Dr. Deena Kara Shaffer
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Toronto, Ontario
Learning Leader | Harnessing The Power of How To Learn For Transformational Change
DR. DEENA KARA SHAFFER BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Deena Kara Shaffer (she/her) is a national voice in learning, with passion and expertise in holistic, access-prioritizing, justice-oriented, well-being focused learning strategies. Author of the bestselling, “Feel Good Learning,” Deena is a subject matter expert in how to learn, and uniquely, how to learn well—sustainably, equitably, healthfully, and successfully. For over a decade in higher education, K-12, organizations, municipalities, and business, Deena has been sought-after to provide talks and trainings on non-toxic productivity, procrastination prevention, restoring focus, and transformative learning techniques for the school and boardroom.
In every professional path and project, Deena has been immersed in making learning fairer, clearer, and kinder. Deena is the Founder and CEO of Awakened Learning, resilience coaching for learners of all ages and stages, and their parents. Adjunct Faculty at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), Deena co-designed and teaches the campus’ popular learning and happiness course. Deena is also the Director, Office of Student and Academic Services at York University’s Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change. Prior, as Manager of Thriving Innovations at TMU, Deena co-created Thriving in Action, an award-winning psychoeducational intervention for struggling students that has spread across Canada and beyond. A certified high school teacher, Deena taught in Toronto and in Valencia, Spain, supporting students with learning disabilities, mental health issues, and addictions. Together, these have instilled in Deena a deep knowing and caring about how learning happens in and beyond formal school spaces, which have in turn led to offering international keynotes, including the UK and New Zealand, trainings for the City of Toronto and March of Dimes, and corporate sessions for engineering firms and hospitals. Whether it’s a local youth leadership program or a global consortium, Deena leads uplifting, experiential, transporting talks.
Deena is a lifelong educator and learner. Deena’s PhD (OISE/UT) focused on holistic learning strategies and transformative education, and has led to numerous academic publications on learning and well-being. Prior, Deena earned a Master’s in Education (OISE/UT), with a focus on equity in learning, and a Bachelor of Education (YorkU), which equipped her to be a classroom secondary school teacher for five years. Deena also has a Professional Certificate in Communications and Public Relations (Western), and is a scholarship recipient for femmebought’s yearlong women in business program.
Deena served as the two-term President of the Learning Specialists Association of Canada, solidifying her status as Canada’s go-to learning strategist—and in this role, Deena hosted and facilitated more than 20 global talks on learning. From Humber College to McMaster University to Mohawk College, and so many more, Deena is continuously invited to speak and consult at post-secondary institutions, along with national organizations, about what makes for good teaching, learning, and working. Deena is the co-author of Thriving in the Classroom, Canada’s resource on resilience in and out of the classroom. Finally, a trained yoga instructor, restorative yoga teacher, and mindfulness meditation teacher, these enable Deena to skillfully integrate embodied practice in her speaking.
A media go-to on holistic education, Deena has appeared on CBC’s The National and CityTV, in National Geographic and The Globe and Mail, and written for The Conversation and University Affairs. An award-winning educator, Deena is continually writing, interviewing, creating, and speaking on all things accessible, just learning, including post-pandemic learning gaps, pedagogies of the workplace, and more.
A mother of three, a published poet, a back-country canoeist, and happiest either sharing a compelling talk or getting muddy with her kids, Deena is genuine, warm, accomplished, and driven to make a difference.
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From Dream To Done: Purposeful Planning
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Hopes and wishes are one thing, but as the poignant adage goes, “hope is not a plan”. We all have so much we want to do. Big dreams, aim-high ambitions, poignant goals. Things we long for, strive for, yearn for.
Yet, doing them—getting there, and materializing those dreams—is another thing altogether.
This uplifting presentation for professionals of every sector shares buoyant and insightful overview of current, lackluster goal-setting systems—approaches that are ultimately leaving our intentions unfulfilled, and our lives unsatisfied. And, with an inviting and innovative approach, offered are all-new strategies on how to get done all that you are dreaming of. No burnout here, no over-doing it anymore, no spinning your wheels any longer—instead, purposeful, planful techniques to doing, and ultimately to reaching and realizing those hopes and wishes.
Key takeaways include clarity about the limitations of modern goal-setting methods, and specific alternatives that better support goal-fulfillment.
After Back-to-school: Three Weeks (or Months) In, Then What?
Not Everything: How To Triage & Tackle What’s Most Important!
Toxic Productivity, Ttfn: Rethinking Tasks, To-do’s & Time
10 Learning Strategies for Student Thriving
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