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Disabilities are often seen as risks to be managed when it comes to projects and initiatives, especially when faced with impending deadlines or chronic stress. Even with the best intentions, we often “accommodate” disabilities, emphasizing norms that harm and limit us. Every mind has its strengths, each mind its challenges. Excellent managers know how to bring our diverse and divergent strengths to compliment one another. In this introductory two-hour workshop you’ll learn and practice ways to build effective teams and adaptable workflows that meet project deadlines while reducing burnout, building collective resilience, and reducing team stress. Learn how a neurocomplimentary approach to project management honours our differences rather than disables them.
  • When: Monday, July 7th @ 6:00 – 8:00 PM ET
  • Where: Online (Register to get Zoom link)

Meet the panelists:

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Cale J. Passmore  Cale J. Passmore (they/him/any)

Cale is an interdisciplinary knowledge worker with over 15 years of experience in grassroots activism, academic research, and engaged community work.

Raised on Treaty 7 land, in Calgary, with ancestors from Black Irish, Scottish, English, and Norwegian roots, Cale currently serves as Special Projects and Development Lead for the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies.

This work has included creating programs like the Indigenous Project Management Advanced Certificate, miyoskamin: Innovation and Entrepreneurship program, the Design Legacies Indigenous Fashion Summit, and co-developed The pawâcikêwikamik Innovation Center on SIIT campus in downtown Saskatoon.

Formally, Cale has nearly completed his PhD (ABD) in applied computing, and earned an MA in critical and cultural theory as well as two honors BAs: one in psychology and literature. With over 300 citations of his research on discrimination, identity, community and play, Cale is dedicated to mobilizing knowledge in ways that builds bridges between people of all cultures, abilities, classes, experiences and intersecting identities.

They’ve worked as an editor and ghostwriter, teacher and mentor, data analyst and consultant while co-leading grassroots justice movements across Canada. Their work as an emergency counsellor and educator in special needs was motivated by Cale’s own struggles with ADHD, autism, and depression, raised in a household where mental health was both centered and stigmatized.

A now proud tío to several nieces, niblings and nephews, Cale relaxes by making pottery, writing poetry, and spending time out on the land

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