Nicholas Webb is an innovation specialist and keynote speaker. The Corporate strategist can look back on 25 years of experience in advising strategy and predicting results for the world’s top brands. His ultimate client focus enables Nicholas to deliver high class results in any industry. He helps organizations understand and most importantly be relevant in the fast-moving and hyper connected future.
The innovator, who has been awarded with over 42 patents by the US patent and trademark office, supports CEOs and high level executives to form extraordinary organizations. He enables them to produce results by emphasizing the importance of innovation and customer experiences.
In order to make organisations “Future Ready”, Nicholas Webb has conducted extensive research in the field of innovation. Just recently, he discovered the four key trends that will determine the success of any enterprise from entrepreneurial startups to Fortune 500 companies. His research results factor into his speaking engagements and are used as vivid examples that help the attendees to get an even better grip on innovation.
Nicholas Webb is also world-renowned Healthcare Strategist, Bestselling Author and Healthcare Futurist. As an Inventor, Nicholas invented one of the first wearable technologies, and one of the world’s smallest medical implants. Nicholas is the founding CEO of the Destruction Lab, a Healthcare Research and Development Lab. Nicholas is the author of The Innovation Playbook, The Digital Innovation Playbook and his Number One Best-Selling Book on Patient Experience entitled, What Customers Crave. As a Healthcare Advisor, he works with some of the top Healthcare brands to help them lead their market in Enterprise Strategy, Patient Experience (PX) and Innovation.

Western University of Health Sciences, a Top Southern California Medical School, awarded Nicholas his Doctorate of Humane Letters. Nicholas is also an Adjunct Professor of Healthcare Innovation and the Director of the Center for Health Innovation at WesternU.
Also a successful author, Nicholas Webb is published by the world’s largest nonfiction publisher. His books on innovation and leadership are highly acknowledged. In everything he does, the global speaker proves his outstanding potential to predict, create and judge innovation. He shares his insights into how organizations can become disruptive innovators to lead their market with mathematical certainty. All of Nicholas’s talks are tailored specifically to the client’s needs and he exclusively offers potential clients the possibility of a free pre-booking session with him.

Nicola Bird, Ph.D. is a new generation, visionary psychotherapist who pioneered a ground-breaking approach to personal transformation and brain retraining. After seeing the same patterns in herself and her clients, she created a powerful, fast moving, and effective system for healing and self-empowerment. During her 20 years of practice, Nicola Bird helped people to breakthrough negative thoughts, liberate themselves from struggle, and triumph over obstacles. Her one-of-a-kind method gives people the tools to free themselves from limitations, fears, and past hurts and to empower their lives. Nicola Bird received her doctorate from the University of Toronto. She is the author of “The Boomerang Effect: How You Can Take Charge Of Your Life.”

Nicola Bird knows how it feels to be stuck. She was once an unemployed single mother with a beautiful nine-month old son who had to walk away from an emotionally abusive marriage. Although she was committed to personal growth, Bird was still trapped in negative cycles. She wanted a mental overhaul and after implementing a variety of approaches she still did not feel any different. This dissatisfaction led her to create her own solutions. That is how she came to develop a distinct and effective approach for personal transformation that creates deep-seated change from the inside out.

Nicola Bird saw the benefits of her process immediately. They were so powerful that by applying her techniques she was able to complete three degrees – her undergraduate and two graduate degrees (M.Ed. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto) in a record six and a half years all the while establishing my transformative approach to psychotherapy called Self-Imaging Therapy (SIT). SIT is self-nurturing at its best. It helps you cultivate a relationship with yourself based on understanding, compassion, growth, and love. The therapy has a transcendent aspect to it, because you develop the positive parts of yourself. SIT is also a technique that you learn with practice. Her presentations are deeply rooted from SIT and her experiences as a therapist.

Bird discovered through her practice that people have the same ingrained self-defeating responses to fears and challenges. These are deeply embedded mindsets that they rarely know exist but that keep them stuck in the problem they’re trying to change. Nicola Bird originated specific techniques to generate change that everyone can use in order to succeed at everything they do.

Nikolas Badminton is one of Canada’s and the World’s leading experts and keynote speakers for futures and foresight predictions and trends. He is a master of igniting curiosity in the changing world. He inspires audiences in thinking creatively on the impact of exponential technologies including: Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality; Work Productivity; Hospitality and Travel; The Sharing Economy; Autonomous Transportation; Smart Cities; Education; The Future of AI integrated with Life and Business; and Predictions for humanity from 2018 to 2030, and beyond. Nikolas Badminton offers dynamic presentations because he brings forward in-depth knowledge on the subject matter, coupled with plenty of humour and creativity.

