Patricia (Trish) Dick

Employee Engagement Strategist with a passion and expertise in Intrinsic Motivation. Motivation auditing on an individual, team and company perspective. Focused on "seeing" the individual first, then the Team! Identifying, Applauding and fueling unique motivators to allow individuals through to full companies to flourish and bloom where they are planted. Developing Healthy emotional language to build bridges between individuals and teams. Follow through coaching and long term implementation for sustainable results.

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Denise Baril

Denise grew up in an entrepreneurial family in Winnipeg, Manitoba learning about business development from the ground up. Denise has owned and /or operated businesses in the toy, financial, transportation, and health industries. Denise is the founder of Marketing Matters Canada and the Workplace Speaker Network.

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Carla White Connections

Carla White provides powerful strategies for professionals to thrive through challenges. As a resilience expert, captivating international speaker, and three-time-bestselling co-author, Carla positively impacts organizational culture by empowering employee excellence and transforming groups into highly effective and resilient teams. Carla’s professional background includes a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and fire fighting as an Emergency Response Professional. She was the program director and taught numerous corporate leadership programs at Keyano College. With 30 years of experience as an educator and wellness consultant, Carla imparts a unique and practical approach to personal development, resulting in higher workplace engagement, excellence, and positive culture. Carla is the author of the upcoming book: Burned Out to Fired Up: Extinguish Stress and Reignite your Spark, and a fe

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Kurt Spady

Kurt Spady is a management and organization development consultant and trainer based in Red Deer, Alberta. He has over 15 years of practical management and leadership experience with private and public business, unionized workplaces, retail service providers, health care and academic institutions. Kurt has conducted extensive training and consulting in supervision, communications, team building, and total quality management with individuals and organizations to help them identify and develop areas for productive change. He provides Management Consulting and Training Solutions to post-secondary institutions, businesses, and individuals. Specialties include: o Online Learning o E-Learning o Education o Training o Professional Development o Business Administration o Management o Leadership Education Kurt holds a Bachelor of Management degree (BMgmt) with a major in Human Resources, a

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Ron Guidinger

Ron Guidinger knows that the qualities of effective leadership are universal; that leading scores of missions as a fighter pilot in the Air Force and playing a senior role in business have much in common – both involve special ops, risk and looking out for your wingmen. Ron served in Canada’s Air Force for 28 years as a fighter pilot and senior officer, retiring as a Colonel. Ron is a seasoned Project Management Professional, Business Leader and Executive Coach.

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Peter Bishop

From animation and illustration to programming and design, there's almost no digital stone that Peter's left unturned. His passion for innovative solutions has won him countless awards both locally and internationally as well as cemented relationships with brands such as British Telecom, Alberta Health Services, Time Life and The BBC. Today Peter is a Partner and Digital Creative Director at ZGM, one of the biggest marketing agencies in Alberta. Peter is responsible for direction and quality of the digital experience. It’s his job and his passion to keep up to date on emerging technologies and make decisions on where ZGM is pointed. Peter currently is the President of Digital Alberta, consults with the local universities on their digital curriculum, mentors students and is a regular judge with various interactive groups including Applied Arts and the Digital Marketing Association.

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Lorraine Moore

Lorraine’s expertise and talents create unprecedented outcomes for organizations and individuals. She speaks to a variety of audiences inspiring others to achieve more than they believed possible--personally and professionally. Her seminal work in inspired leadership delivers game changing outcomes. A thought leader in strategic speed, innovation and executive performance, Lorraine is sought out to contribute to the transformation of companies and individuals.

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Caroline Brookfield

If you consider yourself technical or scientific, you still have a creative side. I provoke left brainers to embrace their inherent creativity as a boot camp for resiliency. Creativity is predicted to be in the top 3 skills required by employers in 2020. My happy place is at the intersection of Art and Science. As a veterinarian, I am deeply connected with data and logic, yet I love the challenge of facing uncertainty and failure with creativity. A lifelong learner, I have built two online businesses, and currently completing my Certificate of Professional Management (University of Calgary). A late diagnosis of ADHD, combined with abundant curiosity has inspired a passion for applied neuroscience. You will find me travelling, doing stand-up comedy, mountain biking, rock climbing and parenting.

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Mona Cooley

Family and Peer Support Specialist, brings practical tips, wealth of knowledge and resources, quick insight to problems, firm guidance and tools and techniques to guide families living with mental illness to discover solutions. Feeling overwhelmed with emotions to deal with the multiple challenges, her unique methods lessens the loneliness, instills hope, builds confidence and raises your belief what seems impossible is possible to have a more relaxed family environment. Whether speaking, facilitating, or coaching, Mona supports families in identifying, building on and utilizing their unique strengths, abilities and resilience to manage life challenges and improve overall health.

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Kellie Garrett

Kellie Garrett is a recovering executive, now speaker, coach, consultant and Board Director. A Certified Daring Way Facilitator and Dare to Lead Facilitator (Brené Brown), Kellie helps people get out of their own way so they can shine. How? By looking at themselves in the mirror and slaying their personal dragons. One of Canada's 100 Most Powerful Women and 25 Women of Influence, winner of the Red Cross Humanitarian award for autism advocacy, and credentialed up the wazoo.

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Ryan Clements

A passionate and entertaining speaker, insightful and articulate author and writer, and successful entrepreneur, Ryan Clements is driven to help people find fulfillment in their career, and maximize their personal potential. He is the author of the book Unsuited: How We Can Reject Conventional Career Advice And Find Empowerment. He speaks widely on topics of entrepreneurialism, marketing, productivity, sales, customer service, branding, performance mindset and motivation. He also speaks on career fulfillment and has delivered a TEDx talk on this subject. A former lawyer, he consults to many start up companies, and also runs, with his wife Meghann, a global marketing business. He is active in entrepreneurial related volunteer projects including being a coach for Startup Weekend EDU YYC, and also as a special marketing advisor to The Child Rescue Association of North America.

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Elizabeth Anderson, BCC

Elizabeth Anderson international speaker/author. has impacted more than 1000 audiences with her story from illness to recovery to victory. Author of Being Mentally Healthy (in spite of a mental illness), Elizabeth knows that being mentally healthy is a journey, a journey she is eager to share with those searching for a new paradigm for mental illness.

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Jo-Ann Pawliw

Jo-Ann is passionate about helping people manage pressure with resilience and poise. Keeping on track, focused and calm when work and life feels overwhelming is a skill that can be learned. Studying the science of stress and implementing evidence-based strategies and tools learned at Harvard and HeartMath, has enabled Jo-Ann to offer her clients the most leading edge and successful Personal Leadership and Coaching programs. Jo-Ann has trained many companies in Managing Pressure, including Husky Energy, City of Airdrie, Allnorth Engineering Co. Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries, Inter-Line Pipeline, and Mount Royal University . Her Coaching practice includes Leaders, Managers, Employees and Athletes. Programs Include: *Emotional Intelligence for Personal Leadership: The Science and Strategies of Performing Under Pressure *Managing Difficult Conversatio

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