The Way Forward Webcasts with Leon Goren

In today's episode of The Way Forward Webcasts, Joe Jackman and Stefan Read reflect on how you should respond to the new attitudes and values your core customers have developed as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.  

Despite what Instagram would have you believe, not everyone is responding to COVID-19 by taking up baking. Different people are reacting differently to the crisis. As businesses start to re-open, it's critical to see beyond the general trends and understand what has changed with your particular customer. In our The Way Forward Webcast, Joe Jackman, strategy and customer engagement expert and founder of Jackman Reinvents, alongside his VP of Engagements, Stefan Read, reveal the insights from a comprehensive study of 5,000 consumers to answer the question: Which attitudes and values are changing for your customers, and how should you respond? This interactive discussion arms business leaders with the tools needed to dig deep with customers and focus on what they care most about now - preparing you to come out of this stronger. 

Joe Jackman and Stefan Read provide the following main take-aways for this session:

• Insight into which attitudes and values are changing for your target customer as a result of the crisis.
• Understanding of how to build engagement with your customers now, and set yourself up for relevance after the crisis.
• Recommended tactics to execute now to help you come out of this stronger.

If you’re interested in tuning into the live webcasts, please visit https://peo-leadership.com/.

Tune in to our new podcast, Snippets! In short segments, Leon Goren brings together business leaders to share stories, best practices and learnings with the rest of the community. Available on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/snippets-with-leon-goren/id1510439127.

If you’d like to find out more about our leadership community, please feel free to reach out directly to [email protected]. 

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Now more than ever, leaders are faced with the challenges of finding balance in their lives. As the lines between personal and professional lives are blurred, prioritization of what is important becomes that much more complicated. Having written two best sellers, the first on how to become a values-based leader "From Values to Actions" and the second on how to build a values-based organization "Becoming the Best", strategy and management expert, Harry Kraemer, realized that he was missing one very important pillar in his writing: how does one live a value based life? Harry's new book "Your 168: Finding Purpose and Satisfaction in a Values-based Life", will help you work through the demands, distractions, and challenges that tend to never go away as a leader. Harry's insights will guide you to be able to identify the specific areas where all of your time, effort, and attention are spent - your life buckets - and reallocate them to reflect your priorities, choices, and unique circumstances.

In this webcast, Harry Kraemer spoke to the CEO of PEO Leadership, Leon Goren, about: 

• The importance of self-reflection in being able to make those choices that are deep rooted in your values.
• A framework to help you think about building new habits, in order to plan and re-prioritize the demands on your time.
• Understanding your process on how to effectively work on balancing your action plan in real time

If you’re interested in tuning into the live webcasts, please visit https://peo-leadership.com/.

Tune in to our new podcast, Snippets! In short segments, Leon Goren brings together business leaders to share stories, best practices and learnings with the rest of the community. Available on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/snippets-with-leon-goren/id1510439127.

If you’d like to find out more about our leadership community, please feel free to reach out directly to [email protected]. 

If you enjoyed today’s podcast, please subscribe and give us a review on Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.  

In today's webcast, Leon Goren, CEO and President of PEO Leadership, speaks with Goldy Hyder about government response and the requirements for the comeback of SME's and big businesses. As the President and CEO of the Business Council of Canada, Goldy Hyder, represents some of the TSX‘s largest companies. Further to this, he has extensive experience as a policy maker, serving as the Director of Policy and Chief of Staff, to the former Prime Minister and former leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party, the Right Honourable, Joe Clark. Mr. Hyder’s understanding of the ins-and-outs of Canadian politics at the highest levels, as well as his understanding of the implications of policy on the very organizations that he now represents, gives him a unique perspective to be able to provide us with an understanding of things to come.

If you’re interested in tuning into the live webcasts, please visit https://peo-leadership.com/.



Tune in to our new podcast, Snippets! In short segments, Leon Goren brings together business leaders to share stories, best practices and learnings with the rest of the community. Available on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/snippets-with-leon-goren/id1510439127.

If you’d like to find out more about our leadership community, please feel free to reach out directly to [email protected]. 

If you enjoyed today’s podcast, please subscribe and give us a review on Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.  

Let’s face it, most of us just can’t convert an assembly line into making ventilators over night. Our businesses are being forced to adapt but aside from throwing around popular phrases like “digital transformation” and “re-engineering revenue”, many aren’t exactly sure what to change, what to chase, and where the real opportunities are.  

It’s time for a coup. But this time it’s from within your own castle walls. 

