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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Trina Lo

Trina is passionate about helping others find their voice in a world of noise. A marketing expert with a background in magazine publishing, graphic design and writing, she added social marketing to her arsenal of power tools. Finding her own voice while growing up in a family with very different cultural values than most of her friends was a challenge since childhood. Not being heard as a child, teenager and even young adult shaped her future in communications. The desire to not only be heard, but the desire to help others share their own message is what drives her. With her Coaching Certification and extensive experience working with businesses to overcome all kinds of communication challenges she would like to help you find a smooth, harmonious voice in your business too.

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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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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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Wendy Giuffre

Wendy Giuffre is a Human Resource Professional with 25 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 9 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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Dianne McCoy

A Speaker, Facilitator and Executive Coach, Dianne McCoy supports leaders to get results. She speaks to audiences about leadership, her research, experience and stories that support taking responsibility for leading in your life. She also speaks on values and the impact of living in alignment with your values, and the spiral effects of leading from the inside out. Dianne facilitates workshops on leadership development, goal setting and resolving conflicts through using a coach approach. Through coaching, she co-creates partnership with her clients and provides them with a one-on-one confidential, safe environment to plan and activate their next steps.

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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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Bob Wilkie

Bob is a former NHL hockey player. He is also an award winning Entrepreneur, best selling author and has been speaking to teams throughout North America about what it takes to be a championship team. His talks are thought provoking and inspiring to all who attend. His program Game On is an insightful program that brings a team together to achieve success.

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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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Lynnell Ible

Lynnell is a certified Coach, Speaker and Trainer with the John Maxwell Team. She was a 4 time Provincial and Western Canadian Champion in Orienteering, scholarship winner for dance and varsity rugby player for Concordia University. As an athlete Lynnell experienced the set backs of limiting beliefs, lessons from losing, overcoming resistance and how to win as a team! Her background in fitness and sports lead her to coaching in Australia, England and Canada. Over the past 15 years she has coached athletes, weekend warriors, other fitness coaches and executives helping them to change their limiting beliefs, learn from their losses, overcome resistance and celebrate their wins. In April 2009 Lynnell moved back to Canada and settled in Calgary. She didn't know anything about business and she didn't have a network. In a few short years she had a successful personal training business.

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