Your delegate package and badge will be available for pick up on site at the registration desk, which will be located downstairs in the foyer of the Sheraton ABC room. The registration desk will open at 12:15 pm so that you have plenty of time to register before the event begins at 1:00 pm in the Osgoode Ballroom.
3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. Jeremy Gutsche, Trendhunter.com
4:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Conference Wrap-up
The Speakers
Giselle Kovary, M.A. and Adwoa K. Buahene, M.A. are the managing partners of n-gen People Performance Inc., a leading consulting company focusing on performance from a generational perspective. They are the authors of Loyalty Unplugged: How to Get, Keep & Grow All Four Generations, which definitively answers the question, “Is loyalty dead?” They suggest that the goal of people leaders should be to create employee engagement not loyalty. The four generations in the workplace – Traditionalist, Baby Boomer, Gen X and Gen Y – demonstrate different workplace behaviours because of their unique identities.
Effective leaders today learn how to get, keep, and grow human capital by maximizing those behaviours while managing the differences to create an engaged workforce. Learn more about organizational engagement through this interactive workshop as Giselle and Adwoa guide you through getting, keeping, and growing high-performance teams. They tackle the why, what, and how to, within recruitment, orientation, total rewards programs, employee brand promises, career-pathing, learning and development, mentoring, performance management and succession planning.
Trendhunter.com is the most influential trend-spotting Web site in the world. Its founder, Jeremy Gutsche, relentlessly tracks – and finds – The Next Big Thing, that valuable but elusive commodity, for over a million viewers a month. It's no wonder MTV places him at " the forefront of cool." A creative individual fueled by curiosity and innovation, Jeremy Gutsche has grown Trendhunter.com into the world's largest and most-trusted trend spotting community in a number of mediums including marketing, fashion, technology and business. Gutsche is sought out by the world's leading companies as well as key media such as MTV, The New York Times, and The BBC.
Gutsche is also the Director of Upmarket, Capital One Canada’s largest acquisition business. At Capital One, he leads the company’s Competitive Strategy and Innovation imperative. Over the last few years his innovation pipeline has led his team to launch several market leading products and expand into new channels that have tripled monthly bookings. A former Management Consultant for the Monitor Group, Gutsche has advised government and Fortune 50 clients on top level strategy and the assessment of new ventures. He holds an MBA from Queen's, is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and studied innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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