On July 29th, 1999, Curtis Weber was 17 years old and working as he did everyday as a Construction Laborer on the Saskatchewan prairies. After a long day at work, he and his crew were attempting to transport a grain bin under a power line with our picker truck. Prior to performing the task, they assessed the risk of moving the bin under an overhead power line. After a brief discussion, they talked about the power line and how it “had the potential to kill somebody”. Just minutes later, it nearly did.

They had to be cautious. They thought they could get the job done safely. As they worked against the elements, he steadied the bin from the high winds while they approached the overhead line. Then the predictable happened. The preventable happened.

As they approached the overhead line, the operator of the crane did not boom down far enough and backed directly into the power line. Curtis immediately became the ground point for the electricity as 14,400 volts of electricity surged through his body three separate times. He was surrounded by steel and as each cycle of 14,400 volts passed through his body, the electricity tried to eject him from the live zone, instead throwing him violently from one end of the steel structure to another as the 2nd and 3rd cycles of 14,400 volts of electricity passed through him.

Curtis Weber was given a 0% chance of survival, his family were told he would not survive his injuries. Instead he has 3rd and 4th degree burns to over 60% of his body and is now a double amputee. Let him tell you his story of triumph over tragedy and share with you how and why he was lucky that day.

After the near fatal injury and the 6 year recovery that followed, Curtis has spent the last 10 years developing skills, experience and building an education in order to provide services in Occupational Health and Safety to organizations throughout Canada as well as developing an exceptional skill set of facilitation and presenting to workplaces, Schools, Conferences and other events.

Curtis Weber’s qualifications and certifications:

  • Safety Officer – Prairie North Health Region (2013 -present)
  • Safety Consultant/Trainer – Saskatchewan Workers Compensation Board (2006-2013)
  • Spokesperson – WorkSafe Saskatchewan/WCB – events and campaigns
  • Influencer Training (VitalSmarts, 2010)
  • Diploma, Adult Education (St.Xavier University, 2009)
  • Safety Program Development (Enform, 2009)
  • Obligations & Liabilities (CSSE, 2008)

Dan Comiskey played in the Canadian Football League for 13 seasons retiring in 2010 as a perennial all-star, but more importantly to him, as part of two Grey Cup Championship’s with the Edmonton Eskimos.

Throughout the last half of his career Dan became passionate about worker’s safety and started developing leadership and behavioural programs that were used by major oil and gas, construction and manufacturing companies. These programs included classroom leadership training as a field level leadership coaching program designed to improve leadership and safety culture.

Dan has co-authored a number of books including The Truth About Success, Enduring Principles of Leadership and Thirty-Eight Stories in Coaching, and is currently working on his next book, The Alignment Paradigm.

There is no audience that Dan is unable to reach, from frontline workers or leadership groups at safety meetings, to mixed audience conferences. With a combination of twenty years experience in football, and a decade of experience in industrial safety, Dan has become sought after by numerous organizations to deliver his message and improve the safety culture through his leadership coaching.

Daniel Lewis is an acclaimed high-energy and high-content, inspirational speaker. Daniel Lewis is the funky- bowtie wearing founder of the modern, award-winning tea company, T By Daniel Inc. His crazy outlook on business and his Willy Wonka inspired retail tactics have garnered him and his company nation-wide recognition and many awards and honours, such as the 2016 Business Excellence Award and 2017 and Top 40 Under 40 Entrepreneurs.

Daniel’s success with his retail tea brand have even landed him a new exciting title as one of three Global Entrepreneurship Week Ambassadors for Canada and also paved the way for him to launch MARSketing Boutique Agency. Daniel has a popular blog where he shares his story and his “outside-of-the box perspectives” with audiences all across North America.

What many don’t know about Daniel Lewis is the story behind his drive and passion and his desire to spread it to any pair of ears that will listen. After being a victim of a nearly fatal stabbing, (where Daniel was stabbed four times), he decided to make the best of his second shot at life, by turning a bitter situation into an opportunity to help impact and inspire the lives of others in a special way, using a tea business as the means to do it. This is the motivation behind the tea company and the man, Daniel Lewis.

