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Patch Adams
Director of Gesundheit! Institute
Through his pioneering work as the founder and director of the Gesundheit! Institute, Dr. Patch Adams has dedicated his life to the belief that "healing should be a loving human interchange, not a business transaction." A warm, witty medicine man who is simultaneously a healer, teacher, clown and entertainer, his dynamic lectures challenge both health care providers and consumers with creative solutions to the major issues in health care delivery. His multimedia presentations are guaranteed to be provocative, exuberant, challenging and fun.
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Michael Adams
Leading Market Researcher
Michael Adams is one of Canada's leading market researchers. Since co-founding Environics in 1970, he has guided the firm's growth from a two-person consultancy to one of Canada's largest and most sophisticated research houses. Mr. Adams' expertise is the impact of social trends on public policy and corporate strategy, and his customized presentations incorporate in-depth research, expert analysis and Michael’s sharp wit and irreverent humour.
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Susan Aglukark
Award-Winning Aboriginal Singer/Songwriter
Like all true artists, Susan Aglukark is a walking contradiction. An award-winning singer/songwriter and tireless activist, Aglukark travels the world, at once performing for political leaders and spreading messages of hope to the disenfranchised in remote northern communities. She appears in major magazines and on TV and radio nationwide, and then returns to her Oakville, Ont., home to play hockey mom to her son, Cameron.
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Neil Aitchison
The Power of Laughter
A career in broadcasting has taught Neil that laughter is not only fun, but necessary for surviving and thriving in today's changing times. He is a popular speaker, M.C., actor, former broadcast executive and radio personality. Audiences in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. have given Neil rave reviews for his unique way of finding humour in everyday life, and for the ease with which he picks up the theme of any convention or business meeting and weaves it into his program. His presentations share a few laughs, some honest reflections on life and clearly demonstrate how you can cope with life's constant changes and stresses by exercising your humour option.
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Dr. Tony Alessandra
Leading Business Strategist
Dr. Tony Alessandra helps companies build customers, relationships, and the bottom-line. Audiences learn how to achieve market dominance through specific strategies designed to outmarket, outsell, and outservice the competition by applying his high-tech and high-touch marketing, sales, service, and relationship-building skills. Dr. Alessandra is a widely published author with 17 books translated into 49 foreign language editions, and his polished style, powerful message and proven ability as a consummate business strategist consistently earns rave reviews on the platform.
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David Allen
World's Leading Personal Productivity Guru
David Allen, author of the international best-selling book, Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress-Free Productivity, has been hailed by Fast Company magazine as the world's leading personal productivity guru. Inspirational, provocative, and dynamic, his presentations demonstrate the fundamental principles necessary for people to follow in order to achieve and sustain a more productive lifestyle with much less stress. Audiences always come away with a renewed sense of possibility equipped with the tools to make those feelings reality.
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Barry Asmus
Senior Economist, National Center for Policy Analysis
Dr. Barry Asmus speaks, writes, and consults on political and business issues facing North America. Recognized for his views on making the U.S. a world-class competitor, he was twice voted the Outstanding Professor of the Year, as well as honoured with the Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge Award for Private Enterprise Education. Dr. Asmus is a Senior Economist with the National Center for Policy Analysis. The NCPA promotes private sector, market-based solutions. An unapologetic advocate of free enterprise and privatization, Barry Asmus is recognized as a revolutionary thinker who delivers his ideas in an energy-filled entertaining presentation.
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Donovan Bailey
The World's Fastest Man
The first of only two men ever to hold all three titles of Olympic Champion, World Champion and World Record Holder, Track and Field News declared Donovan Bailey "Sprinter of the Decade" (1990's), and one of the world's all-time greatest and most dominant sprinters. Since retiring from competitive athletics, this five-time World and Olympic Champion has committed himself to a number of charitable causes, and has created a foundation committed to the advancement and financial assistance of Canada's most talented amateur athletes, so that they too may have an opportunity to achieve Gold. Donovan is an inspirational speaker, passionate about the world of amateur sport and athletes and what can be accomplished through hard work and dedication.
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Robert Barnard
The Nexus Generation
Robert Barnard is a founder of D~Code, a research, strategy and innovation firm that helps organizations develop innovative strategies for engaging and understanding the Information Age Generations: Nexus (born from the 60s-late 70s) and the Net Generation (born after 1980 into a world of global digital communications). He is also the co-author of Chips & Pop: Decoding the Nexus Generation, a book that moves us beyond the stereotypes of Generation X. His presentations enable audiences to better engage this generation, and build stronger consumer, citizen and employee relationships.
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Dr. Jim Barnes
Customer Strategist
Jim Barnes is an internationally recognized author and an authority on the subject of customer relationships. Barnes has been a leading figure in marketing circles in Canada and internationally for more than 30 years. An active speaker and presenter, he has presented seminars and workshops on customer loyalty, customer relationships, customer experience and branding in Canada, the United States, Colombia, Brazil, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Ireland, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia.
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Alan Bean
Apollo XII & Skylab II Astronaut
As an astronaut and the fourth person to walk on the moon, Alan Bean is dedicated to inspiring people to be the best they can be. By talking with, and listening to the client prior to an event, Alan custom tailors each speech around the theme of the client's event and the specific goals they wish to emphasize. Alan can focus on a broad variety of subjects from teamwork, high achievement, risk taking, goal setting, attitude control, achieving maximum potential, creative thinking, leadership, and effective followership, to showing how a company and an individual can find ways to accomplish their goals and dreams, and more.
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Lorraine Behnan
Edutainer - Professional Evolution and Change Management, Communication
Lorraine Behnan is a highly recognized speaker on change and communication who successfully motivates and trains companies and associations to evolve and excel through strategic change and personal change management. She creates speeches and workshops that are both highly motivational and remarkably practical for today's fast-forward world. A former actor and writer with the famed Second City Comedy Revue, Lorraine combines her theatrical skills with her consulting experience to create programs which are both educational and entertaining, a style that has been branded as "edu-tainment".
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Arthur Black
Basic Black
Arthur Black was born in Toronto in 1943 and reborn in 1995 when he came to his senses and moved to a Gulf Island nestled in the Strait of Georgia between Vancouver the city and Vancouver the island. En route, he passed through various incarnations - door-to-door encyclopedia salesman, oil tanker deckhand, cow wrangler at the Ontario Public Stock Yards, sheet metal apprentice, plumber's assistant, live nude model (in his dreams). For 19 years he hosted Basic Black, a national CBC program dedicated to wackiness.
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Dr. Ken Blanchard
Master of Organizational Excellence
One of the world's leading management experts, Ken Blanchard has been characterized by business leaders and clients as one of the most insightful, powerful, and compassionate men in business today. The co-author of the perennial business best-seller, The One Minute Manager, few people have had the impact on the day-to-day management of people and companies quite like Blanchard. His presentations teach audiences how to motivate themselves, how to become more personally involved in their work, and how to manage the present while preparing for the future.
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Dr. Roberta Bondar
Physician, Scientist, Astronaut & Photographer
The first Canadian woman to fly in space, physician, scientist, astronaut and photographer, Roberta Bondar was aboard the space shuttle Discovery for its January 1992 mission, realizing a personal dream and capturing the imagination of millions. An incredible sense of self-worth and a dedication to expanding her personal horizons are evident in every task she undertakes. Highly motivational, her presentations focus on teamwork, personal challenges, overall achievement and an overwhelming commitment to excellence.
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Dr. Nick Bontis
Leading Strategy & Management Expert
As an internationally recognized strategy and management guru, Dr. Nick Bontis captivates and enlightens audiences with his unique ability to cleverly camouflage critical business content with an entertaining delivery. With humour and passion, Bontis empowers individuals, teams, and organizations in maximizing brainpower for high performance and sustainable competitive advantage. Results and benefits include an improvement in the ability to manage change, increased productivity and efficiency, accelerated innovation, a decrease in cost and duplication, enhanced team collaboration, and retention of loyal and committed talent.
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Mike Bossy
Hockey Hall-of-Famer
In a career that began with a Calder Trophy as the NHL's Rookie of the Year, Mike Bossy showcased his consistency with a record 9 consecutive 50+ goal seasons. As an integral part of the success of the New York Islanders' dynasty that culminated in 4 consecutive Stanley Cups between 1980 to 1983, Bossy scored the Stanley Cup winning goals two years in a row making him the only player in NHL history to have done so. Audiences relive the glory and behind-the-scenes stories as Mike Bossy tells of his acclaimed career and the lessons he learned along the way.
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Bowser & Blue
Canada's #1 Musical Comedy Duo
George Bowser and Rick Blue have been writing and performing music and comedy together for more than twenty years. Their Christmas TV special 'Two Nuts Roasting On An Open Fire' was nominated for a Gemini, and they have now released their twelfth CD titled 'She Wants Me'. Colorectal Surgeons around the world are familiar with them... through their song 'Working Where the Sun Don't Shine'. Bowser and Blue live in Montreal, where they often appear at the 'Just for Laughs' comedy festival. They are currently working on another Television special.
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Chris Braiden
Leading Change & Organizational Transformation Expert
Thirty-two years as a copper and now a coach. Throughout his career, Chris Braiden served in all aspects of operational and administrative work at every rank from Police Officer to Superintendent. Having successfully managed and implemented change in that most change-resistant of organizations – a large, metropolitan police force, his presentations are as much practical as they are inspiring. They are also infused with the wit, humour and passion of a born storyteller.
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Boris Brott
Symphony Conductor
How long does it take to teach a packed audience of non-musicians to play a few bars of Ode to joy from Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony"? Boris Brott can do it in about 10 minutes. Boris draws out the comparison of teamwork and leadership; the need for creativity within an organization; the joy of communication and the achievement of success, all through the medium of music. His program comes to a conclusion as the audience, using their individual tonebars, plays Beethoven's "Ode to Joy", as Boris "conducts" them in this informative educational, and fun-filled presentation.
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Don Bryan
Canada's Premier Ventriloquist/Humourist
Don Bryan, Canada's premier ventriloquist / humorist, is one of the most highly acclaimed ventriloquists in the world. His fast paced, hysterically funny and completely customized presentations combine to delight even the most jaded audiences. With an exceptional talent for researching and tailoring his performances to an audience's specific requirements, Don Bryan is a rare talent in an industry of "can openers". Each performance is peppered with regional, political and industry humour, and the outrageous situations his characters can drag the audience into will leave them howling in the aisles, and sometimes... falling out of their chairs.
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Todd Buchholz
Global Economic Commentator and Policymaker
Successful Meetings Magazine featured Todd Buchholz in its cover story, "The 21 Top Speakers of the 21st Century," and The Associated Press has said that Todd Buchholz "lights up economics with a wickedly sparkling wit." An internationally-known commentator on the world economy, financial markets, and politics, he has served as associate director for economic policy at The White House and advised such investment firms as the Soros Fund, Goldman Sachs, and Tiger Management.
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Marcus Buckingham
Expert on Outstanding Leadership and Management Practices
During almost 20 years with The Gallup Organization, Marcus Buckingham had led their research into the world's best managers, leaders and workplaces. Buckingham has taken his broad experience in management practices and employee retention and put it into numerous best-selling books including, First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths. A wonderful resource for both Human Resources and Management issues, Buckingham challenges conventional wisdom and shows the link between employee opinions and productivity, profit, customer satisfaction, and the rate of turnover.
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Mike Bullard
Comedian and Former Host of The Mike Bullard Show
For six very successful years, The Mike Bullard Show, reigned alone as the Canadian equivalent of "Letterman", "Conan" and "Leno". Bullard's remarkable ability to interact with his audiences and his genuine love of spontaneity, proved to be the very skills that allowed him to immediately establish himself as a major force in the late-night comedy show arena. His clean and impromptu comedy routines and extraordinary ability to read an audience ensure that Mike Bullard will make your function a roaring success.
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Todd Butler
Award Winning Entertainer
Renowned for his razor wit, Todd Butler is a Prince of Parody, a Sultan of Satire, a Master of Mimicry, a Virtuoso of Voices and a quite amazing guitar player! If you are looking for a combination of music and comedy with an edge, then Todd Butler's hilarious performance will deliver the goods. He doesn't just play a guitar and tell jokes - he wields words and music like a satirical sword.
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Brent Butt
Celebrated Canadian Comedian
Comedian Brent Butt is the creator, executive producer and writer of CTV's Hiccups, now in its second season. He is best known in television for his role on CTV's sitcom Corner Gas, which portrayed life in small town Saskatchewan. The series focuses on the life of gas station owner Brent LeRoy, played by Brent, and the quirky Dog River residents and invariably, the mayhem that ensued there each week. Brent brings this same style of "coffee shop humour" to his onstage performances.
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Cassie Campbell
Former Captain of the Canadian Women's Hockey Team
At age five, Cassie Campbell laced up her first pair of skates. As the former Captain of Canada's National Women's Hockey Team and a heroine of Canadian sport, she has taken part in three Winter Olympic Games. Bold, dynamic, and passionate, Cassie draws on her accomplishments as the captain of the gold-medal winning Canadian Women's Olympic Hockey Team to explore the themes of leadership, teamwork, motivation, and determination.
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Mike Carbone
The Pretty Late Show
Mike Carbone is one of North America's leading corporate comedy talents. His quick wit and style combined with a business background make him a first choice among meeting planners and event producers. Mike hosts conferences, moderates panes discussions, interviews executives – all designed to deliver the intended message while engaging and entertaining the audience. He was voted "Best Pick" by TSE – Toronto Special Events, a group made up of industry peers.
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Bill Carr
Award-Winning Humourist
Bill Carr is a humorist and an award-winning writer, stage actor and journalist. Born in Atlantic Canada, he travels throughout North America and is famous with convention audiences for his offbeat characters and custom-tailored performances. Bill's insightful perspective on the world takes aim at politics, people, business, sport and systems, as well as the mundane absurdities of life that often go unnoticed. He leaves nothing unscathed and prides himself on being a slave to all, but mastered by none.
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Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
The Hurricane
The life of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter has taken more twists and turns than a Rocky Mountain highway, from obscurity to acclaim and back again - and again. Wrongfully arrested and convicted for triple murder, the former professional boxer was sentenced to three life terms, narrowly escaping the electric chair. He became a civil-rights cause célèbre and was immortalized in the Bob Dylan song and later in the Norman Jewison movie Hurricane. In February 1988, the 22-year old indictment was finally dismissed. His presentations inspire audiences to never give up on their dreams, to go the distance, and to persevere no matter what obstacles they may face.
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David Chilton
The Wealthy Barber Returns
Dave Chilton is the author of Canada's all-time bestselling book, The Wealthy Barber. His unique combination of knowledge and humour helped to take the intimidation and dryness out of financial planning. His speeches aren't about just money. They're about believing in yourself, overcoming mistakes (many of his are truly hilarious) and, most importantly, they're about perspective – the missing ingredient in many people's lives. The long awaited and highly anticipated sequel, The Wealthy Barber Returns, hit bookshelves in September 2011.
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Deepak Chopra
Spiritual and Wellness Guru
Acknowledged as one of the world's greatest leaders in the field of mind body medicine, Deepak Chopra, M.D. continues to transform our understanding of the meaning of health. The author of more than 36 books, he has been published on every continent, and in dozens of languages. Deepak Chopra's popularity as an international presenter and keynote speaker is exemplified in an impressive list of honorariums. Esquire Magazine designated him as one of the top ten motivational speakers in the country; and in 1995, he received the Toastmasters International Top Five Outstanding Speakers award.
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The Right Honourable Joe Clark
Former Canadian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister
Canada's 16th Prime Minister is one of the most recognizable people in the country, and has become one of the most widely respected Canadians from coast to coast and beyond. The Right Honourable Joe Clark's combination of integrity, commitment, experience and fiery passion for the betterment of Canada is the foundation of his presentations.
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Tom Clark
Host of Global TV's The West Block with Tom Clark & Award-Winning Journalist
One of Canada's premier broadcast journalists, Tom Clark has reported on the local, national and international stories that have shaped the country for the past 25 years. Witness to many of the history making events during this time, Tom Clark brings a unique international perspective to his speaking engagements, and radiates a powerful empathy and sharp wit.
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Jim Clemmer
Organizational Improvement Expert
Jim Clemmer provides strategic consulting, education and training, executive development, and improvement tools for personal, team and organization transformation. He is a best-selling author, workshop/retreat leader, and keynote speaker on organization improvement, leadership development and personal effectiveness. Jim has delivered over two thousand customized keynote addresses, workshops, and retreats.
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Michael Clemons
CFL Legend and Toronto Argonauts Vice-Chairman
Michael "Pinball" Clemons, the CFL's all-time all purpose yardage leader, uses his superb leadership and communication skills as the Vice-Chairman of the Toronto Argonauts - and the former Coach, President and CEO of the franchise. His exceptional character, in addition to his outstanding athletic ability, has made Pinball one of Canada's most beloved sports personalities. Clemons' presentations are at once captivating and empowering, and clearly demonstrate the capabilities of teamwork. At only 5 foot 6 inches and 170 pounds, he also inspires his audiences by illustrating what is possible and what it means to beat the odds. Pinball communicates his heartfelt stories with a passionate spirit and his patented, contagious smile.
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Capt. Gerald Coffee
Former Vietnam POW
Captain Gerald Coffee is an inspiring example of the power of the human spirit to survive and triumph over the most adverse circumstances. As a Navy pilot flying reconnaissance missions over North Vietnam, his plane was downed by enemy fire. He parachuted safely but was captured immediately. For the next seven years he was a POW in the communist prisons of Hanoi. Named one of America's ten most-requested speakers, Coffee shows how to turn difficult and potentially devastating experiences into opportunities for personal growth and triumph.
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Carla Collins
Canada's Entertainment and Comedy Diva
Carla Collins is an award-winning comedian, television host, actress and writer. A gifted stand-up hailed as the "Queen of Comedy" by no less an authority than Flare magazine, Carla is a regular in Los Angeles at both The Comedy Store and the liquor store. She has performed at Just For Laughs, the Vancouver and Winnipeg Comedy Festivals and the Las Vegas Comedy Festival. Carla brings her unique mix of wit and professionalism to every event she hosts, from a private corporate function to anything involving a red carpet.
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Tom Connellan
Expert on Customer Loyalty, Leadership & Change
When companies like Marriott, Dell, and GE want to take performance to another level, they all turn to one man - Tom Connellan. And with good reason. Whether it's an hour-long keynote or a day-long interactive session, Tom's unique combination of solid research and street-smart business sense will make his appearance a meeting highlight. As an entrepreneur, investor, author, and researcher, Tom brings a solid background to his work with companies seeking to build stronger links with their customers and better performance from their associates. His highly customized presentations are fast-paced, entertaining, and informative, providing audiences with lots of "how-to's," they can instantly put to work.
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Daryl Conner
Change Management Expert
An internationally recognized leader in the field of change management, Daryl Conner serves as a leading advisor and educator to senior executives across the globe. He is the author of Managing at the Speed of Change and Leading at the Edge of Chaos: How to Create the Nimble Organization, and is a top authority on helping organizations achieve greater human resilience as they approach major transitions.
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Dr. Sherry Cooper
Executive Vice President and Chief Economist, BMO Financial Group
Dr. Sherry Cooper is global economic strategist who is in constant demand as a speaker and writer because of her ability to simplify and de-mystify the murky waters of economics and finance. The Report on Business magazine calls Sherry the megawatt celebrity economist, Bloomberg News named Dr. Cooper the top GDP forecaster in the U.S. for 2002, and U.S. Banker magazine chose her as one of "The 25 Women to Watch in Banking" in October 2006.
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Donald Cooper
Business Management, Marketing and Service Expert
Drawing from his unique experience as both a world-class manufacturer and an award-winning, innovative retailer, Donald Cooper delivers the "straight goods" on how to increase market share and profitability in the face of ever increasing competition. With wisdom, humour, and a strong dose of customer reality, Donald helps his audiences redefine and reinvent their businesses to add more value to their customers' lives and more dollars to their bottom line.
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Andrew Coyne
Columnist for The National Post; Former National Editor of Maclean's Magazine; Member of CBC TV's The National "At Issue" Panel
As the former National Editor of Maclean's magazine, and a current weekly columnist for The National Post, Andrew Coyne is one of Canada's most provocative and insightful commentators on political and economic issues, as well as health care and education. Andrew topical and timely presentations are certain to encourage a great deal of debate and discussion.
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Charmaine Crooks
Five Time Olympian
Charmaine Crooks is an articulate, high-energy business consulting professional recognized for her experience in international sports management, marketing consulting, media production and the Olympics Games. During a twenty-year competitive sports career, she became a five-time Olympian, Silver Medalist and eleven-time national champion, representing Canada in Athletics from 1980 to 1997. A sought-after Keynote speaker, she appears at national and international conferences and corporate meetings/retreats for a variety of major organizations.
