Instructor:

Attila Vass has more than 15 years’ experience in sales, warehousing, policy, and divestment services. As a member of Public Services and Procurement Canada’s GCSurplus team, he has developed divestment policies and assisted federal clients with selling everything from cars and trucks to ships and horses.

A strong proponent of the second-hand economy, Attila is passionate about helping clients leverage e-commerce and technology to improve divestment outcomes and achieve environmental goals. He views divestment as an opportunity for organizations and businesses to provide value to Canadians.

Attila holds a BA from the University of Western Ontario. He lives in Tecumseh, Ontario, with his family and Huckleberry the dog.

Description:

Federal departments, agencies, and Crown corporations have a regular stream of surplus materiel that must be divested. It’s an inevitable result of the asset lifecycle as goods wear out, break, become obsolete, or are replaced.

This course provides the materiel management community—beginners and experienced practitioners—with concrete strategies and tools for divesting assets at the end of their lifecycle. What is the Government of Canada’s policy on divestment? What tools are available? What’s the best way to develop a divestment strategy and plan?

Course participants will broaden their understanding of the federal divestment framework while learning how to use online tools like GCSci, GCsurplus.ca, GCTransfer, and GCDonate. Participants will leave better prepared to plan, assess, and execute divestment projects strategically in manner that supports government objectives and environmental goals. Participants will earn a certificate of attendance.

Certificate:

Yes

Instructor:

David LePage, Managing Partner, Buy Social Canada

David LePage is the Managing Partner of Buy Social Canada, a network that advocates for and promotes leveraging existing procurement to create community value. Buy Social Canada provides direct support to governments and corporations on social procurement policy, practice and measurement, and offers a third-party Social Enterprise Certification Program. David LePage is engaged with social enterprise in multiple roles. David serves on several Boards of Directors, including the Social Enterprise World Forum and the Social Enterprise Council of Canada. He was the designer and initial Executive Director of Community Impact Real Estate in Vancouver’s Inner City and a founding partner of the Social Enterprise Ecosystem Project. Additionally, David is a Professor for the University of Fredericton MBA program in Social Enterprise Leadership, and author of the book Marketplace Revolution, from Concentrated Wealth to Community Capital.

Tori Williamson, Director of Education and Communications, Buy Social Canada

With a passion for understanding the systems around us and working collaboratively on community-centred solutions, Tori believes in people and the power of shifting perspectives and objectives to create monumental change. At Buy Social Canada Tori spearheads engagement and communication, championing the work of social enterprise and social procurement.

Description:

Buy Social Canada presents an in-depth training which will provide knowledge and understanding for professionals working with social procurement. You will learn about international best practices and leading research, implementation for goods, services and construction, how to work with trade agreements and much more. Upon completion you will receive the Social Procurement Professional Certificate.

Certificate:

Yes

Instructor:

Marie-Claude Marcoux, GCSurplus Regional Manager

Marie-Claude Marcoux is GCSurplus Regional Manager for the Quebec and Atlantic regions. With a post-secondary education in Chemistry-Biology and a B.A. in Administration from HEC Montreal, Marie-Claude has over 15 years of private sector experience in Finance and Administration and over 12 years experience within the federal domain where she has supported the Department and National Defence, Public Services and Procurement Canada’s GCSurplus, and over this past year, she has contributed time to support the COVID-19 relief team with the Public Health Agency of Canada. Marie-Claude has extensive experience working with a full range of items that come up for divestment including departmental assets as well as seized and forfeited goods. She works closely with the federal materiel management community to support the effective, efficient and responsible divestment of surplus goods. She is passionate about working with government clients and public buyers to help understand how responsible asset divestiture supports better environmental practices for end of life assets. When Marie-Claude is not working her day job she’s a mom and a traveler.

Description:

Les ministères et organismes fédéraux et les sociétés d’État ont un flux régulier de matériel excédentaire dont ils doivent se défaire. Il s’agit d’un résultat inévitable du cycle de vie des biens, car ceux-ci s’usent, se brisent, deviennent désuets ou sont remplacés.

Ce cours fournit à la communauté de la gestion du matériel – débutants et praticiens chevronnés – des stratégies et des outils concrets pour se départir des biens à la fin de leur cycle de vie. Quelle est la politique du gouvernement du Canada en matière de dessaisissement? Quels sont les outils disponibles? Quelle est la meilleure façon d’élaborer une stratégie et un plan de dessaisissement?

Les participants au cours approfondiront leur compréhension du cadre fédéral de dessaisissement tout en apprenant à utiliser des outils en ligne comme GCSci, GCsurplus.ca, GCTransfert et GCDons. Les participants repartiront mieux préparés pour planifier, évaluer et exécuter stratégiquement des projets de dessaisissement de manière à soutenir les objectifs du gouvernement et les objectifs environnementaux. Les participants recevront un certificat de participation.

Certificate:

Yes

Instructor:

Dave Jones

David is a dynamic consultant and instructor with extensive training, facilitation, key note speaking and coaching experience obtained by providing services for a diverse client base in North America and Europe. He is a strong experiential learning program designer who is certified in needs analysis and program evaluation methodologies. Participants in his workshops appreciate his empathy, humour, flexibility and energy. His clients report that he gets results: the sessions he designs, facilitates and manages on their behalf are positive, inspiring experiences that stimulate desired changes and outputs.

Description:

You will learn how to improve your negotiating skills with a clearer understanding of highly effective communication techniques. You will better understand the ins and outs of negotiation, and develop effective strategies, tactics and counter-measures for manipulative opponents. The workshop uses experiential methods allowing you apply what you have learned and practice your new skills in a variety of methodologies. These include role plays, case studies, personal skill analysis questionnaires, games and trainer-led discussions.