By facing life and all its ups and downs head-on, with a smile on his face, Daniel Lewis challenges, youth, business owners, professionals to appreciate the NOW, Master the Miniature and Make Crazy Look Normal!

Danièle Sauvageau has the passion, instinct and leadership that was instrumental in the historic win by the Canadian Women’s Hockey team at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. As the general manager and coach, Sauvageau transformed a fear of losing into an absolute desire for victory, a radical turnaround that enabled her players to achieve their Olympic dream. Danièle Sauvageau has taken part in six Olympic Games, as women’s hockey coach, general manager and coaching consultant. She played a key role in her team’s wins in seven consecutive world championships, and in the silver medal they won at the Nagano Olympics. With her dedication, involvement in developing her sport and her winning record, she has become the undisputed guru of women’s hockey in Canada. She also holds a master’s certificate in coaching from the National Coaching Certification Program and a management certificate from the École des Hautes Études Commerciales.

Danièle Sauvageau has a degree in social work and has served with the RCMP and Montreal’s police department for over 24 years, including the narcotics division. Sauvageau has done undercover narcotics work, busted a car full of drug dealers, and ordered the forced entry and rescue of a double agent whose life was in jeopardy. Sauvageau currently works as advisor to the strategic development department.

Sauvageau’s expertise is not limited to just one sport. She has contributed to the success of a number of national programs, including the national synchronized swimming team and the women’s water polo team. She is involved as a coaching and performance consultant with the Canadian Olympic Committee in preparation for the Vancouver Winter Olympics. As such, she is closely associated with the success of Canadian short-track speed skaters and figure skater Joanie Rochette.

Drawing on her expertise in human resources management, coaching, leadership, situation assessment, communication and the formation of winning teams, Danièle Sauvageau speaks on various topics related to performance. In 2003, Sauvageau began to offer her services as an executive coaching consultant. She has supported and assisted numerous public and private-sector clients in building a new vision and managing change in order to gain a competitive edge. Danièle Sauvageau is a well-known figure in the media and is often asked to comment on developments in hockey and elite sports in general.

Over the course of her career, she has been featured on CBC, Radio-Canada, TSN and NBC, as well as many articles in Canadian and American publications. She is also the co-author of The Golden Tears, the Journey to the Olympics. Danièle Sauvageau was the spokesperson for the Coaching Association of Canada and a member of the Coaches of Canada, as well as serving on the board of directors for Vancouver’s 2010 Winter Olympics bid.

If anyone understands that life is what you make it, it’s Darci Lang. She quite literally went out and built the life she wanted. She has worked for great leaders and not so great leaders, built three award-winning businesses and let them go when the time was right. All she has accomplished has been done on her own terms and by focusing on the 90% – the positive in her world versus the other 10%.

Darci Lang has discovered a solution to help you live your life, do your job, and connect with the people who matter most, to the fullest. Darci has a bold, joyful presence – illuminating the good in audiences lives with her dynamic message. For 24 years, Lang has been sharing tough love with empathy, creating perspective shifts and having an impact on hundreds of businesses in diverse industries. Darci Lang helps to transform cultures, employee engagement and in turn – morale and profitability. From farmers, ironworkers and linesmen to medical professionals, educators and administration people, her connection to her audience is astounding.

Darci Lang is an engaging, entertaining, and powerful speaker whose message about ‘Focusing on the 90%’ is clear, insightful and most of all, important. In the midst of her flourishing entrepreneurial career, Lang has learned powerful lessons about maintaining balance, bringing her best self home to her husband and teenagers and embracing her own victories. Darci Lang is an inspirational speaker, an award-winning entrepreneur, a best-selling author, a wife and a mom, whose simple tool helps individuals reframe the way they look at, and think about, their work and their interactions and relationships with others.

Darci Lang’s Focus on the 90% message will help you and your team to find the positives at work, rise above adversity, and triumph in all they do. Lang gives real life practical answers and engages the audience by asking them to think about their own real-life situations building into leadership, customer service, and overall life satisfaction.

