For the second year of the Joint Career Development Program (JCDP) with the Office of the Comptroller General (OCG), more than 1,900 or 2 in 5 ACFO members received professional development training thanks to the $1M investment from Treasury Board as part of ACFO’s last collective agreement signed in April 2017. We are pleased to announce that all recipients of this year’s JCDP training were selected by random draw.

More information about all the JCDP offerings can be found below. We thank the 1,100 FIs who applied for this year’s JCDP and we encourage all members of the FI Community who did not receive or apply for training this year to apply for next year’s program opening in Spring 2019. For more information about the Joint Career Development Program and the types of training listed below, visit the JCDP section of our website.

Spring Tune Up

ACFO’s annual flagship professional development day, the Spring Tune Up, was held in Ottawa at the Shaw Centre on May 15, 2018. With more than 1,100 attendees, Spring Tune Up 2018 was the largest ever, where high profile speakers, including former host of The National Peter Mansbridge, offered inspiring and educational presentations that were useful to the career and personal development of FIs.

A full recap is available here. 2019’s Spring Tune Up will take place on June 4, 2019 at the Shaw Centre and feature Dragon’s Den’s Manjit Minhas. Registration will open in early 2019.

Regional Tune Ups

Nearly 400 FIs from across the country took part in the ACFO Regional Tune Up event series from August to November. These professional development events brought a regional flare to the inspiring and informative talks of the Spring Tune Up, with stops in Winnipeg, Halifax, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Speakers included:

• Joe Boughner – The Art of the Email
• Baltej Singh Dhillon – The Sikh Mountie
• ESDC Senior Management Panel
• Pierre Lainey – Power and Influence
• Office of the Comptroller General – Community Development and FI Competency Renewal
• Dany Richard – Why Office Politics Matter
• Joti Samra – How to Remain Resilient in Stressful Times
• Tova Sherman – Win, Win, Win: Achieving the Ultimate in Workplace Satisfaction
• Carolyn Stern – Leading with Emotional Intelligence

The events also featured a town-hall-style lunch with ACFO President Dany Richard and several networking breaks, giving participants the opportunity to meet other FIs from their region.

IFSD 360 Course

Led by Kevin Page, 30-year veteran of the federal financial community and Canada’s first Parliamentary Budget Officer, the five-day FI-exclusive IFSD 360 course is a full circle insider’s guide to the key facets of the financial cycle. Taught by The Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy (IFSD), this hands-on, interactive course took place in two 20-student cohorts in September and October with FIs from across the country participating. The course was broken down into five modules, including due-diligence and costing, estimates, forecasting, the financial cycle and effective communications.

Recipients

Wendy Boisvert	David Charlebois	Sereen Choueiri	Marie-Ève Côté
Tina Courchesne Savard	Ioana Damian	Mike Davis	Isabelle Desnoyers
Kathleen Dmytryshyn	Chantal Laberge	Yang Liu	Tonya MacNeill desOrmeaux
Kathryn McCarthy	Victoria McDougall	Joseph Morasse	Thomas Nakamaru
Line Leduc	Junko Prefontaine	Jesleen Rai	Xin Ning Wang
Susan Benjamin	Michel Benoit	Viviana Chan	Nathalie Chane-Kive
Emmanuelle Fortier	David Griffin	Soneviseth Bounsong	Monique Krempig
Lily Li	Chris MacDonald	Omar Nait ouagous	Shantanu Rao
Joan Man	Mustafa Saleh	Yumna Siddiqui-Khan	Anna Skoczylas
Lisa Smith	Erinn Sunderland	Hue Tang	Xing Wang

FI Interchange Program

The Interchange program gave 50 FIs the unique opportunity to travel across Canada for one week and enhance their understanding of the duties, challenges and departmental culture that their fellow FIs experience in another region. 25 FIs from the NCR visited FIs in both Toronto and Montreal, while 25 FIs from the regions came to Ottawa.

In addition to job shadowing rotations, participants heard from senior managers and leaders about their vision for the FI Community and networked with FIs from different regions and departments. Regional participants met with the OCG to learn more about TBS and financial management community development, while NCR participants got to take part in the Regional Tune Up.

