SPEAKER:

Tuesday May 6th, 2008
Ramada Hotel and Convention Centre,
Main Floor Conference Centre
1818 Victoria Avenue, Regina SK

Brent Pederson is a Senior Consultant with Hay Group, based in Regina.  Brent specializes in organizational effectiveness, strategic talent management, and leadership development.  He has worked with more than 30 organizations to create solutions that are innovative, effective, and sustainable.  Prior to joining Hay Group, Brent spent 15 years in Human Resources in the energy sector, with the last 10 leading a team providing internal consulting services in areas including: leadership development, succession planning, performance management, change management, organizational design, recruitment, coaching, technical training, facilitation services, and creativity & innovation.

Brent holds a masters degree and is certified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indictor (MBTI), the Six Thinking Hats, Executive Coaching, and holds certificates in Organizational Design (USC), Human Resource Management (Queens), Adult Education (St.F.X.), and Power Engineering (SAIT).

The Six Thinking Hats™ is a simple, practical, flexible, and powerful framework to help people and organizations think more effectively, efficiently, and creatively.  Based on the system developed by Dr. Edward DeBono (M.D., PhD, Rhodes Scholar), the Six Thinking Hats™ organizes your thinking through a framework of structure, focus, & discipline represented by the six distinct thinking modes.  Commonly used by organizations wanting to develop a creative culture with a common language and tools, the Six Thinking Hats™ have been the subject of over 50 books in 35 languages and are currently used in over 50 countries.  Benefits of using the hats include: much more focused and productive meetings, increased idea generation, reduced adversarial interactions, a more thorough analysis of problems, more democratic and inclusive participation, and ensuring an issue has been approached from all perspectives.  Specific uses include: meetings, business process improvements, performance management, focus groups, strategic planning, project management, and capturing lessons learned from projects/events/programs.