Ensuring the health and stability of an organization’s leadership is a primary objective of all CEO’s, Executive Directors and Board Members.  Finding the right people is just the first step to achieving that goal. This engaging and informative session from one of Canada’s leading executive training institutions will help you create a plan to ensure that emerging talent is nurtured.

 Who should attend this session:

• Current Organizational Leaders (CEO’s, ED’s, BOD Members)
• Senior Staff positioned for leadership roles
• All Staff interested in Career Development insights

Speaker:
Dr. Lyn Purdy, Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Ivey Business School

A1: Challenging Behaviours - Causes, Corrections and Calming

What are the 5 most prevalent fundamental causes of challenging behaviours of people with developmental disabilities as reported by over 3,000 moms, dads, educators, support and behavioural-psycho-social professionals who have been trained in Conscious Care and Support (CCS)?  How can these causes be corrected so as to not further traumatize the person supported through the use of restraints, ineffective consequences and/or isolation to significantly improve the quality of life of the person supported; reduce injury and trauma to the person supported and supporters; reduce financial costs of support? Join us for this highly interactive workshop to learn answers to these questions and essential Conscious Care and Support (CCS) Awareness Based Calming (ABC) correction skills. This will include the demonstration of the ‘Behaviour Preventer’ that, based on live streamed bio-feedback helps to predict imminent pending challenging behaviours in sufficient time for supporters to offer Awareness Based Calming to prevent escalation.

Speaker:
Peter Marks, Co-Founder & CEO, A Centre for Conscious Care

Are you looking at ways to achieve cost savings without impacting quality supports to people? Have you considered back office supports as a way to achieve this?  Come hear directly from a Board member who was successful in facilitating an agency's strategy to achieve exactly that – efficiency, cost savings, agency autonomy and expert supports.  The new company, Creative Team Solutions, facilitates expert service in the areas of Finance, IT, Human Resources and Executive supports from qualified professionals and cost savings for all participants. 

Speaker:
Robert Poultney, President, Creative Team Solutions & BOD President, Community Living London

Malicious intrusions, human mishaps or rogue activities pose real threats to security and privacy that can no longer be overlooked. Nerds On Site and ADAMnetworks will be sharing insights into internet security, which will help demystify the real threats that agencies face today. Together, they will explore the latest solutions to effectively address your current cyber problems in a cost-effective and practical manner. Now that you understand more about the emerging IT security threats, how can you quantify the exposure for your own agency? Are you comfortable managing this risk using agency resources? Is it better to invest in additional IT security, transfer the exposure to insurers, or some combination of both? We will explore ways to quantify your own risk, and touch on how the insurance market has evolved to provide solutions to this ever-evolving threat.

Speakers:
Louise McConnell, Senior Vice President & Narisha Joseph, Assistant Vice President, Gallagher; David Redekop & Daryl Siemens from Nerds On Site & Francois Driessen from ADAMnetworks

Speaker:
Chuck Hofley, Partner, Hicks Morley

As the leader in the developmental services sector, OASIS is excited to support our member agencies on their journey to discovering how the innovation within the technology sector can support the creativity needed in providing supports.  Conference delegates will have the opportunity to engage with and listen to pioneering companies that have designed products that will certainly be of interest to you and the people supported through your agency.  

Join us in the Centre Ring as one of your Concurrent Session options and meet with local Technolgogy Experts.  Each Concurrent Session block will feature a couple of innovative organizations that will present and engage with you on technology solutions.  

Do you know why some organizations are more successful than others? Here’s a hint. It has nothing to do with their people waking up earlier, working harder or having prestigious degrees. They simply have leaders who make five decisions every single day. Do you know what they are? Don’t worry, Stuart Knight does, and he’ll inspire your team to make them.

Warning: This will lead you to greater success and will even make you happier in life.

Speaker:
Stuart Knight, President, Stuart Knight Productions

In the DS Sector, the term “Social Enterprise” has commonly been used to refer to sheltered work programs – but Social Enterprise encompasses so much more.  In this seminar, we will discuss the legal strategies and social enterprise success stories that are creating opportunity, facilitating supported employment transition, and enabling financial security and stability for people and agencies in the DS Sector in Ontario.  PooranLaw will review the human rights and employment law imperative for change and social enterprise development, as well as the labour, employment, corporate, tax and charities law considerations for agencies considering social enterprise development.  Deepak will then review how all these legal variables have come together in an incredible social enterprise success story at Corbrook.