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Severn Cullis-Suzuki
Environmental Activist
Severn Cullis-Suzuki has been active in environmental and social justice work since kindergarten. In 1992, at age 12, she delivered a powerful speech, at the closing plenary session of the Rio Earth Summit, for which gained worldwide attention. Since Rio, Severn has given numerous speeches to schools and corporations, and spoken at many conferences and international meetings worldwide. Often speaking on the necessity of redefining our values, acting with the future in mind, and on listening to children, she is passionate about encouraging young people to speak out for their future.
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John Dalla Costa
The Value of Trust
John Dalla Costa is President of the Center for Ethical Orientation, a consulting firm serving business worldwide. He is the author of four books, including Magnificence at Work: Living Faith in Business . His previous book - The Ethical Imperative: Why Moral Leadership Is Good Business – was published internationally. Magnificence at Work explores the principles and practices for management as a higher possibility, unleashing the deeper human capacities that bring dignity and meaning to work while enhancing creativity and integrity in the workplace.
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Roman Danylo
Stand-up & Improvisational Comedian
Improvisational Comedian Roman Danylo is a headlining stand-up comedian, a top Canadian improviser, a TV and film actor, and a traditional theatre actor. For the past five years, Roman has starred in his own sketch show on CTV and Spike TV in the US called Comedy Inc. Whether his is the evening M.C. or performing his stage show, Roman delivers a fast paced, customized, hilarious evening perfect for any occasion.
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Dr. Edward de Bono
Innovation & Creative Thinking Guru
Edward de Bono is regarded by many as the leading authority in the field of creative thinking, innovation and the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. He is equally renowned for his development of the Six Thinking Hats technique and the Direct Attention Thinking Tools. He is the originator of the concept of Lateral Thinking, which is now part of language. He has written more than 80 books with translations into 37 languages and has been invited to lecture in 52 countries.
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Dr. Elaine Dembe
Health & Wellness Motivator
Dr. Elaine Dembe is one of Canada's outstanding authorities on longevity, stress management and motivation. A celebrated chiropractor, writer, sought-after public speaker and media personality, she has helped such diverse people as movie stars, politicians and professional athletes work out their 'kinks' and feel better-both physically and mentally-with her motivational and wellness presentations. Her high-energy performances are laced with humour and audience participation, and are loaded with achievable, goal-oriented ideas that regularly bring standing ovations.
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Herb Dixon
Master Sound Impressionist & Comedian
Herb Dixon is a master sound impressionist and comedian who brings his audience into the third dimension of comedy with his high-energy performance. Herb has a natural ability to convey the most hilarious stories to his audience by renditions of real-life experiences. Known as the "Fort Knox of Sound", Herb's impressions make audience members look over their shoulders for the source of the convincing reverberation of cars, helicopters and other such mediums of sound.
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Steve Dotto
Canada's High-Tech Spokesman
Steve Dotto has been the host and executive producer of some of Canada's most popular technology shows. Dotto brings his humour, insight and energy to the speakers podium across the country. He effectively straddles the space between the technology and the public, bringing a message to his audience that puts technology in its proper place, firmly in the hands of the users. A background in theatre and comedy assure that Dotto's talks are never boring, in fact they are downright entertaining.
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Martin Dubé
Impressionist Entertainer
Talent, Nostalgia, Tenacity - these are only some of Martin Dubé’s professional TNT qualities that propel his explosive persona on stage. His crossover entertainment style and his ability to perform in both English and French, makes this versatile artist ideal for all occasions. With over 400 impressions mastered, this talented performer is ready for any event that comes his way. The performance consists of numerous impersonations. When combined with an award winning comedic score, they become an ensemble of laughter, fun and comedic harmony!
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Mike Duffy
Inside Canadian Politics
Mike Duffy has embarked on a new career as a member of The Senate of Canada. During his career as a journalist, "Duff" was known to millions as the most authoritative broadcaster commenting on the political life of Canada.
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Diane Dupuy
Founder of Famous PEOPLE Players
Diane Dupuy followed her dreams, triumphed over failure, and became world renown. Today, she oversees the Famous PEOPLE Players, a Toronto-based theatre group that employs performers who are developmentally-challenged. Diane has been named to the Order of Canada, and has received numerous other awards and honorary degrees. Her powerful message and inspirational presentation will motivate you to new heights of excellence... and achieve even the most impossible of your dreams.
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Dr. Ken Dychtwald
Futurist, Psychologist, Gerontologist & Best-selling Author
Over the past 35 years, Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D. has emerged as the nation's foremost visionary and original thinker regarding the lifestyle, marketing and workforce implications of the "age wave." A highly sought-after speaker, he is consistently praised for his unique ability to blend cutting edge social science and marketing wizardry with world-class presentation showmanship.
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Maddy Dychtwald
Lifestyle Trends Expert
Maddy Dychtwald is a nationally recognized author, public speaker, marketing executive and entrepreneur. One of the nation's leading authorities on generational marketing, she has been actively involved in analyzing and forecasting lifestyle and consumer marketing trends for seventeen years. Maddy's sought-after presentations combine provocative information with exciting and entertaining multi-media imagery.
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Gwynne Dyer
Award Winning Syndicated Journalist & Historian
Gwynne Dyer's columns on international affairs appear in a dozen languages in nearly 200 newspapers published in 45 countries around the world. His latest book, Climate Wars, is a ground-breaking investigation of how nations will behave when global warming really strikes home. Badly, of course, but HOW badly depends on how hot, how soon -- and the game is not yet lost. There are opportunities as well as dangers, and despair is just self-indulgence.
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Linda Edgecombe
Best-Selling Author and Motivator
Linda Edgecombe is a highly sought-after speaker who The Wall Street Journal described as an expert at 'Shifting Perspectives'. She energizes every room as she leads people to loosen up, lighten the load and laugh. With her quick wit, humour and hilarious real life stories, she consistently leaves her audiences laughing in the aisles while motivating and showing how they can shift their perspectives on life, work and themselves. She inspires audiences to find the meaning in what they do and let go of what's not working. Her messages are as welcome as a deep belly laugh and as profound as an honest look in the mirror.
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Derek Edwards
Award Winning Comedian
Stand-up comedian Derek Edwards is proof positive that you can take the boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy. His award-winning rural humor has made him the hottest property in Canada. Identifying himself with the ordinary working guy, his comedic gift is making the ordinary extraordinary. He creates enchanting tales based on everyday subjects and delivers them with polished style and impeccable timing.
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Lorne Elliott
Madly Off In All Directions
A witty and gifted performer, Lorne Elliott aims at connecting with his audiences by sharing with them the idiosyncrasies of our world and by bringing into perspective the challenges facing each and everyone. His performance of music and comedy is perfectly suitable for any audience. A modern day Voltaire – thought provoking, contemporary satire best defines his performance.
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Terry Evanshen
The Man Who Lost Himself
He was one of the greats – the youngest player ever inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. And then, in a single second Terry Evanshen nearly lost it all. The victim of a devastating car accident, Terry was so critically injured and so near death that a priest administered the last rites. In a coma for almost a month, when he finally did wake up, the news was devastating...he had lost his memory. Terry Evanshen inspires you to look at your own life in a way you have never done before. He gives a moving account of how he re-establishes his identity every day by rebuilding his confidence and purpose one step at a time. He shows you the never-ending power of the human mind to overcome obstacles. He shows you the incredible perseverance of the human spirit.
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Roy Firestone
Emmy Award-Winning Sports Journalist & Entertainer
Called "the best interviewer in the business" by Sports Illustrated, Roy Firestone is widely acclaimed as the nation's premier sports television host. Recognized for his work as the host of ESPN's Up Close Prime Time, he has interviewed nearly every major sports figure. An accomplished singer, impressionist, and humorist, Firestone's television career spans nearly 20 years. He has hosted the nationally syndicated series Life's Most Embarrassing Moments, NFL on ESPN, the Los Angeles Lakers' Pre-Game Show, and Sports Comedy Around the World.
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Robert Fisher
Political Analyst
Nationally recognized, award winning broadcast journalist Robert Fisher began his career in broadcasting more than 30 years ago. Robert's insightful perspectives are based on his in-depth knowledge of provincial, national and international government and politics. He provides his audiences with the most current, up-to-date information on the issues that concern Canadians most.
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Jimmy Flynn
Down-Home Comedy
There is only one rule at a Jimmy Flynn show – have a good time. And Jimmy is happy to report that everyone at his shows follows that rule. Jimmy has given thousands of performances to audiences as diverse as his material. One days, he's entertaining executives at a corporate retreat, the next day he's leading a chorus of ten thousand foot-stomping fans in a packed stadium. His down-home music always strikes the right chord with his audiences, and his stand-up comedy is fast-paced and hilarious.
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Dr. David K. Foot
World-Renowned Demographics Expert
Author of the #1 bestseller Boom Bust & Echo, David Foot is an outspoken and controversial demographics expert who can bring to life demographic statistics and make the aging of society relevant to any specific interest group. Foot explores how changing demographics, especially the aging of the massive boomer generation and the coming into the marketplace of their children, the echo generation, will redefine society's needs.
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Allan Fotheringham
Journalist and Bestselling Author
Allan Fotheringham's career as a journalist spans nearly five decades. He is perhaps best known as a writer for Maclean's where for 27 years he made the back page famous and put the magazine on the map. A highly entertaining speaker, Fotheringham speaks on issues ranging from politics to sex, to the state of the nation and other nations.
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Al Franken
Emmy Award Winning Comedian, Author and United States Senator
Considered one of America's top comedians and satirists, Al Franken is a five-time Emmy winner for his work on Saturday Night Live, the 1997 Grammy winner for Best Comedy Album, and author of two best-selling books. Franken was part of the original writing staff that created the groundbreaking SNL in 1975. Franken is a well-known political satirist, the only comedian to perform twice at the White House Correspondents Dinners, and has established himself as one of the nation's top after-dinner speakers and lecturers.
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Harry Freedman
The Impostor
Introduced as a "knowledgeable authority" on any subject, Harry Freedman convinces audiences he is an industry expert, government official, or new "consultant." Everyone is completely fooled until they are roaring with laughter! With two decades of professional experience, Harry carefully screens his material to make sure it is tasteful, clean, funny, and right on the mark.
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Kevin Freiberg
Premiere Authority on Cool Companies
Kevin and Jackie Freiberg are co-authors of the best-sellers, BOOM! 7 Choices for Blowing the Doors Off Business-As-Usual, NUTS! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success, GUTS! Companies that Blow the Doors Off Business-as-Usual and NUTS! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success. Entertaining and fun, hard-hitting and provocative, the Freibergs are among the most influential voices on the speaking circuit today. They'll make you laugh and challenge you to stop making excuses. Their mission: to help business leaders create cultures where impassioned people come to work fully-engaged, knowing they're going to do something heroic.
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Avi Friedman
Housing Guru
Avi Friedman is confidently acclaimed by Wallpaper magazine "one of the top 10 style setters who will most influence the way we live in the next quarter century." His international award-winning work in home design, community development and sustainability has earned him his keep as Canada's housing guru and style setter. A passionate speaker, he projects an articulate vision of our future in home design, and will change the way you think about our priorities as a society.
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André-Philippe Gagnon
Master Impersonator
An impressionist with an eye on the world, André-Philippe Gagnon can slip from Joe Cocker's husky croon to Dionne Warwick quicker than most performers can take a curtain call! From Mick Jagger to Vanessa Paradis, Louis Armstrong, Jean Chrétien, and Fred Flintstone, Gagnon's impressions of famous personalities are rapid-fire magic. With an engaging blend of comedy and music, his take on the "who's who" of the world is funny and full of delicious detail. But between the jokes, his amazing voice actually delivers the essence of some of the world's greatest singers.
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Hana Gartner
Award-Winning CBC Journalist
One of Canada's top journalists, Hana Gartner has enjoyed a distinguished career at CBC Television for over 30 years. Her straightforward style and willingness to ask the tough questions have earned her the respect of the journalistic community and numerous awards. Gartner's presentations combine her unique insights, with a warmth, humour and compassion, which enable her audience to connect with her on a deeper level. She is also an outstanding host, moderator and master of ceremonies.
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Sam Geist
Service, Marketing & Sales Expert
Sam Geist is one of North America's busiest speakers on the topics of service, marketing, sales and leadership. His "ideas" presentations provide a wealth of information, inspiration, and the impetus to act. Sam motivates... he stimulates... he trains by suggesting well-focused, actionable solutions to the obstacles faced by so many of today's marketers. Sam is also the author of Why Should Someone Do Business With You... Rather Than Someone Else, and more recently Would You Work for You?
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James Gilmore
Author of The Experience Economy and Authenticity
James Gilmore helps businesses conceive and design new ways of adding value to their economic offerings. He teaches them how to grasp the nature of the emerging Experience Economy and envision their role in it - whether it be staging experiences, guiding transformations, or mass customizing. He and his business partner Joseph Pine, are the best-selling authors of The Experience Economy: Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage. Focusing on topics of future trends, business, and strategic alliances, Mr. Gilmore is in high demand as a speaker at conferences, strategic planning meetings, and executive education programs.
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Marshall Goldsmith
Leadership Development Expert
Marshall Goldsmith is widely recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities in helping leaders achieve positive, measurable change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams. Forbes Magazine listed Marshall as one of five top executive coaches and Human Resources magazine rated Marshall as one of the world's leading HR consultants. He has also been ranked by The Wall Street Journal as one of the "Top 10" consultants in the field of executive education.
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Scott Goodyear
Champion Auto Racer
Speed, focus, responsiveness, teamwork, preparation and persistence are just a few of the critical success factors Scott Goodyear has learned during his illustrious auto racing career. Scott shares the excitement and experiences of his great career, and relates the important lessons he's learned to the challenges faced by people and organizations involved in any fast-paced, competitive environment.
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Amanda Gore
The Connection Expert
Amanda Gore is one of America and Australia's most popular professional speakers. She is an expert on connection, communications, leadership, and group dynamics, and has a unique ability to entertain, educate and involve simultaneously. After 15 years of research with the world's leading experts on group dynamics, Amanda has mastered the process level of her presentations. This craft is what makes the attendees remember Amanda as 'the best speaker they have ever heard' and provides an avenue for real change to occur. She is the author of three books, as well as numerous video and audio programs.
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Kit Grant
The Director of Comfort Zone Infiltration
When you want your people to build stronger relationships that directly produce improved bottom-line results with increased productivity and profits, Kit Grant will provide them with the necessary tools and techniques. Kit's dynamic style combined with humour has positively influenced thousands of people in 14 countries on 4 continents to implement strategies that impact both personal and professional success. Your people receive a fast-paced, fun program providing them with tools to take immediate action and achieve the results they deserve... TODAY!
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Bob Gray
Memory & the Turbocharged Brain
Bob Gray has amazed, entertained and educated Canadian, American and European audiences, with his incredible memory demonstrations, humorous keynote presentations, and sales oriented, self improvement workshops. His unique abilities have netted him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Bob's techniques provide his audiences with keys to unlock their memory potential, and the ability be more efficient, effective, professional, and ultimately more profitable.
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Wolfgang Grulke
Founder & Chairman, FutureWorld
With a background in business, technology, nuclear physics, entertainment and marine biology, Wolfgang Grulke is an exhilarating and thought-provoking speaker on topics from business transformation to the technological revolutions, paradigm shifts to chaos, fractals and the dilemmas of modern management, and the sex life of fish! In the style of a Victorian raconteur Wolfgang brings fresh ideas and a breadth of thinking that is rare in today's focused and specialised world.
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Jim Harris
Leading Innovation, Leadership & Change Expert
Jim Harris is one of North America's foremost management consultants, public speakers, authors and thinkers on innovation, change and leadership. He has 20 years' experience as a professional speaker and consultant, and speaks internationally at more than 40 conferences a year on topics including innovation and creativity, customer relationship management (CRM), eLearning, creating learning organizations, environmental leadership, energy efficiency, strategic planning, and creating common organizational mission and vision. He was one of the first seven Canadians personally trained by Al Gore to present the slide show for An Inconvenient Truth. He was also one of just 12 Canadians who were licensed to publicly teach Dr. Stephen Covey’s work, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
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Don Harron
a.k.a. Charlie Farquharson
Don Harron has made thousands of people laugh with his alter ego characters - especially Charlie Farquharson. Charlie was first introduced to Canadians in 1952, and since then, his career has been almost as impressive as Don's. He has worked in radio and television, made a number of albums, is the author of several best-selling books, his latest, Charlie Farquason Vews and Mews About Yer News, was released late 2010 and had 18 seasons on the long-running TV series Hee Haw. His audiences continue to laugh at his performances, no matter which character shows up!
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Paul Henderson
The Goal of the Century
Paul Henderson became a Canadian sports legend on September 28, 1972. His goal, with 34 seconds remaining in the final game, lifted Canada to victory in the "Series of the Century", against the Soviet Union. Incredibly, Paul scored the winning goal in each of the last three games of this historic first series between the two superpowers of hockey. Today, Paul uses the lessons of leadership, teamwork and commitment he learned during the 1972 Summit Series and his 18 year professional hockey career, to motivate organizations to reach their own goals.
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Paul Hoffert
Technology Visionary
As a child prodigy, Paul Hoffert mastered classical and jazz piano, and recorded his first solo record at the age of sixteen. In 1969 he founded Lighthouse, a rock group that earned nine gold and platinum recordings. Not your typical rock musician, Paul was trained as a mathematician and physicist, and is now a scientist, researcher, university professor, writer, composer and musician.
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Jessica Holmes
Comedic Entertainer & Improviser
Jessica Holmes is best known as a popular member of the long running hit CBC TV show, Royal Canadian Air Farce. She also wrote and starred in her own one-hour Comedy Now! special, "Holmes Alone," which won a Platinum Award at the Worldfest International Film Festival in Houston, and was nominated for a Gemini Award. Jessica's comedic high jinks and crazy antics, plus her knack for skewering celebrities such as Celine Dion and Britney Spears, are sure to amuse even the most straight-faced audiences. Jessica's warmth and quick-witted stand-up act also make her a natural choice for hosting corporate events.
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Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon
Global Visionary
Bestselling author of The Upside of Down and the Governor General's award-winning book The Ingenuity Gap, Dr. Thomas Homer Dixon's work focuses on threats to global security in the 21st century, and how societies adapt to complex economic, ecological and technological change. His presentations provide a wake-up call that is pertinent to any audience, and provide solutions to the many complex problems that governments, corporations and individuals face.
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Jerry Howarth
Toronto Blue Jays Radio Broadcaster
Having spent over 30 years as the radio broadcaster for the two-time World Series winning Toronto Blue Jays, Jerry Howarth knows what it takes to build a wining team. Filled with entertaining anecdotes from his extensive radio and sports coaching experience, Jerry inspires audiences as he explores the lessons he learned along the way, and how these lessons can be applied to one's workplace. Audiences learn the importance of leadership, the key aspects of effective coaching, the role of communication and the need to build a positive team spirit.
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Dennis Hull
Humour & Hockey
Dennis Hull will readily admit to not being anything other than Bobby Hull's brother, as long as you add that he's the younger brother. He's even been known to answer to some asking for Brett Hull's uncle. A self-effacing brother to Bobby and proud uncle, Dennis is a fourteen-year veteran of the National Hockey League, known for his powerful shot, his six selections to the All-Star Game are a testament to his hockey skills. Dennis brings to the speaker's podium a wealth of anecdotes and stories from his many experiences. His understated after-dinner speaking style is his trademark, and he has quickly become one of the most sought after head table guests in the business.
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Tim Hurson
Creative Problem Solving and Productive Thinking
With an energetic blend of insight and humor, Tim Hurson teaches audiences what many already know in their hearts: that Creative Intelligence is the essence of human potential. Whether you're a manager or an artist, whether you work alone or in a group, you'll think better and do better by learning to unlock your creative intelligence... and unblock your thinking. With creative intelligence, good work becomes brilliant, project teams become super-productive, and life opens up with a new sense of freedom, confidence, and possibility.
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David Hurst
Expert on Strategy, Leadership, and Change; Author of The New Ecology of Leadersip: Business Mastery in a Chaotic World.
David Hurst helps organizations learn from the past, understand the present and create the future. As a reflective business practitioner with a unique blend of practical experience and conceptual knowledge, he has a special niche in the management field. His highly innovative ideas have been expressed in three groundbreaking books, Crisis & Renewal: Meeting the Challenge of Organizational Change; Learning from the Links: Mastering Management Using Lessons from Golf; and most recently, The New Ecology of Leadership: Business Mastery in a Chaotic World, a synthesis of management thought and practice that will resonate with every reader's experience.
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Paul Huschilt
Professional Speaker & Storyteller Extraordinaire
Paul Huschilt is the most unique talent to come on to the scene in years. With stories, song, and razor sharp wit, Paul can bring a conference to a rousing and celebratory close unlike any other speaker in the business. He also presents a fun, motivating and inspiring presentation entitled Seven Humour Habits for Workplace Wellness.
