Dr. Kimberley Amirault-Ryan

Excellence: The Winners’ Traits

As a leading performance consultant, Dr. Kimberley Amirault-Ryan has coached and trained some of the world’s top athletes and teams, including Olympians and professional athletes in the NBA and NHL.

Having witnessed and cultivated first-hand the habits, behaviours, and environments required for achieving success, overcoming obstacles, and inspiring excellence, she equips audiences with the mindsets, habits, self-talk, and resources needed to be at your best in any environment.

Dr. Ivan Joseph

Build a High-Performance Team

What does it take for a team to excel? How do you create a culture of excellence? Build a high-performing team?

NAIA National Coach of the Year Dr. Ivan Joseph cracked the code. He led a tiny college in Iowa to win a national soccer championship and a marginal university athletic program to national prominence. Coupling funny and moving stories with research-based insights, Ivan inspires leaders and teams to achieve even their toughest goals.

Juan Bendaña

A Culture of Confidence: Helping Leaders Inspire High Performing Teams

Rapid change and rampant uncertainty have led to a confidence crisis. Today’s workforce requires leaders who can inspire confidence and pave a path towards a positive future.

Juan Bendaña has spent a decade helping leading companies thrive through uncertainty by inspiring unwavering confidence. Sharing actionable strategies, he helps leaders be their best to unlock the full potential of their teams.

David Marquet

Leadership is Language

We’ve been programmed to use a leadership playbook based on the Industrial Age — and it is a language focused above all on conformity and doing. What we need now is a language that balances that with creativity and thinking.

Based on his Wall Street Journal bestselling book, Leadership is Language, retired US Navy Captain David Marquet shows leaders how to build environments where people think deeply and broadly and work is disciplined and focused, resulting in adaptive, agile, and enduring organizations even in volatile and uncertain times.

Dr. Chika Stacy Oriuwa

Authentic Leadership: Your Prescription to Success in the Future of Work

Through embracing the principles of authentic leadership, Dr. Chika Stacy Oriuwa has driven transformative change within Canada’s healthcare system and beyond.

By sharing her journey to becoming a medical trailblazer, Chika outlines what it takes to manage and lead change. She leaves audiences with a prescription for leadership to thrive in the future of work; one that is grounded in authenticity and vulnerability to engage and retain today’s workforce and build inclusive environments that drive results.

Jamelle Lindo

The EQ Leader in the Age of AI

Discover how EQ is not just a soft skill but the cornerstone of leadership in the age of artificial intelligence in this insightful session with Jamelle Lindo.

As leaders grapple with the unique challenges of navigating the complexities of AI, they must also embrace and master the human side of work to thrive in this new multi-faceted, ever-evolving world. Jamelle empowers participants, providing them with an in-depth understanding of emotionally intelligent leadership in the context of AI and practical strategies to fortify their EQ toolkit.

Colonel Chris Hadfield

Preparing for the Unexpected: How to Manage Through Complexity and Change

Colonel Chris Hadfield commanded the International Space Station for six months. Surrounded by life-threatening risk, his daily routine was to prepare for and solve worst-case scenarios, while cultivating an optimistic and positive work environment.

In his compelling presentations, Chris draws from his 21 years in the astronaut corps to share the best strategies and tactics to help individuals, teams, and leaders prepare for and meet the challenges of our rapidly changing world.

Hamza Khan

Brave New Work: The Change-Friendly Playbook for Navigating Non-Stop Transformation

Volatility. Uncertainty. Complexity. Ambiguity. Four words that defined our lives over the past few years. Now, we face yet another challenge — navigating a fast-approaching future of work characterized by technological disruption and constantly shifting expectations.

To meet this challenge, Hamza Khan shares a bold new approach to navigating constant change. He shows audiences how to lean into uniquely human qualities that are difficult, if not impossible, to disrupt.

