Martin Parnell

International Keynote Speaker and Author At 47, Martin Parnell wasn’t in running shape. Now only 13 years later, he’s completed an astonishing 250 marathons in one year, set five Guinness World Records, summited Kilimanjaro in 21 hours and traversed 1,000 kms around the South West Coast Path of England in 25 days. At the end of 2014, he finished his “Quests for Kids” initiative, completing 10 quests in 5 years, raising $1.3M for Right To Play and changing the lives of over 27,000 of the world’s most disadvantaged children. With 25 years’ experience in the Canadian mining industry, Martin has held positions of responsibility in engineering and human resources. He is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario, the Human Resources Professionals Association of Ontario, the Human Resources Institute of Alberta and the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers.

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Tina Olivero

Tina Olivero is the founder of The Oil and Gas Magazine. A true visionary she started the publication 6 years before there was a drop of oil in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. She went on to develop and grow the publication to one of Canada’s leading energy magazines and also became a motivational speaker on topics of personal and professional mastery, corporate culture, organizational integrity, corporate communications, peak performance and experience architecture. Today you will find Ms. Olivero traveling the globe planting seeds of corporate wisdom that fundamentally have each individual take a leadership role in their own work lives. She teaches powerful performance, increased vision and idea generation, and heightened levels of responsibility, communication, accountability, authenticity and integrity. Long term sustainable results start here.

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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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Emily Marasco

Emily Marasco is an engineering education researcher, writer, musician and dancer in the Calgary community. She is an experienced speaker and workshop organizer on a variety of topics. Engineering Education Topics - Cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary curriculum and project development - STEM education at the elementary school level - Education innovation and module development - Leading education workshops - Research communication skills - Technology tutoring Wellness - Relaxation through belly dancing (women only) - Beginner belly dancing (women only) - Moving meditation Fine Arts - Music theory - Oboe and piano performance - Writing non-fiction and essays - Fiction writing groups - Editing services - Middle Eastern dance performance

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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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Gail Mukaida

Gail is a Registered Nurse who graduated in 1987 with her BSN from the UBC School of Nursing. She specializes in Mental Health & Wellness and adult psychotherapy. Gail is an instructor for Mental Health First Aid Canada and the Changeways skills training series. She is also certified as a Legal Nurse Consultant. Gail strives to support employers in their successful management of workplace mental health issues.

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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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Kelly Laverty

Certified Business Coach Kelly Laverty has a passion for helping business owners and entrepreneurs achieve their full potential and is dedicated to enhancing the performance and profitability of all businesses he works with. Kelly will coach you to implement changes to enable growth and improved management of your business. He leads you to understand and implement proven concepts, which can transition any business from its current state to what the business owner wants it to be. He will work with you to develop plans in key areas related to achieving success, such as leadership, time management, goal setting, delegation, sales, marketing, and productivity Keys to success will be establishing Key Results and Perfomance Indicators that will measure the ongoing progress the business owner is making ensuring they are getting everything out of the business that they deserve.

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Tonya Lailey

Tonya Lailey is a winery owner, sommelier, food advocate and writer. Raised on a vineyard, she's knows vine growing and winemaking from the dirt level. She understands intimately the business of wine in Canada and that its challenges are typically more political than geographical. Tonya loves to cultivate relationships to the land through taste experiences. She aims to build confidence in the abilities of her audience members to interpret aromas and flavours and to evaluate wines. She hopes to remind people that wine is a playground for creativity and can ground us by triggering memory through our senses.

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Wendy Giuffre

Wendy Giuffre is a Human Resource Professional with 30 years generalist experience. She has practiced in all aspects of HR with a vast breadth of experience starting from solid training at a major oil to consulting work with many small to mid-size businesses crossing various industry sectors. She has practical hands-on experience clients can benefit from. Wendy’s career includes 16 years working for a major O&G company to consulting as an independent in all areas of HR and group benefits for 14 years. Wendy is a grass roots HR practitioner and believes in the simplifying process and brings back the human in Human Resources. She manages to gain trust and respect from both staff and management to allow for HR processes to happen.

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Bruce McGregor

Over 20 years’ experience in leadership, excelling in business planning, strategy development and process improvement. Bruce is a leader with strong business acumen, well-developed analytical skills that transforms into powerful operational business planning focused on people. Bruce helps clients to develop and manage strategic, cultural and structure changes within organizations or cross functional teams. He has recognized ability for strategic development and performance management planning that delivers measurable and sustainable results. Every business is unique. Each business is a sum of all of its parts working together to achieve results. Each business is comprised of individuals with their own strengths and weaknesses. How well are the individuals of your organization working together to achieve the results for which you’re striving? We partner with our clients to help them

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Laurel Vespi

Laurel Vespi is a certified life coach and the creative energy behind stone circle coaching. With more than 30 years experience as an educator, consultant and group facilitator, Laurel particularly loves helping people live with conscious intention, balance and satisfaction in their lives. In other words Laurel helps people and organizations awaken to the possibilities in life. Laurel has a Master of Education degree and is designated as a Professional Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation. Laurel is the author of the award winning book Spontaneous Combustion: Setting Your Life on Fire, a kick in the pants look at how to stop waiting for the most important things in life. Her newest book, To Be Awake provides practical ideas to help people keep their eyes wide open in life.

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Beth Castle - Dietary Technician

Beth Castle is an Award Winning eBook Author in NYC/Dietary Technician/Speaker with 27 years experience helping people lose weight and deal with WHY WE EAT. Healthy Eating on the Go REMOTE Employees. Book your Egg Info Session! Learn about Protein and EGGcellent information about the powerhouse of EGG nutrition and it's inexpensive too! Have Beth come out and help with: The mental part of food. •Emotions •Cravings •Habits •Treats •Metabolism •Social Event Eating •& more! Most information with regards to healthy eating deals with menus, what we eat, diet, types of foods and exercise. That is great information, however, if people don't address the 'WHY" and the emotional or mental part of food - all of those great habits of food and fitness will be lost until the next healthy time for that person! Engaging, Educational, and Enjoyable! a little laughter too

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