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As a caregiver, it can be extremely challenging to find balance between this responsibility and work. It’s crucial for managers to show them support and adapt their workflow to allow them to find this balance and not feel overwhelmed.

A caregiver who gets support from management, is an employee who will ultimately feel valued and be engaged.

• Moderator: Sam Fiorella
• Speaker: Wanda Shreve

Workplace lawyer, investigator, mediator and trainer, and principal of Work with Wanda (Wanda Shreve HR Law, Investigation & ADR Services).

1. With a career spanning over 20 years’, Wanda practiced management-side labour and employment law at a national firm before holding senior roles in private and public sector organizations.
2. Wanda leverages the breadth of her experience to advise employers on matters related to compliance, workplace culture, ethical conduct, and employee relations. Her clients appreciate her ability to provide legal advice with a leadership lens and employ tactics that are pragmatic, strategic, and effective.
3. Wanda conducts independent investigations, offering an objective analysis into concerns of workplace misconduct, disrespect/bullying, violence, harassment, and discrimination. She mediates workplace conflicts and provides crucial conversation coaching.
4. Given her own lived experience as a woman of colour, working caregiver to a parent with disabilities and a parent in her own right, Wanda is passionate about creating workplaces where all employees feel valued and can reach their full potential. Wanda helps leaders navigate today’s increasingly complex workplace by providing training where participants feel safe and engaged.
5. Wanda regularly speaks, writes, and volunteers her time championing caregiving, diversity-equity-inclusion-belonging, and leadership practices that increase “#JobJoy”.

• Guest BOA member: Kathryn Hill

BA, CPA, CGA, FCPA. Seasoned Manager and Board of Director member, with in-depth knowledge and experience in Human Resources, Payroll, Benefits, Pension/Investments, Share Purchase and Corporate Insurance programs for multiple countries around the world.

Today’s labor market is contradictory. According to Jake Hirsch-Allen, our guest speaker, “there are both more people looking for jobs and, at the same time, there are more employers looking for people to fill those jobs than there are people who can fill those jobs.”

Workforce development requires career development. It’s crucial to make people more aware of the pathways to better skills and jobs, to inspire and build their confidence that there is a career out there for them.

So how can we match employers’ needs with workers’ aspirations? Let’s find out in this session by chatting with Jake Hirsch-Allen and Marna Lagerquist!.

• Moderator: Sam Fiorella

• • Speaker: Jake Hirsch-Allen

North America Workforce Development and Higher Ed System Lead, LinkedIn

• 1. Jake Hirsch-Allen builds public private partnerships between North America’s governments, workforce development organizations, colleges and universities, and LinkedIn Talent Solutions. Through this work, Jake supports and is learning to be an ally to groups such as newcomers and refugees, indigenous populations, the formerly incarcerated and people with disabilities.
  2. Jake advises several startups including the Learning Economy Foundation, Hireguide and Readocracy. He speaks regularly on the changing nature or future of work and learning and is passionate about skills-based hiring and learning.
  3. Jake is a Director on the Boards of the Ontario Tech Talent, Canadian Council for Youth Prosperity, Information and Communications Technology Council, and the Canadian Club. He founded Lighthouse Labs, Canada’s foremost software development bootcamp and Hacking Health. A former intellectual property and international criminal lawyer, Jake was also Chair of the Technology Committee of the Global Education Platform, taught Global Health at McMaster University and clerked at the Supreme Court of Israel.

• • BOA: Marna Lagerquist

17th Floor BOA member // Talent Acquisition & Development Manager, 4Refuel
Marna Lagerquist is the operating Talent Acquisition and Development Manager at 4Refuel. As a Talent Acquisition professional with over 15 years of experience in the industry, she leads the recruitment team at 4Refuel and specializes in developing new programs to support the employee experience, retention, and strategic hiring. Within this lens she additionally holds certifications in Payroll and Human Resource Management. Marna has focused her career on data driven Human Resource decisions centered around analysis for full lifecycle hiring and employment. As a passionate leader in her field, she also holds distinctions as current Chair for the Peel Branch of the National Payroll Institute and is an active Board Member of the 17th floor.

For years, net worth was a quantified number or a collection of assets. We’ve entered a new era, one in which shifting cultural values and the explosion of digital technology enable us to network in vastly more efficient, more focused, and more enjoyable ways.

• • Moderator: Sam Fiorella
  • Speaker Name: Jill Fagan

Jill is a seasoned recruiter, an ICF coach and certified in EQ~i 2.0 assessments. She helps individuals find great jobs, explore what’s important to them and develop their leadership presence. Jill helps organizations recruit great talent, define their company values and build resilient cultures.

• • Guest BOA member::Lisa Nistor – HR Analyst, City Of Regina

Experienced Human Resources Analyst with a demonstrated history of working in the government administration industry. Skilled in Project Management, Employee Relations, Microsoft Excel, Customer Service, Payroll and Analytics. Strong human resources professional with a Certified Payroll Manager designation from the National Payroll Institute

Many of our organizations foster a hyper-competitive environment in which different departments compete for turf, we don’t fully trust or even know people outside our silos, and we see our coworkers as competition for accolades and promotions. This overemphasis on the individual undermines collaboration and innovation. It fosters a poor leadership culture in which leaders do not feel supported and are unable to perform to their full potential.

• • Moderator: Sam Fiorella
  • Speaker Name: Dr. Vince Molinaro

Entrepreneur, Leadership advisor, Speaker and New York Times Best Selling Author. Dr. Vince Molinaro is a leadership adviser, speaker and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Leadership Contract, now in its third edition.

• • Guest BOA member: Bianca Mueller, CPB

Bianca Mueller is Wagepoint’s Community Manager and an award-winning Certified Professional Bookkeeper (CPB) with 14 years’ experience as a respected thought leader and social influencer in the Canadian bookkeeping industry. She is an early adopter of cloud technologies which enables her to excel in the fintech industry and surround herself with a trusted community of like-minded accounting professionals.