Oftentimes organizations are overwhelmed by the amount of changes happening in society. They sometimes become paralysed to know how to adjust how they work, and what to invest time and money into. Nikolas demystifies how the world is changing and focuses in on what directly affects industries, consumers, and the business landscape to allow for strategic thinking and frameworks to evolve how organizations work and can grow over the next 10 to 20 years. Above all, Nikolas Badminton is a game changer for you, your conference, and your business. It’s not what you want to hear. It’s what you need to hear. And, you will take action based on his powerful content rich solutions.

Badminton has spent over 20 years defining business-changing strategies with global technology companies. He consults world-leading blue chips on how to optimize and grow their businesses, advising startups on consumer engagement and growth. He is passionate on speaking to audience’s keen to understand how society will change. As a result of his unique insights, Nikolas will bring his broad range of expertise and practical advice to each presentation. Badminton will be able to asses your audience and their industry to give practical advice on how to prepare for the future. Badminton believes that everyone can create a future for their lives and business through continued education, the application of knowledge, and critical thinking. His mantra is ‘Learn something new each day and understand how that changes the world.

Nikolas Badminton has also helped some big organizations be future-ready. He has worked with Dell to help them evolve their direct marketing capability in 14 countries across Europe through big data, analytics, and creative engagement to significantly grow their business. He has also enabled Microsoft to engage consumers globally in new ways through authenticity and transparency in social media communications. Nikolas has also delivered innovative solution to TELUS through 3D printing, and social engagement with vending machines. He has also produced Cyborg Camp YVR which brought 150 of the world’s greatest thinkers together to ignite change and new thinking in cyborg anthropology, wearables, emotional robotics, and business evolution.

Nikolas Badminton has presented to HSBC, TELUS, PwC, University of Waterloo, IDEO, Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC), Ontario Securities Commission, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, BC Association of School Board Officers, Canadian Government, University of Waterloo, University of British Columbia, London Futurists, Communitech. He is also a go-to futurist for prominent media organizations. He is currently the host on CTV Future Fridays that goes out nationally in Canada once a month and the go-to-Futurist for them to comment on technology and changes in the world. He also regularly speaks nationally on Global TV, CKNW radio, and CBC radio on both business and countrywide matters. He is the host and subject of a feature documentary from the CBC called ‘Smart Drugs, a Futurists Journey into Biohacking’, due to be released in Fall 2018 and is currently working as the ‘Futurist Advisor’ on Robert Downey Jr.’s new Youtube Red documentary series ‘The Age of A.I.’ due out in 2019.

The Honourable Judge Marion Buller (also known as Marion Buller Bennett) is a First Nations jurist in British Columbia, serving as the Chief Commissioner for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. A member of the Mistawasis First Nation, she was the first First Nations woman to be appointed to the Provincial Court of British Columbia and presided in courts throughout B.C. She was instrumental in establishing the First Nations Courts of British Columbia in 2006 and the Aboriginal Family Healing Court in 2016. Buller served as both Director and President of the Indigenous Bar Association and served as Director of the B.C. Law Court Society, B.C. Law Foundation, B.C. Police Commission and the B.C. Mediators Roster. She also was the Commission Counsel for the Caribou-Chilcotin Justice Inquiry and published reports and articles dealing with Aboriginal rights and legal services for First Nations in BC.

Marion Buller was appointed the first woman First Nations judge in British Columbia in 1994 and was appointed as chief commissioner for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in 2016. Prior to being appointed to the Provincial Court bench, Judge Buller worked as a civil and criminal lawyer. Buller has lectured and written numerous articles and papers about aboriginal law, criminal law, family law and human rights.

Judge Buller is currently resident in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, where she sits on the Provincial Court Bench, but maintains band membership with the Mistawasis First Nation in Saskatchewan. In 2012, she was given the University of Victoria Faculty of Social Science Distinguished Alumni Award. In 2016, Maclean’s listed her as one of six people who might be especially influential on policy in the Trudeau government. She retired from the Provincial Court on August 31, 2016 in order to lead the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

Mark Black (CSP), was Born with a life-threatening heart defect where he underwent two open-heart surgeries before the age of one. He battled his condition and it’s limitations for twenty-two years quite successfully, but at 23 yrs old, Mark was suddenly faced with the biggest challenge of his life. His doctor informed him that his heart was failing badly and that without a rare and dangerous heart and double-lung transplant, he would not likely see his 25th birthday.

In October 2001, Mark Black moved thousands of kilometers from home and was put on the transplant waiting list. After just four months on the list, Mark’s condition grew worse and he was placed in the hospital where he lived, waiting for a miracle, for 6 months. Finally, by the grace of God, on September 7th, 2002, after almost a year on the list, Mark Black received a second chance at life: a life-saving Heart & Double-Lung Transplant. Since receiving his second chance at life Mark hasn’t wasted a moment. He has now impacted the lives of more than 100,000 in more than 350 presentations across North America with his truly unique story and powerful life lessons that help his audience members live life with passion and purpose.

