Organizational
Ambassadors

1. Build awareness of APEX brand and its value for executives within your organization

• Find ways to establish/explain your role/mandate as APEX Ambassadors – to be visible to executives at all levels within your organization.
• Share information and promote participation in APEX events and services, including bringing in APEX Executives to your organization to support learning and development.
• Supporting APEX in communicating the benefits of membership in APEX.

How

• • By having early and preferred access to APEX information, materials, planning and reporting.
  • By engaging with your organization’s Human Resource professionals that support services for executives for a partnership providing a more wholistic support for EXs within your organization.
  • By connecting with or helping to create an Executive Community of Practice within your organization and working with organizational champions at the senior level for this community and other communities that include EXs.
  • Through inclusion at your organization’s senior management tables on a regular basis by providing updates and engaging feedback on APEX initiatives.
  • By reaching out to newly appointed executives in your organization to help facilitate their integration into the EX-cadre, including connecting them with services and support offered by APEX.
  • By participating in APEX offerings, as an individual and as an ambassador, such as Summit, and consider offering echo events or firsthand debriefs within your organization.

2. Provide feedback and input to APEX by connecting to the interests and emerging needs of executives in their respective organizations.

• Maintaining two-way communications between executives in your organization and APEX on issues related to total compensation, leadership and health & wellness (APEX’s centers of excellence key focus areas), as well as other emerging topics of importance to the executive community, including future of work.
• Supporting and participating in APEX’s research initiatives by enabling engagement and creating opportunities for executives in your organizations to participate at all stages.
• Identifying and proposing opportunities for APEX to meaningfully engage with executives across your organization including periodic bilateral discussions with senior leaders and the members of the executive community.

How

• • By ensuring that Ambassadors have access to internal networks and decision-making fora inside their organization.
  • Through purpose build channels into APEX to receive information and feedback through the designated APEX Executive responsible for liaison with Ambassador Network.

3. Actively contribute to a strong Executive Ambassador Network in pursuit of leadership excellence, to reinforce public service values of respect, inclusion/diversity, and civility for the executive cadre as a whole. (Client service and inspiring leadership)

Actively participate in Ambassadors’ Network monthly meetings and special meetings and where possible, working groups of the Network.

• Participate in APEX activities with this network including attending Signature events: Summit; Induction of new EXs, the APEX Annual General Meeting and special events.
• Contribute to the promotion of the annual APEX Awards of Excellence and identify deserving executives.
• Generate ideas of outreach, learning and networking opportunities to APEX in support of leadership excellence in the executive cadre.
• Engage and connect with other executive communities to integrate on multiple levels.
• Identify executives who would be solid candidates for an active role within APEX, board members or APEX Executives as well as succession planning for future ambassadors.

• Indeterminate executive within the Organization they are representing
• A Member of APEX
• Bilingual (or at least one bilingual Ambassadors if there are more than one in larger organizations that have regions or are regionally-based)
• Passion and Interest in serving the executive community.
• Consideration of Talent Management
• Ability to devote the equivalent of one day per month to the role (12 days):
  • of 2-3 hrs per month at the Ambassadors Network;
  • 2-3 hrs per month internally in their organization in participating in meetings and disseminating information.
• On an annual basis, to commit an additional 4-5 days to attended APEX events including:
  • Annual Summit (2 days),
  • Induction of new Exs (1/2 day)
  • the APEX AGM (2hrs) ; and
  • and other functions as part of the Ambassador network

• APEX will provide resources and materials, including monthly Newsletters, and tools for social media channels, (LinkedIn) and prepared messaging for Ambassadors to use within their organizations.
• APEX will actively engage and advocate with organizational heads for the Ambassador role, including access to senior leaders as well as executives within the organization.
• APEX will provide support to organizations in recruiting Ambassadors and in clarifying roles – including providing proposed Performance Management Agreement language to recognize the value of this corporate function.
• APEX will provide the Secretariat function for the Network of Ambassadors.

• To contribute to a healthy and vibrant public service by ensuring the concerns and needs of executive colleagues are being heard and acted upon;
• To support the future leadership of the public service, by helping to inspire and demystify the EX-role and supporting integration of new EXs into the ranks of the executive cadre.

• Advance your own professional development by:
  • Increasing your visibility and influence as a leader in a corporate role, both inside and outside of your organization; and
  • Gain exposure to different perspectives and other types of organizations both public and not for profit, which can be valuable assets for other roles/positions in social engagement, both inside and outside the federal public service
• Expand your network, inside your organization and with colleagues from over 40 organizations as part of the APEX Ambassador Network.
• Get advanced information on events, research, OCHRO’s initiatives, etc
• Influence priorities and programs (e.g., by bringing up concerns, topics of interest from your departments).
• Be a force for positive change for your community and a difference maker in these changing times through a best-in-class professional association.