If you’re seeking a different training experience, please join us for this one-of-a-kind event!
Save the date for May 24-25*, 2024, when the Centre for Sport Capacity will host the highly anticipated 2024 Niagara Hope on the Horizon workshop in collaboration with Sport Law and the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES).
*Please note Victoria Day is Monday, May 20, 2024; our event is the following weekend.
What is the Hope on the Horizon event?
This two-day workshop will provide you with tools to build your leadership, legal, and risk management capacity while sharing insight from fellow sport and recreation business, nonprofit and government leaders in Niagara and beyond.
What is included in your ticket?
- Panel and social with appetizers
- Light breakfast
- Lunch
The workshop fee is $60. The total price when registering comes to $65.23 which includes Eventbrite’s non-refundable administration fee.
To have “good” sport and recreation in Niagara we must support healthy, confident, and capable leaders. Whether you are a small business owner, volunteer, coach, sponsor, or someone involved in physical activity programming… we all need to understand the risk facing sport in our backyard.
This workshop highlights the complexity of sport markets and sectors and the future trends that you will face, such as:
- Good governance to build a healthy sport and recreation environment;
- Risk management to address immediate high-level risks and pressing issues;
- Safety to ensure a positive sport experience for all;
- Inclusion and diversity to embrace all participants;
- Values-based leadership to guide difficult decision-making;
- Legal ‘best practices’ to meet mandatory regulations and legislation.
By assisting confident, capable professionals and volunteers in Niagara’s sport and recreation sector, the 2024 Hope on the Horizon workshop supports those – such as you – who contribute to a thriving and sustainable community.
You will meet other people involved in sport – who are just as passionate as you are about the value sport and recreation brings to our community and economy. Through the exchange of knowledge, skills, and experiences during this workshop, you will be empowered to navigate the ever-arising complexities of sport and recreation.
The focus on ethical practices and effective leadership will inspire positive change and guide in you in setting new standards for safe and inclusive sport.
Sport Law has been providing strategic insight to the Canadian sport community since 1992. They offer a full range of consulting, Integral Coaching and legal services to the Canadian sport community. They are accessible, affordable, highly skilled, and bring experience and common sense to every project. Their vision is to elevate sport.
The CCES works collaboratively to ensure Canadians have a positive sport experience. Through its programs, the CCES manages unethical issues in sport, protects the integrity of Canadian sport, and promotes True Sport to activate values-based sport on and off the field of play. The CCES is an independent, national, not-for profit organization that is responsible for the administration of the Canadian Anti-Doping Program (CADP). Under the CADP rules, the CCES makes public every anti-doping rule violation.
How can I be a 2024 Niagara Hope on the Horizon workshop sponsor?
Click here to become a safe sport ambassador and sponsor this great event. We offer personalized sponsorship packages to facilitate your success and foster growth, tailored for brand visibility and audience engagement.
Our Sponsors
Thank you to our visionary sponsors for making this event possible!
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Speakers
2024 Niagara Hope On the Horizon Speaker Line-Up
Click each speakers name on the left to explore our line-up for the Hope on the Horizon Tour! Our three speakers will address challenges in governance systems, risk management, staff resources, and leadership in sports. Highlighting the importance of ethical practices, values-based leadership, and reducing risks in sport through collaboration with organizations like Sport Law and the CCES. The discussion will revolve around modernizing sport systems, adopting values-driven strategies, enhancing volunteer training, and improving communication.
Dina Bell-Laroche (BJ, MA) is a certified professional Leadership Coach who joined Sport Law in 2009, merging her communications consulting firm with the organization to better support sport leaders. Dina has worked for several sport organizations since 1991 including the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, the Canadian Olympic Committee, the True Sport Foundation, and Equestrian Canada.
Dina specializes in leadership coaching, strategic planning, communications, risk management, cultural transformation, as well as grief and loss. Dina’s passion is to support sport leaders who want to develop, learn, grow, and thrive.
Steve Indig, BRec, LLB, began his career with Sport Law in 2003, immediately after being called to the bar as a lawyer. Steve has had the opportunity to work with over 650 national, provincial, and local sport organizations providing consulting and legal services related to governance, employment, contracts, policies, disputes, and privacy. He is a regular guest speaker and presenter at AGMs, conferences, and workshops, and also acts as a mediator and adjudicator.
During the early years of his career, Steve was certified by the NFL, CFL, MLS, and FIFA to represent professional athletes as a sports agent. He continues to be involved in sport as an athlete in swimming, hockey, basketball, softball and golf; and recently won a bronze medal in the 2013 Maccabi Games in Israel playing basketball.
Karri Dawson is the Executive Director of Values-Based Sport at the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport. With more than more than 25 years of professional experience, Karri has managed corporate sponsorships, philanthropic donations, and community engagement programs at all levels of sport in Canada.
She is most passionate about fostering a fair, safe, accessible, and inclusive sport experience that maximizes the personal and social benefits for all participants. Currently, Karri leads a diverse team that works to activate a values-based approach to sport through True Sport; examines ethical issues that threaten the integrity of sport; and develops education to support athletes and promote clean sport. Karri has been an active member of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s Education Committee for seven years and gives back to the domestic sport community through mentorship and volunteering on numerous workgroups and committees.
Schedule
| Time | Friday May 24th, 2024 – Gathering our Community |
| 6:30pm | Registration |
| 7:00pm | To commence, we will review the purpose of our workshop, introduce the panel members, acknowledge the Indigenous land on which we gather, and kick off the event! |
| 7:20pm | Panel discussion and Q&A |
| 8:30pm | Closing remarks, networking social and appetizers |
| Time | Saturday May 25th, 2024 – Learning, Connecting, & Resourcing Ourselves |
| 8:15am | Registration and light breakfast |
| 9:00am | Cover legal topics including, (1) fundamental legal obligations of an incorporated organization; (2) upcoming legal issues; (3) updates on complaint management processes; and (4) directors’ responsibilities / governance essentials. |
| 11:00am | Discuss significant sport trends, management by values, measuring culture, and quality of presence. |
| 12:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30pm | Discuss the principles of True Sport, provide inspiring examples to learn from, suggest practical ways for implementation, and outline the immediate next steps to becoming a True Sport champion. |
| 3:50pm | Closing Remarks |
Brock University, 1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way, St. Catharines, Ontario
Free parking included in Lot 1 of Brock University. Parking map will be sent to attendees before the event.