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THE JW MARRIOTT THE ROSSEAU IS FULL AND NO MORE BOOKINGS ARE AVAILABLE. PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING US BY RESERVING ROOMS IN NEARBY HOTELS.

A FEW OPTIONS SUGGESTED BY THE JW MARRIOTT:

The Sherwood Inn - 15 minutes from the conference venue.

The Crestwood Inn - 10 minutes from the conference venue.

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Julia Christensen Hughes
President of Yorkville University

As President, Dr. Christensen Hughes plays a ground-breaking role in Canadian higher education, leveraging the full potential of Yorkville University’s flexible, accessible and exceptionally small class setting to maximize innovation and student success. She believes the student-centric private school model meets a deep social need for working adults, first-generation university students, non-traditional students, students in remote and/or marginalized communities, and newcomers to Canada.

Dr. Christensen Hughes was previously on faculty with the University of Guelph and brings 25 years of progressive academic leadership, first as a professor and then as Founding Dean of the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics. Under her stewardship, Lang’s MBA in Sustainable Commerce was ranked first in Canada and in the top 10 globally by national ‘clean capitalism’ business magazine, Corporate Knights.

Dr. Christensen Hughes’s published work includes the co-edited books Academic Integrity in Canada: An Enduring and Essential Challenge (2021 – in press, with Sarah Eaton), Handbook of Human Resource Management in the Tourism and Hospitality Industries (2018, with Ron Burke), Taking Stock: Research on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (2010, with Joy Mighty) and Curriculum Development in Higher Education: Faculty-Driven Processes and Practices (2007, with Peter Wolf).

A frequent keynote speaker and conference presenter, in 2015, Dr. Christensen Hughes addressed the United Nations General Assembly on behalf of the 700+ international business school signatures to the UN’s Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative. In 2019 and 2020, she also facilitated events during the World Economic Forum’s meetings in Davos on the need to transform university rankings in support of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and 2030 agenda.

Dr. Christensen Hughes has received numerous awards and recognitions, including a Graduate Teaching Excellence Award; the Sheffield Award for Excellence in Research from the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education; a YMCA Women of Distinction Award; and the University of Guelph’s John Bell Award for distinguished educational leadership.

In turbulent times, entrepreneurs and their teams spot the winds of change, reset their sails, and change course accordingly. The global pandemic of 2020-21 has been a once-in-a-century disruption for education at all levels, which has magnified pre-existing inequities and vulnerabilities and accelerated long-term social and technological trends. It has also ushered in an era of unprecedented uncertainty, and going forward, business and academic continuity will demand flexible, lower density approaches and an integrated, omnichannel approach to student services, scholarship, and learning. All around us, the global labour market is evolving in unpredictable ways to the rise of automation and artificial intelligence, driving continuous innovation in our programs. College leaders need to guide their campuses through great uncertainty into a future that will be fluid in numerous intersecting ways, blending disciplines, online with on-campus, learning with work experience, virtual with reality, and offering increasingly fluid services, disciplines, and credentials. Moments like this are brimming with opportunity for nimble institutions that can regroup, rethink strategies and markets, and refocus resources.

What is the CCO Conference?

The CCO Conference is the preeminent conference for career college professionals, featuring sessions on the foremost issues affecting institutions today.

Hotel Details

RESERVE YOUR HOTEL ROOM NOW!
This year, CCO’s annual conference is taking place in beautiful Muskoka at the JW Marriott The Rosseau Muskoka Resort & Spa.

What Can I Expect?

The CCO Annual Conference includes unmatched networking opportunities, world-class innovators, and informative sessions specially designed to bring value to your PCC.

Be an Exhibitor/Sponsor

CCO’s annual conference is an opportunity for exhibitors and sponsors to get access to career colleges from across the province.

What Is CCO?

Career Colleges Ontario (CCO) is a non-profit organization advocating for the equitable treatment of career college students and a level playing field for its member institutions.

Who Attends the Conference?

The programming is geared towards sector news and professional development, making the annual CCO conference a popular event for career college professionals, operators, and decision-makers.

