CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

The IFMA Calgary Chapter is calling on all of the IFMA Calgary community to help continue to bring unique opportunities to our members. We’re looking for thoughtful and dedicated leaders to join our volunteer Board of Directors. IFMA Calgary is seeking to fill the ranks of our Board of Directors with individuals who are active in the facility management community, have a passion for advancing and empowering the field of facilities management and are eager to put their enthusiasm and expertise to work on a local scale.

Terms on the Board of Directors are for one year, and are active year-round. The expectation of sitting on the Board of Directors is to participate in our once monthly board meeting, attend our events whenever possible, and to help with our annual planning session. In total, the commitment is as little as 2-3 hours a month, though more work serves the members and helps to improve our community!

Nominations will close on July 28. If needed, an election will follow, and the new Board will be ready to convene by early September.

FREE

Becoming a member of the Board of Directors is entirely free! During your tenure on the Board of Directors we cover all your participation in Chapter related activities.

OPEN

The IFMA Calgary Chapter welcomes all those who want to help guide facility management in Calgary. No matter your experience or background we encourage a diverse series of perspectives to continue to guide the Chapter. For non-IFMA members or members who expired before 2024, we will be offering a free IFMA professional membership to the first five who apply for nomination. If you know an FM who isn’t currently involved with IFMA, but would be a good fit, now is your chance to nominate them!

Upcoming Webinars

Avoiding Death by PowerPoint

Date: Thursday, November 21st
Time: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm MST

Wayne Whitzell: Avoiding Death by PowerPoint

How to Give Better Presentations with Less Anxiety

The IFMA Greater Toronto & South Central Ontario Chapter is hosting a webinar across CANADA and all chapters are invited

At one time or another, we have all endured the grueling punishment of “Death by PowerPoint.”  Whether it is the “Presentation to Nowhere” or the all-too-common “Read Every Bullet on Every Slide to the Audience” presentation, or the “I Can’t Believe They Called a Meeting for THIS” presentation, we have either been personally subjected to this torture or worse yet, inflicted it on others. 

The truth is that many of the PowerPoint presentations we have sat through should never have been given in the first place.  Sometimes, the best slide deck is the one that never happened.

So, what are we to do?  How can we communicate to our audience effectively and without putting them to sleep with “content rich” slides?  It begins with identifying which of the core types of presentations your information would best be suited, and which medium of communication will be most effective.  In many cases, that may not be a slide deck.

This is not a presentation about how to hold your hands or projecting your body language as you stand on the stage.  There are plenty of presentations on that topic available on YouTube. 

This presentation will teach you that if you begin with simple and powerful content you will make a more powerful impression on your audience than a bloated slide deck that you just read back to them off the projection screen.  Lastly, if you experience nervousness when giving presentations, you will learn a 100% guaranteed method to end presentation anxiety once and for all.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Learn to identify the three core presentation types and the most effective medium to communicate your information to your audience

2. Learn how to create memorable and effective presentations with a simplified, "less-is-more" approach to content

3. Learn the essential technical skills to create and execute successful presentations

4. Learn a 100% GUARANTEED method to end nervousness and presentation anxiety

5. https://ifma-toronto.org/meetinginfo.php?id=80&ts=1730215666

Building for People: What Facility Managers Must Know About Accessibility

Date: Wednesday, September 4, 2025

Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm MST

Description 

Today, nearly 20% of Canadians lives with a disability, and this experience impacts every community and market in Canada.  Everyone benefits from accessibility training – from colleagues to industry, and clients to family members. This presentation will help facility managers across Canada understand the diverse experience of disability, consider any legal accessibility obligations for your sites, identify barriers in your facilities, and create an inclusive environment for everyone.

 Attendees will also learn:

• Impact of the disability experience in Canada

• Relevant accessibility obligations

• Language and communication etiquette

• How to interact respectfully with people with disabilities

• Strategies for making workplaces and spaces more inclusive

• Training and certification opportunities

Bring your questions! We'll have time for live Q&A so you can get the answers you need.

What is IFMA Calgary?

IFMA Calgary is your local partner in facility management. We empower our members through professional networking opportunities, context-rich education, and connection to the world’s largest facility management association. Delivered to you by local experts with local context.

IFMA’s Service Center of Excellence provides a huge variety of resources for learning, networking, and evaluating how you can be a better FM. We can’t even give you a partial list of all the programs they run, you should check them out to see everything they have to offer.

Together, the Calgary Chapter and IFMA SCoE provide the unbeatable resources of the world’s largest network of facility managers and the local context to make it mean something in Calgary.