SARC Fall Conference 2018

October 24 & 25 Regina, SK

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 5! (see registration form for details)

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WELCOME TO THE FALL CONFERENCE On behalf of SARC and our Board of Directors, we welcome you to the 2018 SARC Fall Conference. Join us as we celebrate 50 years!

Throughout 2018, SARC has been reflecting on the last 50 years, and how SARC Members are heading into the next 50 years with innovation and strong leadership. This year’s Fall Conference will provide you with a variety of information that will help equip you to lead your nonprofit organization into the future.

The opening keynote presentation from Bruce MacDonald, Executive Director of Imagine Canada, is titled “5 Wicked Questions.”

Bruce will focus on leading a sustainable organization, as he addresses key trends affecting all nonprofits today.

To close the conference, we are delighted to have Joseph Macbeth, Executive Director of the National Alliance of Direct Support Professionals (NADSP), present on “Understanding the Past to Chart the Future of Supports and Services.”

Joseph will share stories and

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some “uncomfortable truths” to make you consider things a little differently.

We will be offering a total of nine concurrent sessions for Board Directors, Executive Directors, and management staff. Sessions will focus on leadership, change, and developing and motivating a strong team.

Sessions such as the “5 Keys to Leading Change and Building Performance” with Dan Gaynor, and the “Golden Rule” with Patrick O’Reilly will share how you how you can genuinely, honestly, and comfortably adapt your leadership style to each employee.

Topics related to governance include: “Accelerating System Change with Collective Impact & Authentic Engagement,” and “Collaborative Governance and Backbone Structures” with Sylvia Cheuy from the Tamarack Institute, as well as an informative session on “Bylaws – Why They Matter” from Justin Wood from MLT Aikins.

On the evening of October 24, we will be hosting the SARC Awards Banquet. At this exciting

event, we will be celebrating SARC’s 50th Anniversary as well as presenting the new SARC Awards to six deserving recipients. We would love to have you join us for this heartwarming event – so check out our special Early Bird offers: 1) Save $45 on your conference only registration, OR 2) Register for the conference AND banquet for the same price as the registration fee after the Early Bird Deadline ($390 for SARC Members) Join us for what is sure to be a great event and gain practical knowledge in your role, network with peers, and celebrate SARC’s 50th Anniversary!

For more information, visit SARC Learning Central at www.sarclearningcentral.ca.

See you in Regina on October 24 & 25!

- Mindy Bonderoff, Facilitator of Education & Training, SARC mbonderoff@sarcan.sk.ca 306-933-0616 ext. 224

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HOTEL INFORMATION The SARC Fall Conference will take place at the Regina Travelodge Hotel, located at 4177 Albert Street, in Regina.

We recommend booking accommodations for the conference early, as there are only a limited number of blocked rooms available.

Please call 306-586-3443, and quote block code: CGSF18 to ensure that you retain a guest room at the preferred rate. Alternately, you can email your reservation request to groupsales@travelodgeregina.com.

The block rate is available until October 1, 2018.

EXHIBITOR BOOTHS INTERESTED IN HAVING A BOOTH AT THE FALL CONFERENCE?

Exhibitors interested in attending and marketing their organization or business can purchase booth space in the networking area of the conference (Burlington/Berkeley Room) for day one of the conference.

WHAT EXHIBITORS RECEIVE: • • • •

One skirted table and chairs One complimentary lunch Access to conference sessions on day one An opportunity to network with approximately 150 delegates during our extended networking breaks and lunch

DATES AND TIMES:

Exhibitor Booths are available on the first day of the Fall Conference on October 24, 2018. Booth set-up will take place at 9:00 a.m. and take down will be after 4:00 p.m.

RATES:

• Nonprofit rate: $250 • Corporate rate: $300 Download the Exhibitor Booth Registration form on www.sarclearningcentral.ca. Please complete and return this form to Megan Hardy by email at mhardy@sarcan.sk.ca or by fax at (306) 653-3932 prior to October 11, 2018.

