Join us for this great speaker event and our Special Annual General meeting to elect your next year board members.

APICS Vancouver professional members attending will be placed into a draw for a full conference pass to APICS world conference in Washington DC Sept 25-27/2016.   As well included $2000 towards expenses!

Note new event venue

Agenda:
5:30 pm - meet and greet - Appetizers  - cash bar
6:30 pm - AGM meeting kick off
6:45 pm - gourmet buffet pasta dinner
7:30 pm - speaker

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Cross Cultural Communications: Challenges and Opportunities - Dinner Speech

 Communication is so much more than the words we utter or the sentences we write.  It’s embedded in our gestures, our facial expressions, our attitudes and so much more.  Moreover, how we communicate is driven by our values.

 At the end of the evening you will:
Understand the six cultural values that drive “our” and “others”; behavior, perceptions, decision-making and responses. 

Recognize your own cultural values and discover how they inform your communication behaviours. 

Observe the likely gaps between your values and those of five other national cultures with whom you likely interact. 

Discuss strategies for closing these newly identified gaps.

Gail Harcourt-    Partner  The Mindszenthy & Roberts Corporation

Gail Harcourt has been a senior communications practitioner for more than 30 years and a trainer/facilitator for more than 35 years.  

With her partner Bart, they founded their highly specialized consulting, training and  facilitation practice in 1990. Since then they have focused on organizational change, conflict, crisis and issues management. Over the past 26 years they’ve worked with more than 170 organizations, across all sectors and in several countries. 

As Senior Associates with the Niagara Institute, Gail and Bart developed and delivered training programs in the areas of Strategic Communications Planning, Issues Management, and Crisis Management. A number of their management skills development programs are in broad application across the public and private sectors. Gail served as Associate Faculty with the Faculty of Management MBA program at Royal Roads University for 10 years. She has facilitated strategic planning sessions with physicians, boards of directors and management teams and is a frequent guest speaker at conferences and conventions.  

Gail has also held management positions in the entertainment industry and international banking. She is a former director of the AKW Charity and pastChairman of the Board of Directors of the Speech Foundation (which address the developmental needs of children with severe speech disabilities).