Paul Verhesen knows the construction business like no other. Paul is the CEO of Clark Builders, one of the largest and most successful industrial, commercial and institutional construction companies in Western Canada. Clark Builders has been active in throughout Canada including in Toronto, Nunavut, the North-West Territories, Calgary, BC, Saskatchewan and Edmonton.V Verhesen is a bright and astute presenter. As a leader in the construction world, he is often asked to speak on a variety of related subjects. He knows how to attract, retain and motivate employees. He is renowned for quality control and for fostering technical innovation in construction and in business.
Since the year 2010, Clark Builders maintained its status as one of Top 50 companies to work for in Canada. Why? Though Paul Verhesen would tell you that is on account of his employees; however much of the credit goes to his superior leadership. His presentations offer strategical and practical insights for any organization that hopes to grow and succeed through better employee management and retention.
Verhesen knows the construction business “inside out”. He is active as the immediate Past-President of the Alberta Construction Association and a Past- Director of the Canadian Construction Association. He has a degree in civil engineering from the University of Alberta and he is a member of Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA). Paul Verhesen always donates his speaker fee to a registered Canadian charity called the Clark Builders Community Foundation . This foundation has supported a wide cross-section of charities related to homelessness, the arts, youth and education including Edmonton Opera, Northern Alberta and NWT Junior Achievement, the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (Nait) and the University of Alberta.
To book Paul Verhesen for an upcoming speaking engagement, please visit his profile at the Speakers Bureau of Canada’s website here.
By Roger Breault,
President of Speakers Bureau of Canada
June 6th, 2017
JimHoleis an exclusive Member ofthe Speakers Bureau of Canada . Jim is co-owner of The Enjoy Centre in Saint Albert, Alberta. The Enjoy Centre has won numerous awards including the 2015 Venue of the Year, the prestigious (International Horticultural Producer) IHPH Award for its horticultural and environmental innovations.
The Enjoy Centre is world renowned. It includes large greenhouses, a wellness spa, a garden centre, a convention/wedding space, a restaurant featuring locally produced food, a deli, a kitchen store, a wine store, a bakery, locally produced organic food, a small museum devoted to the Hole family, and direct access to the Lois Hole Provincial Park. It takes advantage of the water it collects, solar energy and it uses old bricks from the historic Molson Building Downtown Edmonton to create passive energy (heated) corridors on its outside. It is located in Saint Albert, Alberta, Canada.
Valerie Cade is recognized world-wide as one of the top experts on the subject of Workplace Bullying.
In Canada, one in six employees are bullied, according to the Canada Safety Council. Employers are beginning to take steps to make bullying as unthinkable as sexual harassment or drunkenness. In addition, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan have made workplace bullying illegal.
In this recent Globe and Mail article, Valerie explains that “those who feel they have been bullied should file a claim not just to human resources but also to higher decision-making authorities in the company. In addition, department managers should commit their whole team to sign up for anti-bullying training led by someone with a background in organizational development and the politics of people in the workplace.”
Valerie Cade has distinguished herself as a Certified Speaking Professional with the National Speakers Association. She is a Past-President of the Canadian Association of Public Speakers (CAPS). She is in demand as speaker world-wide. Valerie is also the author of Bully-Free at Work, an international best seller.
Is your organization plagued with bullies? Do the members of your professional organization know what to do when they are bullied.
Blog for Patricia and Janice Makokis
The Spring 2017 issue of the University of Alberta’s Alumni Magazine, New Trail, features contributing editors, Dr. Patricia Makokis and her daughter and lawyer, Janice Makokis on the subject of The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
Together they ask readers to face the Truth. More than 150,000 Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families commencing at the tender age of five or six from 1860 to 1960. Many children suffered through physical, sexual and mental abuse. They were stripped of their parents, culture and way of life. God knows how many children died in these schools. At least 3,200 deaths were recorded but many more were never reported dead. The bodies of dead children were not returned to their parents because it was deemed “too expensive”.
Children were forced to eat rancid food, scraps left over from the meals of priests and nuns and then sometimes forced to eat the vomit from having to choke down that food.
The Government wanted to “civilize” them and religious groups wanted to “save” them. It is Canada’s gravest injustice. It was a process of systematic domination and rehumanization of the Indigenous population of Canada.
