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.

Meet Bob Gray: he’s like your favorite college professor but with a sense of humor. An unforgettable mix of fun, interaction, and laughs; Bob is changing the stigma of Memory Experts. Not the pocket protector, white coat wearing kind; he immediately dispels the mystery behind memory. “An excellent memory isn’t a gift, it’s attainable by everyone.”
With previous success as an award-winning sales executive, Bob understands the importance of staff/clients/customers not feeling like a number, a sale, or just your 2:30pm appointment. He puts it simply: “having a trained memory in business is like going from ABCs to PhD.”
With over 30 years experience as an international keynote speaker, Gray has taught his innovative memory systems to countless Fortune 500 and 100 companies in over 20 countries across five continents. His unique abilities and memory demonstrations have netted him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records and international TV appearances including Ripley’s Believe It or Not, The Steve Harvey Show, The BBC and The Today Show on ABC.
He is a CSP, Certified Speaking Professional; the highest earned designation in the speaking profession and in 2006 was inducted into the Canadian Speaking Hall of Fame.

Brian Keating is one of Canada’s most in demand keynote speakers. He previously held the position “Head of Conservation Outreach” at the Zoo, which enabled him to raise money and then spend it on environmental projects around the world. He has been leading groups on nature based travel for three decades, exploring some of the best wildlife areas on the Planet. Because of his experiences, insights and his expertise, Brian Keating is a weekly guest on both Calgary and Edmonton’s CBC Radio. For many years, he was a regular on the Discovery Channel, using his own wilderness adventure and wildlife filming. Media outlets such as CBC, CTV, Huffington Post, and Radio Canada International often call on Brian to learn his past and present stories of adventure, travel, nature and discovery.

Brian Keating is one of those rare speakers who immediately captures your attention.  His stories and experiences entertains you and educates you about the natural world in the most delightful manner possible. Brian Keating always leaving his audience with a real sense of gain and insight. Keating’s presentations are usually considered to be the highlight of many conferences and events.  To summarize Brian’s speaking style, he is entertaining, humourous, eloquent and passionate.

Brian’s previous job at the Zoo was to raise money and then to spend it on environmental projects around the world. Presently, he’s the Zoo’s Honourary Conservation Advisor to their outreach efforts. He is also a part time Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the U of C. Brian Keating in high demand as an international speaker, presenting at some 50 events a year. Brian’s style would best be described as buoyant, fast-paced, humorous, and always uplifting and meaningful. His talks have proven themselves the highlight of many conferences and special events. He’s also the author of five children’s books celebrating nature.

Keating is a pilot, a naturalist, scuba diver, and mountaineer. He also is the owner of Going Wild. His wife, Dee, is a physician and keen naturalist who always joins him on his adventures. Together, they have explored nearly 50 countries on all seven continents in the last quarter century. Brian Keating was named the “Canadian Hero of the Year” award (2006) from Readers Digest Magazine for his global environmental efforts, and holds an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Brandon University (2009) and an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Calgary (2011).

Brian Keating’s Awards:

• 2006 Alberta Centennial Medal Award – Readers Digest Magazine | Canadian Hero of the Year
• 2003 Rotary Club of Calgary | Integrity Award
• 2002 Canadian Council of University Biology Chairs | The Distinguished Public Education Award
• 1993 Alberta Foundation for Environmental Excellence | Emerald Award

 

Bruce Lee is an international event speaker, coach, MC and author. His passion is working with individuals and organizations by offering real solutions to their current challenges through high-value “what to do” content-rich information, an engaging style and real life situations that all audiences can relate to. The objective is to enhance leadership performance and individual productivity in order to improve bottom line results, increase market share and vital employee and customer loyalty and retention. This will create the culture you need where customers and staff do not want to leave. As a former business owner and with extensive experience gained through involvement in four businesses from a good cross section of industry; banking, credit, oil and gas, executive recruiting and a retail business, prior to becoming a professional speaker, Bruce brings a hands-on approach to measuring and maintaining employee satisfaction. Each presentation includes a variety of additional resources and tools designed to support the training and increase the skills which are important to everyone.

His keynotes and workshops are focussed on creating:
-PRODUCTIVITY: Doing the right activities at the right time with the correct resources. This starts at the strategic planning phase and goes through to time management and implementation of new ideas, strategies and deliverables.
-ENGAGEMENT: The effective education, motivation and buy in by management and employees to the organizations mission that ensures customer / patient / resident / members / vendors satisfaction and retention.
-ACCOUNTABILITY: Providing systems and check points and the communication tools to ensure the work gets done on time, every time.

Bruny Surin was recently inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame and by doing so, became the first athlete with Haitian roots to earn this prestigious honor. An athlete that was born in Cap-Haiti, and later immigrated to Montreal, Canada at the age of 7 with his parents and sisters. His achievements and accolades speak for themselves: At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta he played an intricate role on one of Canada’s proudest sports accomplishments alongside Donovan Bailey, Glenroy Gilbert, Robert Esmie and Carlton Chambers by winning the Olympic Gold Medal in the 4x100m relay.

