Registration opens Monday, January 6 at 7:00PM!
Facilitated by: Michelle Dagnino, Executive Director, Jane/Finch Community and Family Centre & Sharon Hampson and Randi Hampson
This year’s Winter Rethink invites you to reflect, reconnect, and reimagine our work as we explore the evolving dynamics of different generations within our sector. Join us for a thought-provoking keynote in the morning, where an expert will delve into the strengths, challenges, and opportunities across generations.
In the afternoon, we turn up the nostalgia with a special musical performance by a beloved group that defined our childhoods— get ready for a trip down memory lane, filled with the sounds that shaped us. It’s a day of insight, inspiration, and a little bit of fun, as we rethink the future by honoring our past.
Don’t miss out on this unique blend of reflection and celebration!
Doors open and breakfast 9:15 - 9:55
Welcomes: 9:55 - 10:00
Morning Keynote: 10:00 - 11:30
Reflection: 11:30 - 11:45
Lunch 11:45 - 1:00
Afternoon keynote: 1:00 - 2:00
Wrap up: 2:00 - 2:05
Morning Keynote: Learning and Growing Across the Generations in the Workplace
Facilitated by Michelle Dagnino, Executive Director, Jane/Finch Community and Family Centre
All of us are working in organizations facing a multitude of challenges – funding shortages, complex stakeholder relationships, and increasing client needs. We face the challenge of creating supportive, safe and nurturing environments with limited resources. What we know is that we all must feel valued and motivated to continue doing this challenging work. The different generations in the workplace –Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, Millennials and Gen Zs – possess different behaviours and expectations, because of their generational identities. The tactics that may engage one generation will not necessarily engage others. We all need to recognize how to strategically create an environment that maximizes the skills sets of a multigenerational workforce, while managing the differences.
This discussion helps us understand how to engage and thrive in a multigenerational workforce.
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
• Identify the 4 generations in the workplace
• Illustrate how generational traits can impact communication styles
• Explain how demographic trends are changing workplace norms
• Adjust their biases around how generational diversity is seen in the workplace
Michelle Dagnino is a speaker, writer, lawyer, and serial social entrepreneur. While still in high school Michelle started a mentorship program for young women, which sparked a life-long passion in social entrepreneurship focused on creating opportunities for hard to reach and vulnerable communities. Michelle is currently the Executive Director of the Jane/Finch Community and Family Centre, a social services agency in West Toronto, dedicated to supporting the local community through service delivery and resident capacity-building. She is a partner with LURA Consulting, focusing on engagement of hard to reach populations and ensuring a strong citizen voice in public engagement processes. Prior to this, Michelle held positions as the Canada Director for Ashoka’s Youth Venture, Executive Director of Youth Action Network, and was in private practice with one of Canada’s leading labour and human rights law firms. Michelle holds a Masters of Arts in Political Science, and Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Osgoode Hall Law School. She was called to the Bar in 2007. Michelle is a Loran Scholar, a recipient of the Toronto’s YWCA Young Woman of Distinction award, and was named by The Globe and Mail and the Women’s Executive Network as one of Canada’s Top 100: Most Powerful Women.
Afternoon Keynote: Sharon, Lois & Bram Child Spirit Singalong with Sharon & Randi
Mother and daughter duo, Sharon & Randi Hampson will delight the audience singing and reading from their three best-selling children's books and singing participatory songs with their educator audience. They will invite participants to find their child spirit by engaging in musical activities they can take back to their classrooms. This will be a fun hour of singing, dancing and laughing, that consequently teaches about memory, food, rhyme, counting, patience, coordination, cooperation and so much more.
A special book signing will take place after the presentation.
From 1978 onward, Sharon, Lois & Bram were preeminent in all aspects of family entertainment across North America and other parts of the world. They appeared in many of the most prominent venues in the United States including The Kennedy Center, the White House, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Broadway’s Palace Theatre, as well as every major concert hall in Canada. They received countless awards, including Gold and Platinum Records, JUNO awards for Best Children’s Album, and sold millions of albums worldwide. They starred in two critically acclaimed television series: The Elephant Show (Nickelodeon in the U.S. and CBC in Canada) and Skinnamarink TV (The Learning Channel in the U.S. and CBC in Canada).
Sharon Hampson and Bram Morrison carried on together for more than 25 years after Lois Lilienstein stepped away from live performing in 2000 and later died in 2015. Fans of Sharon, Lois & Bram returned to Sharon & Bram’s concerts as young adults or with their children and their children’s children. They knew every word and every action and greeted the duo as they would a treasured member of the family.The Sharon, Lois & Bram tiktok has made them social media darlings with over 30M views, 188,000+ followers and 3.1M likes.
Following Bram’s retirement from touring, and with his encouragement, Sharon and her daughter Randi have continued to share the music of Sharon, Lois & Bram, as A Sharon, Lois & Bram Singalong with Sharon & Randi. They do keynote speeches, teacher workshops, story readings as well as live concerts with their family band.
Randi Hampson is a driving force behind current Sharon, Lois & Bram projects including their recent Sharon, Lois & Bram Best of the Best Live and A Little Bit Country. Randi has also contributed significantly to other recent Sharon, Lois & Bram creative ventures, including producing and singing on the JUNO-nominated album, Sharon & Bram and Friends, and writing three best-selling picture books for Penguin Random House, Sharon, Lois & Bram's Skinnamarink, an award-winning best seller with more than 100,000 copies sold since its 2019 publication, One Elephant Went out to Play, and Peanut Butter and Jelly.
Saturday, February 22
9:15 AM – 2:00 PM
Hellenic Community Centre
133 Southdale Rd W
London, ON, N6J 2J2
$10 - London & Middlesex Professionals
$20 - Elgin & Oxford Professionals
$40 - Professionals from Other Counties
* Registration opens on Monday, January 6 at 7:00PM
** Registration closes on Friday, February 14 at 12:00PM
*** Ticket Types are based on the County you WORK in. Elgin and Oxford participants, please use access key.