Certificate:

Yes

Instructor:

Moira White is a versatile communicator and instructor with decades of experience editing, writing, teaching and managing projects for government and corporate clients. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Policy and thoroughly understands the public policy-making process and plain language guidelines. Moira has extensive editing experience and excels in helping clients develop style guidelines and appropriate means of disseminating information. She has managed onsite production of reports in Canada and Europe; has traveled across Canada with public consultations writing, editing and producing reports; and has synthesized the work of multiple authors and written executive summaries.

Moira has taught editing and writing courses in Ottawa, Montréal, Toronto and Nunavut to government and corporate clients as well as for the Editors’ Association of Canada. Prior to beginning work as an editor in the late 1980s, she worked in policy for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and the Ottawa-Carleton Immigrant Services Organization, and as a social worker in Bruce County, Ontario, and Aklavik, NWT. She is a Past President of the Editors’ Association of Canada. Her courses consistently receive outstanding reviews.

Description:

This workshop will provide you with skills needed to communicate clearly, concisely, coherently, and correctly. You will learn how to gear each piece of communication to its intended audience, always keeping the needs of the audience in mind.

Certificate:

Yes

Instructor:

John Glennie

John has over 20 years of business and project management experience that he leverages in his teaching. Initially managing projects in the manufacturing sector, he has broadened his business experience to the IT sector.

This experience is a valuable asset in the classroom and provides depth and practical applications for students. In combination with a lively and engaging teaching style, John creates a rich learning experience. His course competencies extend from project management to business skills, as well as communication and leadership skills.

He is a certified Project Management Professional with a broad range of business skills and a passionate attitude towards teaching.

Description:

This course provides hands-on experience on using best-practice tools and techniques to plan and manage a project successfully and to the client’s satisfaction. Strengths and weaknesses of software tools are also discussed.

Certificate:

Yes

Instructor:

Bronwynn Guymer, Chef de Section/ Section Head, DND

Bronwynn Guymer, a 28 year veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces, is currently the Senior Policy Analyst for Materiel Management in DND and the CAF. She has extensive Materiel Management experience from operational front line units up to corporate oversight and coordination. She has completed the Certified Supply Chain Transformation Architect Training, is certified in Supply Chain Operations Reference Model and has led multiple change initiatives within DND.

Description:

As recent international events and technological changes are showing, the world of Supply Chains is changing. Having a strong materiel management programme is necessary to enable agility, resource alignment and the ability to have the right materiel in the right locations at the right time. There are 5 areas of review for this master class: Governance and Oversight, Materiel Management Programme Requirements, Cross Functional Integration, Personnel Competencies, and Materiel Forecasting and Planning.

Certificate:

CIPMM Certificate of Attendance

Instructor:

Paul Emanuelli, Procurement Office

Paul Emanuelli is an internationally known author and procurement lawyer with over twenty years experience in public procurement. He has an extensive track record of public speaking, publishing and training and was recognized by Who’s Who Legal as one of the top ten public procurement lawyers in the world.

Paul’s portfolio focuses on major procurement projects with an emphasis on technology and public infrastructure. He has in-depth experience advising public bodies on the legal and strategic aspects of institutional governance and supply chain management, developing tendering formats and negotiating commercial transactions.

Paul is currently the Program Director of Osgoode Professional Development’s Certificate in Public Procurement Law and Practice and the Advanced Certificate in Procurement Law and Practice and an instructor with the University of West Indies Faculty of Law. He is the author of multiple publications, including the leading textbook Government Procurement (Lexis Nexis-Butterworths, 4th ed. 2017).

Before launching the Procurement Office, Paul practiced for over ten years as Crown Counsel with the Ontario Attorney General at Management Board Secretariat and Crown Law Office Civil, and headed the Government of Ontario’s Procurement Lawyers Group.

Description:

Fair Competition: This program focuses on the core due diligence duties that apply to project teams as they navigate the government tendering process.

Instructor:

Al Garlinski, FSCMP, SCMP, CPSM, Regional Trainer, School of Procurement, Business Advisory Services, Western Region
Public Services and Procurement Canada/Government of Canada

Al Garlinski is the Regional Trainer for the School of Procurement, Business Advisory Services, Western Region, Public Services Procurement Canada (PSPC). He is a seasoned procurement expert with over 33 years of government procurement experience with a vast array of experience across a number of commodities, all with PSPC. He currently coaches and mentors students under the School of Procurement program, from the University of Alberta, University of Manitoba, Mount Royal University and MacEwan University. He has been nominated twice and awarded the “Mentor of The Year” for the University of Alberta School of Business program in 2019. He is currently a faculty member for the University of Winnipeg and Supply Chain Canada. He earned his professional designation in Supply Chain Management with Supply Chain Canada and was awarded the prestigious Fellowship designation for his lifetime commitment with teaching, coaching and mentoring. He also has a professional designation with the Institute of Supply Management from Tempe, Arizona. Al is a tireless animal rescue advocate, and founder of IRun4rescue, a running team committed to making a difference in the lives of animals. Al is a Canadian long-distance runner. He has run in long-distance running adventures in several countries, and unique locations, including Iceland, The Grand Canyon, trekking the volcanoes of Nicaragua, climbing Mt Jacinto in California, to running across Lake Manitoba. He openly shares his struggles with anxiety and shatters the stigma around mental illness and is an advocate for the mental health community.

Description:

Take charge of your procurement career by attending this master class session, lead by Al Garlinski, PSPC , Western Region, School of Procurement. You will be connecting and exchanging ideas with colleagues, by working virtually through a simulation case study that specifically addresses the value of applying good business acumen knowledge

Certificate:

CIPMM Certificate of Attendance