Future Proof Your Business
Transformational Learning Series
Future-Proofing Your Business isn’t just about keeping up—it’s about leading through change with empowered people and smart data. This dynamic speaker series blends expert insights with hands-on strategy to help senior leaders build agility, resilience, and innovation. Walk away ready to anticipate disruption, drive growth, and turn uncertainty into opportunity.
The stats don't lie! In today's volatile market, "Future Proofing Your Business" transcends mere adaptation; it's about building resilience and strategic foresight. This speaker series is designed for senior leaders who recognize that their organization's most valuable assets are its people and its data.
We will delve into how to cultivate a culture of continuous learning and agility, ensuring your workforce remains empowered and adaptable in the face of rapid technological and market shifts. Simultaneously, we'll explore advanced data governance and analytics, demonstrating how to extract actionable insights that drive informed decision-making and innovation. By focusing on these two pillars, we'll equip you with the tools to navigate uncertainty and secure sustainable growth.
These two-hour intensive sessions combine impactful thought leadership talks with hands-on workshops, providing practical strategies you can implement immediately. You'll engage with industry experts and peers, exploring emerging trends and best practices in talent development and data-driven strategy. Through interactive exercises and case studies, you'll learn to identify potential disruptions and develop proactive solutions.
We will reinforce these learnings with a curated resource package, enabling continuous development and application of these principles within your organization. This series aims to empower you to not just react to change, but to anticipate and lead it, ensuring your business thrives in the years to come.
Hosted at the Calgary Petroleum Club - 319 5 Ave SW
Coffee and light refreshments will be provided.
Thursday May 22 | 8:00-10:00am
Calgary Petroleum Club
Driving Results Through Accountability
In today’s fast-paced business environment, unclear roles and vague expectations quietly undermine engagement, efficiency, and performance. This first workshop in our multi-part series, Future-Proofing Your Business, is designed for leaders who want to cut through the noise, build a culture of ownership, and empower their teams to deliver real results. You’ll discover how role clarity and well-defined responsibilities form the foundation of meaningful accountability—and how this clarity can transform the way your organization interprets and acts on data. Without it, poor decisions lead to inefficient actions with no one owning the outcome.
Packed with practical strategies and a hands-on takeaway exercise, this session will help you lead with intention, boost performance, and foster a data-literate, accountable workforce.
In this workshop, you'll learn how to:
Diagnose the clarity gap that's holding your teams back—and how to close it.
Build true accountability into your culture—not just task management, but ownership of results.
Strengthen data literacy across your teams by connecting accountability to actionable insights.
Cultivate a Data-Accountable Culture so employees at all levels become active contributors to ensure data quality, recognizing its direct impact on the organization's strategic objectives.
Walk away with a practical framework to immediately implement clarity and accountability with your own team.
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'
Fall dates and topics will be announced soon!
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.