2025 LEADERSHIP SUMMIT
May 9 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
The 2025 Leadership Summit – Adapting to Disruption: Leading in Unstable Times
will be held at the Victoria Inn Brandon
May 9, 2025
Please see Agenda posted below.
Registration Starts at 8:00 am – Summit Starts at 9:00 am
Victoria Inn – Brandon, Manitoba
Member Registration – $275.00
Non-Member Registration – $300.00
As a member of the MMA, you will earn 20 PD points that contribute to your overall total.
| Time | Activity |
| 8:00 – 9:00 am | Registration |
| 9:00 – 9:05 | Welcome – Summit Opening |
| 9:05 – 9:15 | Welcome Greetings |
| 9:15 – 10:15 am | Panel Discussion: From Chaos to Order: Leading people through uncertainty |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 – 11:00 am | MMA Competency Development Map Rollout of the first version of the development map. |
| 11:00 – 12:00pm | Building Climate Resilient Communities Elizabeth Shearer Sheri Young ClimateWest will provide attendees with regionally relevant resources to support their development of climate vulnerability and risk assessments and climate adaptation strategies. This session will include a snapshot into funding available for municipalities, including the various components of HICC’s Climate Toolkit and a walk through of the functions and content of Climate Insight, a new platform developed by ICLEI providing data and information to communities looking to incorporate climate-ready, low carbon considerations into infrastructure projects. |
| 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 – 2:00 pm | Building Resilient Communities Through Stronger Local Organizations Kevin Freedmen Local non-profit organizations play a vital role in enhancing the quality of life in communities. But with shrinking funding, fewer volunteers, limited resources and capacity, and growing pressures, many organizations are struggling. Municipalities seem to be increasingly called on to offer support local non-profits, or to help clean up messes. This session offers a framework to help municipalities strengthen civil society organizations through good governance, transparent operations, and leadership development. Learning Objectives: Identify common organizational challenges local groups are facing and how these can impact communities Explore practical strategies municipalities can use to support local organizations and what to prioritize |
| 2:00 – 3:00pm | Building a Better System for Performance Evaluation and Management Mike Thompson, Change Innovators |
| 3:00 – 3:15 pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:15 – 4:15 pm | You’ll Pay for this: Measuring and Reporting on Municipal Financial Health Michel Durand-Wood In order to provide critical life-sustaining services to the public not only today, but for generations to come, municipalities must be good stewards of the public purse over the long-term. We must be able to ask: can my municipality afford to continue doing this forever? The problem is that most people have no idea what the answer is. This session will show how to prepare and use simple financial health ratios to have better discussions with council and the public about municipal finances, taxation, debt, and infrastructure. |
| 4:15 – 4:30 pm | Rising to the Challenge – Summit Closing |