Media Advisory: HR Summit 2009: Building Organizational Resilience and Sustainability

Screenshot: HR Summit 2009: Building Organizational
Resilience and Sustainability: Conference Brochure
Credit: The Conference Board of Canada

What: HR Summit 2009: Building Organizational Resilience and Sustainability

Toronto, October 2, 2009 - The Conference Board of Canada will present the preliminary findings of its new report Human Resources Trends and Metrics at HR Summit 2009: Building Organizational Resilience and Sustainability.

When: October 5 – 6, 2009

Who:

• Ferio G. Pugliese, Executive Vice-President, People, WestJet Airlines, will describe how WestJet maintains its award-winning corporate culture, at 8:30 a.m., Monday
• Leanne Bilodeau, Manager, Office of Workplace Health and Sustainability, UBC Okanagan, Alaa Abd-El-Aziz, Provost, UBC Okanagan, Kim Devooght, Vice-President, Public, IBM Canada Ltd., and Barry Gander, Executive Vice-President, CATA Alliance National Headquarters, will discuss the future of work, at 9:15 a.m., Monday
• Ruth Wright, Associate Director, Leadership and Human Resources Research, The Conference Board of Canada, will present the preliminary findings of Human Resource Trends and Metrics, at 3:45 p.m., Monday

Where: The Sutton Place Hotel, 955 Bay St., Toronto

For more information, visit:
http://www.conferenceboard.ca/conf/09-0186/default.aspx

This event is sponsored by ADP Canada Co., Towers Perrin, Bullfrog Power, Zerofootprint, Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC), International Council for Operational Risk Management (ICORM), Human Resources Association of Calgary (HRAC), and Tri Fit.


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Media must register in advance.

For more information or media accreditation, contact:
Yvonne Squires, Media Relations
Tel.: 613-526-3090, ext. 221.
E-mail: corpcomm@conferenceboard.ca