Wednesday Opening Keynote: Nick Bontis, PhD

Leadershift: Harnessing the Power of Collaboration Nick Bontis, PhD

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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
8:15 – 10:00 am

Nick Bontis, PhD, associate professor of strategic management at McMaster University and director of the Institute for Intellectual Capital Research. Known as one of Canada's leading management gurus.

Nick Bontis is associate professor of strategic management at McMaster University and director of the Institute for Intellectual Capital Research. Known as one of Canada's leading management gurus, Bontis is a 3M National Teaching fellow, an exclusive honour only bestowed on the top university professors in the country. During this inspirational and engaging keynote you will learn how to “leadershift” yourself and your team to new levels of performance.

As Bontis sees it, capturing the brainpower of our learning organizations before employees leave with their lifetime of experience and expertise is a crucial task for every HR professional. We must effectively manage our high performance teams and harvest their collective talents. This in turn will create new value above and beyond what has been traditionally expected and shift leadership towards a strategic mindset focused on enabling collaboration. The result: inimitable sustainable advantage.