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Dr. John Izzo
Bestselling Author & Business Visionary
Dr. John Izzo consults and advises some of the most admired companies in the world; teaches at major universities; conducts leading edge research on workplace values; and has spoken to more than one million people across the globe, from Brazil to Russia, from New York to London. He is a leading business strategy expert, a community leader, and an avid conservationist who has worked with over 100 companies to create more socially responsible workplaces. Izzo is also a bestselling author of five books, his most recent being Stepping Up: How Taking Responsibility Changes Everything. In his talks, Izzo addresses everything from the importance of effective leadership to inspire loyalty in both employees and customers alike, to how creating an environmentally responsible business can translate into sustainable - and exceptional - profit.
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Ron James
Award-Winning Comedian & Satirist
Hailed by critics from coast to coast, RON JAMES is Canada's number one selling comedian, whose ninety minute, non-stop performances have consistently sold out theatres across the country. Keeping a comedian's eye trained for satire and a poet's ear tuned for language, James cuts a wide swath through contemporary culture, making him a stand-out among stand-up performers. Having created and starred in his own television series and four critically acclaimed comedy specials, it's clear why the Globe and Mail called him a "comedic tour de force"!
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Jason Jennings
Authority on Business Leadership and Best-Selling Author
Jason Jennings has spent twenty years founding and leading successful businesses and consulting other companies; teaching them how to achieve their full economic potential. As an author, Jennings has been successful influencing the business world, with contributions including It's Not The Big That Eat the Small - It's The Fast That Eat the Slow, Less Is More, Think Big, ACT Small: How America's Best Performing Companies Keep the Start-Up Spirit Alive, and his latest highly anticipated release, Reinventors: How Extraordinary Companies Pursue Radical Continual Change. Jennings speaks internationally and more than 300,000 businesses worldwide have learned his lessons on leadership, sales, management and customer satisfaction.
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Dr. Peter Jensen
Authority on Coaching Leadership and Personal High Performance
Dr. Peter Jensen has attended seven Olympic games as a member of the Canadian Olympic team, and is a top-rated instructor at the Queen's School of Business. Peter's insights into the universal enablers of 'healthy high performance' have helped Fortune 500 companies in eight countries, and numerous medal-winning Olympic athletes achieve above average results. His newest presentation, Ignite the Third Factor, distills his thirty years of elite sport coaching and his diverse corporate experience into five concrete, actionable lessons in leadership.
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Hal Johnson & Joanne McLeod
Body Break
Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod are known across Canada for encouraging people to live a healthier, active lifestyle, keep fit and have fun. The hosts and creators of Body Break convey their message in a positive and entertaining manner, complete with customized multi-media visuals, and unlimited enthusiasm. Over the past years, Hal and Joanne have made over 500 appearances on TV and radio talk shows, as well as speaking engagements, seminars and charity events. Their Body Break message and smiling faces have also appeared in many magazines and newspapers across the country.
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Johnny Johnston
Bagpipe-Playing Comedian
What do you get when high-energy clean comedy meets the Bagpipes? You get Johnny Bagpipes Johnston - a mixture of great comedy with a twist of Rock n Roll bagpipes! More than just plaid, Johnny "Bagpipes" Johnston delivers his hilarious comedy performance with a Scottish twist that bowls audiences over. He can play the traditional to the not so traditional, From Scotland the Brave to AC/DC. From Flower of Scotland to Van Halen! Johnny "Bagpipes" Johnston is sure to get your group going!
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Dewitt Jones
Award Winning Photojournalist & Film Director
Dewitt Jones is one of America's top professional photographers with a career stretching over twenty years. As a motion picture director, he had two films nominated for Academy Awards before he was thirty. Dewitt is recognized as a world class lecturer. His knowledge of the creative process, his relaxed and genuine style, and his ability to communicate make his presentations truly outstanding.
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Cathy Jones
This Hour Has 22 Minutes
One of Canada's best loved performers, Gemini award-winning actor and writer Cathy Jones has created a series of hilarious characters for the hit comedy show This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Her remarkably empathetic and chameleon-like abilities allow her to completely immerse herself in her characters, be them male or female. Her performances are a whirlwind of timely and wicked satire, as she unleashes a hysterical menagerie of some of her most popular and outrageous personalities.
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Peter Kent
Journalist, Late-Life Politician & Self-Deprecating Commentator
Peter Kent became an important journalistic voice early in his career and has stayed there for four decades. As federal environment minister, his stance on Alberta's "ethical" oil sands is causing a stir. A gifted communicator who both informs and entertains, Peter provides his unique perspective on Canada's role in our changing world. Each presentation is specifically researched and tailored, to address issues of most interest to each audience.
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Margot Kidder
World Renowned Actress & Advocate
Margot Kidder has soared high in the sky (with Superman) and plunged to the depths of depression and despair. Through it all, she has shown that she has the strength to bounce back. Today, Margot's career accomplishments are proliferating and her life is firmly in her own hands. By choosing to dwell on the great joys and rare blessings of her adventure-filled life, Margot shares her hope to reflect in the world the peace one finds within.
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Craig Kielburger
Activist & Founder of Free the Children
Craig Kielburger is an accomplished child rights activist, an award-winning author and a popular speaker. He is the founder of Free the Children, the world's largest network of children helping children through education, which has been nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize and has established partnerships with the United Nations and Oprah's Angel Network. A sought-after speaker, he has shared the podium a number of times with former U.S. president Bill Clinton, as well as with such world renowned leaders as Nelson Mandela, Queen Noor, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama.
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Philip Kotler
Global Marketing Guru
Philip Kotler is an award-winning educator, an influential corporate adviser, and a global marketing guru. He was the first recipient of the American Marketing Association's Distinguished Marketing Educator Award, is the S.C. Johnson Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University, and is the author of the most widely used marketing book in leading business schools worldwide. His most recent book is Chaotics - The Business Of Managing And Marketing In The Age Of Turbulence.
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Dr. Gilles Lapointe
The Stress Doctor
Host of the popular daily television show Allo Docteur on Canal Vie, Dr. Gilles Lapointe gives hilarious presentations on healthy living and coping with stress. He is fluently bilingual, an accomplished musician and extremely entertaining - his keynotes bring audiences to their feet and tears of laughter to their eyes. Dr. Lapointe is the author of the best-selling book Docteur, Aidez-Moi! (Doctor, I Need Help) and has produced two videocassette series on health.
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Dr. Janet Lapp
Thrive During Fast Change - Leading at the Edge
Dr. Janet Lapp delivers a powerful message: Change is not a force to be feared but an opportunity to be seized, and the choice is ours. With humour and finesse, she confronts her audiences with the truth of what they need to do, and how they need to think, to move into the future with success and optimism. Her energy-charged, exhilarating programs give usable ideas to put to work right away to lead people into the future.
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Loretta LaRoche
The Humor Potential
Loretta LaRoche has helped people deal with everyday stress for over thirty years. With irreverent humor and an innate sense of the absurd, Loretta helps people see how needlessly complex and stressful our lives can become. Loretta's wit, wisdom and humour is a common-sense view of life that leaves audiences inspired, motivated and roaring with laughter. Often irreverent, and always hilarious, Loretta helps people discover how thoughts, feelings and behaviors can affect work performance, relationships, success and self-worth.
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Sylvain Larocque
Leading Bilingual Comedian
Sylvain Larocque is one of Canada's fastest rising stars. His versatility as a performer enables him to work in many ways... he can be an endearing host, an entertaining stand-up and can also write hilarious comedic material. On top of that he is one of the very few bilingual performers in the country - he can make anybody laugh regardless of their culture and mother tongue. This business school graduate combines his scholastic endeavors with his extensive knowledge of the corporate world and adapts his act in order to please the most demanding audiences.
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Silken Laumann
Olympic Hero
Silken Laumann takes her audiences on the journey of a lifetime, as she shares her story, from broken bones and shredded muscles to Olympic glory. Far more than a sports story, it is a story of courage, perseverance and the triumph of the human spirit. The New York Times reported, "Laumann has touched her nation a million times", and her message continues to touch her audiences, as they identify with her anguish, her struggle, her exultation and ultimately realize their own potential for greatness.
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Michel Lauzière
Master of "The Unusual"
Michel Lauzière is a man of many talents. He is a visual humorist, a fantasy artist, a musician and above all, he is a creative performer who gains personal satisfaction in capturing his public's affection. On stage, Lauzière is a master in grasping the audience's attention and drawing them into his world of the unusual. With his incredible talent and imagination, he can make music out of anything. Michel Lauzière speaks many languages and is able to present his shows in any combination of English, French, German, Spanish or Italian.
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Alvin Law
Author of "Alvin's Laws of Life...5 Steps to Successfully Overcome Anything"
When Alvin Law was a child, having no arms was little more than an obstacle. His family taught him he could be whatever he wanted to be and that anything was possible with a lot of hard work and a proper attitude. Today, Alvin is one of Canada's most highly-sought after inspirational speakers. The author of Alvin's Laws of Life…5 Steps to Successfully Overcome Anything, Alvin shares his secrets to help individuals meet and conquer life's many challenges.
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Wayne Lee
Comedic Hypnotist & Mind-Power Expert
Wayne Lee is Canada's crown prince of hypnotism, with a spark of genius that guarantees an evening of non-stop entertainment. A sterling performer in his own right, Wayne shares the stage with a glittering cast of new-found stars from the audience! He's brilliantly funny, has set a new standard for entertainment, and guarantees a performance you won't forget! Wayne Lee's talent, youthful good looks, and dazzling stage presence are a recipe for laughter that thousands have feasted on over the years.
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Catriona Le May Doan
Olympic Champion Speed Skater & CBC Broadcaster
After carrying the Canadian flag into the 2002 Olympic Winter Games opening ceremonies, Catriona Le May Doan defended her Olympic title with a Gold medal performance in the 500-metre speed skating event, becoming the first Canadian individual to defend a gold medal at any Olympic games. Articulate and engaging, Catriona explores with her audiences the method of achieving personal excellence while challenging and motivating people to achieve their full potential.
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Patrick Lencioni
Organizational Health Expert
Patrick Lencioni speaks, consults and writes about topics related to leadership, organizational health, teamwork and corporate culture. He is the author of several best-selling books, and many of his leadership theories have appeared in a variety of publications, most notably Harvard Business Review, which featured Pat's original theory on corporate values. The combination of his humorous and engaging style, along with the soundness of his theories, has made him a highly sought-after speaker.
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Ezra Levant
TV News Anchor, Best-Selling Author & Provocateur
Ezra Levant knows when to talk - but he knows when to rant, too! As Canada's best-known Conservative pundit, Levant's talks are energetic, entertaining, articulate, insightful, controversial, and sure to provoke a great deal of discussion and debate. His first book, Shakedown, details his experience after being charged by the Alberta human rights commission in 2004 in connection with his work with his magazine, the Western Standard. His 2010 best seller, Ethical Oil: the Case for Canada's Oil Sands, won the National Business Book Award, and continues to cause a stir in "eco" circles all over the world.
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Stephen Lewis
Celebrated Humanitarian and Former UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa
Stephen Lewis is one of Canada's most influential commentators on social affairs, international development and human rights. He researches his speeches with obsessive care, enlivens them with personal anecdotes, and is never ashamed to be both passionate and emotional. Mr. Lewis engages, moves and motivates his audience so that they emerge challenged and energized.
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Avi Lewis
Gemini Award-Winning Broadcaster
Avi Lewis is best known as the host/producer of counterSpin on CBC Newsworld where he presided over more than 500 nationally televised debates in three years, and has recently emerged as an acclaimed documentary filmmaker as well. An innovator of the interactive format, Avi is the ideal moderator of conference panels, discussions and debates. He is also an entertaining and provocative speaker on current events and issues ranging from politics to social issues.
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Mike Lipkin
World-Renowned Motivator & Communicator
Mike Lipkin is one of the world's leading motivational speakers, helping to guide individuals and corporations on their "path to pre-eminence" in whatever it is they set out to do. The founder and President of Environics/Lipkin and the author of four bestselling motivational books, Mike has helped over 500 companies bring out the best in their leaders and employees around the world. Mike combines Environics' Social Values Research with his personal expertise and experience to provide people with the confidence and insights to motivate themselves and those around them.
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Doug Lipp
The Magic of Disney
Doug Lipp, an internationally acclaimed expert on customer service, leadership and global competitiveness, motivates and challenges audiences around the world. Formerly the head of training at Disney Studio's Walt Disney University, Doug takes his audiences on an entertaining and insightful journey behind the scenes to discover both the secret of Disney's success and how it has overcome spectacular challenges. His humorous and down-to-earth style has attracted a wide variety of organizations and industries.
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Dr. Brian Little
Award Winning Psychology Professor
Rated as one of the favorite lecturers at Harvard University three years running, Dr. Brian Little is an expert in personality differences, group dynamics and project management. In his presentations, he takes the audience on a fascinating tour of the physiological differences determining personality and explores the impact on our daily business lives, showing what makes some people clash, while others work in productive harmony. Dr. Little uses thought-provoking questions to help attendees identify their communication styles and gain new insights and understanding of their customers, staff and colleagues, their loved ones and themselves. One of the funniest speakers on the planet, and accurately described by one client as a cross between Robin Williams and Einstein, Dr. Brian Little is also one of the most respected.
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Vince Lombardi Jr.
Son of the Legendary Coach
As the son of the late Vincent T. Lombardi, remembered as one of the greatest football coaches in history, Vince's early years were spent in an atmosphere full of personal power and achievement. It is an emotional uplift to watch and listen to Vince Lombardi as he weaves together his childhood experiences with his father and his adult experiences from law, politics and professional football. Vince Lombardi's enthusiasm for growth, change and improved performance, blended with his strong personality and first-hand knowledge of his legendary father's leadership techniques makes for a dynamic presentation.
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Bob Love
NBA All-Star and Inspiration
Few stories are as dramatic as Bob Love's. Growing up poor as one of 14 children in rural Louisiana, Bob Love had a dream to play in the NBA, but couldn't afford a basketball. He persevered to become the greatest player to wear a Chicago Bulls uniform prior to the Michael Jordan era. But he was never able to do something that everyone else did easily, speak without stuttering. When he retired from the NBA he tried for seven years to find a steady job and was finally hired as a dishwasher. Love's presentations focus on the importance of dreams and how to hold on to them. He uses vivid examples from his own life story to teach audiences how they can overcome life's challenges.
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Mike MacDonald
Award-Winning Comedian
Comedian Mike MacDonald, considered one of the top funny men in all of Canada, understands the power of laughter. In addition to his successful and well received live performances all over North America, Mike has appeared on numerous TV shows including Late Night With David Letterman, Just For Laughs, Showtime's Comedy Club All-Star Show, A&E's An Evening At The Improv and Comedy Central's The A List. He has also starred in three well received and critically acclaimed specials for the CBC in Canada and for Showtime in the U.S.
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Dr. Joe MacInnis
Titanic & Ocean Explorer
Dr. Joe MacInnis, a medical doctor and one of the world's foremost explorers, has led or participated in more than fifty major undersea expeditions - including his dive to the RMS Titanic. Most recently, he spent two months diving with Academy Award winning director James Cameron during the filming of Aliens of the Deep. In his speeches, Dr. Joe MacInnis shares the values including courage, communication, and teamwork that enhance performance under the ocean and in the corporate world.
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Jeff MacInnis
The Polar Passage & Eco-Challenge
As the leader of the first Team to sail the Northwest Passage, a World Cup downhill ski racer, captain of Team Sunlight Eco-Challenge, best-selling author and entrepreneur, Jeff MacInnis delivers a "must-see" multimedia presentation. Using National Geographic images and television footage the audience "lives" the adventure and gains valuable insight into corporate and personal performance. Audiences are inspired by his examples of excellence. His accomplishments give his message a tremendous power and the audience leaves with strategies and a belief they can Dream, Dare and Do - Anything They Want To.
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Harvey MacKay
Entrepreneur & Best-Selling Author
Fortune magazine refers to Harvey Mackay as "Mr. Make Things Happen". Mackay has written five New York Times bestselling books, including Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive. His books have sold over 10 million copies worldwide, been translated into 35 languages and distributed in 80 countries. He is a nationally syndicated columnist and chairman and founder of the $100 million Mackay Envelope Company. One of America's most popular and entertaining business speakers, Toastmasters International named Mackay one of the top five speakers in the world.
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Ron MacLean
Hockey Night in Canada
Ron MacLean is best known as the straight man on Coach's Corner, the listener, and some might argue, the voice of reason that saves Don Cherry from getting a puck in the head. In addition to Hockey Night In Canada, the Gemini Award-winning sportscaster also hosts CBC's coverage of the Summer and Winter Olympics, Calgary Stampede, Commonwealth Games and World Track & Field Championships. As a speaker or MC, Ron's quick wit, thoughtful insights, and humorous, engaging style has entertained audiences from coast to coast.
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Rafe Mair
Political Commentator
Rafe Mair is a former lawyer, cabinet minister and scratch golfer who went into honest work and became a broadcaster, writer and speaker on public affairs. He is a political junkie and, because he's been there, a highly skeptical one who combines gut reaction with pungent reaction punctuated with what has been called his "wicked sense of humour".
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Shaun Majumder
Award-Winning Comedian
In a few short years, Shaun Majumder has blossomed into one of the Canadian comedy scene's top young stand-ups. The newest cast member of This Hour Has 22 Minutes provides viewers with a volatile mix of parody, sketch comedy and scathing editorial commentary. Majumder's material is slice-of-life. He refers to everything from his family to holidays or goes completely alternative with free-form association.
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Mike Mandel
Expert in the Art of Communication, Motivation & Influence
Dr. Mike Mandel is a uniquely qualified expert in the art and science of influential communication. An enlivening keynote speaker, he is known for being simultaneously fascinating and hilarious. Mandel's highly energetic, innovative and entertaining corporate keynotes and presentations, provide audiences with powerful tools to communicate persuasively, increase intelligence and reduce stress. He routinely earns rave reviews, and his impressive and diverse client list includes Microsoft, Petro Canada, TD Waterhouse, Toyota, Bell Canada, the RCMP, Deloitte, Rogers Communications, Aecon Construction, and the Department of Defence.
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Irshad Manji
Author & Media Entrepreneur
Irshad Manji is an award-winning TV personality, producer, author and media entrepreneur. Maclean's magazine has named Irshad one of "100 Canadians to Watch", and America's Ms. Magazine has named her a "Feminist for the 21st Century." But she prefers what the Globe and Mail has called her: "a progressive, media-savvy voice for a new generation and someone you'd definitely like to party with."
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The Hon. Preston Manning
Founder of the Reform Party of Canada
Preston Manning was one of the principal founders of two federal political parties, the Reform Party of Canada and the Canadian Alliance. Mr. Manning's presentations provide a dynamic, substantive discussion of current issues and the outlook for the future. He is a reformer at heart, and is quite at home challenging the status quo and conventional thinking in any number of areas.
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Dr. Theodore Marmor
Health Care Policy, Politics and Law Expert
Educated at Harvard and Oxford, Ted Marmor teaches at Yale`s law school, political science department, and school of management. His books include The Politics of Medicare, America`s Misunderstood Welfare State, co-authored with Mashaw and Harvey, Understanding Health Care Reform and Fads and Fashions in Medical Care Management. Former editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, former policy advisor to Mondale, Marmor is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the National Academy of Social Insurance, and a Fellow Emeritus of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Population Health Group.
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Lesra Martin
Lazarus & The Hurricane
Over twenty years ago, Lesra Martin was trapped in the harrowing, violent streets of Bushwick. Illiterate and poor, he lived a life of little hope or promise. A simple subway ride changed his life - and others - forever. Through a series of incredible circumstances, he became the unlikely catalyst in the freeing of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, one of the U.S.'s most famous wrongly convicted prisoners. Along the way, he fought to change his own life, undergoing his own miraculous transformation into a university honour student, law school graduate, attorney, and inspirational speaker. His powerful story leaves audiences with the understanding and belief that each of us can turn coincidence into opportunity, and adversity into triumph.
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Chris Mathers
Crime, Terrorism and Security Expert
Having addressed a wide variety of audiences from manufacturing to retail, healthcare to financial services, Chris easily links his experience and knowledge of the underworld with the interests and concerns of a particular sector. He inspires the good guys and gives us the tools to rise to the challenge. A compelling storyteller with many outrageous and entertaining tales to tell, Chris Mathers is a unique, humorous and fascinating speaker.
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Bob McDonald
Host of CBC's Quirks & Quarks
Bob McDonald has been communicating science internationally through television, radio, print and live presentations for more than 30 years. Currently, he is the host of CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks, the award-winning science program heard by a national audience in Canada of nearly 500,000 people. He is constantly in demand to speak for a variety of audiences across Canada, and is best known for making complex issues accessible to the general public.
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Stuart McLean
Bestselling Author and Host of CBC Radio's The Vinyl Café.
Stuart McLean is a best-selling author, award-winning journalist and humourist, and host of CBC Radio program The Vinyl Café. He has written several bestselling books, including Home from the Vinyl Café and Vinyl Café Unplugged, which received the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour. His most recent book is Secrets from the Vinyl Cafe. Since 1998 Stuart has taken The Vinyl Café on the road, performing in large and small towns from St. John's, Newfoundland to Whitehorse in the Yukon. Stuart was recently named to The Order of Canada, 2011.