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CONFERENCE AT-A-GLANCE Wednesday, October 24 10:00 am - 10:30 am Registration

10:30 am - 11:00 am Opening Remarks

11:00 am - 12:00 pm Opening Plenary Session – 5 Wicked Questions – Bruce MacDonald

12:00 pm - 1:45 pm Lunch and Exhibitor Showcase

1:45 pm - 4:00 pm A: Transformation Leadership in a Nonprofit Environment – Jocelyn Berard

B: CEO Succession: The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions – Deryck Williams

C: Bylaws – Why They Matter – Justin Wood

E: 5 Keys to Leading Change and Building Performance – Dan Gaynor

F: The Golden Rule – Patrick O’Reilly

H: The 80% Solution – Joseph Macbeth

I: Collaborative Governance and Backbone Structures – Sylvia Cheuy

5:30 pm - 9:00 pm SARC Awards Banquet

Thursday, October 25 8:00 am - 9:00 am Breakfast 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

D: Accelerating System Change with Collective Impact and Authentic Engagement – Sylvia Cheuy

10:30 am - 10:45 am Refreshment Break

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm G: Vision, Mission and Culture: The “Inspiration Team-Building Force” – Dan Gaynor

2:30 pm - 2:45 pm Refreshment Break

2:45 pm - 3:30 pm Closing Keynote Presentation – Understanding the Past to Chart the Future of Supports and Services – Joseph Macbeth

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KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS THIS YEAR’S KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS WILL REFLECT ON 50 YEARS AND LOOK AHEAD TO THE NEXT 50

OPENING KEYNOTE

CLOSING KEYNOTE

5 WICKED QUESTIONS

UNDERSTANDING THE PAST TO CHART THE FUTURE OF SUPPORTS AND SERVICES

Bruce MacDonald

Organizations that have been around for 50 years have learned to adapt and change. But what is coming next?

Bruce will kick off the conference by exploring five “wicked” questions that will look at upcoming trends affecting charities and nonprofits.

Success of this session will be measured by the volume of discussion over coffee as delegates continue to debate these questions and issues!

About Bruce: Who would have thought that operating carnival games and rides would lead to a career in social good? Nobody, really.

Well – over 30 years later, Bruce is still at it.

From having served as CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada for ten years and prior to that as the organization’s Vice-President of Marketing, Bruce has led major change initiatives and developed long and innovative partnerships with corporations and other charities. A wide and varied career, working with different parts of the sector has lead him to Imagine Canada – working with young people, older adults, sports and recreation and community service clubs.

Bruce holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Sports Administration, a Masters in Management in the Voluntary Sector and a Guinness Book of World Records.

Joseph Macbeth

As advocates, families, providers, and policy makers find themselves at a critical point in shifting support models for people experiencing disability toward individual autonomy and self-direction, this keynote offers a chance to reflect on how the strength of advocacy led the community living movement over the past 40 years. We will also reflect on the changes coming to our system that are driven by funders, families and people experiencing disability, and how service organizations must implement continuous quality improvement practices in their approaches to empowering people to lead selfdirected lives.

About Joseph: Joseph M. Macbeth is the

Executive Director at the NADSP, and has worked in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities for 35 years – beginning as a Direct Support Professional. Macbeth is recognized as a national leader in the advocacy movement to recognize direct support as a profession and is a highly sought after speaker on the workforce challenges that affect the disability system.

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DAY ONE - CONCURRENT SESSIONS Session 1 (1:45 pm - 4:00 pm)

A: TRANSFORMATION LEADERSHIP IN A NONPROFIT ENVIRONMENT Jocelyn Berard

In the complex and ever changing nonprofit industry, effective leadership skills are a critical success factor. Transformational leadership encompasses many effective leadership practices and behaviours we already know, but requires they be better integrated to make the theory more applicable. In this session, we will demystify this highly critical aspect of leadership and, through concrete examples, illustrate why it is such a differentiator at the executive level.

This session will include various skill practices and will touch on presence, personal brand, leading your team with purpose and vision, social intelligence, and growing others on your team. The lessons learned from this session will guide your leadership journey as you navigate the complex nonprofit industry.

About Jocelyn: Jocelyn is the Senior Vice-President and National Practice Leader, Organizational Psychology, at Optimum Talent. Jocelyn has extensive Canadian and International experience in the areas of Human Resources and Business Management in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia, in a variety of industries such as telecommunications, auto manufacturing, health care, retail, aerospace and banking. His interventions focus on talent management, especially in the area of leadership assessment and development, performance management, succession management and selection best practices.

