Leading for High Performance:
Unlocking Team Potential
Seminar Overview
Seeking to develop a high-performing team?
In today’s fast-paced work environment, motivating your staff and focusing your team’s efforts can be a juggling act. This three-hour virtual seminar will explore proactive ways to support stronger team performance, and provide practical strategies to unlock your team’s potential. The focus of the seminar will be on approaches you can implement right away to support your team in delivering on its mission.
We’ll explore questions such as:
- What does high performance look like in a nonprofit context, and how do we know when a team is achieving it?
- How can leaders strengthen alignment between individual work, team priorities, and the mission?
- What feedback practices reinforce high performance without creating pressure or burnout?
- What systemic barriers commonly get in the way, and how can leaders address them?
- How can leaders nurture the conditions for high team performance in the next 30 days?
What will you take away?
By the end of the seminar, you’ll have:
- A practical lens (the Performance Equation) to help identify where team potential exists and where interference limits results.
- A focused understanding of leader behaviours that create clarity, trust, and the conditions for people to do their best work.
- Tools for strengthening accountability through expectation-setting, feedback loops, and consistent communication.
- Insight into systemic challenges that influence team performance — and practical ways to address or reduce them.
- A 30‑day challenge to strengthen high-performance conditions by applying one or two targeted practices immediately that build momentum after the workshop.
- Peer-informed strategies from collaborative discussion and shared nonprofit leadership experience.
You’ll have opportunities to discuss real workplace situations and bring your own questions to the facilitators.
This seminar is a good fit for:
- Managers, supervisors and nonprofit leaders who are responsible for team performance and want practical ways to strengthen how they lead.
This seminar will include:
- Seminar Presentation
- Breakout Sessions
- Practical Resources
- Opportunities for Collaboration
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Question & Answer Period
About the Seminar
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Where: VirtualWhen: October 21, 2026 |
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Time: 1 pm (EST)Length: 3 Hours |
Presented By Lake and Associates Canada Inc.
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Rick Besteman, CEO and Founder of Lake and Associates Canada Inc.Rick Besteman is the CEO and Founder of Lake and Associates Canada Inc. As a Certified Management Consultant and leadership coach, Rick helps business owners and executives improve performance through clear, practical guidance. With extensive experience in senior roles at a large publicly traded Canadian company, he combines operational insight with a respectful, results-driven approach. A Certified Management Consultant and certified facilitator in The Coaching Leader™ (Forrest & Company Ltd.), Rick is also a Real World Group™ Licensed Facilitator and an accredited Performance Pendulum™ coach. On a volunteer basis he mentors young entrepreneurs through Futurpreneur Canada. When he is not working, Rick enjoys time on, or in, the water, as a member of the St. Catharines Bassmasters fishing club and as a PADI-certified scuba diver. |
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Perri Termine, Director of Research with Lake and Associates Canada Inc.Perri Termine, Director of Research with Lake and Associates Canada, blends research with facilitation and program design to support innovative initiatives and strengthen organizational capabilities. With a multidisciplinary background spanning adult learning, community engagement, and global development, her work bridges nonprofit leadership, civic engagement, conflict resolution, public health, and equity focused initiatives. She holds a Master of Education from University of Toronto and is a Researcher alumna of The Reach Alliance, contributing a co authored chapter to the book “Experiential Learning and Community.” As part of the Lake and Associates team, she co conducted research into non-profit leadership practice to develop the Performance Pendulum™, a framework designed to strengthen leader capability in social impact settings. |
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Rashmi Biswas, Executive Vice-President with Lake and Associates Canada Inc.Rashmi Biswas is the Executive Vice-President with Lake and Associates Canada. In prior roles Rashmi successfully led large teams, held profit and loss accountability, and gained extensive business experience within corporate and academic arenas in Canada, the USA, and the UK. With a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Adult Education, Facilitation and Training, Rashmi bridges theory and practice sharing over two decades of cross-sector insights with Clients. Rashmi works with leaders across public, private, and nonprofit organizations, and has provided consulting services in Canada, South America, Asia, and the Middle East. Working with a range of Canadian nonprofit organizations prompted Rashmi to examine the unique challenges facing senior leaders within the sector. This led to a research project for the Lake team resulting in the development of the Performance Pendulum™, an original leadership framework designed specifically to address the complexities of leading in contemporary nonprofit environments. In a volunteer capacity Rashmi serves as the Chair of the Board of Governors for Niagara College. |
