The Purpose Effect - The Impact of Aligning Personal, Role & Organizational Purpose
Please join us for our next CHO Group Session:
October 12, 2016
The Purpose Effect
The Impact of Aligning Personal, Role, & Organization Purpose
A discussion with Dan Pontefract – Author, Speaker, Thinker, Envisioner
Location: Dorsey & Whitney
Columbia Center
701 5th Avenue, Suite 6100 - Seattle
Agenda:
7:30 – 8:00 am: Registration, Continental Breakfast and Networking
8:00 – 10:00 am: Introduction, Presentation/Discussion
Society is quickly changing. Companies are forced to adapt even quicker. Since 1955, 89% of all organizations on the Fortune 500 have disappeared. The average tenure of a company on the Fortune 500 used to be 75 years, but these days it’s only 5 years. Why? There are structural and behavioral changes an organization needs to make not only to survive, but to thrive. When a defined sense of personal and role purpose is combined with a higher sense of organizational purpose, an engaged company is proven to be more successful, productive and endearing to society.
Leaders may not know it yet, but having a sense of purpose has become table-stakes for many employees at work, and today’s organizations are being pressured to exhibit purpose in their operation practices. If there is a positive interconnection between the three distinct categories of purpose—personal, role, and organization—the benefits should be felt by all stakeholders, not just profit seekers or shareholders.
Please join us October 12th for a discussion with internationally renowned author Dan Pontefract, to learn more about this balanced state of purpose that he refers to as the “sweet spot” and how you can assist employees to understand the alignment of personal, organizational and role purpose to help craft a higher purpose for your organization. Please RSVP by clicking on the link in your email invitation, no later than October 6, 2016. If you have any questions, contact Kevin Osborne or Christy Kim.
Dan Pontefract – Biography
Chief Envisioner, TELUS
Dan is the author of “ FLAT ARMY: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization” (May, 2013) and “ THE PURPOSE EFFECT: Building Meaning in Yourself, Your Role and Your Organization” (May 2016). He is Chief Envisioner of TELUS Transformation Office; a future-of-work consulting group that helps organizations enhance corporate culture, leadership, learning, work styles & collaboration practices. Dan is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria.
Previously, as Head of Learning & Collaboration at TELUS, Dan was responsible for the overarching learning, collaboration & leadership development strategy for the company. Dan championed the introduction of the TELUS Leadership Philosophy (TLP), an open and collaborative-based leadership framework for all 43,000+ TELUS team members. In parallel to these actions he drove a philosophical and cultural shift in the way TELUS views and experiences learning called “Learning 2.0”; the shift to a social, informal and formal learning and collaboration model bringing TELUS to the forefront of connected learning and leading. He further championed the use and deployment of collaborative technologies to complement both the learning and leadership frameworks. Between 2008 and 2015, employee engagement at TELUS soared from 53% to 87%.
Dan is a passionate leader in the leadership & social collaboration technology spaces and is uniquely skilled to ensure an organization can move from traditional cultures to healthier ways of working.
His career is interwoven with both corporate and academic experience, coupled with an MBA, B.Ed and multiple industry certifications and accreditations. Dan is also a renowned speaker and has been invited to deliver over 150 external keynotes and presentations since 2009, including three TEDx Talks. In 2012 he appeared on the front cover of T+D Magazine and Chief Learning Officer Magazine. His first book, FLAT ARMY has been reviewed in Forbes and The Globe and Mail and sat on the Amazon.com best sellers list in leadership. Dan also writes on Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Psychology Today and The Huffington Post.
In 2010, Dan was acknowledged by CLO as a ‘Vanguard Award’ winner and is a 2-time winner by the Corporate University Best in Class Awards of the ‘Leader of the Year’ in both 2010 and 2011. In 2012, SkillSoft awarded Dan the ‘Learning Leader of the Year’ for his work at TELUS and CLO Magazine bestowed the ‘Learning in Practice Innovation Award’ as well. He is also the recipient of the 2012 Brandon-Hall ‘Gold Award in Strategy & Governance’. In 2015, TELUS became a 10-time winner of the prestigious ‘ATD BEST’ award and was the first ever recipient of the ATD Hall of Fame distinction. In 2013 and 2014, TELUS also placed in the top ten of the Learning! 100 Awards.
He was recruited into TELUS in Q4 of 2008, previously holding senior positions with SAP, Business Objects, Crystal Decisions and the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT).
Dan and his wife, Denise, have three young children (aka goats) and live in Victoria, Canada.
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