This May 15th ‘The Way Forward‘ live webcast is lead by Ron Tite, who is the founder of marketing agency Church+State and Executive Producer and Host of the podcast The Coup, recently awarded Canada’s “Outstanding Business Series” by the Canadian Podcast Awards and a Finalist in Best Business Podcast by the New York Festivals

Tune in to our new podcast, Snippets! In short segments, Leon Goren brings together business leaders to share stories, best practices and learnings with the rest of the community. Available on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/snippets-with-leon-goren/id1510439127.

If you’d like to find out more about our leadership community, please feel free to reach out directly to [email protected]. 

If you enjoyed today’s podcast, please subscribe and give us a review on Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.  

We are very excited to have Michael Beer, the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School, specializing in organization effectiveness, organizational change, high commitment, high performance organizations, leadership, as well as HR management, speak on our The Way Forward Webcast Series on May 7th. Professor Beer draws from his award-winning research and new book Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations about Your Company’s Capabilities Are the Key to a Winning Strategy, to discuss the importance of the honest conversation in preparing an organization to successfully strategize, pivot and execute with success. Fit to Compete’s insights and frameworks are extremely relevant to what we’re faced with today as we contemplate how to engage with our people and develop our next steps forward.

If you’re interested in tuning into the live webcasts, please visit https://peo-leadership.com/.

Tune in to our new podcast, Snippets! In short segments, Leon Goren brings together business leaders to share stories, best practices and learnings with the rest of the community. Available on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/snippets-with-leon-goren/id1510439127.

If you’d like to find out more about our leadership community, please feel free to reach out directly to [email protected]. 

If you enjoyed today’s podcast, please subscribe and give us a review on Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.  

Whether it’s economics, geopolitics, or international security and terrorism, few people have a better understanding of global issues than Professor Janice Gross Stein. Her dynamic discussion promises to provide a unique perspective into what’s really happening around the world and what it means to us personally and professionally. Professor Stein’s webcast will help us connect the dots regarding key events and will also provide a look at the big picture. These long term perspectives are aimed to assist business leaders to start thinking about what their businesses may look like in the future.

Janice was the first woman graduate student at Yale University, where she received her Master’s Degree. She completed her undergraduate studies and earned her PhD at McGill. 

Prof. Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the Founding Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

She is the co-author, with Eugene Lang, of the prize-winning work, The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar, and her most recent book is Diplomacy in the Digital Age.

Professor Stein was the Massey Lecturer in 2001, and a Trudeau Fellow. She was awarded the Molson Prize by the Canada Council for an outstanding contribution by a social scientist to public debate, and has received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Alberta, the University of Cape Breton, McMaster University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario.

In the media, she has provided commentary for networks such as CBC, CTV, TVO and CNN, and columns and comment for The Globe and Mail and The National Post.

Professor Stein’s talk promises to leave us with a better understanding of current global issues, a clear vision of the future and what it means for us.

If you’re interested in tuning into the live webcasts, please visit https://peo-leadership.com/. 

Tune in to our new podcast, Snippets! In short segments, Leon Goren brings together business leaders to share stories, best practices and learnings with the rest of the community. Available on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/snippets-with-leon-goren/id1510439127. 

If you’d like to find out more about our leadership community, please feel free to reach out directly to [email protected]. 

If you enjoyed today’s podcast, please subscribe and give us a review on Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.  

In this webcast, Leon Goren speaks with Cresa's Jamie Grossman about upcoming rent payments and various tools business owners can leverage in this time. Given the constraints many businesses find themselves in during the COVID-19 crisis, there are many questions surrounding what to do about office rent and rental agreements. The recent Ontario-Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance Program offers some relief, but how does it apply to your business?

If you’re interested in tuning into the live webcasts, please visit https://peo-leadership.com/. 

Tune in to our new podcast, Snippets! In short segments, Leon Goren brings together business leaders to share stories, best practices and learnings with the rest of the community. Available on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/snippets-with-leon-goren/id1510439127. 

If you’d like to find out more about our leadership community, please feel free to reach out directly to [email protected]. 

If you enjoyed today’s podcast, please subscribe and give us a review on Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.  

In an hour long talk with Leon, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who hold the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change, draws from her award-winning research and her new book Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time as she speaks to what she thinks organizations should be doing during and after the COVID-19 crisis.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct consultation to major corporations, governments, and start-up ventures. She co-founded the Harvard University-wide Advanced Leadership Initiative, guiding its planning from 2005 to its launch in 2008 and serving as Founding Chair and Director from 2008-2018 as it became a growing international model for a new stage of higher education preparing successful top leaders to apply their skills to national and global challenges. Author or co-author of 20 books, her latest book is Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time.

