In today’s evolving business landscape, medium-sized companies must focus on securing their most valuable assets: their people. This transformational learning series presents a unique opportunity to invest in workforce development, ensuring both the profitability and longevity of your business. The series will teach you how to equip your employees with critical thinking skills for data-driven decision-making, fostering innovation, and empowering them to drive your organization's success.
Through thought-provoking insights and practical strategies, we’ll help you enhance leadership, improve employee capabilities and competencies, and unlock their full potential—leading to better performance, increased productivity, and a stronger bottom line.
Learning outcomes include:
Fostering a High-Performing Organizational Culture
Developing Data-Driven Decision Making
Cultivating a Culture of Growth & Wellbeing
Enhancing Technology Adaptation & Digital Transformation
Increased Customer Experience & Engagement
Building Strategies for Financial Resilience
Promoting a Culture of Innovation and Experimentation
Hosted at the Calgary Petroleum Club - 319 5 Ave SW
Coffee and light refreshments will be provided.
Register for all sessions for a discount, or for individual sessions.
Thursday April 17 | 8:00-10:00am
Calgary Petroleum Club
Securing Your Essential Assets
This workshop explores the critical steps you need to take to ensure your employees are informed, supported, and aligned with your goals. Without these key actions, even the best-resourced initiatives can suffer from poor decision-making, disengaged staff, and higher failure rates. Don’t risk your company’s success—join us to learn how to set your team up for success!
Participants will learn:
The fundamentals of data-driven decision-making
How to create an effective employee training process
The key factors influencing workplace mental health
Practical actions to empower and motivate your team
Organizational Data Literacy
Thursday May 15 | 8:00-10:00am
Calgary Petroleum Club
This workshop introduces a comprehensive approach to building a data-driven culture. Developing data literacy across your organization is essential, ensuring that everyone can understand, interpret, and use data effectively. Without this cohesive approach, even quality data can go under-utilized, data security can be compromised, and resources can be wasted. Join us to start creating the data framework your organization needs!
Participants will learn:
How to develop data literacy across your organization
Frameworks and processes that ensure data quality, security, and ethical use
The tools and training required to analyze data effectively
How to cultivate a culture of data exploration and experimentation
Cultivating Engagement and Innovation
Thursday June 12 | 8:00-10:00am
Calgary Petroleum Club
In this workshop, we’ll examine the key factors that may be holding your business back with ineffective systems. Innovation and engagement are essential for high performance, but many initiatives fail to succeed because they don't address the root causes of stagnation. Join us to shift the cultural fundamentals that are limiting your growth!
Participants will learn:
The key factors hindering innovation and growth
Leadership traps that maintain the status quo
How to foster deeper employee engagement
Actionable steps to create a culture of 'failing forward'
Your Speakers
Leah Fink
Wade Walker is an innovative global technology executive , based in Canada, focused on delivering visionary strategies to ethically manage, govern and monetize an organization’s data assets. As the CEO of DMC, Wade has been contributing to building knowledge capital and opportunity creation in the ICT industry through the delivery of high-value, educationally oriented annual technology conferences in Alberta since 2015. Wade currently serves on several technology advisory committees in academics, offers strategic technology and data consulting through his consulting company Intelligent Data Management, and continues working with the world’s leading minds through DMC. Wade also currently serves as Executive Chief Data Officer with Alstrada in Abu Dhabi, UAE and Associate Partner with Life Sciences Consulting Partners in Zurich, Switzerland.
Wade Walker
Leah Fink is an engaging speaker, facilitator, and consultant based in Calgary, Canada, dedicated to transforming mental health in the workplace. As the owner of All Thrive, she offers businesses a unique opportunity to assess and address gaps in workplace mental health. With her background as a registered social worker, Leah empowers companies to tackle leadership and cultural challenges, turning disengagement and wasted resources into enhanced productivity and profitability.