Speakers:
Brendon D. Pooran & Cheryl Wiles Pooran – Pooran Law, Deepak Soni, ED, Corbrook

B3: Move YOUR Way for Overall Wellness

Discover, learn and experience how movement can nurture new levels of confidence and courage in your work, your life, and the community around you. Connection is the key. People who tackle challenges with an optimistic spirit, see possibility in risk and aren’t fearful of failure can have a huge impact on others. In this experiential session, you will see how movement can reduce stress & anxiety, increase self-awareness and nurture creativity. In a world full of right and wrongs, when you experience Groove the best part is “You Can’t Get it Wrong!”

Speaker:
Michelle Hillier, Founder & Creative Director, Experience Groove

B4: I've Got a Guy: The Creation and Value of Social Capital

Social Capital is not a new concept. The premise of connections, which help people to develop interpersonal relationships, find commonality, and enhance the common good, has been part of communities for generations. This session will explore how organizations and agencies can strategically use social capital to improve the quality of life for people in their services.

Speaker:
John Connor, Person Centered Planning Facilitator, Community Living London

As the leader in the developmental services sector, OASIS is excited to support our member agencies on their journey to discovering how the innovation within the technology sector can support the creativity needed in providing supports.  Conference delegates will have the opportunity to engage with and listen to pioneering companies that have designed products that will certainly be of interest to you and the people supported through your agency.  

Join us in the Centre Ring as one of your Concurrent Session options and meet with local Technolgogy Experts.  Each Concurrent Session block will feature a couple of innovative organizations that will present and engage with you on technology solutions.  

This session will discuss the steps, hurdles, decisions and lessons of three boards becoming one board in an amalgamation of three Community Living Agencies.  Kawartha Lakes, Peterborough and Haliburton have all joined to become Community Living Trent Highlands and as a board there is much to reflect on and offer as insights.  The Board president of the current CLTH board of directors will offer insights, information and successes in this presentation.  The presentation will review the journey from the first mad cap suggestion of approaching amalgamation to the final letters patent and operationalization of a brand new corporation of combined legacy agencies. 

Speakers:
David McGowan, BOD President, Community Living Trent Highlands & Teresa Jordan, Executive Director, Community Living Trent Highlands

C3: Connecting with Families: A New Way of Finding and Registering for Programs & Services

We will be addressing the growing challenges of providing quality and quantity of individualized fee-for-service options for individuals and families in the sector. Focus on how MyCommunityHub can support service partners bridge the gap in providing families with options across Ontario by being able to search, register and pay for programs and services online. 

Key topics include exploring existing models of service delivery, making passport dollars flexible and portable, bridging the gap to information, understanding the challenges to navigating service options and enhancing customer service.​

Speakers:
Angela Bradley, Director, Resource Development and Marketing, Community Living Toronto & 
Shawn Ratnasingam, Manager, MyCommunityHub.ca

C4: Creating Impactful Organizations in a Time of Change

Within the next five years, it’s estimated that 60 percent of senior leaders including, CEO’s and Executive Directors will retire from Government Funded Agencies. At the same time, there is an increasing mandate from the government and from within the sector(s) to realize transformational change with respect to the delivery of services. The movement toward person-centred approaches within inclusive, community- based settings along with the ongoing issues of attracting, developing, and retraining top talent all speak to the need for increased and divergent leadership skills in order to create impactful and sustainable change.

This interactive presentation will address the challenges and opportunities associated with retaining valuable knowledge and best practices among existing Executive Directors/CEO’s, closing leadership gaps that will exist through attrition and the transformation of agencies, executing on change management initiatives, expanding managers’ repertoire of leadership skills, engaging employees in continuous improvement and Collaborative Performance Management^TM, and enhancing agencies’ abilities to promote employment pathways and the retention of talent. 

Speaker:
David Chalmers, Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University

As the leader in the developmental services sector, OASIS is excited to support our member agencies on their journey to discovering how the innovation within the technology sector can support the creativity needed in providing supports.  Conference delegates will have the opportunity to engage with and listen to pioneering companies that have designed products that will certainly be of interest to you and the people supported through your agency.  

Join us in the Centre Ring as one of your Concurrent Session options and meet with local Technolgogy Experts.  Each Concurrent Session block will feature a couple of innovative organizations that will present and engage with you on technology solutions.