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.
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.
People's views on business continuity planning vary from: "business … what?", "It's just common sense, isn't it?" to "Where do we start?" Join your CPM colleagues as we take a step back to consider how business continuity can benefit your unit, and how to begin crafting a solid plan. The harsh but simple fact is that there are a hundred and one things that can disrupt the delivery of service. A well thought out, practical plan can mean the difference between the continuation or suspension of service.
Participants in this session will leave with:
- An understanding of what business continuity is and why it's important
- A strategy to implement business continuity planning in a unit
- Tools and templates to assist you in the process
- A process for ongoing maintenance of your Business Continuity plan
Guest Speaker: Kathy Branton, Business Continuity and Emergency Management, Humber College
Join your CPM colleagues for breakfast and networking, we'll take you through our annual CPMEA update and elections, and finish off with a professional development session. Looking forward to connecting with each of you!
Agenda
9:00 AM Registration & Breakfast
9:10 AM Call to Order
9:15 AM Opening Remarks - Joanne Cary, AVP Human Resources & CHRO
9:20 AM Year in Review, Treasurer's Report, Member Elections
9:45 AM Keynote - Carmel Perry, Emotional Intelligence & Difficult Conversations
10:50 AM Election Results
10:55 AM Closing Remarks
Emotional Intelligence & Difficult Conversations
Participants will leave with:
- a clear understanding of Emotional Intelligence
- the connection between needs and feelings
- how to develop EI capacity
- how to communicate openly in difficult situations
Keynote Speaker - Carmel Perry
A Human Resources Certified Professional Leader (CHRL) and Coach, Carmel has completed training in Advanced Dispute Resolution with York University, Coaches training with Co-Active Training Institute and Emotional Intelligence with the Institute for Health and Human Potential. She is currently completin training with the Centre for Nonviolent Communication, is an active member of the HRPA and the International Coaches Federation.
Carmel's passion is connecting and collaborating with people as they face personal and professional difficulties, and helping them reach practical solutions and results. Many have appreciated her honest and forthright communication, strong motivation, advocacy and listening skills.
Carmel's 20+ years of experience includes working in profit, nonprofit and unionized organizations. Industry sectors include; Healthcare, Training and Development, Transport Automation and Distribution. She has worked with the Ontario Nurses’ Association for 16 years, coached managers, staff and members on Dispute Resolution and Difficult Conversations. She currently coaches individuals on Work and Personal Life challenges and Career Transition.
Carmel volunteers with the Human Resources Professional Association York Region, the Simcoe County Suicide Awareness Council and previously with Victim Services with York Regional Police for 8 years.
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!
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.
