Agenda CLF 2026

Registration & Badge Pick-Up Opens

Add-on Option – Winning at RFPs: Strategies and Insights for Contractors

Three-Hour In-Person Training (GSC credits).

This practical, high-impact workshop gives construction teams a clear advantage in today’s increasingly competitive RFP landscape. Designed for general contractors, construction managers, trade contractors, consultants, and proposal teams, this session breaks down how owners actually evaluate proposals – and what truly moves scores.

Participants learn how to strengthen clarity, compliance, and persuasiveness in proposals, avoid common pitfalls, and build internal consistency in pursuit strategies. Through real examples, evaluator psychology, and hands-on exercises using local RFPs, attendees leave with actionable tools to increase win rates and improve pursuit decision-making.

Add-on Option – Wild Goose Chase: Village Scavenger Hunt + Pub Social

Step outside the conference room and into action. Join fellow CLF attendees for a fast-paced, team-based scavenger hunt through Whistler Village — designed to spark collaboration, creativity, and a little friendly competition.

We’ll wrap at a Whistler Pub for a relaxed social with food, drinks, and great conversation.

Leadership in motion. Connection beyond the ballroom.

New Member Meet & Greet (Invite only)

Build your leadership network early

Welcome Reception – Hosted By BCCA: Passport to Possibilities

Where Your Leadership Reset Begins

Step into a high-energy networking experience where emerging and senior leaders don’t just exchange cards, they connect. Hosted by BCCA, this interactive reception features curated touchpoints highlighting their key programs and services, giving you the opportunity to explore new possibilities, spark meaningful conversations, and build relationships that carry throughout CLF.

Registration & Networking Breakfast

Opening Remarks with VRCA President Jeannine Martin

The Reset Begins: Why Leadership Reset Matters Now

Opening Keynote – Love Is Just Damn Good Business

Steve Farber is a globally recognized leadership expert, bestselling author, and founder of Extreme Leadership, Inc. Named one of Inc.’s Top 50 Leadership Experts and the #1 Business Speaker to See by Huffington Post, Steve is known for redefining leadership as a personal, practical responsibility at every level. At CLF, he will bring the Leadership Reset to life, challenging attendees to lead themselves with intention, lead others with purpose, and lead their organizations with impact through his powerful Radical LEAP framework, leaving leaders energized, accountable, and ready to make a meaningful difference.

Market Intelligence Insights

Navigating Today’s Construction Landscape

From shifting construction costs to evolving labour dynamics, today’s market is demanding smarter, more strategic leadership. This session breaks down key cost drivers, material pricing trends, and the impact of seismic and energy requirements while offering a forward-looking view of where the industry is headed.
Drawing on real-world experience and project insights, you’ll gain practical lessons from growth, uncover emerging opportunities, and walk away with proven best practices to help you lead with confidence in an increasingly complex construction landscape.

Networking Break

Lead Yourself – The Practical Leader: Tools You’ll Use Monday Morning

Toolbox – Autopilot or Intentional?

Lead Yourself First – Energy, Focus & the Leader You Become

Before you lead teams or organizations, you must lead yourself. This session challenges you to step off autopilot, take control of your energy and focus, and build the mental resilience required to become the leader you choose to be.

BuildTalk – Default or Deliberate?

Leading with Intention. Living with Impact. Leave a Legacy.

The most impactful leaders don’t operate on autopilot, they lead with intention. This session challenges you to make conscious choices about how you show up, the impact you create, and the legacy you leave behind in your team, your organization, and your life.

Pressure Test – Grit Under Pressure

How Will You Show Up When It Counts?

When the pressure hits, leaders don’t rise to the occasion, they fall to their level of preparation. Step into this live assessment to uncover your instincts, test your decision-making, and discover how you truly show up when it matters most.

Networking Lunch

Lead Others – Building Teams That Perform Without You

Toolbox – Coaching for Performance

Lead People, Not Just Tasks

Making the move from managing tasks to coaching people is one of the most powerful shifts in leadership. This session equips you with the mindset and tools to elevate performance, build trust, and lead teams that consistently deliver.

Allyship In Action: From Intent to Impact

What It Really Looks Like to Support, Elevate & Lead Others

This thoughtful and engaging panel brings together male allies and female leaders to discuss actively championing inclusive workplaces and helping create real pathways for women and gender-diverse individuals to advance in the construction industry. Moving beyond awareness and good intentions, the discussion will explore what effective allyship looks like in practice—on jobsites, in leadership teams, and across organizations.

Panelists will share candid insights into what allyship looks like and how to advocate for equity, challenge outdated norms, sponsor emerging talent, and foster environments where women can thrive and lead. The conversation will also examine the evolution from allyship to sponsorship: what it takes to move from support to action, and how allies can help open doors, amplify voices, and drive meaningful change.

