Fernie Chamber of Commerce has announced that nominations are open for the 2017 Business Excellence Awards.

This year’s keynote speaker is Dan Pontefract, author, thinker, speaker and former fry guy. Pontefract is Chief Envisioner at TELUS where he heads the Transformation Office, a future-of- work consulting group that helps organizations enhance their corporate cultures and collaboration practices. Previously as Head of Learning & Collaboration at TELUS, Dan introduced a new leadership framework – called the TELUS Leadership Philosophy – that dramatically helped to increase the company’s employee engagement to record levels of nearly 90%.

He is the author of The Purpose Effect: Building Meaning in Yourself, Your Role and Your Organization as well as Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization. A renowned speaker, Pontefract has presented at multiple TED events and also writes for Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Psychology Today and The Huffington Post.

Dan (pictured above) and his wife, Denise, have three young children (aka goats) and live in Victoria. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria. He is at work on his third book, tentatively titled Open To Think.

Nominations are now open at FernieChamber.com/awards.

There are 11 business and two community awards. The 2016 awards saw 221 nominations submitted representing 91 unique entries and the chamber is looking forward to more this year.

Fernie Chamber of Commerce

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