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Ann Medina
Emmy Award-Winning Journalist
Ann Medina's wide-ranging experience and incisive coverage of foreign affairs have made her one of Canada's most highly respected and well-known journalists. Audiences respond enthusiastically to Medina's insights and sometimes rib-tickling analyses of some of the issues of the day. A self-described computer "nut", she also brings humour and insight to charting a course through the chaos of change. Medina combines an intensely personal view, with a world-view, based upon being there.
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Suhana Meharchand
Award-Winning CBC News Anchor
Suhana Meharchand is host of CBC News Today on CBC Newsworld, as well as the anchor of CBC News Now with Suhana Meharchand. She is the former host of Saturday Report and has anchored the CBC Evening News. Bringing a wealth of journalistic experience, Meharchand has been twice nominated for a Gemini award, and she has won two Bronze medals at the Columbus International Film and Video Festival, and a Bronze medal at the International Film and TV Festival of New York.
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Wendy Mesley
Award-Winning Broadcast Journalist
Wendy Mesley is one of Canada's most recognized and respected broadcast journalists. Noted for her energy, tenacity and wit, she is regarded as one of the best interviewers in television. A provocative speaker, who addresses challenging issues with an edgy, entertaining and informative presentation style, Mesley is also an outstanding moderator, host or master of ceremonies.
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Brian Michaels
Award-Winning Event Entertainer & Illusionist
Brian Michaels' interactive, high-energy show features state-of-the-art illusions and is guaranteed to generate laughter, excitement and applause. His fresh and innovative approach has resulted in unforgettable experiences for audiences across Canada and around the world. Experience firsthand why professional event planners across the country have named Brian "Entertainer of the Year", two years in a row, at the Canadian Event Industry Awards. Whether it's an intimate presentation for a board of directors meeting or a full-scale illusion show for a gala dinner of 1500 people, Brian Michaels will captivate your audience and make your next event a complete success!
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Dr. Saul Miller
Leading Performance & Sports Psychologist
Dr. Saul Miller is a performance specialist consulting with super-achievers in world-class sport, business, healthcare and the arts. One of North America's leading performance psychologists, he works in the areas of performance and productivity enhancement, team building, and helping people to be successful while dealing effectively with pressure, stress, and change. Each program he delivers is individually researched and tailored to the specific needs and interests of the client, and is certain to motivate, entertain and inform his audience.
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Colin Mochrie
Improv Master
Colin Mochrie is an alumnus of Toronto's famous Second City, the comedy training ground of the likes of Martin Short, John Candy, Gilda Radner, Mike Myers and Dan Ackroyd. Mochrie holds the distinction of having simultaneously starred in five series on six North American networks, including Whose Line Is It, Anyway? (which he played in for nine years in England before its smash hit U.S. debut five seasons ago). Currently, Mochrie can be seen starring in his hit comedy series Almost Heroes on Showcase Canada and on Vision TV in his sitcom She's the Mayor.
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Marc André Morel
Destined to Succeed
Audiences love Marc André Morel's content-rich but accessible material filled with stories, analogies, humour and energy. His charismatic delivery and style inspire participants to immediately take action and use it at work and in their personal lives, making the total experience even more enriching. Whether you want to motivate your team members, help improve employee morale or teamwork and communication, increase sales and profits, reduce stress and embrace change, Marc André's programs are the solution. He will raise the conscious level of your group, open their hearts and lift their spirits.
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Dr. Barbara Moses
Career Self-Management Guru
Fast Company magazine called her a "career guru". Dr. Barbara Moses, a North American leader in career self-management, is the best-selling author of What Next? The Complete Guide to Taking Control of Your Working Life, The Good News About Careers, Career Intelligence and Dish: Midlife Women Tell the Truth about Work, Relationships, and the Rest of Life. A sought-after presenter and keynote speaker for senior business and professional audiences, Dr. Moses is consistently praised for her practical insights into new work and personal realities, her stimulating and compelling delivery, and her tell-it-like-it-is style.
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Dennis Moseley-Williams
Client-Centered Marketing
Dennis Moseley-Williams is an internationally known consultant in the Financial Services industry in the areas of Practice Management, Business Development and Marketing. Dennis' message, best described as 'client-centered marketing', is a proven system for attracting great clients and for building a great business—for life. He takes clients through the process of creating customized marketing plans that specifically address their business needs and are easily understood and implemented by all members of their team. He delivers his message to diverse audiences and industries across North America.
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Peg Neuhauser
Corporate Culture Expert
As global trends and technological advances bring sweeping change, the cultures within our organizations change as well. Peg Neuhauser helps her audiences prepare for those internal challenges through the creation of innovative and flexible management structures. She offers them the ability to encourage collaboration and thus minimize the fear and anger that come hand-in-hand with change. She is author of four groundbreaking books, including Culture.com.
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Peter C. Newman
Legendary Journalist & Best Selling Author
In the ever-changing worlds of business and politics, there isn't a topic or trend that escapes the watchful eye of Peter C. Newman. His journalism career has spanned five decades, with much of his time being devoted to Maclean's magazine. Peter's anecdote-filled, yet hard-hitting, speeches describe how this country got into its current mess, emphasizing how and why Canada will survive.
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Maurice O'Callaghan
Change Master & Motivator
Maurice O'Callaghan is one of Canada's finest and most popular professional speakers. Timeless values, unforgettable experiences and humour are skillfully integrated into every presentation. Through his exceptional delivery and powerful insights, audiences learn practical and proven approaches to enriching their lives as individuals and as critical members of the organizations that depend upon them. Hearing Maurice is a unique, inspiring and life changing experience.
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Frank O'Dea
Celebrated Entrepreneur & Humanitarian
Frank O'Dea's story of triumph over adversity and raw ambition and determination in the face of dire circumstances has inspired audiences around the world. His rag to riches story is one that is unbelievable and truly inspiring. From living on the street and against all odds, O'Dea became one of Canada's most successful and celebrated entrepreneurs, founding numerous businesses, including The Second Cup. He tells his audiences the fascinating story behind its creation. In addition to his string of business successes, O'Dea's achievements in the not-for-profit sector, both in Canada and worldwide, are extraordinary. The Secretary General of the UN Kofi Annan, The Secretary of State in the US, Colin Powell and even former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney have all praised his work. O'Dea is the author of When All You Have Is Hope.
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Alan Parisse
Expert in Sales, Leadership & Change Management
Named as one of the "Top 21 Speakers for the 21st Century", Alan Parisse is a superb speaker whose mission is to help individuals and organizations shape their future. Parisse works with a wide range of organizations, many of them undergoing major transition. He helps them reframe their thinking, let go of the past, organize the future, and take action - to face their successes, problems and opportunities. The rapport he develops with audiences enables him to deliver substantive, provocative, and sometimes uncomfortable information in a way that challenges, inspires, and entertains.
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The Passing Zone
Keynote Jugglers
You've heard of keynote speakers, but keynote jugglers? It's not as crazy as it sounds! Take two guys with chain saws. Put them in tights, throw in a Garden Weasel®, and what do you get? Well, it's kind of hard to explain. But they're called The Passing Zone, and they'll amaze you. And make you laugh. They combine humor, impeccable timing and an ability to understand the special needs of any corporate situation. Whether delivering a memorable message, juggling a company's products, throwing chain saws or juggling three people from the audience, The Passing Zone is the perfect entertainment choice.
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Dr. J.P. Pawliw-Fry
Leadership & Performance Expert
Dr. J.P. Pawliw-Fry is an author, columnist and performance coach to Olympic athletes and business leaders. He melds state-of-the-art research with powerful inspiration to create thought-provoking and moving keynote presentations. An expert in emotional intelligence, he is one of the world's most highly sought-after speakers on the topic. J.P. teaches his audiences the principles of emotional intelligence and high performance, and inspires them to take their careers, businesses and personal lives to the next level.
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Don Peppers
One-to-One Marketing Guru
If your company wants to build long-term relationships with customers that will generate higher margins, increased customer loyalty and greater customer satisfaction, best-selling author and business visionary Don Peppers can explain how to get the job done - clearly, concisely and without ambiguity. The co-author of several international best-sellers, his newest book Rules to Break & Laws to Follow examines what empowered customers, networked employees and a culture of innovation and trust mean for the competitive differentiation and long-term viability of a business.
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Ian Percy
Going Deep
If you are planning an event in which you simply must reach the minds, hearts and souls of the participants - you need to bring in Ian Percy. Few speakers connect as deeply with an audience as does Ian. His ability blend insight and unending humor, and to draw out the passion and purpose of every individual enables you to harness that power to unify your team, get through difficult times, successfully carry out complex change, build loyalty with your customers, or surpass an impossible revenue goal - whatever your intention.
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Dini Petty
Award-Winning Television Personality
Celebrity, mother, author, entrepreneur, daredevil and free spirit, Dini Petty is a remarkably accomplished woman. Motivated for success, she is a helicopter pilot, a radio and television personality, talk show host, and successful writer and poet. Although Dini makes success look easy, she has had her share of struggles. She shares the story of her discovery of inner strength, and shows audiences how to get back in touch with their own instincts, increasing self-confidence and self-esteem.
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Kim Phuc
The Girl in the Picture
Every picture tells a story - but none like this one. A photograph of a young girl running naked down a road, her skin on fire from napalm, changed the way the world looked at the Vietnam War. The picture was transmitted around the world and eventually earned a Pulitzer Prize for the photographer, Nick Ut. The girl in the picture is Kim Phuc. Today Kim Phuc tells her story of recovery, forgiveness and courage inspiring audiences around the globe.
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Jerry Porras
Organizational Behaviour & Change Expert
Co-author of Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, one of Forbes' 20 most influential business books, Jerry Porras debunks myths about what makes visionary companies successful by tracing the attributes of a selected group of visionary companies that demonstrate enduring core values, a purpose beyond profits, and a devoted workforce. The Lane Professor of Organizational Behavior and Change, Emeritus, at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, Porras enlightens audiences with his groundbreaking theories of successful organization.
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Ian Portsmouth
Editor of Profit Magazine
As the editor of Profit magazine, Ian Portsmouth has studied and chronicled the experiences of Canada's leading entrepreneurs and fastest growing companies. His presentations draw on this research, and provide the strategies they have revealed. Using real-life examples and anecdotes, he delivers practical and proven ideas for improving your products, processes and profits. His message resonates not only with business owners, but anyone who is responsible for the bottom line.
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Vince Poscente
Business Strategist, Olympian, Author
An authority on speed and focus, Vince Poscente knows the mindset needed to meet peak performance demands. During the 1992 Olympic Winter Games in Albertville, France, Vince raced to a Canadian national record of 135 miles per hour (216.7 km/hr) on skis. Even more astonishing, at the age of 26, Vince had never ski raced before. He went from a recreational skier to the Olympic finals in just 4 years! Audiences laugh, cry, and most importantly, relate to Vince's journey of trials and tribulations. They walk away inspired and motivated to be a valued contributor to their organization's goals!
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Dr. David Posen
Stress Mastery
Best-selling author, speaker and physician, Dr. David Posen, is one of North America's leading experts on stress mastery, work-life balance, health, and wellness. His dynamic presentations have empowered thousands of people to take control of their lives...and come out on top. Dr. Posen's unique personal style - combining humour and practical analogies - helps unlock the mysteries of stress and wellness. There's no quick fix for mastering stress and change. But creative and effective strategies exist which can be learned by everyone. Dr. David Posen teaches people how.
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David Prentice
Leading Sales & Marketing Expert
David Prentice is one of North America's most dynamic sales and marketing professionals. Dave gets the calls when clients need to understand customer service and satisfaction, personal motivation, teamwork, negotiation, strategic planning in a sales environment, leadership, key account management in a service business, consultative selling and selling at the top. An extremely funny, knowledgeable and witty speaker, David teaches people practical techniques they can use the next day, and people have a blast doing it!
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Valerie Pringle
Award-Winning Television Broadcaster
Valerie Pringle is one of Canada's most accomplished and popular television hosts. Selected as one of the "Fifty Famous Faces of Fifty Years of Canadian Television", by the Banff Television Foundation, she is always a great draw for any audience or event. Her astute questions and charming wit make her an outstanding moderator or host or featured speaker.
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Tony Quinn
Comedy & Music
Tony Quinn can best be described as a renaissance entertainer. He is one of the very few who can accomplish all that he does - alone on stage. Best known for his innovative and unique style of musical comedy, his customized performances have made Tony a favourite at conferences, conventions and after dinner speaking events. His fast paced comedy and music, impersonations and musical treats, together with his quick wit and improvisation, have made audiences laugh for over twenty years.
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Jim Ralph
Hockey & Humour
Jim Ralph is best known for his dry, self-deprecating sense of humour, and his comical impersonations of famous Canadian sportscasters, including Foster Hewitt, Danny Gallivan, Dick Irvin, Bob Cole, Brian Williams, and of course Don Cherry. A former pro hockey player, Jim spent seven years as a minor league goaltender. Today he covers the Toronto Maple Leafs as colour commentator on their radio broadcasts, where his insightful observations and entertaining anecdotes, keep fans informed and entertained. As an guest speaker or master of ceremonies, Jim's steady stream of one-liners and comical impersonations have made him one of Canada's most popular speakers.
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Daniel Richler
BookTelevision Editor-in-Chief
As Editor-in-Chief of the world's only 24-hour literary TV channel, BookTelevision, Daniel Richler knows all there is to know about the unholy marriage of books and the box. For anyone interested in the perils of modern mass media, the myth of declining literacy and the dumbing-down of TV, Daniel has innumerable comic anecdotes, cautionary tales and illuminating stories to tell.
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Jeremy Rifkin
President of the Foundation on Economic Trends
A futurist of extraordinary vision, Jeremy Rifkin doesn't just illuminate the complexities of global trends, he helps to mold them. A frequent guest on such opinion-shaping programs as Face the Nation, Nightline, and Larry King Live, he brings to his audiences a new understanding of domestic and global economies, the evolving power of e-commerce and biotechnology, and the ever-changing needs of the work force.
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Harry Rosen
Award Winning Retailer
Harry Rosen is the man behind the name, the Executive Chairman of Harry Rosen Inc., which operates a chain of better menswear stores across Canada. Founded in 1954, as a modest shoe-box of a store in downtown Toronto, Harry Rosen now claims a 28% share of the Canadian better quality menswear market. His unprecedented experience, knowledge and success provide his audiences with an opportunity to learn from an individual who continues to excel in an ever-changing marketplace.
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Jeff Salz
Anthropologist, Explorer, Mountaineer, Author & Television Personality
Jeff Salz has made a lifetime of adventure. An acclaimed explorer - with a Ph.D. in anthropology - he has traversed most of the remaining blank spots on the globe. The author of The Way of Adventure: Transforming Your Life and Work with Spirit and Vision, Jeff was the creator and leading speaker for the largest customer service training in the history of the United States... addressing over 100,000 U.S. postal workers. With remarkable adventure tales and thought-provoking concepts, Jeff continues to instill his audiences with fresh strategies and enthusiasm for life and career. His free-wheeling humor and profound sense of humanity turn every meeting into a memorable event.
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Tim Sanders
Former Yahoo! Leadership Coach
Tim Sanders is more than a keynote speaker; his real world experience, research savvy, and deep understanding of the human condition make him an indispensable consultant to some of the biggest brands in the world. Sanders’ company, Deeper Media, conducts research on business trends, new media, and human behaviour. Through digital channels, speaking, and his best-selling business books (Love Is The Killer App, The Likeability Factor, Saving The World At Work, and his latest, Today We Are Rich: Harnessing the Power of Total Confidence), Sanders is on a mission to make every person - everyday - really think about their purpose and what they're bringing not only to their work, but to the world. Sanders is one of today’s most prominent advocates for building business success through sharing your knowledge, network, and compassion with your business partners.
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Danièle Sauvageau
Former Canadian Olympic Hockey Coach
Head Coach of The First Canadian Olympic Hockey Team to Win Gold in 50 Years, Danièle Sauvageau has done undercover narcotics work for the Montreal Urban Police, busted a squad car full of drug dealers, and even ordered a forced entry and rescue of a double agent whose life was in jeopardy. Sauvageau, the first female Saturday Night Hockey TV analyst, also juggles her career as a Montreal Urban Police Sergeant. Audiences across the country are fascinated and inspired by her experiences, and learn from her accomplishments.
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Robert J. Sawyer
The Challenge of Tomorrow
Called "the dean of Canadian science fiction" by The Ottawa Citizen and "just about the best science fiction writer out there" by The Denver Rocky Mountain News, Robert J. Sawyer's specialty is extrapolating today's scientific, medical, and ethical concerns into the next few decades, and making the radical changes that are forthcoming and understandable to any audience. He can help your group deal with the accelerating pace of change, understand new technologies, and avoid future shock.
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Bruce Sellery
Financial Journalist; Host of Million Dollar Neighbourhood on the Oprah Winfrey Network
Sellery is currently the financial expert and host of Million Dollar Neighbourhood on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. He is the founder and president of Moolala, a personal finance training company focused on inspiring people to get a handle on their money so they can live the life they want. His bestselling book, Moolala: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things With Their Money and What You Can Do About It, was published in 2011. Sellery spent a decade as an anchor at CTV's Business News Network, including three years at the Bureau Chief in New York City. Sellery is a regular keynote speaker at association conferences and corporate events, helping audiences to better understand the complex world of finances.
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Dr. Peter Senge
Organizational Learning Expert
Peter Senge is a Senior Lecturer at M.I.T., and Chairperson of the Society for Organizational Learning. He is the author of the widely acclaimed book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization, which was identified by the Harvard Business Review as one of the seminal management books of the past 75 years. Dr. Senge has lectured extensively throughout the world, translating the abstract ideas of systems theory into tools for better understanding of economic and organizational change.
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Robin Sharma
International Bestselling Author & Leadership Expert
Robin Sharma is one of the world’s leading speakers on Leadership. He is also the author of seven international bestsellers including the landmark business blockbuster Leadership Wisdom From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. Robin's customized keynote presentations and transformational seminars are high-content, entertaining, provide immediately effective strategies to help audiences reach all-new levels of productivity, performance and personal satisfaction. Robin entertains, excites, and offers powerful wisdom on leadership, change, personal effectiveness and life management.
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Kenny Shaw
Comedy & Music
A multi-talented entertainer from Canada's West Coast, Kenny Shaw enjoys a well-deserved reputation for drawing an audience into his wacky world of high-powered comedy and music, innovative skits and hilarious one-liners. His performances are liberally laced with crafty impressions, hysterical comedy and incredible musical tributes to his clients' favourite entertainers. With the knack for customizing his material for each audience and a reputation for hysterically funny presentations, Kenny Shaw is a guaranteed success at any event!
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Jack Shaw
Author & Expert in Business Strategy, Process & Technology
Jack Shaw helps organizations increase revenues, cut costs, improve service, and maximize productivity. An internationally recognized business speaker who has addressed thousands in over 20 countries, Shaw is an authority on using technology to enable winning business strategies. Custom-tailoring each presentation, Shaw helps organizations create the action plans necessary to apply technology to transform their businesses and outpace the competition.
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Don Shula
Hall of Fame Football Coach
Don Shula coached in the NFL for 33 years, leading his teams to more wins than any other coach in the history of the NFL. Considered by many to be one of the greatest coaches ever to step on a sporting field, Shula was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in July 1997. An extremely motivating and insightful speaker, Shula is co-author with Ken Blanchard of Everyone's a Coach, a highly acclaimed book that outlines the application of the authors' managerial philosophies for business and personal success.
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Jeffrey Simpson
Globe & Mail's National Affairs Columnist
As the Globe and Mail's national affairs columnist since 1984, Jeffrey Simpson has his finger on the pulse of Canada and the world. He is one of the few outstanding political writers who can express his opinions as well with the spoken word. His latest book, Hot Air: Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge, Simpson outlines the few simple policies that Canada must adopt right away in order to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next few decades. With clarity and detail, Simpson offers a highly credible solution with the same unique and thought-provoking insight found in his columns.
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Darryl Sittler
Legendary Toronto Maple Leaf
Darryl Sittler is one of the greatest players to ever wear the Toronto Maple Leaf uniform. Darryl's place among the sport's all-time greats came in 1989 with his induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame. In 1995-96, he was voted by fans as the centreman on the All-Time Leafs Team, and on February 8, 2003, Toronto retired Sittler's No. 27. Darryl tells hockey stories with a wonderful blend of sincerity, credibility and wit.
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Laurie Skreslet
1st Canadian to Summit Mt. Everest
On October 5, 1982, Laurie Skreslet overcame deadly odds, to become the first Canadian to climb to the summit of Mount Everest. His inspiring, captivating presentations, complete with spectacular multimedia visuals, convey clearly how personal commitment, teamwork, preparation, planning and dedication to excellence were the keys to success on Mount Everest, and are keys to success in business. Everyone has their own "mountains of endeavor" to climb, and Laurie Skreslet inspires his audiences to reach their personal and team best, overcome fear of the unknown and go beyond their self-imposed limits.