Fluently bilingual in French and English, Jocelyn holds undergraduate degrees in psychology and human resources, a master’s degree in industrial/organizational psychology and an executive MBA. Jocelyn’s new book, Accelerating Leadership Development, focuses on leadership assessment, leadership development and succession management.

B: CEO SUCCESSION: THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS

Deryck Williams

With 30 years working exclusively with charities and nonprofit organizations, Deryck has witnessed almost every type of CEO succession. In this session, he will share stories of success and failure, insights and lessons learned, and provide you with take aways that challenge conventional thinking. Whether you are a Board Director who will have to make a call on a new CEO, a staff or volunteer who will experience the result, or a leader who aspires (or should aspire) to the CEO role; expect challenging food for thought and action.

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DAY ONE - CONCURRENT SESSIONS Session 1 (1:45 pm - 4:00 pm)

About Deryck: Deryck is the National Leader of Grant Thornton

LLP’s charities and Not-for-Profit organizations team. He is an FCPA and Certified Management Consultant (CMC). As both an auditor and a consultant, Deryck has practiced exclusively with charity and nonprofit organizations for more than 20 years.

As well as guiding clients through almost every type of Board, Audit and Finance Committee challenge, Deryck has served throughout his career as a Board Member for a wide variety of charities and nonprofit organizations. He is currently Treasurer of CanadaHelps, sits on the Accounting Standards Board’s Not-for-Profit Advisory Committee, and is a member of CPA Canada’s Not-for-Profit Risk Oversight and Governance Committee.

C: BYLAWS - WHY THEY MATTER Justin Wood

In this informational session, attendees will be reminded about why bylaws matter and how they can help avoid future problems. Justin will talk about some common provisions in bylaws and what they mean. This session will also talk about indemnity provisions and why they are preferable, meeting rules, Director and Member eligibility, Membership fees, and how to amend your bylaws.

About Justin: Justin completed his Bachelor of Commerce degree from the Edwards School of Business at the University of Saskatchewan with Great Distinction and his Juris Doctor, also from the University of Saskatchewan, with Distinction. Justin has served as a Director and Chairperson of the Saskatoon SPCA, as an elected student representative of the University of Saskatchewan Senate and on the University of Saskatchewan Student’s Union’s Budget and Finance Committee. Justin maintains a corporate commercial practice with MLT Aikins LLP in its Saskatoon office.

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Awards Banquet Join us for an evening of celebration as we recognize the recipients of the new SARC Awards. We are looking forward to presenting six awards to people that are making their community a brighter place! We will also be celebrating SARC’s 50th Anniversary by unveiling a special commemorative art piece, and sharing a documentary video that explains the meaning behind this fantastic project.

5:30 Cocktails 6:00 Supper 7:00 Program

DAY TWO - CONCURRENT SESSIONS Session 2 (9:00 am - 12:00 pm)

D: ACCELERATING SYSTEM CHANGE WITH COLLECTIVE IMPACT AND AUTHENTIC ENGAGEMENT

Sylvia Cheuy

Collaboration – with funders, allies, and community partners – is a significant part of how our work gets done these days. But, not all forms of collaborators are the same. Collective impact is a disciplined form of multi-sector collaboration that is demonstrating powerful, largescale results on an array of complex social and environmental issues. The ability to engage multiple sectors and perspectives to think together is central to creating a robust collective impact initiative and a foundational practice of community change. Authentic engagement of both content and context experts is foundational to effective multisector collaboration. This interactive session will introduce you to the Collective Impact Framework and provide tools to ensure your collective impact initiative generates a robust, and shared, action plan for advancing system change.

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DAY TWO - CONCURRENT SESSIONS Session 2 (9:00 am - 12:00 pm)

About Sylvia: Sylvia is passionate about community engagement and

the unique role that citizens play in creating dynamic and well-connected neighbourhoods and communities. She delights in delivering learning opportunities that profile, disseminate and share the resources, tools and experiences to Tamarack’s vast network of learners. Sylvia leads the Deepening Community Practice Area at Tamarack. She is an internationally recognized trainer and community builder and provides coaching, leadership, and support in the fields of collaborative leadership, collective impact and community engagement. Over the past four years, much of Sylvia’s work has focused on building awareness and capacity in Collective Impact throughout North America.

