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Description
At every stage of your career, your technical expertise has been your greatest strength. It earned trust, solved complex problems, and created opportunities for advancement. But leadership requires something different.
As you move into more senior roles, your success is measured less by the answers you provide and more by the questions you ask, the people you influence, and the decisions you enable. The transition from expert to leader is one of the most significant and often overlooked career shifts professionals make.
This course is designed to help you navigate that shift with confidence . Today's leaders are expected to influence strategy, collaborate across functions, lead through uncertainty, and help organizations respond to constant change. Through practical frameworks, discussion, and reflection, you'll learn how to expand your perspective from functional expert to enterprise leader and build trust and influence across diverse stakeholders.
Key Takeaways
Rather than focusing on management techniques alone, this course explores the mindset shifts required to lead effectively in today's environment, you will learn how to
- Recognize the mindset shifts required to move from expert to leader and build trust through others, not just personal expertise.
- Identify individual-contributor habits that create leadership bottlenecks and limit team growth.
- Set clear performance expectations so teams understand what success looks like.
- Delegate effectively to develop people, build capability, and increase team impact.
- Communicate with clarity and confidence, including leading difficult conversations.
- Make more strategic, organization-wide decisions by balancing team, organizational, and stakeholder needs.
Who Will Benefit
This program is designed for professionals who are ready to expand their influence and prepare for broader leadership responsibilities. You'll benefit most if you:
- Are recognized for your technical expertise but want to strengthen your leadership impact.
- Have recently moved into a management or leadership role.
- Lead projects or teams where influence matters as much as authority.
- Are expected to contribute to strategic discussions and organizational decisions.
- Want to communicate more effectively with senior leaders and stakeholders.
How to Access the Course
This course is delivered as a live webinar. To receive verifiable CPD hours, you must attend the session live. We recommend joining at least 5 minutes before the scheduled start time. For the best interactive experience, please use a computer equipped with a camera and microphone.
A reminder email with the Zoom link and course details will be sent two business days before the session. If you do not receive it, please check your spam or junk folder.
The same information, including any available materials, will also be posted in advance on our Blackboard LMS.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
Andrew Buzinsky, MBA, CPA-CMA, P.Eng., is a Certified Executive Coach and ICF member, and the founder of Rodina Ventures. He is both a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA Alberta) and a Professional Engineer (APEGA, Alberta), a combination that lets him speak the language of finance and technical professionals alike. As a business executive, he has built and scaled businesses to more than $120M USD in revenue across 10 countries, leading teams of over 500 people. As an engineer and inventor, he holds five US and Canadian patents. He has lived the move from technical expert to leader himself and now helps other technical professionals make it. This session draws on ASCEND™; his structured leadership intensive built specifically for engineers, CPAs, and other specialists stepping into leadership roles.