking using SCAMPER, a set of seven powerful, proven idea generators. Individuals and teams have been using SCAMPER to produce an abundance of ideas, both in quantity and variety, since the 1950s. It is easy to use, and just as importantly, easy to reuse in many settings, even when the pressure is on.
Speaker: Tim Hampton is the director of computing in AMPD. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering (Carleton) and is the author of the innovation blog: repeatablegenius.com.
Join your colleagues for the eighth annual CPMEA Membership Breakfast!
We're inviting all CPM members to come out and enjoy a hot breakfast. This is a great opportunity to network with your peers and win some prizes!
