Connecting for Change Leadership Dinner Series
Connecting for Change Leadership Dinner Series
In an era of widespread burnout and isolation, our leadership dinners offer a transformative approach to professional connection. By fostering genuine interactions among diverse leaders, we create a powerful catalyst for positive change in the workplace and beyond.
In an era of widespread burnout and isolation, our leadership dinners offer a transformative approach to professional connection. By fostering genuine interactions among diverse leaders, we create a powerful catalyst for positive change in the workplace and beyond.
Go beyond networking and build connections.
Go beyond networking and build connections.
Our Next Dinner
Our Next Dinner
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NOVEMBER 28
6:30 pm
Toronto
NOVEMBER 28
6:30 pm
Toronto
6:30 pm
Toronto
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Intimate setting
12 people max.
Intimate setting
12 people max.
12 people max.
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and charitable organization.
and charitable organization.
CONNECT
CONNECT
with diverse leaders
"Each conversation I engaged in was a journey through diverse perspectives, fostering connections that went beyond the usual small talk and delved into meaningful exchanges. The richness of these interactions was a highlight of the evening, showing the true value of bringing together individuals from different walks of life."
Chris Duff, Entrepreneur
Chris Duff, Entrepreneur
BE INSPIRED
BE INSPIRED
through engaging conversations
"Bringing very different kinds of people with very different lives and perspectives together to break bread is our best hope for the future. Across the table, we exchange our common humanity and ignite curiosity and inspiration"
Lucia Cesaroni, Founder, Principal, Cesaroni Consulting
Lucia Cesaroni, Founder, Principal, Cesaroni Consulting
BE NOURISHED
BE NOURISHED
of body, mind and ideas
"It was a very rich encounter and I left so filled with hope to know you and listening to what nourishes each of us was nourishing myself!. I really hope we keep doing this"
Dada Gasirabo, Executive Director
Dada Gasirabo, Executive Director
THE DETAILS
THE DETAILS
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Diverse People
Diverse People
Our dinners are curated events bringing together leaders from across diverse sectors.
Through diversity of experience, sectors, and backgrounds we break bread together, engage in in inspiring and thought provoking conversations, and take a bit of a respite from the every day.
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Unique Place, Food & Themes
Unique Place, Food & Themes
Our dinners are set in unique settings and highlight chefs who are leaders in their field.
Each dinner is centered around a theme connecting us to the exploration of what it takes to foster connections which catalyze change, in the workplace and beyond.
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Price with a Purpose
Price with a Purpose
Proceeds from all of our dinners go towards a local charity.
Different charity is featured at each dinner.
Our tiered pricing structure ensures equitable access while maintaining the premium quality of our services.
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Our Pricing Structure
Our Pricing Structure
A portion of every ticket price is allocated to our featured charity or non-profit organization, amplifying the impact of your participation beyond the dinner table.
Community Plate
Community Plate
This ticket is for our community members or not for profit organizations.
This is our accessible price, please use only if you require it so it can remain accessible.
This is our accessible price, please use only if you require it so it can remain accessible.
The Extra Plate
The Extra Plate
This is our pay it forward rate. It supports being able to offer our Community Plate Rate.
November 28th dinner
November 28th dinner
Our Venue
Our Venue
The Depanneur is a unique culinary event venue in Toronto showcasing the incredible diversity of our city's food scene. For over a decade its College Street location was home to thousands of dinner parties, workshops and cool pop-up food events. The Dep has recently relaunched in a beautiful new private dining room on the top floor of the Center for Social Innovation at Spadina & Queen overlooking downtown.
Our Chef
Our Chef
With a newfound focus involving sustainability, zero waste kitchen practices and a fascination with the origin of the food we consume at our tables, Chef Michael Kirkwood is always exploring.
He’s committed to using fresh, local and artisan ingredients to create a clever fusion of flavors in his cooking. Taking his experience from manning the stoves at some of Canada's most iconic restaurants including Avalon, Opus and Pangea.
Our Charitable Partner
Our Charitable Partner
Not 9 to 5 is a non-profit global leader that advocates for improving workplace mental health in the hospitality sector through practical education, meaningful community-building, and providing resources. The vision is for the culinary industry to support and provide equitable psychological safety for all.
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HONORING WHERE WE ARE- Land Acknowledgement
Even though we work globally, our offices are on the traditional unceded territory of Huron-Wendat, Anishinabek, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and The Mississaugas of the Credit River First Nations. As treaty people on this land, we acknowledge the collective, yet uniquely, and individually distinct responsibility of repairing the harms and preventing further harm caused by the White supremacist, colonial, systems which impact all parts of society, and which are directly responsible for the violent physical and cultural genocide of Indigenous peoples across Turtle Island, and the forced enslavement of people of African decent on these lands.
In our work we are accountable to all care practices that are not entangled with, and structured in punishment, surveillance and control. Care practices which are land based, and built on mutual support. Practices indigenous to all of our ancestors, and stolen from many. In our work we bring the history of our own individual ancestries, as well as the rich genealogy of deep lineage of care present in Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (QTBIPoC) communities. Communities from which self-determined care has been stolen through the legacy and present day reality of colonialism, supremacy and binary based systems. We actively center the QTBIPOC voices and aim to ensure that we are taking leadership in care by those who experience most harm.
Even though we work globally, our offices are on the traditional unceded territory of Huron-Wendat, Anishinabek, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and The Mississaugas of the Credit River First Nations. As treaty people on this land, we acknowledge the collective, yet uniquely, and individually distinct responsibility of repairing the harms and preventing further harm caused by the White supremacist, colonial, systems which impact all parts of society, and which are directly responsible for the violent physical and cultural genocide of Indigenous peoples across Turtle Island, and the forced enslavement of people of African decent on these lands.
In our work we are accountable to all care practices that are not entangled with, and structured in punishment, surveillance and control. Care practices which are land based, and built on mutual support. Practices indigenous to all of our ancestors, and stolen from many. In our work we bring the history of our own individual ancestries, as well as the rich genealogy of deep lineage of care present in Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (QTBIPoC) communities. Communities from which self-determined care has been stolen through the legacy and present day reality of colonialism, supremacy and binary based systems. We actively center the QTBIPOC voices and aim to ensure that we are taking leadership in care by those who experience most harm.