Gaylene Xanthopoulos will assist you in identifying and developing the six characteristics that will create the CEO Magnetism that will ensure your success at every stage of organizational development. In addition, she will identify the skill sets that you must develop in order to drive your business to its next level of success.

Gaylene is known for her ability to get executives highly engaged in meaningful activities and thought provoking discussions. She combines these peer interactions with her personal anecdotes that are based on 20 years of experience working with top entrepreneurs from technology based companies, as well as, the VC’s, Private Equity firms and Hedgefunds who invest in them. Gaylene Xanthopoulos has a passion for helping people to reach their potential and founded The Leadership Edge in 1989 to provide leadership, management, and business development programs to scientists, engineers and their executives. She is the author of numerous books, articles and programs which have been experienced by thousands of leaders nationwide. Gaylene holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Le secteur des technologies de l'information évolue rapidement. Dans un contexte de mondialisation tumultueux, Jean-Daniel Brisson du groupe-conseil Stratégie et performance de Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton vous propose une démarche pour identifier et saisir les meilleures opportunités de croissance et surtout pour capitaliser sur la relance de façon concrète, en ciblant les efforts de développement de votre entreprise.

Jean-Daniel Brisson, M.Sc., CMC est directeur principal de la pratique des services conseils en stratégie. Il compte plus de 18 ans d‘expérience, dont plus de sept années en entreprise. Il possède une solide expertise en matière de stratégie d’entreprise. Avant de joindre RCGT, Jean-Daniel était responsable de coordonner le processus de planification stratégique au sein d’une multinationale pendant près de six ans et il a piloté divers exercices de planification à l’échelle de l’Amérique du Nord. Il a également été directeur des services conseils en stratégie dans un grand cabinet international.
Il a piloté plusieurs interventions en consultation, tant auprès de filiales de sociétés multinationales qu’auprès de PME technologiques. Il possède une solide connaissance des organismes de développement économique et des secteurs émergents tels que les technologies de l’information et les sciences de la vie.

11 h 45

René Vézina
Chroniqueur / blogueur au journal Les affaires
Rebondir après la crise

Chroniqueur/blogueur au journal Les Affaires, René Vézina pratique le journalisme depuis plus de 30 ans. Il dirigeait auparavant la Revue Commerce, après avoir animé pendant trois ans l’émission Finances au réseau TVA.
Diplômé de l’Université Laval en journalisme et sciences politiques, il a commencé sa carrière en 1977 comme journaliste à la radio et la télé de Radio-Canada en Gaspésie, avant de passer au réseau national à Montréal. Il s’est ensuite tourné vers le journalisme scientifique, ce qui l’a conduit à s’intéresser à l’économie qui est depuis devenue son champ de force.
Il perpétue aujourd’hui ce lien avec les médias électroniques par des chroniques quotidiennes à la radio, le matin et l’après-midi, au 98,5 FM, à Montréal, ainsi que le vendredi à RDI.
Il vient également de publier le guide Comment parler aux médias, aux Éditions Transcontinental, et participe régulièrement, comme animateur ou conférencier, à des forums et séminaires qui touchent les grands enjeux socioéconomiques.
 

Bud Taylor
Consultant and Author of "Customer Driven Change: What Your Customers Know; Your Employees Think; Your Managers Overlook"
You’ve cut costs & protected your cash & balance sheet? Now isn’t it time for some new ideas?

The last year may haven’t been a lot of fun for you or your customers. Everyone knows that survival was job #1 for many companies, but that’s forced them into short term thinking about their customers. Customers may be willing to forgive, but they haven’t forgotten. Even though they're saving more than before, they want to come back into the market. But they don’t want to same-old-same-old. What new innovation is in your pipeline? You might have to intersect the following four factors and find some game changing white space for your customers: customer insights, discontinuities, core competence, paradigms. As an example, Lego saved its whole business by driving innovation around a small customer insight: “fathers buy toys for boys, but mothers buy games for the family.”

Bud Taylor is an accomplished author, speaker, and change management consultant with over 30 years of experience. Bud has developed a powerful message showing you how to transform your organization by knowing what your customers know. As a speaker, Bud differentiates himself from others based on his continued consulting experience and significant business positions at Deloitte and Synovate Loyalty and marquee global clients including Microsoft Europe, Whirpool Corporation, Toyota (South Africa), Sony Electronics, Canadian Pacific, Oversea Chinese Banking Corporation and National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia. He maintains his international consulting practice through corporate alliances with MASMI Research out of London, Strategos Consulting of Chicago and ISB Worldwide in Dallas. Bud’s change management philosophy and approach are discussed in his book: Customer Driven Change: What Your Customers Know; Your Employees Think; Your Managers Overlook.