The fourth annual Leadership Summit will take place as a stand-alone event on Tuesday, April 21, 2009, during the second day of IAPA’s Health & Safety Canada 2009 Conference & Trade Show, an annual conference taking place in Toronto at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre from April 20 – 22, 2009.  The Leadership Summit will serve to motivate attendees and help them transform their workplace culture, enabling them to attract and retain their greatest asset – their employees, using imagination, innovation, and inspiration as the necessary building blocks to establishing and maintaining a winning culture. Emphasizing a new way of doing business, the Summit will focus on:

• Imaginative thinking about how to design workplace environments that ignite employees and improve effectiveness
• Innovative initiatives that target key success factors of a winning culture
• The inspiring true story of an organization’s drive to regenerate its culture

The Leadership Summit opens with a keynote address by Former Yahoo! Leadership Coach and best-selling author Tim Sanders, who is on a mission to transform the workplace – and society at large.  Sanders has just released his latest book entitled, Saving The World At Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Move from Making a Profit to Making a Difference.    

Speakers include:

• Adwoa K. Buahene, Co-founder and Managing Partner, n-gen People Performance – Four Generations – Four Approaches to Work: How to Get, Keep and Grow All Four Generations 

• Edgardo Pérez, CEO and President of Homewood Corporation, Homewood Health Centre Inc. – Investing in Our Culture

• Joe Ricciuti, Client Solutions Leader, Canada, Watson Wyatt Worldwide – Quantifying and Strategizing Culture

• Sue Wuthrich, Director of Global Benefits, Google Inc. – Fortune Magazine’s #1 Best Place to Work

• Jantzi Research:  Leading-edge social investment analysis – Who’s Looking and Why It Matters

The Leadership Summit culminates with a networking reception hosted by The Conference Board of Canada for the CEO Health & Safety Leadership Charter members and Summit attendees. The Charter was launched at IAPA’s Health & Safety Canada 2005.  Championed by Duncan Hawthorne, President & CEO of Bruce Power, the Charter was created to help achieve a Canada-wide breakthrough in health and safety performance. Members have committed to work together to improve health and safety performance through sharing, mentoring, and coaching. 

Registration for both events is now open. For additional information on the Leadership Summit and Health & Safety Canada 2009, log on to IAPA’s website www.iapa.ca or call 905-614-4272 or 1-800-406-4272.  

IAPA is a not-for-profit, member-driven organization operating in Ontario since 1917. Representing approximately 50,000 member firms and more than 1.5 million Ontario workers, IAPA is Canada’s leader in workplace health, safety, and employee well-being. IAPA is focused on providing industry-leading training, consulting, educational products, and informational services that meet our members’ needs and the needs of those in their communities. IAPA is also recognized as a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre in Occupational Health and an International Labour Organization – CIS Collaborating Centre. IAPA  is ISO 9001 certified, has been awarded the National Quality Institute’s Progressive Excellence Program Level 4 for Quality Certificate and the Canada Awards for Excellence Gold Trophy Awards for Quality and Healthy Workplace.

ATTENTION MEDIA:   IAPA is now accepting applications for the 2009 IAPA Russ Ramsay Media Awards for Excellence in Health and Safety Reporting. All Ontario trade and consumer media – print (newspapers or magazines), radio, and television – distributed and broadcast in Ontario are invited to submit pieces of work focusing on workplace health and safety. Only work published or aired between January 1 and December, 31, 2008 will be eligible. For award consideration, all materials must be submitted to IAPA by Tuesday, February 3, 2009.

For more information on IAPA’s programs, products, services, and awards programs, visit IAPA’s website at www.iapa.ca.

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Edye Rome Tel: 416-785-6213, Cell: 416-993-6213 or by email edyrome@sympatico.ca, Helen Kampfmuller Tel: 416-694-5640 or Vince J. Ciarlo Tel: 416-763-3783