Every November, more than 5,200 participants from across government meet at PD Week for an unparalleled learning experience. With 10 keynote speakers and 20 streams, PD Week provides participants with outstanding professional development, presented by leading influencers and experts from around the world, and drives essential conversations that support the business of government in Canada.

Participants can also visit the PD Week Exhibit Hall, featuring more than 50 organizations showcasing leading products and solutions relevant to the public sector community.

For more information please visit pdweek.ca

FMI*IGF EVENING OF CELEBRATION:

Date and Time: Friday, November 22, 2019 @ 8:00pm
Location: Hilton Lac-Leamy - Ballroom
Attire: Semi-formal - Through the Decades theme
Cost: $15 + tax per ticket

Ethical Intelligence and the ANTE-up Methodology for Changing Corporate Culture and Annual Holiday Luncheon

No matter how much it is talked about and regulated, ethical collapses continue to plague organizations across all sectors. Culture is the DNA of every organization and changing is hard. It's doubly challenging when the organization and its people lack a sense of ethical intelligence.

Throughout this ½ day workshop, you will learn how to think differently about ethical dilemmas using ethical intelligence. Understanding ethics is not complex, but practicing it in all we do is the challenge. Ethical decay happens almost subconsciously and left untended can lead to perilous situations involving fraud, reputational loss, and personal embarrassment. You will explore ethics from both the perspective that good ethics protects and safeguards, but more importantly how ethical intelligence leads to better managed businesses.

Finally, you will move beyond personal ethics to how ethical intelligence can be embedded in organizational culture. We will look at cases throughout the course that illustrate ethics at a personal and organizational level. A culture that is based on Authentic leadership, Nimble workforce, Transparent information, and Ethical conduct. It's time to ANTE-up!

Workshop Leader: Blair Cook, CPA, CA CPA (III) MBA (see bio below)

Who Should Attend: All financial and non-financial professionals can benefit from a higher level of ethical intelligence. FMI sessions are open to all interested parties, both public and private sector.

NOTE: This session will qualify for 3 CPD Hours of ethical requirements for CPAs.

Topics Ouline:

• Identify the signs of a toxic corporate culture and identify ethical dilemmas
• The principles that guide our ethical mindset, also referred to as Ethical Intelligence
• Work through the ANTE-up features of culture to reinvigorate culture and ethical behavior
• Develop a step-by-step approach for changing your corporate culture
• Answer the question of whether the ethical enterprise can become a point of competitive advantange

Special Bonus!

To help celebrate the Holiday Season, fmi*igf Nova Scotia Chapter will be hosting its annual Festive Luncheon immediately after the workshop from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. This meal will feature "all the fixings" of a traditional holiday meal and is included with your registration!

The morning learning session will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Coffee, tea, and muffins be provided at 8:45 a.m.

Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m.

Serving tomorrow’s public sector leaders, fmi*igf membership includes access to a world class education program at PD Week, in-person regionally focused chapter events, e-courses, workshops, an e-Journal and webinars all focused on emerging and current best practices, trends, and the skills needed to succeed now and in the future.

To register for this event go to https://www.fmi-igf.ca/. Space is limited, so register early to avoid disappointment. Deadline for registration is December 2, 2019.

We look forward to seeing you on December 5th!

Note: The Navigator Room is located in the Four Points Conference Centre which can be accessed directly from the Maritime Centre, B1 Level.

Blair is a many-time and active financial executive, corporate director, author, speaker, and thought leader. As a specialist in turnaround situations, he has both observed and experienced the role ethics plays in the decay and subsequent resurrection of under-performing organizations. His educational videos of accounting and finance have million of views on YouTube. He has keynoted and spoken at national conferences from New York to Toronto. Along with Jennifer Nicholson, CPA, CA, he co-hosts CPA Canada's podcast series "CPA Success Podcast." He works with real businesses experimenting with theories and best practicies to share his experiences and stories with others of what works, what doesn't, and what was learned. He is the author of The Illiterate Executive: An Executive's Handbook for Mastering Financial Acumen.

SAVE THE DATE for PSMW 2020!

PSMW 2020 will be held June 8-9, 2020 in Halifax, NS. 

This unique PD Day will focus on topics including infrastructure, P3s, and horizontal integration, followed by workshops on procurement and project management. This PD Day seminar will provide the opportunity for interactive discussions among participants and lively feedback between participants and speakers during the panel discussion and follow-up question and answer sessions.

This session is ideally suited for professionals involved in project management, program delivery, audit, financial management or strategies. This PD Day would also be of interest to those who are clients of the government, and private sector professionals who are involved with managing projects. 

Cost:  $440 each or $405 each with a group of four (4) or more

Join the FMI*IGF-CC for an exciting day focused on leadership, ethics and change management.  This PD Day will take you through the key competencies needed to lead into the future as well as practical experience exercises and tools to take back to your workplace. This initiative continues to build on previous successful leadership sessions and delves further into the complex world of change management.  You won’t want to miss this engaging and interactive session which will address the challenges and opportunities of leadership in the public service!

This day will be of interest to executives and all levels including EX minus 1 and will offer insights for those wishing to join the executive ranks.

Cost:  $440 each or $405 each with a group of four (4) or more

This PD Day will highlight how the management of big data and digitization is becoming increasingly important to organizations facing change. We will hear the challenges in providing assurance for accuracy, reliability, accessibility and timeliness in a standardized way. Participants to this PD Day will have the opportunity to learn how departmental maturity in implementing a number of TB policies, including the Policy on Internal Control, directly relates to their transformation results.

This session will be of interest to financial analysts, senior financial managers and leaders, policy and planning analysts and their senior managers.

Cost:  $440 each or $405 each with a group of four (4) or more

This is the PD Day you will not want to miss!  This session is a cornerstone of the Capital Chapter’s PD offerings and is in it’s fourth year.  We have once again, enlisted engaging speakers to highlight some of the Government of Canada's key priorities that are of interest to you and your organization. Dynamic senior leaders, from both inside and outside Government, will share their perspectives on the various government priorities by sector: Economic Policy Priorities; Social Policy Priorities; and Innovation as a top priority.

This PD Day is ideally suited for those involved in delivering on these key priorities, new entrants to the public service, aspiring leaders, those involved in strategic policy, program delivery, financial management or strategies and federal budget submissions. The PD Day will also be of interest to those who are clients of these initiatives and those who wish to understand interactions between departments and central agencies, and the Federal Budget process.

Cost:  $440 each or $405 each with a group of four (4) or more