Designed to be honest, practical, and forward-looking, this panel will offer tangible takeaways for leaders, managers, and peers who want to strengthen their role as allies and help build a more inclusive, resilient construction industry—together.

Networking Break

Toolbox – From Doer to Leader

Scaling Yourself Through Others

Leaders get promoted for doing but succeed by enabling others. 
Learn: 
• Why high performers become bottlenecks 
• Key mindset shifts (doing → enabling, telling → asking, control → clarity) 
• Letting go of the expert role and redefining leadership value 
• Practical ways to build capability instead of dependency 

Built Under Pressure

Mental Fitness, Team Dynamics & Decision-Making in Action

In today’s construction environment, technical expertise alone is not enough. Leaders must be mentally fit, adaptable, and effective under pressure. This high-impact, interactive workshop challenges participants to work in teams to design and build a structure using limited resources, tight timelines, and evolving constraints.

Through this hands-on experience, participants will explore how mental fitness influences decision-making, communication, and team performance. The activity simulates real-world project pressures, requiring teams to manage competing priorities, leverage diverse perspectives, and maintain focus in dynamic conditions.

A guided debrief connects the experience directly to workplace application, highlighting strategies to strengthen resilience, improve collaboration, and lead with clarity under pressure.

Workshop – Leading Through the Mess

How Leaders Get Teams Back on Track

Strong teams don’t always work well together—especially under pressure. Even with capable people and clear plans, work can stall when communication breaks down, priorities clash, or no one steps in to reset the team.

This session focuses on what leaders do in those moments. You’ll learn how teams develop under pressure, where things typically break down, and the key behaviors that separate teams that struggle from those that get results.

Through real examples and quick discussions, we’ll translate these ideas into practical actions you can use right away to improve how your team works together.

Day 1 Wrap-up

Pre-Dinner Reception

Dinner & Entertainment

The Lobby Lounge, “The Place to Be”

Skip the hotel bar. This is where the night continues. With live music energy, interactive games, and a vibrant lounge atmosphere, this is where connections happen, conversations flow, and the best moments of CLF unfold.

Breakfast & Morning Connection

Morning Keynote – Dr. Paul Farnan

Leading Your Organization in the Real World: Why Recovery-Inclusive Workplaces Are Becoming a Construction Leadership Skill

Substance-related risk doesn’t show up on a schedule, it shows up later as incidents, burnout, absenteeism, and the quiet loss of good people. Most leaders don’t see it early… until it’s already costing them.

In this eye-opening session, Dr. Farnan introduces a practical, construction-built solution developed with the BC Construction Safety Alliance: the Peer Support Recovery Navigator (PSRN) model. Learn how leading companies are addressing hidden workforce risk earlier, without lowering standards or adding complexity.

This isn’t about policy. It’s about leadership. Walk away with real-world strategies to strengthen trust, improve retention, and lead crews more effectively, before problems escalate.

Networking Break

Lead Your Organization – Strategy, Culture & Sustainable Growth

BuildTalk – You Don’t Build Projects

You Build People, Trust & Culture

Behind every successful project is something far more powerful than plans, timelines, or budgets. It’s people, trust, and the culture that drives performance.

This high-impact, TED-style talk explores what it truly takes to lead an organization where people perform at their best, teams are aligned, and culture becomes a competitive advantage, not an afterthought.

Leaders will be challenged to think beyond deliverables and consider:
What kind of culture are we intentionally building and what is it producing?
How do trust and accountability show up across teams and projects?
What does sustainable growth look like when people come first?

Through real-world perspective and practical insight, this session reframes leadership at the organizational level showing that the strongest companies aren’t just built on strategy… they’re built on people.

Because in the end, projects don’t define organizations, people and culture do.

Power Conversation: Built on Experience

What leaders learned the hard way and what you can take from it now

Behind every strong leader is a series of tough lessons, hard calls, and moments they’d approach differently with the benefit of hindsight. In this candid Power Conversation, respected industry leaders share the real stories behind their growth, the missteps, the pressure, and the defining moments that shaped how they lead themselves, others, and ultimately, how they approach leading their organizations.

This is your opportunity to fast-track your own leadership journey by learning from those who’ve been there. Walk away with practical, real-world insights you can apply immediately from navigating complex decisions to building resilient teams and leading your organization with clarity and confidence without having to learn it all the hard way.

Networking Lunch

The Grand Finale Smack Down

Leadership Reset: The Generational Face-Off Live!
A high-energy, interactive game show bringing senior leaders and emerging leaders face-to-face on stage.

Vocabulary. Values. Vision.
Where do perspectives align and where do they clash?

Expect insight, laughter, real talk, and takeaways that matter long after Whistler.

Prize Draws and Closing Remarks