Events

The One-Degree Shift

Date: September 10, 2020

Cost: $0.00 - $63.00

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BCLMA’s Fall  Virtual Speaker Series # 1

Setting leaders up to thrive in the future of work through one-degree shifts in perception, Eric walks attendees through the current and future of work environments and shares three one-degree shifts we can make in our leadership roles.
Wherever you look, it is becoming increasingly clear that to succeed in the future of work, we must realize our full potential as a team. In this presentation, Eric Termuende walks attendees through work environments and shares one-degree shifts we can make to build better teams, establish deeper trust, and create an environment of belonging.

Guest Speaker – Eric  Termuende

Eric Termuende is a thought leader on optimizing workplace culture, the future of work, and engagement in the workplace. An entrepreneur and bestselling author of Rethink Work, Eric is the co-founder of NoW Innovations, an organization that democratizes access to the most innovative people, culture and operational practices for HR. He dispels generational groupings to help organizations re-humanize and gain more out of their workforce. Eric’s actionable takeaways help organizations drive engagement through connection and trust. Eric believes that if he can help make people’s lives better at work; he can make people’s lives better outside of it.

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Save the Date – Facilities Subsection Lunch Session

Date: September 16, 2020

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BCLMA Annual General Meeting

Date: September 22, 2020

Cost: $0.00

Location: Vancouver Convention Centre East

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The BCLMA Annual General Meeting will be held at the Vancouver Convention Centre and virtually as well.

All BCLMA members are invited to attend but only representatives members may vote.

Attendees are asked to arrive at noon. Individual bagged lunches will be served. The meeting will commence at 12:00 pm.

All safety measures will be in place.  Click on the link to read the VCC’s safety plan   https://www.vancouverconventioncentre.com/covid19-what-were-doing

Please register here on the website if you wish to attend in person at a safe distance.

Save the Date - Marketing Subsection Lunch Session

Date: September 28, 2020

Cost: $0.00

Location: Harper Grey LLP

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Leadership, Crisis, Stress, Neurology, Decision-Making, & Presence

Date: October 01, 2020

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BCLMA Fall Virtual Speaker Series # 2

The current times call for leadership in short-term crisis management and long-term scenario planning. In this new era, how we care for ourselves, lead with decisiveness in uncertain waters, and acquire new knowledge to build frameworks is critical. The pandemic has pushed us into unprecedented challenges. More than ever, we must be the leaders our teams need. How can neurology help us? How can we leverage our leadership presence and skills? Who can provide value in your role?

Guest Speaker: Cynthia Mills

Cynthia Mills is the Founder, President & CEO of The Leaders’ Haven™, a consultancy serving clients as a business strategist, board consultant, business and executive coach, succession planning and change management guide, leadership development catalyst, speaker, and facilitator for a variety of businesses.

The Leaders’ Haven’s™ clients are leaders in the business, finance,  legal, marketing,  facility management, and media just to name a few.

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HOLY CRAP AM I BUSY! Changing our Culture from Overwhelmed to Resilient

Date: October 22, 2020

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BCLMA Fall Virtual Speaker Series # 3

Linda will reveal her research and data collected from dozens of organizations on how Chaos and “Busy” has become the new norm and wound us into the most unproductive and basically unhappy demographic in the past 30 years. Her straightforward and very humorous approach, stacked up with relevant and easy solutions, will get your organization and
teams, back on track with clear vision and tools to take back their workday and their personal lives.

• Change, what’s really getting in the way of you moving forward?
• Change has never been this painless!
• Clutter, how we sabotage our success with terminal piles!
• Fatigue, tools to re-energize and re-engage.
• Clarity, get down to what you really want, and become more accountable.
• Laughter, this may be the best laugh you have had in a long time.

Guest Speaker: Linda Edgecombe

Linda Edgecombe, CSP, HoF is an award winning Celebrity Humorist Speaker, Trainer and Consultant. Her mission is to get people Fired up and Ready to Shift or Get off the Pot! Her non BS approach is funny, refreshing, engaging and relevant. She is a bestselling author and her promise is to help her audiences to create powerful shifts, become more accountable and build on momentum. She energizes every room as she leads people to loosen up, lighten the load and laugh. Her audiences are motivated and show how they can shift their perspectives on life, work and themselves.

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Save the Date - Marketing Subsection Lunch Session

Date: October 26, 2020

Cost: $0.00

Location: Harper Grey LLP

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Three Cs of Effective Leadership: Lessons Learned from the Rise and Fall of Heenan Blaikie

Date: November 04, 2020

Cost: $0.00 - $95.00

Location: Terminal City Club

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In these challenging times, there are certain requirements of good leaders to build and hold together effective organizations. Norm’s presentation will address his philosophies as to the three most important elements of firm building:

Core Values
Communication
Consistency of values and actions

Norm will provide numerous examples from day to day management and will also address various other rules of thumb for effective leadership including the ‘rule of thirds’ and the need to bat .750 – no more, no less – in order to remain effective.

Guest Speaker: Norm Bacal

Norman is the author of the nonfiction debut Globe and Mail bestseller, “Breakdown”, about the meteoric rise and devastating downfall of prestigious Canadian law firm Heenan Blaikie, once home to Canada’s top lawyers, including former Prime Ministers, Jean Chrétien and Pierre Trudeau. Bacal founded the Toronto office of that firm in 1989 and in 1997, became the national co-managing partner, expanding their operations and clout internationally. He also served on the board of directors for Lionsgate Entertainment 10 years.

His debut fiction novel, “Odell’s Fall” was called “a page-turning potboiler of a read” by former HBO Pictures President, Robert Cooper.  Bacal brings to writing his experience as one of Canada’s leading tax attorneys in the entertainment business.  He has helped to finance countless Canadian films and television programs and a number of Hollywood studio pictures.  In addition to writing, Bacal is a frequent speaker at law schools and forums.  He regularly delivers keynote speeches at corporate retreats, and has taken part in several roundtable discussions featuring prominent experts in firm management, growth and development.  Some of his topics include “Learning to Lead,” Building a Firm,” “The Importance of Culture and Values,” and “Building a Career.”

Born in Montreal in 1956, Bacal graduated from McGill University’s Faculty of Law in 1980. He currently resides in Toronto with his wife, Sharon, a portrait artist. The couple have four children.

Save the Date – Facilities Subsection Lunch Session

Date: November 18, 2020

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BCLMA Annual Winter Social Reception

Date: November 19, 2020

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Location: Sutton Place Hotel

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Come one come all!

BCLMA is kicking off the winter season with our popular winter social on November 19th, a week earlier than in past years. No competing with other office functions this year or having 2 – 3 events in a row.

We’ll take over the whole 2nd floor at the Sutton Place Hotel. Lots of opportunity to mingle, enjoy delicious food at various stations, relax and have an great time.

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