Training
Practical Learning for Confident, Ethical Leadership
Maureen Jickling delivers engaging, legally informed training that empowers elected officials, public servants, and organizational leaders to make decisions with clarity, compliance, and confidence. All training sessions are customized to your audience with current legal content — whether your audience is a school board, municipal council, university, college, non-profit executive team, or staff group. Maureen incorporates your entity’s law/bylaws, policies and administrative procedures into her training.
Maureen blends legal precision with real-world insight to create learning that is accessible, responsive, and immediately applicable.
Formats That Fit Your Needs
Maureen offers training and presentations in a range of flexible formats on dates and times that are mutually convenient:
- In-Person: High-engagement workshops and board retreats
- Virtual: Interactive, accessible sessions using secure online platforms
- Hybrid: Seamlessly delivered for both on-site and remote participants
Training can be delivered as:
- Standalone sessions
- Multi-part series
- Lunch-and-learns
- Conference presentations
- Customized on-boarding or governance refreshers
Signature Topics
Maureen brings expertise and presence to a wide range of legal and policy topics. Popular sessions include:
Governance & Ethical Leadership
- Fiduciary duties, bias, conflict of interest and procedural fairness
- Roles and duties of elected officials (trustees/councillors) and senior administrators (Directors of Education/Chief Administrative Officers)
- Application of Code of Conduct/Ethics
- Decision-making in contentious or high-pressure settings
- Procedural fairness in hearings, investigations, and appeals
- Conflict management
Privacy
- Privacy law compliance in real-world scenarios affecting government entities
- Records management
- Responding to access requests and privacy breaches
Human Rights & Workplace Law
- Duty to accommodate and accessibility law: practical and legal considerations
- Harassment prevention and respectful workplace culture
- Inclusive and accessible policy development
- Responding to complex concurrent investigations involving regulatory, civil statute and criminal law investigations
Education
- Student discipline, suspension, and expulsion
- Human rights and constitutional rights in education including duty to accommodate students with a specialized expertise in duty to accommodate students with disabilities
- Parent/guardian issues in education including complex parenting arrangements, child protection and child abduction issues
- Conflict management
What Sets This Training Apart?
- Lawyer-led: Every session is facilitated by a senior lawyer with hands-on experience in the public sector including administrative, human rights, and privacy law.
- Custom-crafted: No off-the-shelf content—training is tailored to your local context, policies, and challenges
- Interactive: Maureen uses real-life scenarios, case studies, and breakout discussions to encourage reflection and engagement
- Non-adversarial tone: Maureen creates space for dialogue, not judgment—helping boards and leaders build trust, clarity and consistency in application of law and processes
Maureen’s Recent Presentations Include:
The Accessible Saskatchewan Act for School Divisions: Preparing for Consultations
Accessibility Specialist, Jennifer Sande, joins Maureen for a 2hr presentation to discuss how to conduct consultations to respectfully engage and receive feedback from people with disabilities to address barriers to equal participation. Discussions from this presentation are useful for all consultation processes involving Canadian government entities.
Building a Culture of Respect and Safety
This 1.5hr presentation discusses laws relating to workplace safety, toxic workplace, and harassment and risk management and is appropriate for all entities including Boards of Education and Municipal Councils.
The Board as Decision-maker – Part 1
This 1.5hr presentation features discussion on fiduciary duty and conflict of interest and is appropriate for Boards of Education and Municipal Councils.
Legal Topics for Senior Administrators & Principals
This popular 2hr presentation describes the interaction of family law with education law. It focuses on parenting issues in the school environment including parent misconduct. It focuses on Saskatchewan law but can be adapted to other Canadian School Divisions.
Accessible Saskatchewan Act for School Divisions
This presentation is an introduction to the Accessible SK Act as it intersects with the SK Human Rights Code, 2018. It can be adapted for any SK public body entity and can be adapted for an entity in other Canadian jurisdictions with accessibility legislation.
Student Rights, Parent Rights & Board of Education Duties
This 2hr presentation describes the interactions between human rights, education, privacy and family laws in the PreK to Grade 12 education system. This presentation focuses on Saskatchewan law but can be adapted to other Canadian jurisdictions.
• “LA FOIP for Boards of Education” and “LA FOIP for Professionals employed by Saskatchewan School Divisions” available at: https://oipc.sk.ca/media/webinars/.
Previous voluntary presentations:
• Presentation to Regina’s Autism Resource Centre on “Federal Framework on Autism Spectrum Disorder Act” (June 2023) available at: https://www.autismresourcecentre.com/bill-c-22
• Webinar for the University of New Brunswick’s Atlantic Provinces Autism Conference (APAC) on “Duty to Accommodate” (November 2023). This presentation was developed for individuals with autism (ASD), their caregivers and medical service providers focusing on human rights processes, roles, and accommodation plans
Book a Session
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