Jhanelle Peters

Managing and Dealing with Change

While change can be uncomfortable and challenging, it also brings about choices, opportunity, and control. That is why it’s so important to learn how to best manage change for ourselves and others.

Registered psychotherapist Jhanelle Peters explores the impact of change from both a physical and psychological perspective. She focuses on the key areas of managing change, leaving leaders and their teams equipped with the tools and tips needed to foster environments adaptable to change, which helps everyone move forward.

Liane Davey

Proactive Accountability: Enhancing Responsibility without Eroding Empathy

With recent upheavals, such as the pandemic and the great resignation, having shifted the power balance in manager-employee relationships, Liane Davey shows leaders how to hit the reset button. Accountability and empathy aren’t mutually exclusive — you don’t have to trade off productivity in service of compassion.

Liane walks through practical techniques to increase accountability and drive results in a psychologically safe way. Audiences will discover new ways to position leaders and their teams for success.

Ilona Dougherty

Building Strong Intergenerational Teams

A demographic shift is upon us. Boomers are retiring and labour shortages are here to stay. Organizations and businesses will only thrive in this new reality if they learn how to tap into the unique abilities of their intergenerational teams.

This presentation is an inspiring call-to-action and practical guide. Through sharing stories, data, and original research, Ilona Dougherty shares what neuroscience and developmental psychology say about the unique abilities of each age cohort, and how businesses and organizations can foster intergenerational collaboration.

Riaz Meghji

Every Conversation Counts: How to Build Extraordinary Relationships

In an age of polarization, disconnection, shallow substitutes for real relationships, every leader needs to know how to build and maintain meaningful relationships with clients and teams alike in our hybrid reality.

With years of experience interviewing established leaders in business, entertainment, and innovation, Riaz Meghji shares insight into how to spark authentic conversations to make meaningful connections, personally and professionally, and lead with assertive empathy to build inclusive cultures.

Morgan Hamel

Leadership in an Increasingly Polarized World

In a recent report, the Word Economic Forum ranked “societal polarization” as the third top global risk for organizations in the next two years — above both cyber insecurity and interstate-armed conflict.

In this edge-of-your-seat keynote, TEDx speaker and business ethicist Morgan Hamel explores the world of ethics in this new era of complexity and polarization. Sharing her compelling, real-life story from her time as a CEO of an online ethical fashion company, Morgan offers a powerful antidote that she calls the “De-Polarization Method” to leave audiences ready to navigate this new era with greater skill and confidence.

Neil Pasricha

Building Trust in Distrustful Times: Three Ways to Increase Trust with Customers

According to the Edelman Trust Barometer, trust in media, business, and government are at an all-time low. We have never believed less, agreed less, or trusted less. Yet, building trust, and developing the community that surrounds it, remains imperative for any organization. So, what are the new ways to build trust and community in an era of mistrust?

With his signature humour, Neil Pasricha shares three modern ways organizations can build more trust. He shares current business examples to reveal what works, what doesn’t, and how to figure out who to really believe and rally behind.

Dr. David Burkus

The Truth About Trust: Elevating Teams Through Psychological Safety

Collaboration is essential to teamwork. But it can be difficult to collaborate when perspectives, preferences, and personalities differ. It’s hard enough to build trust among teams and collaborate properly, but keeping that trust is even harder. That’s why high-performing teams prioritize building a psychologically safe environment.

Dr. David Burkus reveals how psychological safety is the key to leveraging diverse teams. He shows how to increase trust within teams and model the respectful, collaborative behaviour that keeps trust high even in times of setbacks, failures, and conflict.

Dr. Samra Zafar        

The Workplace of Belonging: Where Inclusion and Wellness Meet

Psychological safety is the cornerstone of health and wellness. But in order to build a psychologically safe workplace, a culture and atmosphere of inclusion must first be cultivated.

A challenge facing many leaders today is how to properly engage a multi-generational and a neurodiverse talent pool. In this illuminating presentation, Dr. Samra Zafar shares science-backed strategies to help eliminate systemic barriers, knee-jerk reactions to connectivity, and one-size-fits-all approaches to workplace wellness, and instead build inclusive workplace cultures.