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Evan Solomon
CBC Television Broadcaster, Journalist & Author
Two-time Gemini award winning broadcaster and journalist, Evan Solomon is the host of the most watched national political affairs TV show in the country, CBC News Network’s Power and Politics with Evan Solomon. As provocative in print as he is on the air, Solomon spends his professional life exploring the world of politics and power, innovation, advances in technology, changing business paradigms, and creative approaches to managing and solving the complex challenges of sustainability in the 21st century.
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Anthony Stokan
Leading Retail & Consumer Authority
Anthony Stokan travels the continent searching for creativity and innovation in the business of retail. His compelling presentation style and practical advice has garnered him the reputation as one of North America's preeminent marketing authorities. Anthony shows audiences how to put action back into their businesses. He goes beyond his keen theories and ideas, and masterfully demonstrates how to put them into practice.
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Dr. David Suzuki
Award-Winning Scientist, Environmentalist & Broadcaster
David Suzuki is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster. He has received consistently high acclaim for his thirty years of award-winning work in broadcasting, explaining the complexities of science in a compelling, easily understood way. He is well known to millions as the host of the CBC’s popular science television series, The Nature of Things. The author of more than 50 books, his passionate, hard-hitting speeches are filled with critical content and delivered in a manner that will mesmerize, educate and inspire.
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Linda Tarrant
Corporate & Personal Transformations
For the past 25 years she has been delivering creative, thought-provoking, positive solutions to organizations in both the public and private sectors. She offers individuals, corporations and associations practical tools and techniques and brings a sense of humor and energy to every motivational keynote and content-filled workshop.
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Ken Taylor
Former Canadian Ambassador to Iran
Ken Taylor is best known as the former Canadian Ambassador to Iran who, in 1980, risked his own life and his country's reputation, to help save the lives of six American hostages during the Iran Crisis. His work as both a diplomat, and more recently as an advisor to corporations on issues of political risk, international marketing and strategic accommodation with government ensure that his presentations are not only inspiring, but also insightful, timely and relevant.
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Veronica Tennant, C.C.
Prima Ballerina, Flimmaker, Author, Producer-Director
As Prima Ballerina with The National Ballet of Canada, Veronica Tennant won hearts and accolades as a dancer of extraordinary versatility and dramatic power. For 25 years, she danced on stages and on camera around the world with such luminaries as Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Tennant has reinvented herself as an award-winning producer/director and filmmaker while expanding on her gifts as a communicator, performer and author. With passion and humour, Tennant shares her story, illustrated by video clips of her performances, with candid glimpses at the risks and rewards, and the tumbles and triumphs she experienced along the way.
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Brian Thwaits
Brainspeaker Inc.
Brian Thwaits is an engaging and immensely entertaining "brain trainer" who has shown thousands of people how to enhance their learning, communication, creativity, problem-solving and thinking skills. His brain training sessions combine the latest information from the disciplines of brain research, learning theory and the communication field to suggest innovative and practical approaches to issues we face in the workplace, in the classroom and in our personal lives.
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Paula Todd
Award-Winning Broadcaster
Paula Todd is an award-winning Canadian journalist, broadcaster, lawyer and author, who's worked with Canada's largest networks, newspapers and magazines as a TV host, investigative reporter, legal analyst, political columnist and feature writer. Her best-selling book, A Quiet Courage: Inspiring Stories from All of Us, details the struggle of people around the world to turn tragedy into personal triumph. Paula holds degrees in both literature and law and sits on the board of directors for Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.
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Michael Treacy
Corporate Strategy & Business Transformation Expert
Raising companies to market leadership for over 20 years, Michael Treacy has been an entrepreneur, management consultant, and M.I.T. professor. A cutting-edge and innovative thinker, he brings a wealth of hands-on experience to his custom-tailored presentations focusing on value leadership, operational excellence, customer intimacy, and sustaining performance in turbulent markets.
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Margaret Trudeau
Celebrated Canadian & Mental Health Advocate
Margaret Trudeau became the youngest Prime Minister's wife in Canadian history, when she married Pierre Elliot Trudeau at the age of 22. She has led a rich and interesting life, by raising five children and travelling the country and the world extensively. Trudeau has wonderful stories to tell and a strong, clear message on the importance of finding balance of mind, body and spirit.
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Bruce Tulgan
Leading Expert on Young People in the Workplace
Bruce Tulgan is internationally recognized as the leading expert on young people in the workplace. He has addressed tens of thousands of leaders, managers, and employees in hundreds of organizations all over the world, and is the author of sixteen books, including It's Okay To Be the Boss, Winning the Talent Wars, Managing the Generation Mix, and Managing Generation X. He has also written for dozens of publications, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and USA Today.
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Max Valiquette
Innovation & Trends Expert
Max Valiquette focuses on what’s new and modern - what’s young and now. As one of North America's foremost experts on media and modern consumers, his knowledge of the ever-changing world of marketing, branding, youth culture, social media and communication has established him as one of Canada’s most sought-after speakers and consultants. Valiquette is an innovation and trends expert who helps companies, organizations and brands figure out solutions to their problems, usually by better understanding their consumers, employees or citizens.
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Michael Vaughan
Veteran Broadcaster
Former host of Report on Business Television's daily business talk show, Vaughan is now partnering with Jeremy Cato and achieving great success for the third year with the television series Car/Business. Mr. Vaughan is a wonderful interpreter of the business headlines, key economic and business trends, and what they mean for people in Canadian business. These skills are on display in his speaking engagements, which are always lively and rich with insights into Canadian business and its leaders.
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Michael Vickers
Sales & Marketing Motivator
Michael Vickers is a popular speaker, entrepreneur, educator, and author of Becoming Preferred: How to Outsell Your Competition. Michael's unique gift is his mastery of the art of influence and his ability to translate that mastery into practical, powerful techniques anyone can use. His sessions are educational, entertaining, intimate and unabashed - he is hilarious in his stories, boundless in his enthusiasm and relentless in his message that success is available to everyone!
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Bernard Voyer
World Explorer
Bernard Voyer has stood at all three poles: South Pole, North Pole and the summit of Mount Everest, a feat that very few people in the world have achieved. He gives a human face to his extraordinary triumphs of determination. He appeals to the audience's imagination, but above all he succeeds in summoning forth listener's desire to excel, to demonstrate their own courage and motivation. He is a walking proof of what can be accomplished with teamwork, co-operation and initiative, living testimony to the importance of finding in ourselves the resources we need to reach higher goals.
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Watts Wacker
World Renowned Futurist
Watts Wacker is one of the most celebrated and influential minds in modern business. A lecturer, best-selling author, political commentator and social critic, Wacker is one of the world's most respected futurists. His uncommon versatility and vision has allowed him to help the world's top corporations and organizations navigate the sea of change that is taking hold in the new millennium.
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Michael Walker
Former Director of the Fraser Institute
Michael Walker is a Senior Fellow at The Fraser Institute and President of the Fraser Institute Foundation. From its inception in 1974, until September 2005, Michael Walker directed the activities of the Fraser Institute. His humorous, educational and thought provoking presentations focus on the role competitive markets play in providing for the economic and social well-being of all Canadians.
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Brian Williams
Host, Olympic Prime Time on CTV
Considered the dean of Canadian sports commentators, with more than a quarter of a century of broadcast experience, Brian Williams maintains a youthful exuberance that endears him to fans of every sport he covers. Having covered virtually every professional and major amateur sports event around the globe, Williams' broadcasting style has won numerous awards and praise from critics. He is an extremely entertaining and inspiring speaker, who shares "Lessons In Greatness From The Olympic Games" with audiences across the country. Brian was recently named to The Order of Canada, 2011.
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Ken Wong
Marketing & Strategic Planning
Ken Wong is The Distinguished Professor of Marketing at Queen's University School of Business, as well as the Vice-President of Knowledge Development for Level 5, a marketing consulting firm focussed on brand strategy and execution. A frequent speaker and facilitator in conferences and executive development programs around the world, for clients including American Express, Bell Canada, Deloitte, Frito Lay, GlaxoSmithKline, KPMG and Kraft, Ken pinpoints the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead for all companies and industries he addresses. With topics ranging from Marketing in a Down Economy to The New Marketing: How Traditional Views Hurt Progressive Firms, Ken offers something that every business can draw from, whether they are a new venture, or one of the largest companies in the world.
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Sharon Wood
First N.A. Woman to Summit Everest
In 1986, Sharon Wood became the first North American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Since then, she has told her compelling story about beating the odds to audiences across North America. She speaks about meeting the challenges we are all faced with, personally and professionally. Through her personal disclosure of confronting and overcoming challenges and fears, she succeeds in using the imposing example of climbing the highest mountain in the world to provide her audiences with a tangible means of grasping the essence of her story - living and working closer to our potential. Her awe-inspiring visuals will take you on an adventure that you will remember forever.
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Joanne Thomas Yaccato
Gender Intelligence Expert
A self-professed rabble-rouser, Joanne Thomas Yaccato specializes in helping companies apply the unique concept of gender intelligence. Author of several best-selling books, including The Gender Intelligent Retailer and The 80% Minority: Reaching the Real World of Women Consumers, Joanne's dynamic presentations reveal how to create the critically important gender lens that companies need in order to create authentic products, services and business strategies to attract the attention and loyalty of women consumers. Most importantly, she proves categorically there is a straight-line connection between getting it right with women and getting it right with everyone else.
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John Amatt
Leader, First Successful Canadian summit of Mt. Everest
For over 35 years, John Amatt has led expeditions to remote regions of Northern Norway, Peru, Nepal, China and Greenland and has explored areas of the Arctic on six occasions, making many first ascents of previously unclimbed peaks. At the age of 20, John made the first ever ascent of Europe's highest and steepest mountain precipice - the 5000 foot "Vertical Mile" Troll Wall in Norway. Later in 1981, he was the leader of the 1st Canadian mountaineering expedition to Western China, which made a lightweight ascent of 24,757 foot Mount Muztagata. More recently, John fulfilled a lifelong dream by organizing and taking part in Canada's first successful expedition to reach the top of the world - the 29,028 foot summit of Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain.
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Wally Amos
Founder of Famous Amos Cookies
Wally Amos, one of today's best motivational speakers, and founder of Famous Amos Cookies, is credited with being the father of the gourmet cookie industry. He opened his first Famous Amos store on Sunset Boulevard in 1975. By 1985, sales had grown to more than $10 million. However, adverse financial results forced Amos to relinquish ownership. Turning adversity into opportunity, Amos launched a new cookie venture, The Uncle Noname' Cookie Company. He also wrote a popular book, Man With No Name Turns Lemons Into Lemonade. An inspiring public speaker, Amos shares his insights on managing change and overcoming adversity.
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Les Brown
World Renowned Speaker and Motivator
As a renowned professional speaker, author and television personality, Les Brown has risen to national prominence by delivering a high-energy message that tells people how to shake off mediocrity and live up to their greatness. It is a message Les Brown has learned from his own life and one he is helping others apply to their lives. One of the nation's leading authorities in understanding and stimulating human potential, Les' customized presentation will teach, inspire, and channel your audience to new levels of achievement.
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Ram Charan
Strategy Execution Expert
Ram Charan is a highly acclaimed business advisor, speaker, and author. Ram has coached some of the world's most successful CEOs. For 35 years, he has worked behind the scenes at companies like GE, DuPont, EDS, Duke Energy and Verizon. Ram has written several books: Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, What the CEO Wants You to Know, Boards at Work, The Leadership Pipeline, and Every Business is a Growth Business. Charan also tailors his books for specific client companies, including ones for Gateway, Ford, and EDS. His articles have been published in Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Time, Director's Monthly, and USA Today.
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Aubrey Daniels
Performance Management Expert
Aubrey C. Daniels, Ph.D. is a pioneer in introducing the principles of behavioral psychology to the workplace. Internationally recognized as an author, speaker, and expert in behavior-based technologies, Dr. Daniels advises Fortune 500 companies on management and human performance issues such as safety, quality, productivity, compensation and rewards, morale, performance systems, employee education and change management.
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Bani Dheer
Workplace Futurist
Bani Dheer is a nationally recognized workplace expert on North America's youth and baby boomer's demographic. She has extensive experience helping Fortune 500 companies create attraction and retention strategies targeting young employees and is a regularly sought-after speaker on Gen X employees. In her book, The Future of Work, she identifies seven trends shaping the future direction of the workplace and the increasingly widespread demand among 20 year olds and 50 year olds alike for more meaningful work.
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Steve Donahue
Adventurer, Author, Storyteller
Steve Donahue is a professional speaker, author and coach who specializes in individual and organizational change. He has been delighting and inspiring audiences internationally for almost two decades. His impressive client list is a Who's Who of Fortune 500 companies including AT&T, IBM, Pillsbury, Bank of America, Ford and Volkswagen. Steve is also a best selling author and his new book, Shifting Sands: A Guidebook for Crossing the Deserts of Change, skillfully employs the gripping story of his odyssey across the Sahara Desert as a compelling metaphor for the changing journeys of life and career.
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Jeffrey Garten
Professor at the Yale School of Management & Former Undersecretary of Commerce
Jeffrey E. Garten's vast credentials, reputation and experience make him one of very few business experts placed firmly on the crossroads of economics and foreign policy. An expert in finance and international trade, Garten spent thirteen years on Wall Street as a managing director of Lehman Brothers and the Blackstone Group. During this time, he specialized in debt restructuring in Latin America, and restructured some of the world's largest shipping companies in Hong Kong. At the podium, Garten draws on his extensive government service and corporate experience to analyze the political and financial implications of a globalized economy.
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Terry Leibel
Former CBC Sports Host
Terry Leibel is a member of an elite group - female sportscasters. Terry Leibel was the first woman to do play-by-play for the Olympics, handling cycling, equestrian and white-water events for NBC during the Summer Games in Barcelona. Leibel dedicated her career to the coverage of amateur sports and was, once again, proud to be an Olympic host for CBC's coverage of the Olympic Games in Torino, 2006. Since her retirement, Terry has been inducted into Jump Canada's Hall of Fame and the CBC's Sports Hall of Fame.
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W Mitchell
World Renowned Inspirational Speaker
Having overcome two life-threatening and life-changing accidents - the first a fiery motorcycle accident and the second an airplane crash - Mitchell says: "Before I was paralyzed there were 10,000 things I could do. Now there are 9,000. I can either dwell on the 1,000 I've lost or focus on the 9,000 I have left." You will be spellbound by his extraordinary message about mastering adversity, courage and determination. His remarkable message has uplifted more than 30 million people around the world, inspiring audiences to shed self-imposed baggage and obstacles that prevent them from achieving their goals.
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Dave Rodney
1st Canadian to Summit Mt. Everest Twice
Dave Rodney is one of the few people in world history who has successfully summited Mt. Everest Twice (in 1999 & 2001, after overcoming a back broken in four places and a knee re-constructed four times)! Rodney is not just a climber, speaker, and writer; he has also earned three university degrees, worked in 3rd world countries, served as an educator & administrator in three countries, and built his own business.
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Ellen Roseman
Toronto Star Business Columnist
Ellen Roseman is a personal finance and consumer colunmnist with the Toronto Star's business section and a former columnist and associate managing editor of The Report on Business section of The Globe and Mail. Her books, Money 101: Every Canadian's Guide to Personal Finance, and Money 201: More Personal Finance Advice for Every Canadian, are easy-to-understand introductions to personal finance. In her talks, Ellen tackles everything from consumer affairs to how women can package themselves for business success.
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Martha Rogers
Customer Relationship Management Expert
Martha Rogers, Ph.D. is an expert in the rapidly evolving fields of customer-focused strategy, customer relationships and increasing demand chain, and managing CRM and DCM ROI, and customer equity. Business 2.0 magazine named Martha Rogers, Ph.D. one of the nineteen most important business gurus of the past century. Her newest book Rules to Break & Laws to Follow examines what empowered customers, networked employees and a culture of innovation and trust mean for the competitive differentiation and long-term viability of a business.
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Paco Underhill
Retail & Consumer Behaviour Expert
Paco Underhill is the founder and Managing Director of Envirosell, a behavioural market research and consulting company. The firm specializes in analyzing the interaction between people and products, and people and commercial spaces. He is also the author of a number of internationally best-selling books including, Why We Buy, Call of the Mall, and What Women Want. In his books and presentations, Underhill dissects the behaviour of everyday consumers in the most informative and entertaining fashion.
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Margaret Wheatley
Internationally Acclaimed Author, Speaker & Authority on Leadership
Margaret Wheatley writes, teaches, and speaks about how we might organize and accomplish our work in chaotic times. Meg has been an organizational consultant and researcher since 1973 and a dedicated global citizen since her youth. Her clients and audiences are broad in range and are wrestling with a common dilemma—how to maintain their integrity and effectiveness as they cope with the relentless upheavals and rapid shifts in these chaotic times. Meg is the co-founder of The Berkana Institute, a charitable global foundation that works in partnership with a rich diversity of people around the world who strengthen their communities by working with the wisdom and wealth already present in their people, traditions and environment.
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Benjamin Zander
Conductor of the Boston Philharmonic
Benjamin Zander has been the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra since its formation in 1979. He is also the conductor of Boston's renowned Youth Philharmonic Orchestra. For the past thirty years, he has been a professor at the New England Conservatory of Music. He has taught Master Classes all over the world and has been a visiting professor at some of the finest educational institutions. His recordings with both the Boston Philharmonic and the Youth Philharmonic are very highly acclaimed, and his work with the Youth Philharmonic has been featured in four one-hour specials on American public television.
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Kelly Walker
Change & Burnout Expert
His books are wonderful, and his concerts are uplifting, but Kelly Walker IS a speaker. He walks the talk and it shows in his presentations. Kelly is one of Canada’s experts on the questions of transition, change and burnout. He brings the most controlled audiences to their feet when he addresses crowds from 50 to 5000. He is wise, current and fun.
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Pete Luckett
Entrepreneur & Retail Expert
Pete Luckett, customer service expert, master storyteller, author, professional speaker, and media personality has been delighting international audiences with his energetic presentation style. Whether Pete is interacting with his customers at Pete's Frootique, or harvesting fresh insights for corporate audiences - Canada's most talked about greengrocer serves up practical lessons from the entrepreneurial front lines with wit and wisdom. Pete and his team have repeatedly been awarded the prestigious Canadian Independent Grocer of the Year Award.
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Cary Mullen
Olympic & World Champion Skier
Cary Mullen currently holds the World Downhill Speed Record for skiing 97 miles per hour down the world's most famous ski course in Kitzbuhel, Austria. Cary was a non-prodigy - an underdog - who placed last in his first World Cup race. He followed a Process for Success™ to go from 'worst to first' and to ultimately become a two-time Olympian and World Cup Champion.
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Dr. Jim Loehr
World Renowned Performance Psychologist
Dr. Jim Loehr is recognized worldwide for his groundbreaking contributions to the field of performance psychology. Jim has worked with a broad array of Fortune 500 companies as well as hundreds of world-class athletes including golfer Mark O'Meara; tennis players Jim Courier, Arantxa Sanchez Vicario and Monica Seles; boxer Ray Mancini; hockey players Eric Lindros and Mike Richter; and Olympic gold medal speed skater Dan Jansen. Dr. Loehr helps business people to increase their capacity at all levels- mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually.
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Dr. Jack Groppel
The Corporate Athlete
Dr. Jack Groppel is an internationally recognized authority on the application of sport science to human performance, and an expert in fitness and nutrition. A world-renowned professional speaker, Dr. Groppel has shared the speaking platform with world figures ranging from former Presidents George Bush and Gerald Ford to Secretary of State Colin Powell, and actor Christopher Reeve. Dr. Groppel uses his Corporate Athlete® concept to help both business executives and athletes increase performance levels.
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Nicholas Graham
Chief Time Keeper of 100 Minute Company, Founder of JOE BOXER
Nicholas Graham, founder of the ubiquitous JOE BOXER brand, changed the face of fashion when he turned his "little" underwear company into one of America's most popular lifestyle brands. At a pivotal time in history when the collective attention span is getting shorter by the minute, people hunger for new ways to buy and to sell everything. Nick theorizes that brands also need to be more expansive, just as their consumers do. Graham's irreverent yet spot-on business acumen delivers a new vehicle for producers and consumers alike to get what they want...and to have fun in the process.
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Hayley Wickenheiser
Two Time MVP of the Gold Medal Canadian Women Hockey Team
Four-time Olympic medalist, Hayley Wickenheiser is regarded as the best female hockey player in the world with an uncompromised determination and dedication to her sport. But it’s not just her lethal slapshot that is respected by her teammates, fans and peers. She is also an award winner, community leader, mentor to aspiring athletes, all-around elite athlete, history-maker and an accomplished student and businesswoman.
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Jonas Ridderstråle
Visionary on the "New World" of International Business
European business guru Jonas Ridderstråle co-wrote the new world business manifesto Funky Business: Talent Makes Capital Dance and Karaoke Capitalism. He received his doctorate and an MBA from the Centre for Advanced Studies in leadership at the Stockholm School of Economics where he is now an assistant professor. His research focuses on new organizational models and leadership styles in the information age and has been published in leading academic journals, magazines and newspapers. Jonas' uncompromising, imaginative and decidedly funky take on contemporary business life has made him one of today's most sought after speakers.