The matriarchs of the Makokis family, Dr. Patricia Makokis and sister to the Amazing Two-Spirit Couple, Dr. James Makokis & Anthony Johnson, winners of the Amazing Race Canada Season 7. The family blends the Truth of the past with stories of their elders, ancestors and community members related to colonialism, residential schools and the ongoing lack of access, support and discrimination in place through systematic oppression. These allyship speakers share personal stories of the past, blended with lived experience to bring unity and action to the forefront of the conversation, (Link to James, Anthony and amazing couple profiles.
Indigenous Rights speakers and Truth and Reconciliation speakers, the family is well known for their inclusive advocacy for human rights, equality, policy and unity. Their message brings awareness to individuals to learn and understand the truth in the history, the current state of how we arrived to the 94 TRC Calls to Action, and the role each individual and organization can take on the path of reconciliation. As grassroots leaders and Indigenous heritage speakers, the family has become some of the most popular and creditable top Indigenous speakers in Canada and speakers for TRC on September 21.
What Dr. Patricia and Janice offer the readers are the ways and means that Reconciliation. The TRC has 94 Calls to Action . They apply to every Canadian and every Indigenous person in Canada.
To the Makokis’, the key answer to Reconciliation lies in education. White people need to change their attitudes about colonialism and become partners with Indigenous people. They also need to make amends and to progress from there. Remnants of colonial attitudes still exist today. Boil-water advisories on many reserves, inferior education and health care systems, high suicide rates and diseases still plague Indigenous people in Canada today.
Indigenous people must learn too. They must become re-acquainted with their beliefs, their traditions, their language and ceremonies. They need to know what happened, so they can understand why they are the way they are today. They need to comprehend that to an Indigenous person, land, language, culture and identify are inseparable from spirituality.
Canadians everywhere need to work together to learn more about each other and move on.
Truth First: Before Healing, Before Reconciliation
The Spring 2017 issue of the University of Alberta’s Alumni Magazine, New Trail, features contributing editors, Dr. Patricia Makokis and her daughter and lawyer, Janice Makokis on the subject of The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
Dr. Patricia Makokis
Member
Speakers Bureau of Canada
Together they ask readers to face the Truth. More than 150,000 Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families commencing at the tender age of five or six from 1860 to 1960. Many children suffered through physical, sexual and mental abuse. They were stripped of their parents, culture and way of life. God knows how many children died in these schools. At least 3,200 deaths were recorded but many more were never reported dead. The bodies of dead children were not returned to their parents because it was deemed “too expensive”.
Children were forced to eat rancid food, scraps left over from the meals of priests and nuns and then sometimes forced to eat the vomit from having to choke down that food.
The Government wanted to “civilize” themand religious groups wanted to “save” them. It is Canada’s gravest injustice. It was a process of systematic domination and rehumanization of the Indigenous population of Canada.
Dr. Patricia Makokis and Janice Makokis are the matriarchs of the Makokis family. Mother and sister to the Amazing Two-Spirit Couple, Anthony Johnson and Dr James Makokis, winners of the Amazing Race Canada. (Link to James, Anthony and amazing couple profiles.
The family are well known for their advocacy for equity, inclusion and human rights. As Indigenous Rights speakers, reconciliation speakers and grass roots knowledgekeepers, the family has become Canada’s top indigenous speakers, Indigenous heritage speakers, and speakers for truth and reconciliation on turtle island.
What Dr. Patricia and Janice offer the readers are the ways and means that Reconciliation. The TRC has 94 Calls to Action . They apply to every Canadian and every Indigenous person in Canada.
To the Makokis’, the key answer to Reconciliation lies in education. White people need to change their attitudes about colonialism and become partners with Indigenous people. They also need to make amends and to progress from there. Remnants of colonial attitudes still exist today. Boil-water advisories on many reserves, inferior education and health care systems, high suicide rates and diseases still plague Indigenous people in Canada today.
Indigenous people must learn too. They must become re-acquainted with their beliefs, their traditions, their language and ceremonies. They need to know what happened, so they can understand why they are the way they are today. They need to comprehend that to an Indigenous person, land, language, culture and identify are inseparable from spirituality.
Canadians everywhere need to work together to learn more about each other and move on.
