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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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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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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Annette Stanwick

Annette Stanwick’s positive attitude, deep faith, understanding of human behavior and the power of positive choices enabled her to triumph over adversity, including the murder of her beloved brother. As a health care executive, and former member of a committee on Mental Wellness in the Workplace, she recognizes the value of relationships and mental and emotional wellness in the workplace. She understands how emotional issues impact productivity, team cohesiveness and the bottom line. Her passion is inspiring and empowering others to let go of things that hinder happiness, destroy freedom and sabotage success in the workplace. Through dynamic keynotes, workshops, seminars or coaching programs, her transformational messages leave a profound affect. As an inspirational speaker, author and “Freedom Facilitator” her life changing strategies release you from the bondage of painful experiences, negative emotions and self-limiting beliefs; helping you and your employees find freedom, peace and joy that will change your life and your success in the workplace!

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Maureen Towns

Maureen Towns, RN, BScN, MA is the founder and CEO of Maureen Towns and Associates, based in Calgary, Canada. With 22 years of experience in Nursing, and 24 years as experience as a parent, Maureen brings HOPE through perspective and experience, to overwhelmed parents of teens who may have drug, alcohol and mental health issues.

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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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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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Leslie Davies

Leslie has been described as a fun, friendly and creative image consultant who takes the stuffiness out of professionalism and puts the personality back in! With over 18 years in human resources, recruiting, management and sales, Leslie has witnessed how appearance and behavior impacts confidence and success.

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Sidney Craig Courtice

Sidney’s work is all about teams and leaders. She trains, facilitates, coaches, and speaks about the positive impact of true collaboration, helping people in the workplace become more engaged, inclusive, and effective. Her approach is strengths-based, built on the sturdy foundation of people’s natural strengths, as she fosters better communication, deeper understanding of diversity, greater productivity, and more supportive team relationships. Sidney has a Master’s degree in Workplace Learning and Leadership and is certified to facilitate several programs that build on people’s natural abilities, including Gallup’s Clifton Strengths (StrengthsFinder), Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)®, Intercultural Development (IDI), and Emotional Intelligence (EQ-i 2.0 and EQ360). She is also a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and Mentor Coach with the International Coach Federation (ICF).

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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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Jim Beswick

Jim Beswick: is an operations consultant specializing in enabling companies use the best of Lean thinking and tools to achieve operational excellence. Jim has 20 years of hands-on experience working with leadership teams to create both the culture and mechanisms needed to champion continuous improvement. Once the right strategy and direction is in place the tactical work of developing the operations staff’s skills and capability to deliver the goals set by the leadership team.

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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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