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Kjell Nordström
Visionary on the "New World" of International Business
Dr. Kjell A. Nordström is a guru of the new world of business. His latest book Funky Business - Talent Makes Capital Dance (co-author Dr. Jonas Ridderstrale) is a manifesto for the new world of business. He is presently an Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Business (IIB) at the Stockholm School of Economics. Kjell's research and consulting focus is on the areas of corporate strategy, multinational corporations and globalization. His dynamic style makes him a highly appreciated speaker throughout the world.
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Richard Worzel
Canada's Leading Futurist
Leading forecaster and futurist Richard Worzel challenges organizations to examine the future and plan for the dizzying changes to come. Worzel can equip your organization with the ability to understand the changes to be faced in the years ahead, and the tools to leverage those changes to revolutionize and dominate your industry. A Chartered Financial Analyst, he is also a best-selling author and frequent media commentator on business and economic trends.
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Ted Sargent
Innovator in Nanotechnology
Ted Sargent holds the rank of Professor at the University of Toronto where he serves as Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology. He was named to the 2005 Scientific American 50 - an annual list "...recognizing outstanding leaders in science and technology from the past year" - for his contributions to flexible infrared solar cells. In 2004-5 he was Visiting Professor in Nanotechnology and Photonics at MIT. In 2003 he was named "one of the world's top young innovators" by MIT's Technology Review.
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Barbara Underhill
World Figure Skating Champion, Television Broadcaster, Safety Advocate, Proud Mom
Barbara A. Underhill is best known around the world for her signature skating move "The Leap Of Faith." She and her partner of 21 years, Paul Martini, were five time Canadian National Pair Champions from 1979-1983. After winning their 1984 World Pair Skating Championship title, they went on to a very successful 14-year professional skating career, touring internationally with various ice shows such as the Ice Capades, Stars on Ice, and winning seven World Professional titles. Barbara has worked for TSN, CTV and the CBC as a colour commentator.
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Gord Paynter
Blind Comedian & Motivational Speaker
Losing his eyesight in his early twenties as a result of diabetes, Gord thought his lifelong dream of becoming a comedian was gone forever. In truth, blindness opened his eyes to a whole new world of opportunity, humour and motivation. His lack of vision has not affected his perceptiveness. If anything, it's made him more perceptive, creating a unique style of comedy that never fails to leave the audiences laughing.
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Deirdre McMurdy
Leading Canadian Journalist in Business & Politics
Deirdre McMurdy is one of Canada's leading business journalists in both print and television. Whether she's talking about Canada's competition in globalized markets or the direction of the international economy, McMurdy will inform and stimulate any audience. Fascinated with business trends and management issues, McMurdy readily admits to being a "capital markets fanatic." She views the markets as "a microcosm of the human condition," and offers astute observations about recent business affecting Canadians at home and abroad.
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Moshe Arye Milevsky
Leading Financial Strategist
Moshe Milevsky is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Schulich School of Business at York University, a member of the faculty in the joint Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA Program at Northwestern University, and the Executive Director of the Individual Finance and Insurance Decisions (IFID) Centre, in Toronto, Canada. The focus of Moshe's teaching, research and consulting work is in the interplay between investment management, personal finance and insurance. Moshe is the author of the popular Canadian book Money Logic: Financial Strategies for the Smart Investor, and is quoted frequently in the national business press.
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Joseph Pine
Author of The Experience Economy and Authenticity
Joseph Pine helps businesses conceive and design new ways of adding value to their economic offerings. He teaches them how to grasp the nature of the emerging Experience Economy and envision their role in it - whether it be staging experiences, guiding transformations, or mass customizing. He and his business partner James Gilmore, are the best-selling authors of The Experience Economy: Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage. Focusing on topics of future trends, business, and strategic alliances, Mr. Pine is in high demand as a speaker at conferences, strategic planning meetings, and executive education programs.
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Marc Kielburger
Social Activist and co-Founder of Free The Children & Me to We
Marc Kielburger is an accomplished social advocate and leadership specialist, a bestselling author and a popular speaker. He is the co-founder of Free The Children, an international charity and renowned educational partner that empowers youth to achieve their fullest potential as agents of change. Marc is the recipient of many honours, including the Order of Canada and selection by the World Economic Forum as one of 250 Young Global Leaders. His work has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, BBC, as well as many other news and print media.
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David Ben
Master Magician & Creative Problem-Solver
David Ben is unlike any magician you have seen before. With a law degree from The London School of Economics and as a former tax lawyer, he cannot help but think of how his skill as a magician relates to the creative problem-solving and sales strategies required to be successful in business. He is at once very entertaining, extremely intelligent and very astute at demonstrating through magic the discipline, creativity, attention to detail and sales prowess necessary to achieve your objectives every time! By experiencing David's magical feats and then learning the process behind the effect, audiences understand and retain valuable lessons in creative thinking, problem solving, and presentation.
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Wendel Clark
Former Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
Wendel Clark, former team captain and one of the most beloved players in Toronto Maple Leafs history, retired from the NHL following the 1999/2000 season. Clark's rambunctious style of play endeared him to the fans during the 13 seasons he spent with the Leafs. Clark's return to Toronto in his last season of play brought full-circle a career that began in 1985 when he was selected first overall by Toronto in that year's draft. Clark captained the Leafs from 1991 to 1994 and set career-highs in goals (46), assists (30) and points (76) during the 1993-94 season.
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Jeff Ansell
Communications Expert & Corporate Consultant
Do you have what it takes to: Deal comfortably with the media? Communicate properly in a crisis? Speak with poise, substance and style in any situation? These are vital skills to develop. Jeff Ansell will ensure you master them. Using his expertise as a former journalist, Ansell has created a series of unique processes to help people be compelling communicators. His consulting practice helps Fortune 500 companies create strategies to manage high profile, tough issues and present themselves well to all stakeholders. Ansell's first publication, When the Headline Is You: An Insider's Guide to Handling the Media, was published in September 2010. Charismatic and compelling, Ansell practices what he preaches and delivers every time.
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Rod Black
The Voice of CTV Sports and TSN
Rod Black's knowledge, versatility and enthusiasm have earned him a reputation as one of Canada's most recognized and distinguished sportscasters. In his 24 years as a sports journalist, Black has been involved with a variety of different events and competitions, fitting into each role with ease. Black's extensive sports resume includes play-by-play commentating on TSN for Blue Jays Baseball, CFL, the Canadian Open, MasterCard Skate Canada and Canadian Figure Skating Championships. Black has also covered the Olympics, including the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games, the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer and the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona.
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David Ticoll
IT & Business Strategy Visionary
David Ticoll is one of Canada's leading visionaries on information technology and business strategy. He writes a weekly column on business strategy and technology for The Globe & Mail and is a director of the Information Technology Association of Canada. David is a Research Fellow at the University of Toronto Knowledge Media Design Institute and the CEO of Convergent Strategies. He was the founding CEO of Digital 4Sight, a Toronto-based think tank. With Don Tapscott he co-authored the business best-seller The Naked Corporation: How the Age of Transparency Will Revolutionize Business. His message is for managers, employees, investors, and customers - anyone who cares about the future of the corporation.
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Trevor Wilson
Human Equity™ Strategist
Trevor Wilson is a dynamic speaker, a Human Equity™ strategist to international business and the author of Diversity at Work: The Business Case for Equity. Trevor started his career in the public sector advising the Premier of Canada's largest province on issues of multiculturalism, race relations, employment equity, affirmative action, and human rights. He now runs one of North America's leading consulting practices on issues of equity in the workplace. The firm's clients include some of North America's most progressive, global employers including, Coca-Cola, Ernst & Young, Nike, Bank of Nova Scotia, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Seagate Technology.
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Cheryl Cran
Leadership & Communications Expert
Cheryl Cran is an internationally renowned motivational speaker and a skilled expert in communication strategies. She strongly believes that harnessing generation intelligence in the workplace is the bright future of business. Cheryl’s keynote speeches and customized "communication" seminars focus on helping corporations and associations to improve leadership, teamwork, customer care and change management. The author of four books including her latest, 101 Ways to Make Generations X, Y and Zoomers Happy at Work, Cheryl offers practical and applicable change management and business strategy ideas.
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Jeremy Siegel
Professor of Finance, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Jeremy Siegel is the Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Prof. Siegel has written and lectured extensively about the economy and financial markets and has appeared frequently on CNN, CNBC, NPR and others networks. He is a regular columnist for Kiplinger's and has contributed articles to The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, The Financial Times and other national and international news media. Prof. Siegel is the author of numerous professional articles and two books. His best known, Stocks for the Long Run was named by the Washington Post as one of the ten-best investment books of all time.
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Chantal Hébert
Political Raconteur & Columnist
Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer with the Toronto Star as well as a guest columnist for Le Devoir. She is a weekly participant on the political panel at Issue on CBC’s The National. Ms Hébert started her career in 1975 as a reporter for the regional television and radio newsroom of Radio-Canada in Toronto. She then went on to cover Queen’s Park and become a national reporter for Radio-Canada radio. On Parliament Hill, she served as correspondent for Radio-Canada as well as bureau chief for Le Devoir and La Presse.
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Marti Barletta
"Marketing to Women" Specialist
Companies not traditionally marketed to women are waking up to the monumental changes in women's income, ownership, attitudes, priorities - and purchasing power. Martha Barletta is an internationally recognized expert and consultant on successful marketing to women, selling to women and women in the workplace. Martha is the author of Marketing to Women, which she wrote to help companies tap into the biggest market opportunity in the world today - the buying power of women. After getting her MBA from Wharton, Martha built her corporate career at marketing powerhouses like McCann Erickson, FCB and Frankel working with blue chip clients such as Kraft, Kodak and New York Life.
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Harry Beckwith
Selling The Invisible
Harry Beckwith has led major marketing initiatives for 14 Fortune 100 companies, including Target, Wells Fargo, Merck and IBM, work that has won the American Marketing Association's highest award. His book Selling the Invisible was named one of the top ten business and management books of all time and spent an unprecedented 36 consecutive months on the Business Week bestseller list. His more recent books, The Invisible Touch and What Clients Love, have also sold very well in the United States. Using real-life examples of successful groundbreaking strategies he has developed, Beckwith provides the practical steps needed to establish and nurture enduring relationships with customers.
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Jennifer Welsh
Professor in International Relations, University of Oxford
Jennifer Welsh, one of Canada's most brilliant and accomplished young minds, has an intelligent and provocative plan of action to remedy our diminishing international status and our lack of coherent direction for the future. Jennifer's plan is unabashedly critical of worn-out national myths, yet radical enough to propose a rethinking of our role as a global citizen. In her book At Home in the World: Canada's Global Vision for the 21st Century, Welsh details the many challenges and opportunities that Canada faces - and offers a concise set of recommendations for a renewed Canada that can be a model for the 21st century.
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Chantal Petitclerc
Paralympic Champion & World Record Holder
Chantal Petitclerc is the most successful wheelchair racer of all time, boasting multiple medals from all three of the world's top athletic competitions: The Olympic and Paralymic Games, the World Championships, and the Commonwealth Games. Chantel was awarded the Lou Marsh trophy for Athlete of the Year in 2008, and was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2009. In 2012, Petitclerc will join the ParalympicsGB athletics team as a coach and mentor for the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Chantel shares her story to illustrate the importance of perseverance, goals, vision and, most importantly, dreams.
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Niall Ferguson
Internationally Renowned Historian
Niall Ferguson is one of the world's leading historians of the global economy and author of such internationally-acclaimed works as The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, the award-winning History of the House of Rothschild and Colossus: The Price of America's Empire. Controversial, expansive, and eloquent, Ferguson has been called "the most talented British historian of his generation". Named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, Ferguson is a public intellectual whose work impacts industry, finance, government, and academia.
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Dan Senor
Former Chief Spokesperson for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and Senior Advisor to Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III
Until the handover of power in Iraq, Dan Senor was a Senior Advisor to Presidential Envoy L. Paul Bremer III, the Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority. His work in international relations and policymaking has kept him involved in some of the most important political decision-making of our time. He is the author of Start-Up Nation, published in November 2009, and is adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Warren Macdonald
Adventurer, Author and Motivational Speaker: Helping You Shift Your Perception of Change
Warren Macdonald's life was redefined in April 1997 by an accident on Hinchinbrook Island in Northern Australia when he became trapped beneath a one-ton slab of stone in a freak rock fall. Two days later he was rescued, only to undergo the amputation of both his legs at mid-thigh. Just ten months later he displayed the courage he now shares with audiences worldwide, successfully reaching Australia's toughest mountain summit! Warren recognizes change as a process, not an end result, and his ability to share insights on how we can all live "larger than we dreamt possible," keeps him in demand as a speaker and corporate motivator.
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Fred Reichheld
Leading Authority on Loyalty
Fred Reichheld is a director emeritus of Bain & Company, one of the world's leading strategy consulting firms. He is the founder of Bain's Loyalty Practice, which helps clients achieve superior results through improvements in customer, employee, partner, and investor loyalty. His pioneering work has quantified the linkage between loyalty, profits, and growth. The Economist refers to him as the "high priest" of loyalty.
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The Hon. John Manley
Former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister
In 2001, the Honourable John Manley was named by TIME Canada's "Newsmaker of the Year". Mr. Manley has held several senior portfolios in the Canadian federal government. He has been recognized for his success in forging powerful cross-border partnerships and for his global initiatives in technology, education and business. Mr. Manley provides his audiences with strategic advice in matters relating to the public sector including trade, telecommunications, security and finance.
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Dr. Samantha Nutt
Founder and Executive Director of War Child
Dr. Samantha Nutt is an award-winning humanitarian, acclaimed public speaker and a leading authority on the impact of war on civilians. A medical doctor and a founder of War Child, an international humanitarian organization, Dr. Nutt has worked with children and their families at the frontline of many of the world's major crises zones, from Iraq to Afghanistan, Somalia to the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sierra Leone to Darfur, Sudan. Committed to human rights and social justice, her humanitarian work has benefited many thousands of war-affected children globally. Dr. Nutt speaks on the impact of war and on public engagement in global issues, inspiring others to make a difference in the lives of those affected by war.
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Jim Carroll
Futurist, Trends, Creativity & Innovation Expert
Jim Carroll is acknowledged as one of the world’s leading global futurists, trends and innovation experts with a massive global blue chip client list. He helps transform growth-oriented organizations into high-velocity innovation heroes! Jim has developed a global reputation for his unique presentations, and the impact they can have in helping organizations confront future trends. Recently named by Business Week as a leading source for innovation and creativity insight, his observations are frequently covered in Fortune magazine's innovation blog. As an author, columnist, media commentator, and consultant, Carroll has carefully studied the key strategies and leadership ideas that have permitted some organizations to achieve breakthrough innovations and absolutely compelling levels of creativity.
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Afterburner Inc.
Flawless Execution Experts
Afterburner Inc.'s team of men and women fighter pilots teach North America's top organizations how to execute flawlessly in today's rapidly changing, high-pressure, more-with-less business environment. Through their unique, energizing keynote speeches and training seminars, Afterburner Inc. helps companies create a high performance, results focused culture that allows them to drive their businesses to the next level. Whether you are in sales and marketing, operations, or management, Afterburner's highly customized and dynamic approach will help transform your team into a motivated, finely tuned, competitive force.
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Beckie Scott
Olympic Cross-Country Ski Champion
Beckie Scott became the first North American woman to capture a cross-country skiing Olympic medal at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games. Beckie belongs in the ranks of the world's elite cross-country skiers and sprint racers - she is Canada's undisputed cross-country sprint queen. Beckie was the Nordic Silver medallist at the 2006 Olympic Games in Torino .
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Peter Legge
Award Winning Motivation and Business Speaker
Toastmasters International voted Peter Legge "Golden Gavel Award Winner" and "Top Speaker in North America." He lives his life dream as an internationally acclaimed professional speaker, and as president and CEO of the largest, independently owned magazine publishing company in Western Canada. His presentations are based on his everyday experiences as a community leader, husband, father and CEO. With humour, Peter motivates people to achieve excellence and identifies the obstacles they need to overcome in order to achieve their goals.
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Dr. Gary Bradt
Change and Leadership Expert
For many years, Spencer Johnson, M.D. endorsed Dr. Gary Bradt as the leading speaker worldwide on Johnson's bestseller Who Moved My Cheese? Now, Dr. Bradt is expanding his influence, with exciting new presentations on change, leadership and life balance. He shares his unique and penetrating insights into what it takes to succeed in today's rapidly changing business world. Under his guidance, audiences learn to exchange stress for success and return to their lives eager for the next challenge.
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John Moore
Host of NewsTalk 1010's Radio Show Moore in the Morning
Born in Montreal, John Moore is best known for his freewheeling and acerbic entertainment reports heard on Mix 96, CJAD and Toronto's CFRB. He is the host of Moore in the Morning on Canada's number one talk radio station, Toronto's legendary CFRB 1010. Moore's charm and quick wit make him a natural host for events in English and French, corporate conventions, product launches and charity galas.
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Jim Rogers
Adventure Capitalist
Financier Jim Rogers retired at 37 and motorcycled around the world to learn about different investment markets first hand. He turned the trip into the business advice book and travelogue Investment Biker. More recently he embarked in a one-of-a-kind Mercedes Benz, on a new adventure to chronicle the world during the turn of the Millennium. Rogers writes about his amazing travels and discoveries in Adventure Capitalist. Jim offers audiences a lively, ground-level analysis of tomorrow's economic gold mines, while thrilling them with stories of his exciting adventures.
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Dave Hemstad
Comedic Entertainer & Host
Dave Hemstad has skyrocketed to the top of the Canadian scene since starting his comedy career. Dave has captivated audiences worldwide with his clean and refreshing take on daily life and the frustrations of the modern world. His charming demeanor paired with his quick wit and ability to read the crowd, make him a great choice for any engagement. A true "superstar on the rise", he has already appeared on CBC at the Halifax Comedy Festival numerous times and has been twice recognized at the Canadian Comedy Awards as one of Canada's funniest new comics!
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Ryan Walter
Performance & Leadership Expert
Ryan Walter played 15 seasons and over 1000 games in the National Hockey League. Drafted second overall by the Washington Capitals in 1978, Walter was named the youngest NHL captain in his second of four seasons. Playing nine seasons and winning the Stanley Cup with the Montreal Canadiens, Walter returned to his hometown to play his final two seasons for the Vancouver Canucks. He holds a Master of Arts Degree in Leadership/Business, and is a highly sought after speaker on performance and leadership issues. Currently the Head Coach of Canada's National Women's Hockey Team, Walter’s enthusiasm is contagious as he fulfills his mission to "Inspire the Hungry Spirit!"
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Wade Davis
Anthropologist & Explorer
Wade Davis is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. Named by the NGS as one of the Explorers for the Millennium, he received his PhD in ethnobotany from Harvard University and his work as an anthropologist and botanical explorer has taken him from the forests of the Amazon to the mountains of Tibet, from the high Arctic to the deserts of Africa. His lecture presentations, illustrated by exquisite photographs, are a wild and moving celebration of the wonder of humanity, and the diversity of the human spirit as expressed in the myriad cultures of the world.
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Michael Bergdahl
Former Wal-Mart Executive & Business "Turn-Around" Specialist
Michael Bergdahl, author of What I Learned from Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World, combines his insider expertise with a powerful, high-energy style that inspires, electrifies, and entertains audiences. Bergdahl's power-packed, to-the-point presentations and his unique knowledge of Wal-Mart's methods have made him one of today's most in-demand business speakers. The methods and processes he explains are far more than just theory – he has helped some of the nation's largest and most influential organizations restructure, refocus, and rebuild.
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Dan Needles
Author & Playwright
Dan Needles, winner of the 2003 Stephen Leacock Medal for humour, is the creator of the popular Wingfield Farm plays, full-length stage comedies that have filled theatres across North America for more than 3,000 performances since 1984. Wingfield Lost & Found, the seventh and latest in the series, opened at Victoria's Belfry Theatre in July 2009 and is coming to Toronto's Panasonic Theatre in January 2011 with Mirvish Productions. Dan has entertained crowds across Canada for years and continues to enchant corporations, government and public service groups.
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Dr. Linda Duxbury
Human Resources & Work-Life Balance
Dr. Linda Duxbury, Canada's most accomplished researcher, writer and speaker on work-life balance, has influenced policy and attitudes to help create supportive work environments in both the private and public sectors. A professor at the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University, Dr. Duxbury co-wrote numerous comprehensive national studies on work-life balance and their effect on business bottom-line. Always an enlightening and popular speaker, Dr. Duxbury's ideas and research are highly valued by major corporations and government agencies.