In 1993, Bruny emerged on the world tour, capturing his first of two back to back World Indoor Championships over 60m. He was ranked on five different occasions as one of the top ten sprinters in the world and ran seven times under the 10.00-second barrier. To date, his personal best of 9.84 seconds is the 5th fastest of all time. Today, Bruny leads by example influencing, motivating and encouraging by telling his story of sacrifices, hard work and dedication. He offers his services across the country to schools, corporations and organizations with hopes of inspiring them to reach their respective dreams.

He is a humble and conservative man – fitting for a man who ran the third leg of Canada’s gold-medal relay squad in Atlanta. The Quiet Lion – the title of his biography – was the setup man for Mr. Bailey’s glory, but victory wouldn’t have been possible without Mr. Surin’s workmanlike run around the bend. He is now a president and chief executive officer of his own group of companies, including Sprint Management, now uses what he learned to maintain a stable of more than 20 athletes. Services include the handling of endorsements, post career counselling and financial planning. He also runs a charitable foundation, has a clothing line and invests.

Bruny is convinced and is living proof that his message of perseverance during hard times along with setting and managing goals are instrumental keys towards success. Bruny Surin: Olympic Champion, Canadian Track & Field Legend and entrepreneur. On more than 500 occasions, Bruny has shared his remarkable path to success with students, corporate clients and business leaders. More than 150,000 people have been influenced and inspired by his conferences across Canada.

Bruny’s accomplishments:

• Inducted to the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame
• Has captured a gold medal at the Olympic Games in Atlanta.
• 2 gold medals, 1 silver medal, 1 bronze medal at World Championships
• 2 gold medals at the World Indoor Championships
• Broke the 10 second barrier in the 100 meter on repeated occasions

The Bruny Surin Foundation:

• Provides scholarships to support young people financially;
• Provides sport-scholarships to financially support young student-athletes by allowing them to excel in their discipline while successfully completing their studies;
• Conducts awareness-raising and preventive education campaigns for young people;
• Organizes charity events to raise funds and support the Foundation’s mission;
• Inspires sponsors and donors to contribute to the success of the Bruny Surin Foundation’s mission.

 

Speaking to groups large and small, Carissa Halton uses humour and story to explore how we find and build community wherever we are: at work, at home, in our neighbourhoods. Sharing stories from her debut book Little Yellow House; Finding Community in a Changing Neighbourhood, her keynote and breakout sessions can be tailored to meet a diverse range of organizational needs. She also builds workshops for groups who want relevant strategic planning sessions for their professional development days or issue-oriented conferences.

Carissa Halton is an award-winning writer and author. Her essays have been anthologized and won an Alberta and National Magazine Award and have appeared in many publications including: Today’s Parent, Alberta Venture and Postmedia Newspapers.  Little Yellow House; Finding Community in a Changing Neighbourhood is her first book and was a finalist for the 2019 Edmonton Book Prize.

Her leadership and community advocacy have spanned multiple sectors. She has worked as an inner-city non-profit managing director, a political advisor to government ministers, and communications consultant. Each step of her career has inspired her belief in the power of passionate people to make a big difference in their community, which sparked the beginning of her own consultancy, Halton Strategic. When not speaking or writing, she now helps teams, boards and organizations to strategically plan for the future and to communicate in an increasingly complex world. Trained by the International Association of Public Participation, she believes good public policy and successful programs start with engaging people impacted the most.

No matter what work Carissa has done, telling stories has been at the centre of it. Her narrative style and voice reflects storytelling forms she developed as a long time tour guide in various Alberta historical sites. Further, the themes she returns to in her writing and speaking are shaped by strong social justice values developed in her time spent learning from individuals in Edmonton’s inner city. Sharing these stories, discovered with curiosity, empathy, and humour, guides her work as a professional speaker.

Carissa is active in her community school and is on the boards of the Friends of the Edmonton Downtown Farmers Market Society and the Right at Home Society. Carissa lives with her children and husband in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Carly Sotas is an author and mental health activist dedicated to empowering the next generation of leaders. After publishing her first book at twenty, Carly Sotas began working with young empowerment and literacy organizations around the world. As an author and speaker, Carly believes that everyone has an important story to share. As a TEDx speaker and radio host, Sotas has inspired audiences around the world with her empowering message of encouragement and hope. At age 20, the challenges she faced with mental-health and social pressures led to the publication of her first book, Illusion, which empowers leaders to overcome failure and limitation.

Through her talks, she inspire young and mature leaders to recognize their ability to create positive change, regardless of their age, background, or status. Carly Sotas is passionate on helping organizations become more involved and in touch with their employees and their clients. She stresses the importance of self awareness, growth and the power of community to help create support for individuals at home and at work.

