New Leaders Roundtable - Staff and Management Relationships

  • DATE: March 26 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm EDT
  • FEE: FREE for Members / FREE for Non-Members
  • VENUE: PACT Zoom
  • OPEN TO: Anyone who has stepped into the role of Artistic Director, Managing Director, and other comparable positions since early 2020.

Since 2020, our sector has gone through a tremendous amount of change, including an unprecedented increase in turnover of leadership positions. The New Leaders Roundtable is a monthly series curated to support these theatre workers through guest speakers, resource sharing, and peer to peer support.

Our next event, Staff and Management Relationships, will convene on Wednesday March 26th, 1pm ET. Our guests for this session are Dr. Grégoire Gagnon and Alison Peddie. In this session, Dr. Gagnon will share a 20 minute presentaion on HR best practices, after which Dr. Gagnon and Alison Peddie will take on questions from the attendees and provide offers on case by case bases. For this session, both our guests will remain for the length of a session, responding to the attendees' questions, in lieu of a peer to peer segment.

We encourage folks to bring in their questions as they relate to relationships between leadership positions within the same organization and staff-related concerns.

About the Presenters: 

CWC

Culture Works Canada (CWC) is the go-to national organization advancing Canadian cultural workers and workplaces. Its mission is to empower cultural workers and workplaces with leading insights and solutions to thrive! CWC is the voice of Canada’s cultural labour market. They support cultural careers at every stage through research, advocacy, and education. Alongside their partners, CWC champions a skilled diverse sector and provides essential solutions and resources to empower Canada's cultural workforce to thrive.

Dr. Grégoire Gagnon (CWC ED)

Dr. Grégoire Gagnon is a manager, pedagogue and musician fostering culture and promoting arts from the stage to the classroom and boardroom. Aside from being a lifelong academic and a real world problem solver, Grégoire is (among other things) currently the Execute Director of the Culture Works Canada, the President of the Ottawa Guitar Society, and in all his roles, he strives to make others thrive.

Alison Peddie (PACT)

Alison Peddie - CHRP is the Labour Relations Manager at PACT. Alison's areas of knowledge include: Human Resources practices that include helping hire, train, and coach new/early career arts workers, coaching through difficult conversations and decision making; Stage Management practices that foster healthy work environments, scheduling and production problem solving; Labour Relations Manager practices that are based in competent and thorough contracting, scheduling, and production related paperwork. 

Please register for this session by Monday March 23rd to receive the zoom link. 

If you have any questions or concerns, please email our Program Associate Panthea Vatandoost at pantheav@pact.ca.