Tuesday, October 12, 2021
6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Via ZOOM
Guest Coach: Pramila Javaheri, Chartered Mediator, BA (Hons) – Executive Director of ADRIO
This session will provide a road map of practical techniques, tips, and tools to reveal how to refresh, recalibrate and recharge your business using your unique skills in ADR during these consistently changing times. Participants will be prompted to identify and capture the unique skills and expertise that sets them apart in their business. This theme will be embedded in the activities and main points of the session. Change is the one constant that proves to show up consistently. This interactive session will reveal how to cultivate an attitude of how to identify and capture the changes that are happening quickly, to recalibrate and stay focused on business goals and keep moving towards the success desired for a prosperous business. One key example that will be used to illustrate this topic area will be how leadership, the love for ADR and Community Development created a successful business that inspires growth each day.
Learning outcomes:
✔Interactive session to identify or refocus your unique professional skills in ADR.
✔Practical techniques, tips, and tools to reveal how to embrace and leverage your unique expertise to build a robust ADR journey in consistently changing times. ✔Strategies that maximize how courage and confidence can serve as a foundation to building your ADR business.

Pramila Javaheri, Chartered Mediator, BA (Hons) Pramila is the Executive Director at ADR Institute of Ontario. She is also an engaging Speaker and Mediator with over 21 years of experience. She has worked with her clients to facilitate solutions by consensus that are practical and robust. Her experience in mediation includes workplace, residential and commercial properties, personal injury, employment and business related contractual disputes, statutory accident benefits, community and criminal disputes. Pramila is past Vice-President of the ADR Institute of Ontario and past President of the Community Legal Clinic of York Region and Social Planning Council of York Region. She has the distinct designation as a Charter Mediator (C.Med). Her work and success have been featured on CBC radio, televised on CTV and published in the Toronto Star. She has taught classes at Schulich School of Business, Ryerson, University of Ontario, Centennial College, George Brown College and Seneca. She has provided coaching, mediation, ADR & leadership training, and consulting services to thousands of participants of many organizations, including union groups, crown corporations, major Canadian enterprises, faith groups and community organizations across Canada. In addition to her mediation practice, Pramila has an extensive background in Community Development (CD) and uses engagement strategies, research, and her skills in ADR in CD to mobilize and empower community groups, organizations and sectors to work on their vision and priorities that they have set to create and sustain long lasting positive changes to build stronger neighbourhoods across the GTA. She has led the implementation of hundreds of programs and services. She has received numerous Leadership and Mentorship awards for strengthening the community. Pramila was an instructor and mentor for students at the Creative Institute for Toronto’s Young Leaders (CITY Leaders) and the Toronto’s Centre for Community Learning and Development. Pramila has an undergraduate degree in Sociology (B.A Honours) from York University and a Certificate for the Emerging Leaders Program from Schulich School of Business.