“I enjoyed being able to meet with colleagues in the FI community from different departments and levels. This allowed me to share best practices and learn from them as well,” one participant from the program said.

FI Interchange Week 1 (Ottawa, September 24-28) Participants

CSC, TBS and GAC

Emma Alday	Saghi Bitaraf	Marc Cormier	Robbie Densmore
Darlene Edouard	Ashraf Ghali	Muhammad Khan	Natacha Breau
Alex Robichaud	Sara Saddiki	Diane Wood	Trevor Vigfusson

FI Interchange Week 2 (Toronto, October 15-19) Participants

ESDC and PSPC

Daniel Da Silva	Rene Haddad	Jing Ke (Jenny) Han	Magdalen Kayanja
Micheline Khouri	David (Chun Yu) Lao	David Maclean	Nicholas Mahon
David Medhin	Patricia Murat	Yan Wu	Jia Qi (Jackie) Yang

FI Interchange Week 3 (Montreal, November 5-9) Participants

ESDC, DEC and CSC

Francine Beauchamp	Abdeljabbar Chokki	Martin Dorner	Melanie Germain
Denise Guenette	Audrey Guilbert	Hristo Kumchev	Sophie Lépine
Duc-Tri Nguyen	James Rimmer	Karine Surprenant	Vivien Zhao
Xinning Zheng

FI Interchange Week 4 (Ottawa, December 3-7) Participants

TBS, ESDC and PSPC

Matthew Buchanan	Robert Cerone	Christian Dupuis	Anna Essex
Zhi Yi Fang	Darlene MacKenzie	Diane Nguyen	Jane Palmer
Ghislain Pigeon	Jillian Wabugwe	Rakelle Woldeyes	Wai Mun (Vivian) Wong
Kathy Yan

Authentic Leadership Course

The two-day Authentic Leadership Course was held in Ottawa by Trillium Teams, who helped 75 FIs from across the country over three cohorts discover their authentic leadership style to be a more effective communicator and engaging leader.

The course combined lecture-style learning, personal reflection time, one-on-one partnerships and group work with the other participants, and topics covered included:

• Emotional intelligence and how it applies to leadership;
• The DISC behavioural model to gain insight into more effective communication;
• Difficult conversations, an ongoing leadership challenge; and
• Narrative leadership at the heart of clear and memorable communication.

Recipients

Yasir Ahmed	Leena Anand	Heather Barrett	Mélanie Bolduc
Lorenzo Bracci	Mariana Calles	Susan Cordeiro	Yuyi Deng
Minjue Deng	Angela Doiron	Remi Donelle	Sophie Drapeau
Manon Durand	Jason Gallie	Tania Gardner	Julie Houle
Yi Qing Huang	Amal Khatib	Frederic Lareau	Wei-Chun Ling
Imelda Lloren	Kyle McLean	Gloriose Mutamuliza	Sylvie Nadeau-Janelle
Rafik Orfali	Chantal Renaud	Topo Fu	Stephanie St-Jean
Shirley Zeng	Nadim Assouad	Roberto Dal Grande	Christopher Deal
Franziska Dubach	Karla Gascon	Melissa Gurova	Ying Huggins
Shivani Jain	Peter Korosi	Mike Lightstone	Melanie Michaud
Prashanthi Nadarajah	Mathilde Ngo Mbom	Danielle Pierce	Abderrahim Boussani
Sean Russell	Maureen Salem	James Sapp	Hassan Souleiman
Dwayne Talsma	Ben Watson	Shelian Williams	Sissy Wong
Wen Zhang	Jeffrey Allo	Lise Arsenault	Chantal Aubin
Patrizia Diodati	Caroline Dulude	Najat Fouadi	Marie-Claude Gagnon
Marc Guerrier	Christine Habimana Mukandilima	Karen Hall	Danielle Harris
Jean-Francois Jolette	Tanos Kairouz	Sylvie Labelle	Nabila Lagmiri
David Latreille	Denise Levecque	Stéphanie Maltais	Benoit Massé
Hélène Meloche	Eileen Lem	Ryan Poon	Daniela Popescu
Fatima Rahhali	Karim Sabtaoui	Susan Spohr	Rosalinda Lattanzio

CFE Prep Course

Offered by Densmore, the CFE Prep course was offered to 34 FIs writing the Common Final Examination in September 2018. This course provided approach strategies and skills development in preparation to write the three-day CFE. French learners participated in an online version of the prep course provided by LCG Coaching, CPA Inc.