Darren Lang has lived his talk. Having gone through a major rut in his own life, everything he talks about are the tried and true tools he used to pick himself up and get back to feeling great. Throughout his career, Lang has shared his stress busting techniques to help thousands of individuals and hundreds of organizations by sharing fun and powerful stories and ideas on how to take control of stress and stay more connected and balanced.

Darren Lang has a degree in Business Administration as well as an MBA. He is a professional member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS) for over 10 years and is also past president of the Saskatchewan chapter of CAPS. In addition, Darren has been a member of the Saskatchewan Association of Human Resources Professionals (SAHRP) for over eight years. For the past 21 years, he has worked with several different companies designing and conducting training sessions and in the last eight years, Darren Lang and his wife, Darci, have operated their own corporate speaking and training company, XL Enterprises.

Tired of working with a stressed team? Is your group suffering from burnout, apathy, absenteeism and health trouble? Stress can have a huge impact on your team, resulting in poor decision making, lackluster performance, stress leave and staff turnover. Darren Lang shares his own journey with stress and the tools that brought him back to feeling his best.

Denise Wozniak is a motivational and inspirational speaker who has been through incredibly tough times. Within a month, she was laid off her job with 30 other employees, found out that her six month old daughter had AIDS and that she, herself had also been infected with HIV. She became her daughter’s caregiver and her daughter died at home when she was just 9 months old in a time of immense stigma.

Denise Wozniak is passionate about inspiring and motivating others to be proactive and grow from trauma and stress. She will tell you the story of an incredibly difficult period in her life when she was told that her daughter and her were going to die, when everything seemed hopeless. She will tell you how she got through it and became better from it. Denise will teach you methods she used to break free from negative thinking and show you how to regain the vitality you used to have to move forward.

Denise Wozniak understands that people need to laugh and feel good when they work with challenges. She uses plenty of humour throughout her presentations. Humans are capable of considerable RESILIENCE.  You are stronger than you think and you have the capability to build A NEW WAY OF THINKING. Despite all of this, Denise Wozniak feels she has become more resilient and has even experienced growth which she now inspires others with through stories and laughter. Denise went on to speak at many venues in an effort to raise awareness of children with AIDS and was given the Queen’s Jubilee Gold and Diamond medals for her work.

Denise looks at issues such as burn out, stress and worry and gives practical solutions for her audience to use in their every day lives. Denise interacts with audiences to demonstrate life can be fun, full of laughter and they too can look at the world with a new attitude. Popular with media and has appeared on CBC, CTV and in Canada’s national paper, the Globe and Mail, as well as the Vancouver Sun. Denise Wozniak is also a Certified World Class Speaking Coach.

Benoit was born with a disability in his right leg known as clubfoot. He started swimming at 8 years old and became, in the last 2 decades, one of Canada’s most decorated Paralympic athletes with 20 medals in five Paralympic Games.

Member of the Canadian national from 1998 to 2018, he won 32 medals in six World Championships, lowering more than 60 world records in his category.

Benoit is always involved in various causes involving youth, healthy living, physical activity and sport. He is an ambassador for Right to Play and Jumpstart Foundation.

Member of the Order of Canada and Knight of the Order of Quebec, his biggest dreams are to help our youth by inspiring them to look beyond their own boundaries and motivate anyone who aims to realize their dreams. He does it well by sharing his passion for life.

Beth Hanishewski is an internationally recognized Speaker, Coach and Writer who teaches her audiences that the Real Path to Success is through Relationships. She has shared the stage with the world’s top speakers including Jack Canfield, Robin Sharma, Lisa Nichols and Mike Dooley in Australia, the U.S. and Canada.

Called the “swiss army knife” of coaches Beth has over twenty years motivating, leading and coaching business professionals with one singular goal in mind: RESULTS. Beth’s promise is simple: to provide simple solutions to the most challenging of business and life problems. When Beth Hanishewski speaks… relationships and workplaces are transformed.