Dr. Alika Lafontaine

Inclusion and Equity at Scale: Lessons Learned from the Indigenous Health Alliance

Under the co-leadership of Dr. Alika Lafontaine, the Indigenous Health Alliance grew from three Indigenous community to more than 150 First Nations within three years. To date, it is one of the most ambitious health transformation initiatives in Canadian history.

Having successfully brought together hundreds of Indigenous communities, over 20 national medical organizations, and multiple government departments to implement inclusion and equity at scale, Alika shares lessons learned from his experience as both a leader and community advocate.

Tina Varughese

50 Shades of Beige: Communicate with the Cross-Cultural Advantage

With 20% of Canada’s population being foreign-borned, communicating with a cross-cultural advantage is arguably one of the most important types of communication to understand and benefit from in the 21st century. It leads to enhanced productivity, performance, and employee engagement.

Tina Varughese dives into cultural differences in communication, sharing strategies to mitigate stress, conflict, and confusion in the workplace and instead drive profitability, innovation, and an inspiring workplace culture.

Shawn Kanungo

Bold Ones: How to Innovate and Disrupt Ourselves

The world is getting weirder, wackier, and wilder by the minute. It has never been more crucial to adapt and evolve with the times. Yet, when faced with radical change, we tend to double down on what made us successful in the past.

Shawn Kanungo’s “Bold Ones” is an awe-inspiring and provocative keynote on how individuals can apply the innovations and disruptions occurring around them to become more dynamic and valuable. He shares specific, actionable techniques that will help everyone evolve and excel.

Dr. Helen Papagiannis

Augmented Human: How Technology Is Shaping the New Reality

Our digital future is no longer a distant promise, but a rapidly growing industry. In this cutting-edge talk, Dr. Helen Papagiannis — a pioneer in augmented reality — helps audiences understand the significance of AI and AR and how it’s impacting our everyday lives.

What opportunities do they present? And how will they forever change the way we work and live? With great gusto and up-to-the-minute examples, Helen leads us head-on into our virtual future.

Jay Kiew

Evolve: Driving Disruption in the Age of AI

As the world adopts AI, organizations will struggle to find their competitive edge. After all, using the same groundbreaking platforms will result in the same groundbreaking results. Individuals and industries must learn to differentiate themselves — or be disrupted.

Jay Kiew explores how trailblazing organizations are driving disruption in the age of AI. He also unpacks Compass, a leading change navigation playbook, to equip audiences with the strategies needed to skillfully navigate the evolution of work.

Janice Gross Stein

Global Issues

Whether it’s economics, geopolitics, or trade, few people have a better understanding of global issues than Professor Janice Gross Stein. Her dynamic presentations provide a unique perspective into what’s really happening around the globe and what it means to her audiences.

Janice’s presentations not only connect the dots, but provide a look at where things are headed, and the potential dangers and opportunities ahead. She leaves audiences with a better understanding of current global issues, and a clear, compelling vision of the future.

Evan Solomon

Politics

One of Canada’s most experienced and award-winning journalists, Evan Solomon has covered Canadian and global politics for more than 25 years. Today, he is the publisher of GZERO Media, founded by global political risk expert Ian Bremmer, where he has gained a deep insight into the economic, social, and technological impact of political forces at play today, and what they mean for our future.

Evan not only provides an overview of what’s happening today, but also the events to watch that will soon be driving politics.

Bob Woodward

How We Got Here: Lessons from Ten Presidents

A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Bob Woodward’s remarkable perspective is unmatched in journalism. With the US election coming up in November, he takes audiences on a journey as only he can.

From Nixon to present day, Bob provides firsthand insights, analyzing the successes and messes of the presidents he’s covered. He offers important lessons about governing; presidential leadership during crises; the expanding powers of the presidency; and the role of the media.