SCS Events & Webinars
Our webinars and in-person events support job seekers, career changers, and workforce planners with timely insights into today’s evolving employment landscape. Led by industry experts and academic leaders, these sessions explore skills-based hiring, emerging career pathways, and the growing role of micro-credentials in validating in-demand skills. Whether you're navigating a career transition or building future talent strategies, our webinars offer practical tools and forward-thinking perspectives to help you thrive in a skills-focused economy.
Upcoming Webinars
Speaker Series | A Farmer’s Nightmare, a One Health Opportunity: Breaking Silos and Building Connections
Format: Online Webinar
Speaker: Dr. Carrie McMullen
Topic: One Health
Date & Time: Wednesday, August 12 | Noon to 1 p.m. (Eastern Time)
Length: 60 minutes
Equity, balance, stewardship, and transdisciplinarity lie at the heart of One Health. By recognizing the interconnectedness of people, animals, and ecosystems, One Health provides a framework for addressing complex challenges through collaboration across sectors, disciplines, and communities.
While often associated with health-related fields, the principles of One Health can be applied across a wide range of careers and industries. Whether you work with humans, animals, the environment, or at the intersection of these, One Health offers valuable tools for building partnerships, creating new understanding, and fostering sustainable change. This webinar will explore how the One Health approach can be used across sectors to help break down silos, connect diverse perspectives, and build or strengthen collaborations.
During this session, we will explore:
- What is One Health?
- What are the core competencies of a One Health ‘practitioner’?
- What might One Health look like in careers focused on humans, animals, the environment, or a mixture of all three?
- How can collaboration across disciplines lead to more impactful solutions?
Dr. Carrie McMullen (she/her) is a Postdoctoral Scholar in Population Medicine and One Health at the University of Guelph, where she specializes in evaluating One Health interventions in both community and higher education settings. Currently, she is assessing an educational program in Nyamagabe District, Rwanda, that aims to improve the lives of women and girls through lessons on zoonotic, waterborne, and foodborne diseases and gender-transformative principles.
Using both qualitative and quantitative research methods, Dr. McMullen is passionate about working directly with individuals and communities, and about learning from people with lived and living experience through collaborative discussions. She deeply understands the value of challenging assumptions and integrating diverse perspectives as a path toward better addressing complex health challenges.
As a fifth-generation member of a farming family from Southwestern Ontario, Dr. McMullen brings a practical understanding of One Health that has shaped her intention that research, project, and program outcomes are developed in partnership with the communities they are intended to serve.
Speaker Series | Why Growing Organizations Struggle to Build Great Teams
Format: Online Webinar
Speaker: Dr. Cris Bravo
Topic: People Management
Date & Time: Wednesday, September 2 | Noon to 1 p.m. (Eastern Time)
Length: 60 minutes
Growing a business brings exciting opportunities, but it can also create new challenges in building and managing a strong team. As organizations expand, entrepreneurs and small business leaders may encounter issues with communication, employee engagement, role clarity, workplace culture, and team performance. These challenges can be especially difficult to address without a dedicated HR department.
This webinar will explore common people-management challenges faced by growing organizations and offer practical strategies that can be implemented within teams without dedicated HR support. Participants will gain useful insights to strengthen teamwork, improve communication, support employee development, and build a positive and productive workplace culture.
Dr. Cris Bravo is the John F. Wood Chair in Entrepreneurship and Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics, University of Guelph. He teaches entrepreneurship, organizational behaviour, and responsible management.
Before joining academia, he founded and led two startups and worked with entrepreneurs, family businesses, and organizations across multiple industries. His research focuses on entrepreneurship, family businesses, and leadership, with an emphasis on helping organizations build the capabilities needed for long-term success.
Dr. Cris Bravo designed the HR for Entrepreneurship and Small Business course for the University of Guelph's School of Continuing Studies, bringing together research and practical experience to help entrepreneurs build strong organizations and lead effective teams.
Workshop | Next Move? Building Capability that Matters
Format: In-Person Workshop
Speaker: Dr. Dianne Tyers, Assistant Vice-President, School of Continuing Studies
Date & Time: Tuesday, September 22 | 2:30 to 4 p.m. (Eastern Time)
Location: University Centre, Room UC 001B – Peter Clark, University of Guelph
Length: 90 minutes
Most organizations know the world of work is changing fast. What's harder to answer is a bigger question: Do we have the capabilities to meet whatever comes next? This workshop gives members and local business leaders a chance to work through that question together.
Led by Dr. Dianne Tyers, assistant vice-president of the School of Continuing Studies at the University of Guelph, and co-hosted with the Guelph Chamber of Commerce, this 90-minute session introduces the Organizational Capability Model and its four key areas:
- Human-Centered & Inclusive
- Systems Thinking & Sustainable Strategy
- Data-Informed & Ethical Decision-Making
- Technology-Enabled & Responsible Innovation.
Using a guided self-assessment, attendees will identify where their strengths sit today and where there's room to grow. Whether you're managing a team, running your own business, or growing something new, you'll leave with a clearer view of where you and your organization are strong, where the gaps are, and where to focus next.
Past Event Recaps & Recordings
In case you missed some of our past events, we have archived the recaps and recordings for your convenience.