Mark Black conveys how we live in an age of perpetual change. He warns that those who try to avoid change will become obsolete. The power of innovation and adaptability now dominate markets and industries. The organizations who will thrive in the next decade are those focused on seeking the numerous opportunities these times will create, rather than looking back toward a time when things were simpler. Using his powerful experience dealing with the continual threat of death, Mark Black delivers life-changing insights into how to cope effectively with the adversity of change, and turn it into a catalyst for innovation and growth. Mark Black will help your organization to stop wasting time trying to bring back the “good old days” and focus on fostering a new way of looking at change.

Dr. Mark DeVolder is recognized as one of today’s original thinkers and motivators on transitions. His high-energy, content-rich and humor-filled presentations teach people how to be bold, flexible and innovative in face of constant change. Known by his clients as the Change Specialist, Mark DeVolder’s presentations are in demand by some of the largest and most successful organizations in the world. And with good reason, DeVolder reveals why 70 percent of most change initiatives fail to achieve their stated goals. With convincing business examples and compelling stories, Mark unveils straight-forward strategies that produce dramatic results.

Mark DeVolder delivers dynamic presentations in both the private and the public sector to industry leaders and Fortune 500 companies. Mark’s client list is impressive, including NASA, Re/Max, Siemens, PepsiCo Europe, Suncor Energy, Oman Air, Laird Technology, Boehringer Ingelheim, Medtronic, Produce Marketing Association and PricewaterhouseCoopers, to name a few. DeVolder has entertained, informed and delighted audiences from Monaco to Dubai, from Singapore to Barcelona and from Istanbul to Kuala Lumpur.

Mark reveals why many change initiatives fail to achieve their stated goals. With straight-forward strategies and convincing business examples, he shows leaders how to drive results to improve the bottom line. He is the author of “Get Engaged! A Practical Guide for Improving Employee Engagement” and “Unity in Diversity Through Synergy.” As an internationally acclaimed speaker, Mark has received the Top 5 Speaker Award in Business Management, Top 10 Speakers in Change Management and the Top 25 Speakers Award three years running.

As a change expert, author and internationally acclaimed motivational speaker, Dr. DeVolder won the prestigious Top 5 Speaker Award U.S.A. in Business Management for four consecutive years. He was also voted as a Top 10 Speakers in Change Management and the Top 25 Speakers Award three years running in the U.S.A. Mark’s keynotes are backed-up by impressive business acumen; as a licensed mediator, DeVolder has skilfully guided million dollar change management projects and resolved multiparty disputes with an enviable 95% success rate.

A globally recognized speaker on change, innovation, engagement and resilience, Mark engages audiences the moment he steps on stage. customized programs are a mix of practical tools, rigorous research, collaborative consulting, all punctuated with entertaining humor and engaging audience interaction. People leave with tools and a template to re-energize, re-engage and transform their workplace and life. In addition, Dr. DeVolder’s presentations are always customized to fit each audience, industry and meeting requirements. Mark is known for cutting-edge content, valuable take-aways, entertaining audience interaction, unstoppable humor and memorable stories. Mark’s mission and passion is to help people and organizations adapt boldly, nimbly and quickly in the midst of exponential change.

NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology)
NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology)
Computer Systems Technology Diploma (Honors)
Computer Systems Technology Diploma (Honors)
1998 – 2002
1998 – 2002

NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology)
NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology)
Management Diploma, Human Resource Management
Management Diploma, Human Resource Management
1989 – 1991
1989 – 1991

Marni Panas is diversity and inclusion professional dedicated to creating safe and welcoming, and inclusive environments especially for the LGBTQ population in large public and private organizations, all levels of government and departments, health care, educational institutions, corrections and law enforcement. Most recently she was a member of the LGBTQ2 Apology Advisory Council which helped draft the apology Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Nov 28, 2017 to LGBTQ people in Canada who for discrimination and injustices faced by this community as a result of federal legislation, policies and programs.

Marni Panas was also part of the work that led to Gender Identity and Gender Expression being added as protected grounds from discrimination to Alberta’s Human Right’s Act. She was part of an expert panel that assisted in developing guidelines to support school boards in Alberta in creating policies that would provide safe and welcoming environments for LGBTQ students, families and staff. She recently provided testimony to the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs in support of Bill C-16 (And Act to amend Canada’s Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code of Canada) which received Royal Assent in July, 2017.

Marni has holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Health Administration and is currently working towards her Canadian Certified Inclusion Professional designation. Marni Panas has been invited to share her experiences and expertise in community engagement, facilitation, Patient & Family Centred Care, bereavement and loss, and inclusive health and cultural safety for LGBTQ* patients and their families locally, nationally and internationally. She is a regular lecturer at Edmonton’s universities.

