Leadership, performance, culture, AI — as these continue to be some of our most requested topics, let’s learn more about them directly from the source, our leading roster of keynote speakers.
Ask an Expert
Pulled from our ongoing “Inside Our Boardroom” video content series, watch our speakers answer questions about some of 2024’s most requested topics in the video Q&A below.
Leading with Authenticity
Through embracing the principles of authentic leadership, Dr. Chika Stacy Oriuwa has driven transformative change within Canada’s healthcare system and beyond. In her keynotes, she equips 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, embrace change, and remain adaptable in an ever-shifting business landscape. So, we asked her:
What’s the dynamic between authenticity and effective leadership?
AI and the Future of Work
With AI and digital transformation revolutionizing work as we know it, we spoke with technology visionary Leonard Brody about what leaders can do today to prepare for a drastically different future. Called a “a leader of the new world order”, Leonard’s customized talks — with clients ranging from the United Nations to Visa and Pepsi — address the rapid pace of change, innovation, and disruption facing us all, and what to do about it.
What should companies be doing today to prepare for the next big shift?
Sustainable High Performance
Olympian Tessa Virtue has flourished on the world’s toughest rinks. Today, she’s taking on some of the most complex boardrooms as an executive advisor at Deloitte, where she works with the firm’s senior leaders and their clients to unlock potential and empower sustained high performance. Tessa combines her lived experience as an athlete with her academic background in positive psychology to share researched-backed tools, coping mechanisms, and strategies to help both individuals and teams flourish. So, we asked her:
What strategies can you share about performing at your best?
Truth and Reconciliation
Named one of TIME‘s 100 most influential people of 2024, Connie Walker has spent over two decades shedding light on often overlooked Indigenous stories. She is a Pulitzer Prize and Peabody Award-winning investigative journalist whose work has exposed the crisis of violence in Indigenous communities and the devastating impacts of intergenerational trauma stemming from Indian Residential Schools. A powerful storyteller, Walker’s presentations help audiences better understand their role in reconciliation, so we asked her:
What can someone late to the reconciliation conversation do to catch up?
Workplace Culture
Employee engagement is one of the predominant challenges affecting businesses today. Drew Dudley’s expertise lies in cultivating cultures that lead to higher employee happiness, productivity, and retention. Called one of the most inspirational TED speakers in the world, Drew’s high-energy talks illustrate why leadership is not a characteristic of an elite few, but one that lives within us all. He empowers audiences and equips them with the tools and strategies needed to make a difference, at home and work.
Where does an organization begin in cultivating engaging workplace cultures?
Combating Misinformation
The World Economic Forum ranked misinformation as the number one global risk over the next two years. Master health debunker Timothy Caulfield shared why we’re so susceptible to it. For over 20 years, he was the Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy and is currently a professor in the Faculty of Law and the School of Public Health and the Research Director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta. Timothy has dedicated his career to debunking myths and assumptions about innovation in the health sector — from research on stem cells to diets and alternative medicine — for the benefit of the public and decision-makers.
What are the roots of pseudoscience and what makes humans susceptible to its allure?
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