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2014
CONFERENCE
Raising the Bar – Consulting for Tomorrow
Streams in:
Navigating Government Waters
QStrategies for Success in the
Private Sector
Q
November 6th, 2014
Full day event at the
Delta Ottawa City Centre, 101 Lyon Street, Ottawa, Ontario
Please register at:
Brought to you by the Eastern Ontario Chapter of CMC-Ontario
www.cmc-conference2014.ca
2014
CMC-Ontario CONFERENCE
Raising the Bar – Consulting for Tomorrow
Ottawa, Canada – November 6th, 2014
START
TIME
END
TIME
8:00 AM
8:55 AM
Registration and Breakfast
9:00 AM
9:50 AM
KEY NOTE SPEAKER: Mr. Gus Takkale: Make it Happen – Embrace Change (Richelieu Room)
AGENDA
Navigating Government Waters
Richelieu Room
Strategies for Success in the Private Sector
Laurentian Room
10:00 AM
10:55 AM
Designing the Government of Canada Enterprise –
a New Lens – Leigh Harris Fowell, FCMC, will host a
panel of experts
CONVERSION Triggers, Tips, & Tools to Grow
Business – Presented by David Dean, CMC
11:00 AM
11:55 AM
How To Survive in a World of SSC Procurement –
Presented by Larry Trenwith, CMC
Finding your Voice of the Customer to Optimize Business
Results. – Presented by Kevin Howe-Patterson, CMC
12:00 PM
12:30 PM
CMC-Canada National AGM (Richelieu Room)
12:30 PM
1:30 PM
LUNCH
1:30 PM
2:25 PM
iPanel – What it takes to be a successful dot-com company (Richelieu Room)
CMC Moderator will ask probing questions to iPanel Guests, featuring successful Internet based companies
Navigating Government Waters
Richelieu Room
Strategies for Success in the Private Sector
Laurentian Room
2:30 PM
3:25 PM
Is it an Art or Science? The Secret to Proposal Writing
Revealed. (Winning RFP bids) –
Presented by Keith Parker, PMP
Consulting in the Age of Big Data: Challenges
and Opportunities –
Presented by Professor Gregory Richards, FCMC
3:30 PM
4:25 PM
Panel discussion on new initiatives/changes in the
SR&ED Tax Incentive Program – Featuring experts from
Canada Revenue Agency who will answer
questions from a panel of industry experts
The Consultancy Maturity Model for Change –
Presented by Dominique Dennery, CMC
4:30 PM
5:00 PM
Closing Remarks and Door Prizes (Richelieu Room)
5:00 PM
5:30 PM
Networking and Refreshments
6:00 PM
6:30 PM
Evening Reception (Panorama Room Top Floor)
7:00 PM
8:00 PM
Gala Dinner (Panorama Room)
8:00 PM
9:00 PM
KEY NOTE SPEAKER: Presentation by Susan Delacourt, senior writer at the Toronto Star, including an autographed
copy of her latest book, Shopping for Votes.
Keynote Speakers:
Gus Takkale, kicks off the conference at 9 AM
with a dynamic talk on how to Embrace Change
and Make it Happen
Gus Takkale is an International author and speaker on Innovation and Change.
He teaches organizations and individuals to make things happen in these changing
times. His books, the 5C’s of Change and The Road have been sold all over the world.
He is a leadership and change expert and founder of the Make It Happen Program.
Gus’ philosophy is simple: “Show me results”. If the bottom-line does not increase, then
the change process was not successful. Change means growth, and growth means
higher returns! He doesn`t believe in cutting costs randomly to boost efficiency …
innovation and execution of great ideas produce that!
Gus’ business background includes working with world-renowned companies.
He has served on executive boards of software giant SAP and power-tools conglomerate
HILTI in their multi-country operations. He has transformed various organizations while
working with Arthur Anderson and KPMG as a Management Consultant and a
Leadership Trainer.
As a Global Trainer and Workshop facilitator, Gus brings a spark to an organization
with his hands-on approach to learning and turning theory into application.
Susan Delacour t wraps up the conference at the
Gala Dinner
FPO
Susan Delacourt, most recently published Shopping for Votes: How Politicians Choose
Us and We Choose Them in 2013. She is currently a senior writer at the Toronto Star
and a widely respected political journalist in Canada.
In 2011, Delacourt was selected by her peers as the recipient of the Charles Lynch
Award, for lifetime achievement in political writing.
In 2012, Delacourt was named by Canadian political newspaper Hill Times as one of
“The Top 100 Most Influential People in Government and Politics”.
Previously, Susan was the senior political writer at the National Post, a columnist and
feature writer at the Ottawa Citizen and, for sixteen years, a parliamentary correspondent
and editorial board member of The Globe and Mail.
She is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario (1982, majoring in Political
Science).She is also a Masters student in the School of Political Studies at Carleton
University, studying “consumerism and material culture, and their intersection with
citizenship/democracy/politics”.
She’s also the author of three additional books on Canadian politics: United We Fall: The
Crisis of Democracy in Canada (1993), an account of the failure of the Charlottetown
Accord, Shaughnessy: The Passionate Politics of Shaughnessy Cohen (2000), concerning
the late Member of Parliament, Juggernaut: Paul Martin’s Campaign for Chretien’s
Crown (2003).
2014
CMC-Ontario CONFERENCE
Dear CMC members, friends and guests,
It is with extreme pleasure that our team welcomes each of you to the CMC-Ontario Conference 2014.
It is our goal to provide you with value, knowledge and networking, to help you in “Raising the Bar” on your goals and outcomes in
business. In this fast changing world, today’s ideas are tomorrow’s realities. When our presenters talk about their areas of expertise
and their concepts for what the future might hold, in many cases it is already happening. As we planned our agenda for our
conference “Raising the Bar – Consulting for Tomorrow” it became apparent that there are so many sectors in the consulting business
today in rapid change; yes, some techniques, standards and traditional approaches still work today, some are even more important
than ever. However, when change is now a constant, dealing with change and “Consulting for Tomorrow” is really about consulting for
today.
From our lead off keynote speaker, Gus Takkale, to one of the final presenters, Dominique Dennery, there is a theme regarding change,
change management and embracing change. When the presentation on Government Enterprise and the New Lens is compared to
what will be revealed in the presentation on Big Data, the conclusions about where the Government of Canada is headed, and what we
as consultants need to be aware of, the trends and the inevitable choices we may still have – will be more apparent.
Keynote speaker, Susan Delacourt, after our evening dinner, will talk about the choices we have as voters and as consumers, yet she
may also touch on political consumerism and the implications that come with it. No one has all the answers, but we have tried to put
together a wide variety of presentations that deal with many of the questions of today.
There will be presentations under two streams; Navigating Government Waters and Strategies for Success in the Private Sector which
will cover essential subjects, such as finding your customer’s voice, growing your business, winning bids and understanding a large
client like Shared Service Canada.
My two favourite sessions will be the iPanel scheduled for all attendees immediately after lunch and the SR & ED Panel scheduled for
later in the day. Combined, these two sessions may provide just the kick start you, or your client’s and start-up companies might need.
In closing, I want to thank each of you for attending our conference. Throughout this conference, I ask you to stay engaged, keep us
proactive and help us shape the future. My personal respect and thanks go out to all of you and to the volunteers who have helped
make this happen.
Sincerely,
Craig Mackay, CMC
Chair, Conference Planning Committee
Eastern Ontario Chapter, CMC-Ontario
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