She has consulted with the various levels of government, law enforcement, universities, local school boards, community services organizations, health care professional colleges and societies, corrections facilities, corporations, and other institutions on public engagement and development of inclusive spaces and services for our diverse population. She often appears in local and national media discussing a variety of topics that affect the community in which she lives. Marni Panas has also made appearances on CNN and The BBC.

As an engaged member of her community, Marni Panas received the Human Rights award from the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights, nominated as an Edmonton YWCA Woman of Distinction and named a Camrose Composite High School Alumnus of Distinction for her commitment to creating a community where diversity is not only accepted, but celebrated. A community that is safe for others to be their authentic selves.

Martin Lespérance is a keynote speaker, trainer and host. Martin Lespérance has spent his entire career in the field of coaching and training, working as an artistic gymnastics coach, a Canadian Armed Forces Reserve soldier, a high-school teacher, an advisor for the Quebec Government Secrétariat aux Loisirs et aux Sports, a national trainer at Bayer, and a director of training and development at Essilor Canada. He is an expert communicator and an extremely passionate speaker. He knows how to light up a room full of participants and rouse their emotions. He is enthusiastic, forthright, humorous, pragmatic and intelligent.

In recent years, Martin has focused on giving motivational conferences and workshops to help teams achieve their goals and get inspired. He has motivated entrepreneurs in China, Thailand, France, United States and across Canada.

He uses his creativity and sense of humour to lead national sales meetings. He also hosts keynotes with a great deal of intensity and generosity.

His objective is to inspire people to act so that, together, we can live in a better world.

WHO SAID IT CAN’T BE DONE? LET’S MAKE IT HAPPEN!

Marty Park is a rare breed. At the age of 21, while most students are neck-deep with homework and weekend plans, Marty was running his first company, with 8 staff members on payroll. Since then, Park has owned and operated over 14 companies, across industries from software to restaurants, audio production to marketing – he has become an expert at business growth and the personal growth that comes with it.

On top of being an accomplished entrepreneur, Marty Park is an award-winning business coach and has been involved in the launch, growth, restructuring or financing of a multitude of companies internationally. Working with clients to conquer adversity, transform their performance and achieve their ultimate vision of success, in business and life. As a serial entrepreneur and veteran business coach, Marty has identified strategies, ideas and specific actions that can help anyone create a better business and a better life. As a speaker his stories are real, relevant, and the tools and tips he shares are purposeful and immediately implementable.

Above all, Marty Park is a expert business strategist and storyteller. His crafted keynotes include equal parts, humour, practicality and energy for each audience. Marty is not about academia – he is about real world solutions and experience you can use. As a result, his audiences come away feeling energized, enlightened and equipped to put the wheels in motion to produce better results. Marty Park delivers dynamic presentations to many different audiences related to business leadership, business strategy, business growth, branding, marketing, entrepreneurship, sales, customer service/experience, innovation and business success.

Marty is a storyteller. When he steps on stage you feel as though you are in the story with him. His presentations are crafted with equal parts, humour, practicality and energy. Marty is not about academia – he is about real world solutions and experience you can use. His audiences come away feeling energized, enlightened and equipped to put the wheels in motion to produce better results. He’s the real deal. Marty hasn’t had one big, lucky break in business, but instead has consistent success across many industries, geographies and economic conditions. What sets Marty apart from other speakers is that he has experienced, first-hand, the unforeseeable highs and lows of being a hands-on business operator.

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Mary Charleson is a marketing speaker, educator, writer and consultant. She presents keynotes & workshops at conferences and any type of business or organization. Charleson believes that it comes to marketing, it all starts with a solid strategy. Mission, vision, objectives, and strategies must all align with core offerings, core competencies, and a segmented approach to create a unique positioning. Mary Charleson’s expertise helps any organization launch, expand, or refocus.

Mary Charleson develops strategies for strategic business units, markets, products, pricing, distribution, and promotions. Our recommendations are based on an assessment of your internal strengths and weaknesses, external threats and opportunities, your competition, the customer and the business environment, as well as segment opportunities and trends analysis.

As a member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, Mary Chareleson’s customized presentations marketing presentations appeal to a variety of different clients. She has the ability to use storytelling and her research into large and small businesses best practices, address audiences in a compelling and memorable way.

Mary Charleson can also build a half or whole day workshop to make the program specifically for your business. Mary Charleson is a sought after academic, who actively consults in her field, bringing current knowledge and examples to every audience and presentation. Mary regularly delivers marketing seminars for Small Business BC, as a way to support the entrepreneurial community in Western Canada.