E: 5 KEYS TO LEADING CHANGE AND BUILDING PERFORMANCE Dan Gaynor

If high performing teams are agile and adaptable, how do the best leaders develop teams that fit this description? What distinguishes them from so many others that seem to struggle with even the most basic new initiatives?

During this session you will discover that the most satisfying and successful teams have always shared five key characteristics that enable them to navigate change successfully, and outperform others. Along the way, we’ll visit the importance of relationships, and discuss the eight keys to providing direction well. We’ll take an in depth look at accountability (what it is, why it matters, both corporately and individually, and how to get more of it), and we’ll look at how and when to use positional authority to promote and protect three essential aspects of team life. We’ll look at how to overcome the buy-in challenge and a powerful approach to decision making.

About Dan: For as long as he can recall, Dan has had a passion for building high performance teams through skillful leadership. He entered the workforce by following his father’s footsteps into the newspaper business as an Advertising Sales Representative. Dan’s first leadership role was as one of five Sales Supervisors at a large daily newspaper, leading six Sales Representatives and a Sales Administrator.

As his career progressed, Dan led teams through several challenging situations, including integrations, turnarounds and labour unrest. Dan has led in non-union and unionized environments. Each time, he appointed the members of leadership teams with care and worked tirelessly at helping them become better, more skillful leaders. Dan believed then, as he does now, that every team reflects its leadership. As leadership gets better, corporate performance improves. In 2003, Dan formed Gaynor Consulting. After, fifteen years of working with a wide variety of clients, it has only enriched his own leadership development and given him a broader base of experience to draw upon.

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DAY TWO - CONCURRENT SESSIONS Session 2 (9:00 am - 12:00 pm)

F: THE GOLDEN RULE Patrick O’Reilly

This session will show participants how we each tend to have a particular leadership style with which we’re comfortable and that we bring to our teams; often based on the Golden Rule – treat others the way you want to be treated.

In this session Patrick helps leaders see how this is harming them, and their team members.

Sure, we want to maintain respect and kindness as a basis for how we treat our staff and how we want to be treated – but beyond that, we’re overlooking important nuances. You will learn what style you bring to your leadership based on how you see the world, and how some people will truly see the world differently, what each individual employee may be looking for, how to figure it out and perhaps most importantly, how you can genuinely, honestly and comfortably adapt your style to each employee.

About Patrick: Patrick O’Reilly is Founder and President of Padraig

Coaching & Consulting Inc., a growing coaching and leadership development company based in Winnipeg, with certified executive coaches in eight cities in Canada and the U.S. He is certified in executive coaching and specialized in helping those who lead others to excel in their roles and dive into new roles. As a former Crown Corporation CEO who rose through the executive ranks learning on the fly to lead people, Patrick has lived the life of his audiences. He sees the world through their eyes. He has had enormous wins and has made the mistakes they’re trying to avoid.

Patrick has spoken to diverse audiences ranging from a small mastermind group of executives to large convention centres, from hard working front-line service people, to heads of government and even royalty. Patrick’s experience has seen him presenting across Canada and around the world from Iceland to Australia, Ghana to China, with stops along the way as diverse as the 2010 Olympic Winter Games and a triennial global gathering of ICOM, the United Nation’s International Council of Museums and a TEDx Talk on why the Golden Rule is Wrong.

DAY TWO - CONCURRENT SESSIONS Session 3 (1:00 pm - 2:30 pm)

G: VISION, MISSION AND CULTURE: THE “INSPIRATION TEAM-BUILDING FORCE” Dan Gaynor

The “inspiration team-building force” means to provoke others to creative effort. This is what the most successful leaders do as they energize their teams in pursuit of a vision for something worth accomplishing. In this session, we will look at the differences between vision

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and mission and the roles each play in team building. We’ll take an in depth look at how to build a better, more successful and more satisfying culture starting with the reality that every team’s performance is largely a product of its culture. This is why the best leaders are architects of culture, while so many others are victims of it.