By Roger Breault, June 1st, 2017
Andrea Holwegner won The Peanut Bureau of Canada Award for her recipe of a Cocoa Bar. She is one of a handful of registered dieticians in Canada that is a great public speaker. She also won a prestigious Award given by the Dieticians of Canada for excellence in public instruction about nutrition and consumer education. She is a frequent expert presenter for CBC and CTV.
Her presentations are always humourous and chalk full of great information that go far beyond diets, and nutrition. She inspires audiences to change their lives, their directions and to regain motivation to renew their commitment to become a better person – both in the workplace and at home. Andrea is also a distinguished Member of the Chatelaine Magazine Health Advisory Board and an active Member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers Calgary Chapter.
The Speakers Bureau of Canada is proud to represent Andrea Holwegner. She has an important message for Canadians and people world-wide. She is an effective presenter and she gets accolades from our clients wherever we advance her.
By Roger Breault,
President of the Speakers Bureau of Canada
June 2nd, 2017
7 Bad Habits for Public Speaking & the #1 Secret to Successful Presentations
Imagine you’ve just concluded your keynote speech as a professional public speakers. You’ve done the prerequisite vocal exercises, your notes are committed to memory, and you know your target audience’s exact demographic. You know your message is going to resonate within the hearts and minds of whoever’s within earshot of your voice.
You can’t wait to get on Twitter or LinkedIn and gauge the audience’s response to your performance. And there’s nothing there. No one’s talking about your performance because they feel uninspired.
Or worse, you’ve bombed.
If you’ve ever finished a speech and felt like you’ve just wasted a bunch of people’s time, you’re not alone.
#worstspeechever #uninspired #whenslunch
Some of the brightest, most intelligent professionals have orchestrated complete yawn fests when they’re behind the microphone.
Below the surface, there may be one or two, maybe even a handful, of unconscious bad habits that give you poor body language, throw the rhythm of your speech off, or create a disconnect between you and your audience.
As a public speaker, you would never consciously avoid eye contact, clear your throat, or finish every single phrase with “right?”
Yet, these bad habits occur daily, by speakers who are categorically intelligent and accomplished professionals.
So what are some of the most significant bad habits that could diminish the effect of your speech?
Here are 7 Bad Habits for Public Speakers
1. Data Dumping
The safest route to giving a baseline minimum public speech is to just create an accurate, well formatted PowerPoint presentation, read each slide word for word, and just sticking to the facts.It makes sense, since your credibility is on the line, and you’re likely speaking to other professionals.But focusing entirely on logic tends to lose the audience, and undermines your ability to persuade, connect, and inspire.
Facts are important, but only to back up your own thoughts and feelings towards an issue. Telling the facts first, and then talking about it, only gives the impression that you know about the subject. To become an expert, experience and your own facts are more important.
Expanding on facts is an easy way to make sure your own voice is supported by the fact. Expanding on facts can be approached from many different directions, here are some examples:
- This fact is true, however….
- This fact became true to me when I….
- Once I made so many mistakes I learned….
- This is a fact to me because…
- We can take advantage of this research by….(then offer a real life example)
Get creative with how you approach your supportive data and try to incorporate personal experiences in relation to the fact.
2. Off the Cuff
The best public speakers prepare.They study their notes, organize the content, design a slide deck, and live and breath their topics.According to a survey Darlene Price of Well Said Inc. conducted, less than 2% of over 5,000 business presenters in Fortune 100 companies actually rehearse and practice their presentation aloud.This results in the audience enduring an unrefined run-through of a PowerPoint presentation.
The more practice, the better. Challenge yourself to make each presentation different than the last. Draw on other presentations to include other material a client might want. Each presentation should be tailored for each organization. By doing so, the client will recognize how well your information resonates with audience members, often leading to a positive result if you have gone the extra mile.
3. Forget That You’re Audience is Composed of Real Humans
Oprah Winfrey or Katie Couric present a problem to viewers by including themselves and their audience through highlighting the struggle of a guest and relating it to their own experience before trying to relate it to the audience. Once the audience also relates to it, or even if they don’t, they are often trying to compare their own situation to that of the guest. It is then when practical solutions are introduced, to give the audience member the ability to capitalize on fixing the problem on their own.
This format builds the reputation of the speaker, and their relationship to the audience. We are all human, and are even though we may not always be able to relate to every problem another may have, we will always try to understand it. It is important for speakers to follow this process, as audience members are waiting to know that a speaker is much like them, before they can trust any solutions a speaker may introduce.