As a host and producer at CiTR 101.9FM, Vancouver, Carly Sotas shares leadership insights as she interviews top global leaders ranging from New York Times directors and bestselling authors, to the CEOs and founders of Starbucks and Forbes Media.  Sotas graduated from the University of British Columbia’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, where she received an Honours Bachelor of Environmental Design as a Loran Scholar. Having studied and worked with organizations around the world, she demonstrates how young leaders are redefining leadership and education.

Carly’s presentations focus on the roles that leaders have in helping others underneath them develop into strong, caring and empathetic individuals. She teaches the importance of self awareness and self growth in order to make a difference and create real change in ourselves and each other. Carly Sotas brings the audience to better understand themselves so that they feel empowered and ready to overcome any obstacle they might face. Her presentations are high energy and full of passion on how we can grow, achieve and become the person we want and need to be.

Carole Anne Devaney is as authentic as they come. She brings class, candor and a touch of self-depricating humour to your ceremonies. As a proven and seasoned Master of Ceremonies, she will make your event come alive with her warmth and her energy.

Carole Anne Devaney is a veteran television journalist who co-anchors the News Hour at 6.00 p.m. with Gord Steinke on Global Edmonton. She has held the position since November 2011; before that, she was a reporter for CBC Edmonton and CTV Ottawa. Carole Anne Devaney is a proud French-Canadian who was born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario. She landed her first on-air position as a student reporter with CTV Ottawa. Her experience then took her to Parliament Hill, where she reported for a French political show, on CPAC.

In 2008, Carole Anne decided to move west, after accepting a position with CBC Edmonton. She is the distinguished winner of a Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) Award for producing an undercover investigative series on out-of-town vehicle inspections. Carole Anne Devaney speaks three languages: English, French and Spanish. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the Carleton University School of Journalism, with a Minor in Spanish.

Carole Anne has successfully presided over dozens of events and fundraisers in Alberta. The most prestigious being in front of 18,000 Oprah Winfrey fans. She was the opening act for the talk-show star during her 2013 Edmonton appearance, and had the opportunity to introduce her on stage. Carole Anne also spearheaded a Global Edmonton initiative that raised more than $100,000 for breast cancer research.

As a career woman with two little girls, Carole Anne Devaney isn’t afraid to show the good, the bad and the ugly of motherhood. She has a large following on social media, where she often makes light of the realities of parenting. Carole Ann Devaney has a reputation for engaging her audiences, rolling with last-minute changes, keeping the program on time, and, of course, keeping it real!

Carolyn Stern is a successful entrepreneur who specializes in helping professionals get unstuck. As a life-long learner and academic, Carolyn is a university professor, corporate trainer, certified Emotional Intelligence Expert, author and professional speaker.

Due to her undeniable passion for all things EQ, in 2017, she launched a new division of her business called EI Experience, which creates comprehensive learning and development experiences for corporations. EI Experience offers a combination of EQ Assessments, Private and Group Coaching Sessions, Leadership Development Workshops, Online Programs, Off-Site Retreats, and Inspirational Keynote Presentations that come in recommended packages or can be customized to the needs of your organization. Since launching, Carolyn has single-handedly trained and coached over 6,300 leaders across Canada and the United States.

In her spare time for the last 20 years, Carolyn is an accomplished professor at Capilano University. She has taught Public Speaking, Organizational Behaviour, Marketing, Event Marketing, Professional Sales, and Advertising in the Faculty of Business. More recently, she teaches our future leaders about Leadership, Business Management, and Leadership in Teams, and in 2021 will be launching a new undergraduate course called Leading with Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace.  In addition to her passion for sharing knowledge, she is committed to her corporate vision – “Learn More. Be Better. Teach Others”.

Carolyn holds a Bachelor of Commerce, Marketing, a Bachelor of Education, Business Education and a Post-Baccalaureate Diploma in Primary Education from the University of British Columbia. She has also earned a Post-Baccalaureate Diploma in International Business from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and completed a Master of Arts in Leadership from Royal Roads University. Lastly, she is a Certified Facilitator in the area of Emotional Intelligence with MHS Inc.

Finally, Carolyn is a professional member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, the National Speakers Association, and the Global Speakers Federation, making her a popular guest speaker at national and international conferences and seminars.

Carrie Anton is a gold medal Paralympian from the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Summer Games in the sport of Goalball. She is also an Edmonton Sports Hall of Fame inductee.

She continually promotes equity as a coach, a volunteer, and an athlete in a variety of sports. Recreationally, she is involved in goalball, blind ice hockey, tennis, soccer, tandem cycling, skiing and much more. She enjoys her role in the community on various boards such as the Edmonton Sport Council and the Alberta Sports & Recreation Association for the Blind.
Professionally, Carrie has over 25 years experience as an assistive technology and accessibility specialist. Her passion lies in ensuring accessibility and she works on projects that advance and enhance quality experiences for people with disabilities in employment, education, sport and life.