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Simon B. Cotter
Award Winning Corporate Comedian
Winner of "Canada's Comedian of the Year" award, Simon B. Cotter's comedic talents have been featured on the Comedy Network, an Evening at the Improv, and the "Just for Laughs" comedy festival. He's hosted his own comedy special on CBC and has had guest appearances on a number of shows including Open Mike with Mike Bullard, and CBC's Comics. His popularity with corporations and associations is due in part, to his rejection of going for the cheap laugh based on vulgarity, race, or gender. Instead, Cotter is a storyteller delighting audiences with his razor sharp wit and unique perception of life's day-to-day events, and many absurdities.
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Hugh Culver - MBA, CSP
Inspiring Personal Excellence in the Workplace
Hugh Culver is an athlete, adventurer, businessman and visionary who understands the power of being passionate and inspired about your work. Hugh’s vision is to “change the way work serves people”, by creating adventures in learning. For the past thirteen years Hugh has been leading extraordinary training programs and corporate retreats that focus on team development, leadership skills, and personal mastery. Combining a rare blend of business savvy, humour, and real-world advice, Hugh speaks of the passion that fosters human development in the context of work.
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Doug Keeley
The Mark of a Leader
Doug Keeley's incredible program, The Mark of a Leader, is a unique and powerful way to create an amazing conference for any audience. The presentation uses a library of mesmerizing video stories about many of the world's greatest leaders and companies, showing how their success principles can be applied by anyone in business. It will challenge your audience to be better leaders regardless of their job, make them think, and leave them inspired to greater performance. Doug or his associate Don Allison, can do an unforgettable keynote or facilitate your conference, spreading the stories throughout to drive the messages and energy.
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Sally Armstrong
Human Rights Activist, Journalist & Author
Sally Armstrong is an Amnesty International award winner, a member of the Order of Canada, journalist, teacher, author and human rights activist. Armstrong has covered stories in zones of conflict all over the world. From Bosnia and Somalia to Rwanda and Afghanistan, her eyewitness reports have earned her many awards. Armstrong is a powerful and engaging speaker whose far-ranging career has given her a foundation for her message, which is inspirational for people in every walk of life.
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The Drum Cafe
Corporate Entertainment & Teambuilding
Music has the power to transform, inspire, move and motivate us. Imagine the power of your whole company making music together! Drums and drumming are a great way to break down barriers, create common ground and teach people the value of listening and learning together. Every delegate gets an African drum and a team of master facilitators and musicians turns the group into an orchestra. They entertain and teach groups large or small, how to play to the same beat, how to listen to each other in order to make music as a group. Participants leave feeling invigorated, relaxed energized and with an experience of unity they will never forget.
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Jeff Adams
Olympian, Paralympian and World Champion
Jeff Adams is an example that the power of focus can make a winner out of anybody. His love of competitive sport helped him turn his wheelchair into the vehicle for a journey of success. Today, Jeff is a three-time Olympian, five-time Paralympian, and six-time World Champion. Jeff has been an actor, spokesperson, and CBC reporter and commentator. He's served as Chair of the Accessibility Committee for the Toronto 2008 Olympic Bid Committee, and as the Chair for the Ontarians with a Disability Advisory Council.
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The Second City
Customized Corporate Entertainment You'd Pay to See
The history of The Second City is rich. Mike Myers, Dan Aykroyd and Martin Short count themselves among some of their famous alumni. In addition to their Training Centers for actors, The Second City's Communications division offers several innovative training and entertainment services to corporations and business professionals. They help you communicate your message with clarity, impact and a little zip. In other words, they use show biz to help you excel in your biz.
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Ben Stein
Renaissance Man
Lawyer, teacher, actor, comic, economist, father, novelist, essayist, expert on finance and former Emmy-winning host of Win Ben Stein's Money, Ben Stein offers audiences laughter and insight, occasionally moving them to tears with his touching and endearing anecdotes. Armed only with his curmudgeonly persona and his offbeat, dry delivery as seen in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, he tackles the economy and tells you how to balance life's priorities while offering an eye-opening tour of life's absurdities.
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Derek Hatfield
Canada's Premier Solo Ocean Racer
It takes tremendous courage, determination and persistence to sail around the world alone. Derek Hatfield is only the 126th person to ever have done it. It is a tremendous accomplishment under normal circumstances, but Derek Hatfield's story is truly inspiring. In May of 2003, Derek was given a hero's welcome after completing the "Around Alone" Single-handed Yacht Race, covering over 28,700 nautical miles in almost 8 months. Despite major obstacles along the way, Derek was 1 of 9 international competitors and the only Canadian to finish the grueling event. His inspirational keynote presentations describe the adventures and the trials that his career has led him through.
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The Final Round
This Time It's Political
Regular political debaters Conservative Ezra Levant and Liberal Stephen LeDrew are both preparing to land the knockout punch in "The Final Round," on Canada's number one current affairs talk show Global Sunday. Now the debaters and a moderator can add an interactive and provocative element to your event by discussing the issues that matter most to Canadians and your industry.
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Jim Bottomley
Future Success Strategies
Jim Bottomley is a management consultant, entrepreneur, and futurist. Unlike other futurists who specialize in one trend category, Bottomley provides insight into trend convergence. By combining trend categories, he has helped industries and governments find future direction, identify opportunities, improve marketing and selling results, and cope with the stress of rallying change. Mr. Bottomley's sessions are consistently rated at the highest level, serving to motivate, excite and inspire.
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Kelly Hrudey
Hockey Night in Canada Broadcaster
In July of 1998, goaltender Kelly Hrudey retired from the NHL and traded in his skates for a microphone joining the cast of CBC's Hockey Night in Canada as a full-time analyst. After a fifteen-year career as a goaltender, Kelly is now able to parlay his experience and knowledge of the game of hockey with a career in front of the camera. He provides hockey fans with some of the most insightful, well-researched and accurate commentary available, A thoughtful and charming on-air persona, he is equally talented on stage in front of a live audience.
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Dr. Marla Shapiro
Medical Contributor to CTV's Canada AM & CTV News
For years, well-known medical contributor Dr. Marla Shapiro, has brought you the latest medical news as well as practical advice to keep your entire family healthy. She won a Gold Remi Award at the Houston International Film Festival for the documentary Run Your Own Race. Her book, Life in the Balance: My Journey with Breast Cancer, was released in Fall 2006 and is a National Bestseller.
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Michelle Ray
Workplace Relationships and Personal Leadership Expert
Michelle Ray, speaker, trainer and author, is an expert in energizing workplace relationships and transforming negative attitudes. She is renowned for helping leaders to positively influence their teams in order to achieve exceptional customer service standards and improve morale. Her motivating keynotes and interactive workshops have a thought-provoking, amusing, common-sense message. Her limitless energy, masterful use of humour and down to earth approach has earned her respect and appreciation by clients around the world.
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Rob Nickerson
The Improv Edge
Rob Nickerson is widely recognized as one of the top Improv teachers in North America. Rob's motivational workshops, seminar and key note presentations are a highly interactive, energetic mix of observation, discussion and participation. Rob creates an environment where every audience member will actually experience the concepts being taught - the single most effective way to affect change.
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Robert Spector
Bestselling Author & International Speaker
Robert Spector offers inspirational keynote presentations and customized customer-service workshops for audiences throughout the world. Spector's national bestseller, The Nordstrom Way: The Inside Story of America's #1 Customer Service Company, is the first and only up-close and personal look at how this company became the national standard of customer service. His talks break down the elements of the Nordstrom philosophy and explain how they can be adapted for virtually every kind of organization. Spector is the author of number books including his latest, The Mom & Pop Store. Spector guides audiences through an analysis of modern retail's most influential players and down the aisles of retailing history and reveals what's in store for us as the future unfolds.
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Colleen Francis
Sales Expert
Colleen Francis inspires results! Colleen's acclaimed sales-training approach emulates the winning way of the top-20% achievers and helps sales and marketing professionals achieve their maximum potential. Her refreshing candour, her genuine, sincere message, and the personal experiences she relates as a top-ranked sales executive all are inspiring motivators for sales and marketing professionals who strive to get to the top and stay there – and the corporations that want to improve their bottom-line!
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Denis Grignon
Stand-Up Comic & Writer
Denis Grignon's brand of comedy works above the neck, not below the belt. The Ottawa Citizen called Denis, "A sharp and likeable comic who respects an audience's intelligence." He's an extremely versatile comedian who knows how to research his audiences. A former journalist, a masterful MC, a disciplined writer of funny scripts and a professional comic who knows how to please any audience, Grignon enlivens any event.
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Michael Kerr
The Workplace Energizer
"Invaluable information," "hilarious," and "truly energizing" are comments repeatedly used by Michael Kerr's clients to describe his programs. As an international business speaker, humorist, trainer and author, Michael Kerr is one of North America's leading authorities on creating healthier and more productive working environments. Michael's presentations are known for their high energy, positive humour and practical ideas that audiences can put to work immediately.
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Dr. Kirsty Duncan
Pandemic Influenza and Environmental & Human Health Expert
When Canadian medical geographer Dr. Kirsty Duncan read about the 1918 Influenza pandemic that swept the world to become the worst plague in human history, she was horrified that we still knew so little about the flu and why it had spread so quickly. She lead an international, multi-discipline scientific expedition to prepare virologists for what is thought to be inevitable – another such pandemic. She specializes in medical geography, corporate social responsibility and climate change.
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Kevin Graff
Retail Performance Specialist
Recognized internationally as an authority on retail and one of the top speakers in this sector, Kevin Graff has spent most of the past 20 years working with retailers to drive revenue ‘over the top’. Focusing on improved staff performance, he is an expert on squeezing more sales out of each and every store. The results of this process are often spectacular! You’ll love his enthusiasm, direct style and action-oriented improvement plans.
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Leonard Brody
Business and Technology Visionary
Leonard Brody has been called "a controversial leader of the new world order." He is a highly respected entrepreneur, venture capitalist, bestselling author and a two-time Emmy nominated media visionary who has been through one of the largest internet IPOs in history. A co-founder of user generated news powerhouse NowPublic.com; the President of Clarity Digital Group, one of the largest online news conglomerates in the world; and an advisor to venture capital funds and companies and governments around the world, Leonard is a highly sought after speaker who addresses everything from how technology will continue to revolutionize the workplace and workforce to how corporations can use challenges to steer them toward innovation and growth.
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Dan Clark
Best Selling Author, Entertainer & Speaker
Dan Clark is the primary contributing author to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series and author of twenty of his own best selling books, including the highly acclaimed, Forgotten Fundamentals. After suffering a paralyzing injury that cut short his football career, doctors told him he would not recover...but recover he did! He has flown in fighter jets, raced automobiles, and carried the Olympic torch since his recovery. Through personal example, Clark helps people sift through the rubble of faltering or broken dreams to create a new vision. He is a recognized expert on Managing Change, Building Winning Teams and Taking Life To The Next Level!
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Chris Gibson
Raising the Bar
Chris Gibson is a senior sales, marketing and communications manager for a billion dollar corporation. He spent more than a decade as a broadcaster before stepping onto the corporate ladder. Mr. Gibson is a highly sought after speaker for companies and individuals that are striving to lead in a world where the bar is being raised every day. He has developed a series of presentations that are helping people and companies establish an entirely new way to look at customer service.
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Joe Flower
Healthcare & Technology Futurist
Health futurist Joe Flower has been writing, speaking, and consulting about change, technology, and the future of healthcare for over 25 years. Co-author of The 21st Century Healthcare Leader and Age Wave, author of three major healthcare compendia and several hundred articles, Flower is a contributing editor at Health Forum Journal and Physician Executive. A founding member of the International Health Futures Network, a worldwide fellowship of healthcare futurists, Flower has consulted and spoken in the UK, Germany, Finland, Canada, Australia, and China.
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Dr. Martin Collis
Pioneer of Wellness
Martin Collis is one of North America's great speakers on the many facets of wellness. He's been described as a Renaissance man, scientist, coach of world record breakers, composer, recording artist, tri-athlete, author, professor and world authority on workplace wellness. He is one of the first four Canadians to be recognized by the U.S. and Canadian governments for his work in inspiring life change. Using music, laughter and science, Martin's presentations move audiences to improve personal and professional performance.
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David Irvine
The Leader's Navigator
David Irvine is an internationally sought after speaker, bestselling author, and mentor whose work has contributed to the building of accountable, vital and engaged organizations across North America. The co-founder of the Newport Institute for Authentic Living, David's vision is to build authentic organizational cultures that unleash greatness. He has worked with CEOs and senior executives, all levels of management, front-line service providers, salespeople, educators and health care professionals. David clarifies complex issues and offers pragmatic solutions to renew and rekindle the vitality of your organization, your work, and yourself.
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Evan Carter
Comedian & Corporate MC
Many of today's standup comedians make audiences feel threatened. Evan Carter is proudly not one of them. Instead, he allows the crowd to sit back, relax and enjoy the show. Evan has the natural ability to touch many of the familiar bases in each of our lives. Evan's keen observations and his capacity to bend and twist our world to the comical side, allow him to present his views to any audience in a refreshingly clean and open manner.
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Kate Davis
Humour in the Workplace & Work Life Balance
A speaker, writer, comedian and actress, Kate Davis has the unique ability to find humour in any situation and to offer creative solutions to defuse the frustrations in the home and workplace. Theatrically trained in England, Kate returned to Canada to the stage and embarked on a new passion – the comedy club. An engaging speaker, purpose met destiny when Kate began speaking about bringing a sense of humour into the home, the workplace and ultimately the balance of both.
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Donna Messer
Networking Guru
Networking guru Donna Messer can help you expand your career and business horizons. She demystifies the networking process by providing techniques that can be immediately used. Donna Messer has conducted workshops and delivered keynote speeches for corporations, organizations and educational institutions throughout the Canada, the United States and Europe. Being connected is important – using those connections is key to successful development.
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Cato & Vaughan
Car/Business
As seen on CTV, BNN and in the The Globe and Mail, journalists Jeremy Cato and Michael Vaughan report on the automotive industry in their television show Car/Business. Cato and Vaughan's live performances are funny and insightful and full of the most interesting new automotive products and highly entertaining stories and views about them. Every Cato and Vaughan performance is fresh, based on recent journalism and proven research skill. It's delivered with flair and wit and features lots of video from the show.
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Bob Woodburn
High-Performance Teamwork and Balance Wizard
Dr. Bob Woodburn delights audiences with what he calls "serious play." A highly engaging and entertaining keynote speaker, he uses juggling as a visual metaphor, showing people how to be their best and take on challenges they might otherwise fear. With powerful performance lessons, he teaches leadership, innovation, teamwork, confidence building, and how to get real results in our business and personal lives.
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Dianne Buckner
Host of CBC's Dragons' Den
Dianne Buckner is best known to Canadians as the host of CBC Television’s hit reality program, Dragons’ Den, where eager entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to a group of self-made Canadian millionaire investors. In addition to her role on Dragons’ Den, Dianne is a member of the Business Team at CBC News, and she writes a weekly column about small business for cbc.ca. In the course of her work, she has spoken with prime ministers, celebrity CEOs, and has traveled extensively to countries in pursuit of stories for CBC viewers.
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Ralph Benmergui
Veteran Broadcaster & Communications Consultant
Ralph Benmergui, has a long and varied broadcasting background. Over the last three decades, Canadians may have come to know him as a morning host on JAZZ.FM91 radio, or they may have caught up with him mid-day as a television host on CBC or perhaps it was later in the evening as a documentarian, exploring a fascinating topic somewhere around the world. The easy manner and curious intellect that made him a popular on-air personality also make him a perfect host and moderator for live events! Ralph Benmergui is also a thoroughly enjoyable keynote speaker! He can be counted on to be at once, deeply informed, up-to the minute, provocative or when the occasion calls for it... Seriously Funny!
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Dr. Denis Cauvier
Human Resources & Leadership Expert
Dr. Denis Cauvier is widely recognized as North America's top speaker on the topics of finding and keeping great staff. As the developer of highly effective teams, Cauvier creates practical low-cost methods of attracting, pre-screening, selecting, leading, developing, engaging and retaining exceptional people. He has designed/implemented dozens of recruitment and retention campaigns, having personally conducted more than 5,200 selection interviews. With over 22 years experience as a professional speaker, Dr. Cauvier has spoken to over one million people across America, and 45 other countries. The best-selling author of eight books, Dr. Cauvier is a frequent expert in The New York Times, LA Times, CBS, ABC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, MSNBC, and Forbes.
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Jeffrey S. Rosenthal
Award-Winning Mathematics Professor & Author
In his book Struck by Lightning, professor, amateur musician, computer-game programmer and improv comedy performer Jeffrey S. Rosenthal has put his mathematical mind to the probability behind all kinds of everyday occurrences. From lotteries to casinos, insurance rates to crime rates, game shows to airline crashes, cancer to SARS, in his book Struck by Lightning Rosenthal deconstructs the odds and oddities of chance in an understandable, relevant and irreverent exploration.
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Robert Harris
Specialist in Interpersonal and Organizational Effectiveness
Robert Harris specializes in elevating the “soft skills” capabilities of individuals, which in turn leads to increased organizational success. In particular, Harris explores interpersonal dynamics, motivation, and communication strategies; for example, strategic influencing, communicating difficult news, relationship building, motivating others, overcoming resistance to change, and negotiating and resolving conflict. Harris presents new strategies and techniques to help leaders, managers, and all professionals realize challenging business goals.
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Lance Secretan
Higher Ground Leadership
Lance Secretan, one of the world's foremost strategists and leadership advisors, brings passion and courage to his Cause—to change the world by reawakening spirit and values in the workplace. Lance's brilliance as a teacher and storyteller is showcased in his work as an electrifying and unique thought-leader, public speaker, "coaches' coach", and bestselling author. In his breakthrough work on leadership and inspiration, Lance has the uncanny ability to foretell, discern, and translate concepts while holding the mega-view.
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Jay Ingram
Correspondent for Discovery Channel's Daily Planet and the Face of Science Channel
Science broadcaster and writer Jay Ingram is the former host and current correspondent for Discovery Channel's science show, Daily Planet. Jay has written nine books, three of which have won Canadian Science Writers' Awards. He is an engaging, provocative speaker who can address complex, scientific issues in non-technical terms, making them interesting, relevant and accessible to a wide range of audiences.
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Justin P.J. Trudeau
Education, Environment & Youth Advocate
The education and empowerment of youth are priorities that have dominated Justin Trudeau's professional and personal life. His work with a large number of diverse organizations and levels of government keeps him travelling extensively to help ensure that Canada is prepared to meet the challenges and responsibilities its future holds.
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Ben Mulroney
Host of eTalk Daily
As host of eTalk, Ben Mulroney delivers entertainment news from the studio in Toronto, but also travels the world to interview the biggest stars and reports from the hottest red carpet events, including the Oscars, Golden Globes, Emmys and the JUNO Awards. A veteran of entertainment reporting, Mulroney is an expert in his industry and is regarded by many Hollywood stars (north and south of the border) as a friendly face, a respected journalist and a pro at his job.
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The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson
Former Governor General of Canada
Universally acknowledged as having revitalized the office of the Governor General, Ms. Clarkson's execution of her duties exceeded the visionary pledge she made when she became Governor General. She traveled the breadth and depth of the country, articulating a concept of compassionate citizenship, providing compelling insights into our shared history, and engaging Canadians in a spirited dialogue about the common good. In the process, she continued to promote Canadian culture, bilingualism and the arts with passion and imagination.
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John Ralston Saul
Award-Winning Essayist & Novelist
Award-winning essayist and novelist, John Ralston Saul has had a growing impact on political and economic thought in many countries. Declared a "prophet" by TIME magazine, he is included in the prestigious Utne Reader's list of the world's 100 leading thinkers and visionaries. He is particularly known for his commentaries on the nature of individualism, citizenship and the public good; the failures of managerially/technocratically led societies; the confusion between leadership and managerialism; military strategy, in particular irregular warfare; the role of freedom of speech and culture; and his critique of contemporary economic arguments.
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Cheryl Hickey
Host of Entertainment Tonight Canada
Cheryl Hickey is the host of Entertainment Tonight Canada, Global's new daily half-hour entertainment show. She covers the hottest stars and allows viewers to rub shoulders with Hollywood's elite such as Denzel Washington, Nicole Kidman, Jack Black, Quincy Jones, and Craig David. Recently, Cheryl covered the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles with Entertainment Tonight host, Mary Hart. Whether reporting from the red carpet or hosting a black-tie gala, Cheryl brings style, smarts, and enthusiam to everything she undertakes.
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Perdita Felicien
World Champion Hurdler
Despite her mishap at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and a foot injury that prevented her from participating in the 2008 Beijing Games, Perdita Felicien continues to secure her spot in the international hurdling scene.
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Mark Jeffries
Strategic Communications & Soft Skills Expert
Former Merrill Lynch stockbroker Mark Jeffries has become a trusted adviser and communications consultant to many global blue chip corporations, professional services organizations and law firms. Whether coaching high-level executives, taking team members through Pitch Skills or delivering his popular keynote, Jeffries' services are in continuous demand.