The former chief Editor of Harvard Business Review, Professor Kanter has been repeatedly named to lists such as the “50 most powerful women in the world” (Times of London), and the “50 most influential business thinkers in the world” (Thinkers 50, and in November 2019 received their biannual Lifetime Achievement Award). She has received 24 honorary doctoral degrees, as well as numerous leadership awards, lifetime achievement awards, and prizes.

Amongst many of her books, MOVE: Putting America’s Infrastructure Back in the Lead, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, is a sweeping look across industries and technologies shaping the future of mobility and the leadership required for transformation. Her book The Change Masters was named one of the most influential business books of the 20th century (Financial Times); SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good, one of the ten best business books of the year by Amazon.com; Evolve! Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow, one of the five best books of the year by the Toronto Star. Her book Confidence: How Winning & Losing Streaks Begin & End, a New York Times bestseller (also a #1 Business Week bestseller), describes the culture of high-performance organizations compared with those in decline and shows how to lead turnarounds, whether in businesses, schools, sports teams, or countries.

She speaks widely, and has shared the platform with Presidents, Prime Ministers, and CEOs at major events, such as the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and national industry conferences in over 20 countries. Before joining the Harvard Business School faculty, she held tenured professorships at Yale University and Brandeis University and was a Fellow at Harvard Law School, simultaneously holding a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Michigan.

If you’re interested in tuning into the live webcasts, please visit https://peo-leadership.com/. 

Tune in to our new podcast, Snippets! In short segments, Leon Goren brings together business leaders to share stories, best practices and learnings with the rest of the community. Available on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/snippets-with-leon-goren/id1510439127. 

The unexpected emergence of the COVID-19 crisis has taken everyone by surprise – affecting every country, every industry, every market. So with all the recent developments of the COVID-19 crisis and the measures governments are taking to mitigate loss of life, where does that leave the residential real estate market?

Hunter Milbourne, nationally recognized authority in residential real estate will discuss the following:

• What does the residential real estate market in Toronto look like 6 – 9 months from now?
• If you were thinking of selling this spring, should you be reconsidering?
• If you’re a buyer and/or investor in Toronto when do you jump in?
• What does the rental market look like in the next year?
• Where will we be 3 to 5 years from now in terms of pricing?

Hunter Milborne, President & CEO, Milborne Group

Hunter Milborne is nationally recognized as the “Dean of Condos” by Canadian Business Magazine. Through his firm, Milborne Real Estate Inc., Mr. Milborne has been personally responsible for the marketing and sales of over $25 billion in properties, having sold over 100,000 units. With over 38 years of experience, Mr. Milborne is well known for his entrepreneurial style, creative problem solving and innovative market penetration strategies.

Milborne Real Estate has served hundreds of clients on a range of projects, from vacation homes to high-density multi-use developments in locations around the world. Selling more than 700 developments since its inception, Milborne Real Estate continues to hold a 12-15% market share in Toronto in an industry with over 1000 competing companies.

The high measure of his success is evident in the large volume of repeat business secured, due to Mr. Milborne’s expert guidance. He has firmly established Milborne Real Estate as the most dominant force in Canadian condominium marketing.

The COVID-19 crisis has proven to be extremely stressful and very different than any other significant event anyone in our generation has experienced because:

• of its global reach
• the life and health risks associated with it
• of how sudden and rapidly evolving it has been
• its hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel
• we are required to isolate ourselves from friends and extended family 
• the battle between key values of human life versus economic stability
• information about it is highly variable and different people process it differently

As a result of these factors, mental health can quickly degenerate if we do not take care of ourselves. Arden O’Connor, founder of O’Connor Professional Group, will provide tools and resources to maintain a good mental health and deal with the anxiety that the COVID-19 crisis has brought forth.

Arden speaks to us on the following topics:

• Overcoming stress and anxiety of COVID-19
• Dealing with isolation and loneliness
• Overall mental health

Arden O’Connor, Founder, O’Connor Professional Group

Arden O’Connor founded the O’Connor Professional Group to address the needs of families and individuals struggling with an array of behavioral health issues, including addiction, mental health disorders, eating disorders, learning, and other developmental challenges. With several relatives in recovery, Arden is passionate about helping families and individuals navigate the highly fragmented treatment system in a way that creates positive outcomes and allows families to heal. Arden is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School. She remains heavily involved in community activities, as a board member of Winsor School Corporation, Collaboration for Family Flourishing, Massachusetts Association of Mental Health, and Attorneys for Family Held Enterprises. Previously, she served as a board member for the Justice Resource Institute (former chair), C4 Recovery Solutions, Harvard Club of Boston, Victory Programs, and Harvard Business School Alumni Association of Boston. She maintains professional affiliations with the following organizations: Boston Estate Planning Council, Worthy Circles and Family Firm Institute.