Workshop Agenda
Thursday April 16, 2025
7:00 am to 8:45 am
Main Breakfast
Location: Great Falls Ballroom & Foyer
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7:00 am to 8:45 am
Emerging Leaders Networking Breakfast
Location: Brasa Terrace Restaurant
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8:45 am to 9:00 am
Location: Great Falls Ballroom
Morning Stretch
Jen McGillis – Certified Professional Ergonomist
A desire to help people and prevent injuries were always at the heart of ‘my why’ but it wasn’t until I started my Master’s Degree, and dived into ergonomics more deeply, that I found my passion – and quickly realized how it could expand my impact on injury prevention. Whether I’m delivering a training session, or partnering with a business to solve an ergonomic challenge, I always strive to stay worker-focused, ensuring that every educational moment or ergonomic solution is grounded in preventing injuries in practical and sustainable ways. I feel privileged knowing that I help guide organizations to a safer workplace every day.
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9:00 am to 10:00 am
Location: Great Falls Ballroom
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Post Investigation Leadership
Restoring Trust and Rebuilding Teams in Municipal Workplaces
This workshop explores the high risk post investigation phase in municipal workplaces, where legal, relational, and operational issues often intensify. It emphasizes that simply closing an investigation file does not meet statutory obligations and can create exposure to further claims, including constructive dismissal. HR is positioned as a strategic leader in workplace restoration, tasked with balancing legal defensibility and the rebuilding of trust and team cohesion. Through a real municipal case study, participants will apply a three stage restoration framework—acknowledgement, repair via facilitated dialogue and civility codes, and reintegration—to create a practical “Restoration Roadmap” for resilient workplace cultures.
10:00 am to 10:15 am
Sponsor Showcase Session – Coffee Break Incorporated
Location: Great Falls Ballroom & Foyer
10:15 am to 11:00 am
Location: Great Falls Ballroom
HR Burnout: Boundaries, Balance & Bravery
This interactive, practice-based workshop is designed to help HR professionals stay calm, unbiased, and resilient in emotionally charged environments.
Participants learn a burnout-prevention model focused on how to stabilize emotions, set boundaries, act with bravery, support others without self-sacrifice, protect resilience, and restore mental health.
Participants practice regulation techniques, boundary scripts, and resilience skills through facilitated discussion and reflection. At the end of this session, participants will have job-ready practical tools that can be used immediately to reduce emotional fatigue, improve self-care and minimize HR burnout.
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11:00 am to 11:05 am
Break
Location: Great Falls Ballroom & Foyer
11:05 am to 12:30 pm
Location: Great Falls Ballroom
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Labour Law Update
Join us for a labour law update relevant to Ontario municipal workplaces, highlighting recent developments and emerging issues affecting employers. Through a municipal HR lens, it will address recent legal developments and emerging considerations related to managing workplace behaviour, including increasing incivility, and how these issues intersect with labour relations, human rights, and health and safety obligations. The session will highlight practical strategies to support respectful workplaces and effective people management.
12:30 pm to 1:00 pm
Closing Ceremony and Prize Draws
Location: Great Falls Ballroom
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1:00 pm
Take Away Lunch
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