The Center for Organizational Cultural Competence
Lew Bayer is the Executive Director of The Center for Organizational Cultural Competence (COCC), which serves to meet the needs of employers who want to:

• Assess their readiness to adapt to pending demographic changes in their organziation
• Attract and retain qualified employees from the growing multi-cultural labour pool
• Increase their organizational cultural competence and build cross-cultural communication skills
• Build capacity through a committment to in-house training and development
• Foster respectful communications and civility in the workplace.

The Center offers training, presentations, and educational tools related to managing change, addressing diversity, building organizational cultural competence, and leveraging differences at work. Fostering inclusiveness is good business for Canadians in every occupational sector.

The team at the COCC includes experts in organizational issues, intercultural competence trainers, English as additional language instructors, cultural perspective advisors, and experienced competency and transferable skills analysts.

Lazer Grant LLP Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors provides services under the umbrella of five registered businesses: Lazer Grant LLP Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors, Lazer Grant Inc., Lazer Grant Consulting, Ownership Thinking Canada Canada and Lazer Grant First Nation Advisors Inc.

Lazer Grant LLP Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors provide Accounting, Audit, Tax assistance and Business Development services.

Profiles International: Human Resource Management and Assessment Tools
Profiles International provides a comprehensive array of employee assessment instruments used to put people in the right jobs, help managers lead, coach, and motivate effectively, and help all employees direct their efforts to achieve greater productivity and profitability.

Profiles International assessments provide employers with information used for hiring, promoting, succession planning, 360-degree feedback programs, management development, training, motivating, improving customer service, and other employment issues.

Profiles International is "The Assessment Company," ready to assist you in solving your most expensive problems.

CB4 Consulting: Business Strategies
CB4 is focused on assisting business owners plan their exit strategies. CB4 guides the investment process, allowing business owners who want to retire, the opportunity to do just that.

It is never too early to start planning and implementing your exit strategy. Your company may be an emerging business seeking corporate financing or an established company seeking to expand through merger, acquisition, joint venture or strategic alliance. Clients can rely on CB4 for a full range of services all geared to one process: Grow your business so you can reap the benefits and retire comfortably.

CB4’s extensive business knowledge and network of financing relationships provide access to many sources of corporate financing – both domestic and international.

SPEAKERACCESS.COM
At SPEAKERACCESS.COM we have made it our mission to support organizations in the development and delivery of outstanding learning and development events and as a result generate the greatest return on investment possible. With this single mandate in mind we have focused our attention on two critical objectives:

• To provide the most effective speakers and facilitators available
• To ensure that every event and/or conference is logistically managed so as to maximize learning and development

SPEAKERACCESS.COM is well positioned to add value to the learning and development events in your organizations.

The founding partners are Dr. Leigh Quesnel who brings twenty years of experience as an organizational consultant, educator and keynote presenter, and Darryl Balasko, who brings extensive experience in the areas of management consulting and event management.

International Society of Performance Improvement
The International Society for Performance Improvement focuses on performance and the ISPI advantage.

Workforce performance takes on new significance in our economic future. Human performance technology (HPT) – the systematic approach to improving productivity and competence – is the key to global competitiveness.