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L(earn) 2
Speaking
L(earn)² offers interactive learning programs unlike anything else in the market today. L(earn)² creates interactive, client-specific experiences designed to enhance participants’ cognitive and interpersonal skills. At the core of L(earn)²’s success remains a commitment to the interactive approach - “learning by doing” increases retention and individual responsibility for adopting and applying the learning. Participants enjoy an impactful, motivating, and memorable experience that delivers positive return on investment, and instills the desire for continuous development within your organization.
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Judy Carter
Standup Comic, Author & Master Teacher
Standup comic Judy Carter is the author of The Comedy Bible – the definitive guide to making a career out of making people laugh. Carter's pioneering approach to turning "problems into punchlines" has generated articles in major newspapers, magazine and appearances on major networks. Judy has brought her "don't get mad, get funny" philosophy to Fortune 500 companies where they have found her "tell-it-like-it-is" (only funnier) approach advantageous when tackling sensitive issues like downsizing, layoffs, and even dealing with sexual orientation.
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Margaret Wente
Provocative Globe & Mail Columnist
Margaret Wente, who writes for The Globe and Mail, is one of Canada's most popular columnists. Her provocative, irreverent opinions on politicians, social issues, and the way we live now have launched a thousand dinner-party debates. Her take on the controversies of the day is always entertaining, and she speaks as she writes -- with warmth, wit and wisdom.
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Patrick Leroux
Entrepreneur, Best-Selling Author & Motivational Speaker
Successful entrepreneur, best selling author and a bilingual speaker, Patrick Leroux's presentations are known to be dynamic, funny and captivating. Patrick's ability to deliver a high energy message with passion and humour challenges people to re-evaluate their own limitations, real or imagined, to take responsibility for their own lives, and to stop making excuses as to why they are not living-up to their true capacity.
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Steve Farber
Extreme Leadership Expert
As the former Vice President of the Tom Peters Company, Steve Farber quickly became their most requested consultant and was dubbed their "Official Mouthpiece." He is the president of Extreme Leadership, Incorporated - an organization devoted to the cultivation and development of Extreme Leaders in the business community. Coaching and inspiring Extreme Leadership at all organizational levels is Steve's passion, and he does so with a style that is part strategist, part social commentator, part comedian, and all energy.
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Peter Ricchiuti
Investment & Finance Expert
Peter Ricchiuti is the finance professor you wish you had back in college! He teaches finance at Tulane University's Freeman School of Business and his insight and humor have twice made him the School's top professor. Peter founded and leads the Burkenroad Reports investment research program, in which he leads a team of more than 180 of the University's business students in search of the investment "skinny" on undervalued and overlooked stocks in six southern states.
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Seamus O'Regan
Correspondent with CTV National News
Seamus O'Regan is a correspondent with CTV National News and the former co-host of CTV Canada AM. At Canada AM, Seamus interviewed such newsmakers as former U.S. president Bill Clinton, prime minister Paul Martin, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Shania Twain, William Shatner, Conrad Black and Prince, to name just a few. Whether reporting from Kandahar Air Field or hosting The Giller Prize, Seamus brings insight, professionalism and charm to every role he takes on.
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Tracey Bell
Celebrity Impersonator
Best known for her interactive, quick-change impersonations of Cher, Marilyn Monroe, Liza Minelli , Tina Turner, Madonna, Celine Dion, Dolly Parton and Shania Twain - Tracey Bell has performed thousands of one-woman shows for special events, corporations and dozens of charities. Tracey's high-energy, customized show leaves audiences dazzled, amazed and truly entertained.
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Jeanne Beker
FashionTelevision Personality
Jeanne Beker is one of the most iconic and influential women in the fashion industry, both here in Canada and around the world. Beker is Host and Segment Producer of Canada’s leading fashion series FASHIONTELEVISION, and is also contributing editor for The Toronto Star, a published author of four books, a judge on Canada’s Next Top Model, and a regular style correspondent for CanadaAM and eTalk.
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Dr. Carl Hammerschlag
Author, Physician, and Healer
Carl A. Hammerschlag is a master storyteller and internationally recognized author, physician, speaker and healer. A Yale-trained psychiatrist; he has spent more than twenty years working with Native Americans. In his presentations, Dr. Carl Hammerschlag brings his gift of storytelling, a wealth of legends, and unique insights which bridge the worlds of science, spirit, and culture. With poignancy and humour, he leads his audiences on a joyful journey that will stimulate and renew their creative potential.
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Martin Lindstrom
Branding & Marketing Expert
Born in 1970 Martin Lindstrom founded his own advertising agency at the age of 12, with the rapid rise of his career making him one of today's most respected branding gurus in the world. Named one of TIME magazine's "100 Most Influential People,"Lindstrom has conceived a revolutionary set of principles that reject the old rules of the advertising industry. Instead, his unique branding vision is scientific and process-based to drives sales and profits. A bestselling author, Lindstrom also boasts the reputation of earning "a guaranteed standing ovation" at all of his compelling lectures.
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Jamie Salé and David Pelletier
2002 Olympics Pairs Skating Gold Medallists
It was the story that rocked the Winter Olympics. In February 2002, Canadian skaters Jamie Salé and David Pelletier emerged from an unprecedented Olympic controversy with gold medals and the hearts of millions of fans around the world. Salé and Pelletier embody the true spirit of the Olympic ideal. Together, they relive their incredible Olympic experience, and inspire their audiences with their determination, ambition and strength needed to overcome much adversity and claim the gold.
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Michelle Dagnino
Social Justice Advocate & Youth Culture Expert
Michelle Dagnino is a well-known expert on youth culture and Generation Y engagement. The recipient of over a dozen awards for her work in communities around the globe, her specialized insights has made her a repeat speaker and facilitator for conferences and events across the continents. Michelle's widely-celebrated work as an advocate, speaker, author, and consultant, as well as her role as the Executive Director of the 10,000 member strong national charitable organization Youth Action Network, has made her a leading authority on youth and pop culture trends. Michelle's presentations leave audiences feeling empowered, motivated and optimistic about their role in shaping future generations and cultivating leadership in a diversity of areas.
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Tony Schwartz
Peak Performance Expert and Best-Selling Author
Tony Schwartz is president and founder of The Energy Project, a company that helps organizations and their leaders build and sustain capacity by learning to more skillfully manage energy. Tony has spent 30 years studying, writing about and teaching people how to change, grow, and perform more effectively in all dimensions of their lives. A best-selling author, Tony’s latest book, The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working was published in May 2010.
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Rock the Stars
Innovative Team Building Experience
Rock the Stars is a unique new teambuilding experience that allows corporate groups to experience the thrill of playing in a live band. Participants form a band, learn classic rock songs and perform the material before an audience of their peers. People who experience Rock the Stars find it exhilarating to play in a rock and roll band. The programs are available for groups of 10 to 1000+ people. Requiring no prior musical ability, Rock the Stars is a proven morale booster that builds teams and rewards hard work.
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Clara Hughes
Summer & Winter Olympic Medallist
Clara Hughes is one of the biggest stories to ever emerge in Canadian sports. A double Olympic medallist in cycling at the 1996 Olympic Summer Games, and a medallist in speed skating at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, made Hughes the first Canadian athlete ever to medal in both Summer and Winter Olympics Games. Add to that her double Olympic medals in speed skating at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games, and Hughes is the only athlete in history to have multiple medals in both Summer and Winter Olympic Games.
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Bill Jensen
Simplicity at Work Expert
Bill Jensen is today's foremost expert on work complexity and cutting through clutter to what really matters. His mission is to make it easier to get stuff done. His first book, Simplicity, was the Number 5 Leadership/Management book on Amazon in 2000. His latest book, Hacking Work: Saving Business From Itself, One Bad Act at a Time reveals an underground army of benevolent hackers — breaking all sorts of rules so everyone can do great work.
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Jill Birch
Leadership & Strategic Performance Expert
Jill Birch builds leadership capacity and drives competitive advantage in organizations across North America. She is a Principal and National Capability Lead: Market Development, Leadership Solutions with Knightsbridge. Birch ensures that organizational talent development goals and leadership capabilities are realized through the expertise of professionals. She also develops unique and mutually beneficial partnerships and alliances with organizations and associations in Canada and internationally. Birch is an accomplished and experienced facilitator and consultant in leadership development for senior executives, and a frequent speaker on leadership and management development, sponsorship, and marketing communications.
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Eagle's Flight
Experiential Learning Experts
Whether you are planning a sales conference for 1,000 people, looking to effectively stream-line communication or initiating a long-term leadership development program within your organization, Eagle's Flight knowledge and expertise can ensure you achieve the results you require. Eagle's Flight is an innovative leader in the development and delivery of practical training programs for the global business community. Through the use of experiential learning, they assist organizations of all sizes in gaining a competitive edge by significantly strengthening their workforce.
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Cindy Klassen
Speed Skating Olympic & World Champion
Cindy Klassen is Canada's Olympic star. At the 2006 Olympic Winter Games, Cindy, a Winnipeg native who trains in Calgary, became the first Canadian to win five medals at a single Winter Olympics. She won Gold in the 1500m, Silver in the 1000m, Silver in the Team Pursuit, Bronze in the 5000m and Bronze in the 3000m. She is a six-time Olympic medallist and three-time World Champion.
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Erin Brockovich
Environmental Activist
The story of Erin Brockovich's investigation, legal triumph and personal issues were dramatized in the hit movie Erin Brockovich. As a law clerk, Erin's curiosity was piqued when she found medical records in a file on a pro bono real estate case. Erin's solo investigation resulted in the largest direct action lawsuit of its kind, and the largest legal settlement in U.S. history, paying out some $333 million in damages to more than 600 Hinkley residents.
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Carl Honoré
Author of In Praise of Slow and Under Pressure
Carl Honoré is an award-winning Canadian journalist and international best-selling author of In Praise of Slow: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed, a book that examines our compulsion to hurry, and chronicles a global trend toward putting on the brakes. An engaging, incisive and humorous speaker, Honoré builds a compelling case for slowing down as a way to live, work and play better in the fast-paced modern world.
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Steve Paikin
Host of TVO's The Agenda
Widely recognized as the popular host of TVO’s The Agenda, Steve Paikin is the go-to guy for tacking current events topics in-depth, giving viewers intelligent analysis, and a thought-provoking debate among newsmakers and experts. As the former host of TVO’s Studio 2 and the current affairs series, Diplomatic Immunity, Paikin’s solid reputation has been built upon his wide-reaching interest in all issues that affect our understanding of the world around us.
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Maude Barlow
Social Justice Advocate & Author
Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians, Canada's largest citizen's advocacy organization; the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, which works to stop commodification of the world's water; and, a Director with the International Forum on Globalization, a San Francisco based research and education institution opposed to economic globalization. Barlow may be Canada's best known voice of dissent: a highly opinionated, passionate and knowledgeable speaker.
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The Timebenders
Interactive Rock n'Roll Band
With more than 20 incredible costume changes and the music from the 40's to the 90's, the Timebenders take you on a "Rock down Memory Lane" with an explosive and hilarious dance show that focuses on high energy, audience participation and lots of fun. In addition to the great music of the last 60 years, the Timebenders pay tribute to the biggest stars of each era with hilarious, often exaggerated "impersonations".
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Vaguely Vegas
Celebrity Entertainer
Tom Watson's Vaguely Vegas Show is a one-man show with many personas. Tom takes you on a fast-paced journey through time parodying some of the most memorable entertainers from the 50's – 70's. Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Tom Jones, Elvis and Tina Turner - all performed by Watson! Each celebrity appears in full costume singing one or two of their most famous hits with hilarious results. Tom's quick wit and seamless costume changes keeps the show moving and the humour flowing.
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The Hon. Brian V. Tobin
Former Federal Minister & Premier of Newfoundland
Former Federal Minister & Premier of Newfoundland, Hon. Brian V. Tobin instantly gained recognition throughout Canada and abroad in 1995 by fiercely denouncing foreign over-fishing off the Grand Banks as Minister of Fisheries and Oceans. Since his retirement from politics, Mr. Tobin has served on the board of several Canadian corporations, enjoyed a brief stint as CEO of Magna International Developments, and authored a memoir in 2003 entitled All in Good Time. One of the best orators in the country, he will inspire audiences with a vision for Canada, while at the same time giving them a new-found faith in the future of Canadian business and industry.
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Ben Barry
Entrepreneurship & Diversity
In 1995, Ben Barry began the first agency in the world that represented fashion models of all ages, sizes, backgrounds and abilities at the age of just 14. Today, The Ben Barry Agency boasts an impressive array of clients including Armani, Old Navy, The Gap, Macy's, The Bay, Nike, Holt Renfrew, Sears and Dove. The subject of feature interviews on Oprah, CNN, MTV, and Fashion Television, to name just a few, Ben's passion for diversity and entrepreneurship are palpable to audiences as he discusses topics ranging from challenging the status quo in business to beauty and body image to marketing and growth strategies for small businesses.
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Frontier Team Building
Team Building Trailblazer
Whether it's team building, leadership training or a keynote speaker you are looking for, Frontier Team Building provides experiences that skillfully combine adventure, learning, and fun. Our unique experiential programs are a great compliment for any conference or meeting, and our inspiring keynote by Frontier president Scott Kress effectively entertains and motivates while imparting the wisdom gained from his most recent adventure of summitting Mount Everest.
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Amanda Lang
Senior Business Correspondent, CBC News
Celebrated Canadian business journalist Amanda Lang is CBC's senior business correspondent for The National, and is also the co-host of the Lang & O'Leary Exchange. She became part of the team that launched BNN in 1999 and before long moved to CNN as reporter and anchor. She returned to Canada in 2002 to re-join BNN and CTV and now resides at CBC. Lang's engaging and witty style compliments her ability to comment on current business news and trends, and North America's political scene.
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Sahar Hashemi
Coffee Republic & Skinny Candy Entrepreneur
Sahar Hashemi is one of UK’s most inspirational female entrepreneurs and a powerful speaker on innovation and entrepreneurial mindset in corporations sharing with the audience her captivating personal stories of building two famous brands; Coffee Republic, UK’s first coffee bar chain, which she and her brother grew to 110 stores and £30m turnover and exited in 2001, and Skinny Candy, the guilt free confectionery brand which she sold to Glisten Plc in 2007. Sahar is the best-selling author of Anyone Can Do It- Building Coffee Republic From Our Kitchen Table and Switched On.
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James Cunningham
Corporate Comedian & MC
If it's a master of ceremonies or just a fabulous evening of entertainment you're looking for – look no further! James Cunningham has proven time and time again that he is one of the most skilled professionals on and offstage. Combining his knowledge of the stage and his experience as a standup comedian, James' personalized presentations guarantee laughter at every type of event and function imaginable. Whatever the theme or purpose of your next corporate gathering, James will provide the humour and fun necessary to make it a successful and memorable one.
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Michael Reiss
Award-Winning Simpsons Writer
Mike Reiss has won four Emmys and a Peabody Award during his fifteen years writing for The Simpsons. He is a co-writer on The Simpsons Movie and was a contributing writer to the films Ice Age 1 & 2. Reiss co-created the animated series The Critic, and created Showtime's hit cartoon Queer Duck. Reiss has lectured at over one hundred colleges and institutions, on four continents on topics including The Simpsons, comedy and Judaism, gay cartoons, and the sorry state of television.
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Cheryl Pounder
Gold Medal Champion
Women's Hockey Champion Cheryl Pounder has played on Canada's 1994, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004 and 2005 World Championship Hockey teams and was voted the top defenceman at the 2002 Canadian Women's Hockey National Championship. Her greatest career accomplishments are her two Olympic Gold Medals for the Salt Lake City and Torino Olympic Games.
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Alan Middleton
Marketing Guru
In 2005, Dr. Alan Middleton became the first inductee into the Canadian Marketing Hall of Legends in the Mentor category. He has a degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an MBA and Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Schulich School of Business, and 23 years of international experience on the front lines of marketing, including accounts such as Bank of Montreal, Kodak, Pepsi Canada, Ralston Purina, IBM, New York Life Insurance, Pitney Bowes, Samsung and Speedy Muffler. He is an Assistant Professor of Marketing and Executive Director of Executive Development at York University's Schulich School of Business.
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Sally Hogshead
Brand Innovation Consultant
Growing up with the last name "Hogshead' would give anyone an unconventional point of view. Today, Sally delivers fascinating ideas, whipsmart research, and passionate action--all shaken and stirred with a tangy burst of inspiration. In her keynote speech experiences, Sally teaches audiences how to instantly persuade and captivate in a world with a 9 second attention span. Her second book, FASCINATE, has been translated into 14 languages, with praise by Seth Godin and Tom Peters. Sally's research on fascination includes a proprietary three-year study, and deep-dive analysis by a top global research firm. How does your personality fascinate? Over 50,000 participants have found out by taking Sallyʼs F-Score personality test: www.FScoreTest.com. After graduating from Duke University, the second year of her career, Sally won more awards than any other writer in the U.S. and was named "the most successful junior copywriter of all time." Today she frequently appears in national media including NBC's Today Show and the New York Times. The press has described her as "advertising's icon."
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Ali Velshi
CNN's Chief Business Correspondent
Ali Velshi is a business news anchor for CNN based in New York and can be seen daily on the segment The Bottom Line. Velshi also hosts On the Story from Washington, D.C. His daily "Vested Interest" segment, airs on Prime News with Erica Hill on Headline News. A veteran of financial news, Velshi began his broadcast career as a business anchor for Cable Pulse 24 and sister station, CITY TV, and as a reporter for CFTO-TV. He then hosted The Business News, Canada's first and only prime-time business news hour, on Report on Business Television.
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Pamela Wallin
Award-Winning Journalist, Diplomat and Canadian Senator
The career of this celebrated Canadian-born journalist, diplomat and entrepreneur has now spanned more than thirty years and several continents. Pamela Wallin was appointed to the Canadian Senate in December 2008, after dedicating much of her professional career to coverage of the Canada/U.S. relationship. Senator Wallin’s broadcasting career included stints on CBC radio and at the Toronto Star before she became the co-host of Canada AM. Prior to her Senate appointment, she served as Consul General of Canada in New York, and acted as the advisor to the President of the Americas Society/Council of the Americas in New York.
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Chris Bliss
Smart Comedy for the Information Age
For a writer, speaker, comedian, juggler, and Bill of Rights advocate Chris Bliss, life has been a study in contrasts. Bliss started his career as a juggler opening for acts such as Eric Clapton, Asia and Michael Jackson. Moving into the realm of comedy, Bliss has become a favourite with the likes of Jay Leno and David Letterman. In addition to his comedy and performance acts, Bliss started the Bill of Rights Monument Project, dedicated to rebuilding America's sense of common ground through the placement of displays honoring the Bill of Rights across the USA. Well-rounded and intelligent, Chris Bliss is one of the world's most outstanding performers.
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Denise Marek
Author & TV Personality
Denise Marek is known as The Worry Management Expert. An international speaker, author of CALM and The Keys: Open the Door to True Empowerment and Infinite Possibilities, and television personality, she has helped thousands of individuals to eliminate worry and systematically create positive and lasting changes in attitudes, actions, teamwork, and relationships. In June 2001, Denise earned the coveted Toastmasters International Accredited Speaker Award for Professionalism and Outstanding Achievements in Public Speaking.
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Jack Armstrong
Sports Broadcaster & Former Basketball Coach
Jack Armstrong is one of the most recognizable and respected faces on the Canadian Basketball landscape. Otherwise known as "The Coach," Armstrong is a popular broadcaster, having covered the Toronto Raptors on Raptors TV, the NBA and NCAA for Rogers Sportsnet, as well as covering the Toronto sports scene on the FAN 590. His easy-going personality and approachable style make him a hit with audiences.
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Chuck Martin
Best-selling Author & Business Strategist
Chuck Martin is a New York Times business best-selling author, researcher, speaker, and business strategist. He is the Director of the Center for Media Research at MediaPost in New York and formerly a vice president of IBM responsible for a global division. Martin offers invaluable context and pragmatic solutions to the problems leaders and managers at all levels face today. He helps them refocus on what matters most: overall vision, customers, strategy, and execution.
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Michael Campbell
Business Analyst, Author & Broadcaster
Michael Campbell is best known as the host of Canada's top rated business show - Money Talks - heard across the country on the Corus Radio network. He is also Senior Business Analyst for BCTV News on Global and a frequent contributor to the national Canada Tonight broadcast. Campbell is the author of the national bestseller titled Cooking the Books with Mike: Michael Campbell's Favourite 50 Recipes for Instant Financial Success.
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Gord Martineau
Citytv News Anchor & Host
Gord Martineau is one of Toronto's favourite anchors. The senior co-anchor of Citytv's CityNews newscast in Toronto, joined Citytv in 1977. A dynamic and charismatic speaker, moderator and Master of Ceremonies, Gord Martineau will inspire, influence and captivate you with his style and delivery.
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Mitch Joel
Social Media, Digital Marketing & Personal Branding Expert
Dubbed the "Rock Star of Digital Marketing" and "one of North America's leading digital visionaries," by Marketing Magazine, Mitch Joel is president of Twist Image, an award-winning digital marketing and communications agency. He is also a blogger, podcaster, passionate entrepreneur and speake