During this session, you will discover how to make vision, mission, and culture the “inspirational team-building forces” they should be. Along the way we’ll visit why vision and mission are essential to motivating the right people, and how leaders use them to create purposeful work. We will have a look at culture and draw the connection between culture and team performance. You will learn about a four step approach to building a better, stronger, and more satisfying workplace culture

H: THE 80% SOLUTION Joseph Macbeth

The 80% Solution: Practical Applications for Hiring, Developing, Keeping and Empowering Direct Support Professionals.

“We Have a DSP Problem.” We hear it all of the time. Home and community-based support providers experience a crushingly high percentage of staff turnover, poor morale, and an inability to provide the high quality supports that people experiencing disability and their families want and deserve. How do we fix it? The answer is complex and comprehensive.

Approximately 80% of the workforce in organizations that support people experiencing disability is comprised of Direct Support Professionals. They deliver the service and “product” that we all strive to assist people experiencing disability to lead fulfilling lives in the community. This session will describe an organizational cultural change system to focus agency culture to one that fortifies and bolsters the development and recognition of Direct Support Professionals.

I: COLLABORATIVE GOVERNANCE AND BACKBONE STRUCTURES Sylvia Cheuy

One of the challenges of effective collaboration is reaching agreement amongst the partners in the governance and decision-making of their shared work. This session will provide an overview of the unique governance challenges that multi-sector collaboratives face, showcase different backbone structures, and profile strategies and tools that can be used to deal effectively with the multiple levels of accountability implicit in collaborative work.

The session will also provide ample time for dialogue to explore the relationship between this context and attendees’ own work.

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SARC FALL CONFERENCE 2018 Registration Form

REGISTRATION DETAILS:

Regina Travelodge Hotel – 4177 Albert Street South, Regina Please register on or before October 16, 2018 Register online at www.sarclearningcentral.ca or scan and email this form to sarclearningcentral@sarcan.sk.ca

Name: ________________________________ Job Title: _____________________________________ Organization & Address: _______________________________________________________________ ☐☐ Yes ☐☐ No SARC Member?

Email Address: _________________________ Phone Number: (_____) _________________________ Dietary and/or Mobility Restrictions: ______________________________________________________

REGISTRATION FEES:

Early Bird Registration Rates (registrations received on or before October 5, 2018): To celebrate SARC’s 50th Anniversary we are offering special rates on training throughout the year. Register before October 5 and save $45 on every conference registration, OR register for the conference AND banquet for the same price as the registration fee after the Early Bird Deadline. ☐☐ Non-member Organization Conference only $415+GST ☐☐ SARC Member Conference only $345 ☐☐ SARC Member Conference & Banquet $390 ☐☐ Non-member Organization Conference & Banquet $460+GST

Regular Conference Rates (registrations received on October 6, 2018 or later):

☐☐ Non-member Organization Conference Only $460 + GST ☐☐ SARC Members Conference Only $390 ☐☐ SARC Members Conference & Banquet $435 ☐☐ Non-member Organizations Conference & Banquet $505 + GST Your conference registration fee covers plenary sessions, a choice of three concurrent sessions, lunch and refreshments on both days and breakfast on day two!

Are you a graduate of SARC’s Leap program? If you are, a 10% discount applies _______________ (indicate grad ID)

Please choose your concurrent sessions: (if you do not select a session, you will be assigned one) Session 1 (A, B, or C) _______ Session 2 (D, E, or F) _______ Session 3 (G, H, or I) _______

PAYMENT OPTIONS:

_____ Please invoice my organization (SARC Members Only) _____ Please charge my Visa/MasterCard

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Cancellation Policy: You can cancel your registration prior to October 10, 2018 and receive a refund minus a $45 administrative fee. No refunds will be given after Oct 10, 2018. You can substitute another person at no charge by calling 306933-0616 ext. 239.

Accommodations: A block of rooms have been reserved at the Regina Travelodge Hotel, at 4177 Albert Street.

We recommend booking accommodations for the conference early, as there are only a limited number of blocked rooms available.Please call 306-586-3443, and quote block code CGSF18 to ensure that you retain a guest room at the preferred rate. Alternately, you can email your reservation request to groupsales@travelodgeregina.com *Event for nonprofit organizations. SARC reserves the right to decline registrants.

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