Gail Severini

Conferences are an important professional development opportunity. Most provide best practices as well as innovation tracks (and the networking is terrific). Please note this is not an endorsement―just a list. I will let you know the ones we will attend. Let’s connect if you will be there also.

Many of the conferences for 2013 are being organized and announced now. In some cases, the “call for papers” is still open.

This post is all about change management conferences in the US and Canada. I have also started tracking Strategy and Strategy Execution conferences. That post will be published shortly.

Drum roll, please. Here is the list for 2013:

April

•   “Lights, Camera, Change...producing results in a global economy”, April 14-17, 2013, Los Angeles, California. The Association of Change Management Professionals. We’ll be there—let’s connect in advance. (https://acmpglobal.site-ym.com/default.asp?page=1ACMPGlobalCon2013)

•   “Change 2013: The Art and Science of Leading Change”, April 15-16, 2013, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Toronto, Ontario. Tenth annual change management conference from the Conference Board of Canada. (http://www.conferenceboard.ca/conf/13-0051/default.aspx)

May

•   “Managing Change: 2013 World Conference on Quality and Improvement”, May 6-8 2013, Indianapolis, Indiana. Produced by the American Society for Quality. (http://wcqi.asq.org/theme-focus-areas.html)

June

•   “The Thirteenth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations”, 13-14 June 2013, University of British Columbia, Robson Square, Vancouver, Canada. (http://ontheorganization.com/the-conference)

•   “Change Management Conference”, June 27-28, 2013, W Hotel, New York, NY. Produced by the US Conference Board. (http://www.conference-board.org/conferences/conferencedetail.cfm?conferenceid=2445)

Do you know of a conference that I missed? Please add it in the comments section or email me at gail.severini@connerpartners.com and I will update the list.