Setting Yourself Up for Success Series – EX Experience Chat

Date: June 17, 2026
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Today’s leaders are navigating unprecedented levels of uncertainty, rapid change, and organizational complexity. These pressures can unintentionally erode psychological safety, diminish team energy, and increase the risk of harm—even when leaders are deeply committed to supporting their people. Ensuring leaders have the skills to communicate clearly, reduce friction, and model calm self management is essential to protecting the employee experience.

This series is designed for leaders who need practical, immediately applicable tools that reinforce safe leadership practices, strengthen interpersonal confidence, and enhance team performance, building on APEX’s new Positive Leadership Toolkit. Each session is intentionally brief (45 to 60 minutes) to fit into busy schedules while offering actionable frameworks leaders can immediately apply within their respective organizations.

The Setting Yourself Up For Success Leader Series offers leaders brief learning bursts to help them manage complexity without harming themselves, their teams or their colleagues.

Together, these sessions reinforce a leadership model based on the principles of positive leadership, where psychological safety and self-awareness work hand in hand to create teams that are more resilient, more engaged, and better equipped to deliver results.

EX Experience Chat – Leadership Lessons for Resilience and Sustainable Performance

Gain practical wisdom and actionable insights in this small group session with former Deputy Minister Tina Namiesnowski. This Executive Experience Chat focuses on leadership approaches, lessons around resilience, and insights into navigating today’s high accountability leadership environment while remaining effective and preserving well-being and performance.

Event Details

Date & Time: June 17, 2026, 13:00 to 14:00 ET

Audience: All Public Service executives across Canada and internationally are invited to attend APEX’s learning events

Cost: Free

Language: This event will be mostly in English. Simultaneous interpretation will be available via Wordly, an AI-based interpreting service, for those attending online.

Format: Hybrid – In-person & Online
**Given their proximity to the event location and the opportunity to network, executives in the NCR are encouraged to attend in person.

Location: In-person at APEX Office – 75 Albert Street in Ottawa
Virtual participants – via Teams webinar. A meeting link will be sent once you are registered.

Meet the Speaker

Tina Namiesniowski
Former Deputy Minister

Tina Namiesniowski is a seasoned public servant who retired from the public service on September 29, 2025. Over the course of her career, Tina has served in nine federal organizations with mandates ranging from: security and defence; social, economic and trade policy; program delivery; and front-line operations. She joined the deputy minister ranks in October 2016. After becoming the President of the Public Health Agency of Canada in May 2019, Tina knows first-hand the stresses that organizations face in times of peril, what it takes to rise to the challenge, and the importance of innovation. She is committed to service, policy and program excellence and is a strong advocate for employees, including those with disabilities, as evident through her work as the Federal Deputy Minister Champion during her last two years of her employment in the public service. Tina holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science and history from Carleton University and a Master of Arts in political science, with a concentration in strategic studies and international relations from Dalhousie University. She is married and has three children.

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