Sponsor & Exhibitor
The Caring Support Platform is the brainchild of a handful of individuals who believed that they could help the healthcare system by providing a platform that matches healthcare workers (including PSWs, DSWs, RNs, RPNs, CSAs, and volunteers) to healthcare employers.
The team focused research and development into a platform that would ensure healthcare organizations can quickly and easily search for healthcare workers using niche fields tailored to location and industry as well as cope with COVID-19. An important aspect that the team wanted to ensure was that the burden of searching for a new job was not placed on the healthcare worker, but instead by letting their profile on the Caring Support platform do all the heavy lifting.
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Sponsor & Exhibitor
Great Exposure is a full-service Marketing Agency solely dedicated to clients within the post-secondary education sector of Canada. Every service offered, from web design to email campaigns to lead management, has been developed organically in-house to meet the needs of both clients and student users everywhere. Assisting schools in everything from lead generation and brand building to hiring and training recruiters, Great Exposure has become synonymous with education and are widely regarded as experts in the field of lead management technology.
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Exhibitor
Cengage is the education and technology company built for learners. The company serves the higher education, K-12, professional, library, and workforce training markets worldwide. Cengage creates learning experiences that build confidence and momentum toward the future students want. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA with the Canadian office based in Toronto ON. Employees reside in nearly 40 countries with sales in approximately 165 countries and territories around the world.
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Exhibitor
Elsevier is a leading publisher of health science books and journals, helping to advance medicine by delivering superior education, reference information, and decision support tools to doctors, nurses, health practitioners, and students. With titles available across a variety of media, we are able to supply the information you need in the most convenient format.
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Exhibitor
FCA Insurance Brokers specializes in providing comprehensive insurance solutions for the Canadian education sector. The company serves as trusted risk management and insurance broking partner to private boarding schools, career colleges, professional training organizations, sports academies, and related educational institutions. Founded in 1919, FCA is headquartered in Toronto ON, and supported by over 90 employees working out of (3) Canadian offices.
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Exhibitor
LifeSpeak is a premier global digital health and wellbeing education platform, with a particular focus on mental health. With two decades of experience creating and curating thousands of expert-led micro-learning videos and other digital content, LifeSpeak offers the largest breadth of informational, self-directed, proprietary resources to foster student mental health and wellbeing.
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Exhibitor
Northrose Educational Resources is an Independent publisher focused on creating practical learning tools with a uniquely Canadian focus at a price that students can afford. We are dedicated to working with faculty to develop resources that meet the needs of their students.
We also promote a number of exceptional educational tools and resources developed by independent publishers from Canada, the US, and UK, providing professional sales representation and market development in the Canadian marketplace.
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Sponsor & Exhibitor
Our mission at EENC is to connect students with Private Career Colleges that will help them attain jobs within the competitive market. With our team of professionals with many years of experience working with PCCs, other post-secondary institutions, and employment services, we strive to work with students and PCCs to fulfill their needs. In addition, EENC understands the key performance indicators (KPI) methodology and its impacts on PCCs. Therefore, we have established our job placement services for students to patronage this.
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Sponsor & Exhibitor
As an all-in-one digital marketing agency, HEM specializes in helping educational institutions grow their market base and lead generation through tailored and progressive digital marketing solutions. By understanding our client’s business needs upfront, we help them realize improved ROI by using a proven methodology to bolster their digital marketing presence, performance, and delivering on set goals. We also specialize in solutions for the education industry that go beyond digital marketing with CRM, marketing automation, and student application portal technology - everything you need to convert more students online.
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Exhibitor
ampEducator is an affordable, easy to learn, academic management platform (CRM, SIS & LMS) to connect, manage and deliver student data all in one place
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Exhibitor
Our mission at eLoft Careers is to maximize student and graduate success in today’s job market by teaching job search skills that work, bridging the transition from school to employment. We partner with Career Colleges to accelerate student and graduate job market success by complementing your existing career services with expertly developed online/on-demand courses covering the 4 pillars of job search. Our online/on-demand courses support your career services team in developing excellence in the areas of resume and cover letter development, interview skills development and preparation, and job search strategies and networking techniques.
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Exhibitor
As Canada’s leading publisher of learning resources for law and justice programs across the country, Emond is proud to partner with distinguished authors to produce practical, current, and top-quality resources for Ontario’s career colleges. We strive to equip students, instructors, and practitioners for success by delivering specialized Canadian content, affordable prices, and outstanding customer service.
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Exhibitor
Generation Marketing is a youthful, innovative, and ultra-modern company that uses a cutting-edge approach to generate high-quality leads. We use the most sophisticated methods to help you connect live and in real-time with your leads.
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Exhibitor
PROFF IM Solutions Inc. is a Canadian company based in Ottawa and a leader in providing fully integrated Information Management (IM) solutions to the private and public sectors. Our mission is to provide the best in class, cost-effective solutions to meet your business requirements and work with you to ensure the projects are completed and implemented successfully to the maximum satisfaction and the benefit of your company.
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Exhibitor
We Make You Memorable! We help build your brand, increase sales, and encourage repeat business. We do this by providing top-notch promotional products and branded merchandise that will be in front of your customers or prospects at the time when they would be in most dire need of your products or services. When people use our products, they will remember you!
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Sponsorship Information

Reaching your desired audience can be challenging, but at the CCO Conference, we’ve made it’s easy. While we don’t have the luxury of building face-to-face relationships with an in-person conference, we’re still committed to giving our sponsors every opportunity to connect with our delegates and grow their business.

We also understand that these are difficult times for many businesses, which is why we’re lowering the barrier to sponsorship.

There is a single sponsorship level priced at $500 that includes the following opportunities (additional 20% off for CCO Affiliates as part of their Affiliates Package):

Sponsorship Benefits

1) Exclusive sponsored conference emails to CCO Membership. Each conference email will prominently promote a sponsor and their services.

-“This CCO Conference Update is brought to you by [Sponsor].”

-[150-word description]

-[link to Sponsor website]

-[logo]

2) Sponsor logos are included at the bottom of every conference email.

3) Sponsors, their logos and services are listed on the conference website: ccoconference.com

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Contact Information

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Monday-Friday: 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM
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Address: 155 Lynden Road, Unit 2, Brantford ON, N3R 8A7

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