In a hyper-competitive business world where innovation is deemed “a core competency” by nearly 90%of CEOs today, dissatisfaction with this aspect of their organizational performance remains a prevailing challenge and “a major source of dissatisfaction” (McKinsey). This unique short course has been offered to hundreds of executives across the country over the past two decades. Remarkably, not one of them at the start was able to define the true meaning of innovation. Therein lies the crux of the problem–building this capability necessitates a deep understanding of what innovation truly is and, consequently, how to incubate, resource, effectively manage and sustain it.

This seminar is eligible towards
The Redefining Leadership Certificate Program

CPABC is pleased to present the Redefining Leadership Certificate Program. This six-part program is designed primarily for middle and senior mangers who are seeking to ascend to a higher level of executive responsibility in today’s transformative, paradoxical, confusing business world. Lessons learned in a less frenetic business environment no longer work in today’s increasingly volatile, disruptive, unpredictable, hyper-competitive marketplace. Leadership must evolve and adapt to effectively deal with rapidly changing circumstances and black-swan events, which is why it’s continually redefined. The six seminars are:

• From Manager to Leader
• Strategic Foresight, Planning and Modeling
• Building Innovation Capability
• The Science of Fearless Decision Making
• Understanding the Human Condition
• Why Successful Companies Fail (and how to fix them)

Each seminar can be taken as a stand-alone course, but in order to qualify for the certificate, participants are required to complete all six titles. Titles will be offered across our Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter programs.

• Do leaders walk the talk about innovation? 
• AI, innovation strategy and risk mitigation
• The status of innovation capability in Canada
• Risk intelligence, analysis, ranking and immunity
• Internal impediments to building and nurturing it
• Critical myths and realities: Innovation pathogens 
  Fostering innovation: First principles and rules                   
• Building an innovation culture: Seven objectives
• What switches off innovative thinking in teams 
• The difference between invention and innovation 
• Conducting innovation vitality and agility audits
• The required leader actions that fuel innovation
• Understanding and learning from intelligent failure
• Borrowing brilliance: How to utilize good advice
• Practical, incremental and radical transformation
• Strategies and tactics for managing the paradoxes                            
• The innovation process: From origin to execution
• Tools: Future forecasting and scenario building
• Evaluating ideas and writing winning proposals
• The structure and magic of sales and elevator pitches
• The critical questions investors want answered
• Execution: The hard questions and the secret sauce
• The bottom line: How to build, manage and sustain it

While no pre-requisite is required to attend this seminar, it contains 0.5 hour of supplementary reading that must be completed. Note that the live instructional portion is 4 hours. Participants who complete this supplementary work may report the full 4.5 hours as verifiable CPD. The PD seminar will auto-populate the total eligible CPD hours on Online Services, including the supplementary time. If a participant does not complete this, they must reduce the reported CPD hours accordingly.

Live webinars have varying levels of expected interaction, with some requiring microphone and camera capabilities to support a proper learning experience – please email pdreg@bccpa.ca if you have concerns. 

In general, we encourage participants to have their cameras turned on to enhance their virtual learning experience. This practice promotes a stronger connection with the instructor and fellow participants, and fosters improved communication and collaboration.

Live Webinar FAQs can be found here.  

Registration terms and conditions, including the cancellation policy can be found here. If you require further assistance, please contact the PD Department.