Recipients

Carolyn Allen	Lhoussaine Aitzaid	Marie Anoman	Abdul Ashrad
Joshua Brown	Thomas Budnick	Suru (Elisee) Cakpo	Brodie Carter
Brandon DeRose	Ousmane Diallo	Olga Dolghi	Elysia Drost
Jonathan Eliuk	Themiya Ellepola	Anitha Ganesan	Drew Goyens
Tommy Lee Guerette	Russ Hicks	Sorina Ioan	Kelvin Lee
Di Liu	Christina Ly	Kevin McIlvenna	Melissa Ricco
Christopher Ritchie	Hussein Sabbah	Amadou Salifou	Jia Yun Song
Laila Taga	Thuy Tran	Sabrina Trieu	Boramy Ty
Nicholas Young	Vincent Yu

Language Training

100 FIs from across Canada were selected for 25 hours of in-person, one-on-one language training with a language tutor. Scheduling of each recipient’s training was flexible with full-time and part-time training available. FIs in the NCR received training from Ecole de langues La Cité, but FIs in the regions had the option to either arrange their own government-approved vendor or arrange distance training with Ecole de langues La Cité.

“I am glad that I was selected for language training funded by ACFO-OCG. It is a precious opportunity for learning and development,” said one FI.

Language training is ongoing until March 31, 2019, and the list of recipients below is subject to change. Should any spots become available, we will be in touch directly with the applicants next on the list with further instructions.

Recipients

Adebayo Aina	Shahzada Akhtar	Kanchan Alamelu	Nada Almaghrawi
Tricia Anderson	Angelo Asimakopoulos	Marie-Claude Aubin	Mariana Teodora Barbunca
Fouad Ben-Ohoud	Luigi Bonacci	Sophie Bonneau	Nabil Bounagua
Josee Carriere	Réginald Châtelain	Chloe Cheng	Danielle Chénier
Tamara Chiu	Jennifer Clavel	Jacinthe Côté	Sylvie Couillard
Peter Crowley	Anh Day Chief	Gayathri De Silva	Mame Fatou Diop
Samia Ferchichi	Stephanie Fullerton	Donna Fung	Nara Gasparyan
Arsen Gasparyan	Li Gerolami	Ion Ginga	Barry Gleich
Yu ting Gong	Borys Goscicki	Nicole Gowan	Dan Greene
Lessia Harvey	Susan Hillier	Amy Ho	Evan Ho
Ozair Husain	Melissa Ismail	Amelia King	Maxime Labrecque
Éric Lachaine	Emily Larocque	Tanya Leger	Lisa Liang
Stella Liu	Sonthonax Lombard	Mylene Lu	Marilyn Luong
Sondos Mabrouk	Anny Maillé	Faisal Mamun	Lisa Margeson
Helen Mitchell	Michael Morris	Kaniki Mutonkole	Rani Naoufal
Muhammad Ali Nasir	Annie Ntumba-Kanyinda	Katie Oatway	Dominique Pagé
Di Pang	Ludovic Pepin	Debra Peters	Micheline Provick
Yuan Qin	Gracy Ragheb	Vennila Ramachandran	Tammy Robertson
Christine Robinson	Mark Ross	Annick Routhier	Christian Roy
Shane Sabga	Derek Sequeira	Samantha Shaw	Bernadette Sia
Harvinder Sian	Jacinthe Simoneau	Alazhar Sisay	Nick Spanos
Karine St-Louis	Ghazala Syed	Lily Tang	Tameka Thomas
Vanessa Tran	Annie Trepanier	Clara Tsim	Lily Wang
Yun Xu	Tom Yang	Gang Yin	Rana Yorke
Nancy Zhang	Xinguo (Tracy) Zhao	Si Chen Zhou	Yuan Zhu