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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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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Margo Purcell

Margo Purcell is a visionary in leadership and organizational development. Founder of Open To Possibilities Inc., Margo is a highly skilled facilitator who is certified in many leading edge workshops and professional development tools. Her own signature program is TeamScaping™, unique system that connects an organization’s vision and goals and a team’s everyday work by defining purpose, outlining goals and creating a plan to reach those goals. Created after years of helping teams focus on working well together, TeamScaping™ is a completely customizable process designed to build thriving, energized and resilient teams. Margo's greatest areas of interest and expertise are in change, career management and leadership development.

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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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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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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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Cam Hodgson

Cam Hodgson draws from his years of leadership experience as an All-Canadian student-athlete, teacher, principal, coach, CEO, board director, entrepreneur, and consultant. He was inspired by powerful leaders at an early age and began the quest to learn what makes an effective leader. This journey has proved to him the more you know, the more you realize how much more there is to learn. Cam assists organizations and individuals in their pursuit of personal and corporate excellence.

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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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Shelly Ptolemy Bischoff

I have an interesting life story and am blessed to have the opportunity to contribute to making a tangible difference to the human captial strategies in organizations I am a Registered Nurse, Certified Occupational Health Nurse, Certified Human Resource Professional and Certified Health and Safety Consultant I have been working with both public and private sector organizations since 1996 in the areas of Occupational Health, Safety, Wellness and Disability Management My areas of expertise are in disability management, occupational health, wellness and safety and I frequently speak to leadership groups and present at conferences on these topics I consult to organizations across the Nation and am an instructor and subject matter expert with the University of New Brunswick online Health and Safety diploma and Occupational Health Nursing certificate programs

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Stephen Zanini

Besides outgoing, gregarious and spirited, you can expect a person who combines skills in communication, consultation and results to deliver based on your needs, your budget and your desire to create a strong workplace. An environment where people choose to stay and share their gifts and talents as they translate corporate intent into action. So let me ask, What results are YOU looking for? What will IGNITE you to action? Why not NOW? My full profile and website are listed below. I look forward to meeting you and discussing how I may be of service. CREATE a GREAT DAY!

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Sharon Carne

Sharon Carne, BMus, M.F.A. is an author, international speaker, trainer, director of training and development, publisher, musician and recording artist. Sharon is the founder of Sound Wellness, the Sound Wellness Institute and more recently, co-founder of the Emergent Workforce Program, the most recent expansion of offerings through the Sound Wellness Institute. Through the Sound Wellness Institute, holistic health practitioners receive the highest level of competency training in Canada in using sound and music to support their practice. The Emergent Workforce program is dedicated to restoring wellbeing, community, purpose, creative collaboration, kindness to the workforce, while supporting the financial goals of the organization. When we are making a purposeful contribution, our lives are filled with passion, creativity, inspiration, compassion and wellbeing.

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Orsha Magyar

Orsha Magyar, CEO & Founder of NeuroTrition Inc. is a neuroscience researcher turned neuro-nutritionist who brings brain and mental health research to people by translating nutritional neuroscience discoveries into innovative, integrative healthcare solutions. By harnessing the power of neuroscience, NeuroTrition creates practical tools to build and maintain happy, healthy brains in corporations, healthcare and clinical settings, and for the general public. Orsha’s extensive experience in both neuroscience and nutrition allows her the unique ability to share powerful ways you can use nutrition to completely re-engineer the way you think and feel, and how you and your team conducts business. Neuroscience meets nutrition? Now that's food for thought. Orsha’s seminars are guaranteed to feed your brain by making the brain science easier to digest and then, ultimately, use as brain fuel.

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