Beth leaves audiences laughing, engaged and armed with the tools they need to decrease the toxicity of the relationships that surround them at home and at work. Companies hire Beth because they understand the cost of toxic workplaces and strained relationships in teams. When stress takes over the workplace EVERYTHING else is secondary. Profits. Productivity. Creativity. It all goes out the window when relationships break down.

Beth’s presentations are engaging, informative, high energy and fun. They are also based in a deep understanding of how relationships work, both at home and at work, and delivered with an innovative approach that can be immediately practiced and applied… and they work! Beth helps audiences slice through the “Why is this happening?” mentality and get to the core issue and simply deal with the relationship in front of you.

Beth Hanishewski believes inspiration is only effective when paired with action and her training delivers bite-sized takeaways that audiences can implement immediately. She incorporates visuals, music, storytelling, interactive processes and live coaching that creates engagement, accountability and inspires leadership. At work. At home. At life. Beth has taught professionals around the globe, the simple yet powerful systems for personal and professional transformation that are innovative, and yet incredibly straight forward.

Beth specializes in helping people create lives they love and experience deeply connected relationships. She is a highly intuitive coach with an uncanny ability to see the heart of a problem and offer solutions to help her clients shifts quickly. Beth Hanishewski has been called “the swiss army knife of coaches” with a knack for breaking down the most complex challenges into small doable steps. She is well known for her highly interactive and hilarious presentations.

Olympic Silver Medalist, Cheryl Bernard is a dynamic and powerful keynote speaker. She draws from her business, non profit and sporting success to inspire audiences to achieve their maximum potential. She is an expert speaker and is in high demand as a presenter across Canada. Born in Grande Prairie, Bernard moved to Calgary as a young child and was raised at the curling rink, calling the former Northwest Curling Club in Crescent Heights her “babysitter.”

In her 20’s, she was founder, owner and president of a successful Calgary-based insurance agency for over a decade before focusing her attention on building an elite curling team. Cheryl learned early on that by creating a dynamic workplace culture that empowers the team helps flourish business results. She and her staff propelled the agency to 6 Million in sales in 11 years. At that time, Cheryl Bernard decided it was time to re-focus on curling, writing and fundraising. So she sold her agency to Western Union Insurance due to her wanting to focus on her passions and dreams. 

Cheryl Bernard is has a long list of curling accomplishments and awards. She was 43 when she won the silver medal as skip at the 2010 Vancouver Games. She is a four-time Alberta women’s champion, Canadian Runner-up, TSN Skins finalist and has maintained a top 5 status on the World Curling Tour for many years. Cheryl Bernard is now the president and chief executive officer of Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame where she looks forward to bringing the work ethic and leadership skills she learned in sport to her new position at Winsport’s Canada Olympic Park.

Cheryl’s life changed when her father was given 6 months to live after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. Bernard was lucky to be able to devote most of her time to caring for her father and trying to find a cure. Sadly he passed away 2 years later. However, her father’s illness was the catalyst for her to create the annual “Curl for a Cure” in support of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. Curl for a Cure helped raise over 1.3 million dollars in support of the CBCF.

Bernard has been an ambassador for the Alberta Children’s Hospital, the Toronto Sick Kids Hospital, Children’s Miracle Network, Dairy Queen, Miracle Treat Day, Goodwill Industries of Alberta, and World Vision Canada. She has also been the official spokesperson for the 2010 “Terry Fox Run”.

Cheryl Bernard also co-authored Between the Sheets -Creating Curling Champions, which describes the mental side of the game of curling. Bernard just recently published the second edition of the book entitled The Silver Lining. Cheryl delivers practical solutions and insights from her careers throughout her presentation. As an Olympic Silver Medalist, she will tell her story of determination and dealing with high pressure situations.

Bernard’s experience in business and sport has also seen her work as a corporate keynote speaker, sports ambassador and as a TSN broadcast analyst. As a result of her career accomplishments, charity work and her experiences, Cheryl brings a unique perspective to every event so that she can inspire and change individuals and organizations through her presentations.

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