4. Burying the Lead
“Burying the lead” is a news room idiom that basically means beginning the story with details that are of secondary importance to the reader while postponing essential points or facts.
“Let me begin with a bit of background” is the speaking equivalent of that.
Too many otherwise good books start with a prologue that details an event that occurred before the main event.
Crafting a speech that simultaneously puts you in your audience’s shoes while they stand in yours, requires you to do the real work in figuring out your story and theirs.
Interviewing employees and leaders within an organization will give you the right insight to preparing your presentation. Referencing the information from those interviews will connect with audience members directly, and give you automatic credibility.
5. No Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm is described as eager enjoyment or active interest. This is an audiences most desired trait in a public speaker. On the other hand, a low monotone voice, boring delivery, non-descript facial expressions, and general lethargy is universally the most disliked trait.
If you want to avoid losing your audience, turn up your energy level.. emphasize your voice when needed, include the crowd in real life demonstrations, ask the audience questions and use a large amount of humour.
Move naturally, smile like you mean it, and enjoy the moment.
6. Avoiding Eye Contact
Eye contact has been described as the alpha and omega when you’re communicating with someone you want to have a lasting impression on.
There’s a fine line between making soft, natural eye contact, and staring down an audience member, but you also want to make sure you’re not scanning the room like you’re trying to spot a sniper.
A good rule of thumb in public speaking is to maintain eye contact for 2 or 3 seconds, just long enough to say a complete sentence, with a single audience member before moving on to the next.
Find audience that are engaged to your message in different parts of the room. These audience members will help calm you, as they are actively listening to your presentation. Use these audience members as key eye points of contact within the room. It gives the idea that you are looking at everyone, and will keep you from any distractions that may occur during your presentation.
7. Quoting Yourself
This is a new and relatively bizarre habit.
And we have social media to blame.
While some have used a variety of inspirational quotes from the greatest thinkers in human history to cartoon characters, others have decided to quote themselves in a macro image of a sunset or a mountaintop.
Some speakers have started using slides where they quote themselves.
The content of your keynote speech won’t benefit from this practice as it can come across as pretentious and self indulgent.
The #1 Secret to Successful Keynote and Workshop Presentations
Want to know the secret to successful keynotes? Preparation. No matter how mundane it seems at first, the devil is always in the details. Create a scheduled event plan and share it with the entire event staff. Detail the months leading up to the event and how you will promote, as well as a guide for week of promotions and interviews with the media. Use all your resources to promote the speaker and the event. Create a culture of engagement, and have all online and social media resources support that engagement.
To learn more about promoting your keynote speaker, visit the Speakers Bureau of Canada’s Event Planning Tools for tricks of the trade and promotion help.
By Roger Breault, President
& Gordon Breault, Executive Director
Speakers Bureau of Canada
Jan 5th, 2017
4 Ways to Promote Keynote Speaker
Whether you’re looking to attract a crowd for your annual charity event or work on team-building within your organization, one of the largest attractions to your event is the centerfold: the keynote speaker.
Proper promotion can drive a ton of foot traffic to your event and build excitement for attendees waiting for your event. In addition to traditional mailers and direct marketing to your customers, employees, or professional contacts there are plenty of ways you can promote your keynote speaker and increase the success of your event.
1. Prepare Promotional Materials with Your Speaker
First thing to promote keynote speaker for your event is to prepare promotional materials. It’s likely that your speaker already has some type of promotion materials prepared for their keynotes and training programs that can attract guests to register and attend. If you can, ask the keynote speaker to create a short video that asks for the attendance of potential guests and tells them what to expect during the keynote presentation
Make sure the video is short, sweet, and to the point. Outline the core benefits and tell them exactly what they’re going to get from attending your event. Try to tie the video in with the language you’re already using to promote the event (such as the title of the event).
2. Use Your Company or Event Website to Advertise the Event
Your website is the digital handshake guests can access at any time of day. Use it as one of the main resources you use to advertise your event and speak to your potential audience.
Post the video you asked your speaker to record on a main tab on your website. Talk about the session, the public speaker on your website. Include pictures, videos, and any promotion materials your speaker has provided to you. If at all possible, consider writing blog posts or other long form content that can tell your audience more about your speaker and what they will learn during your sessions.
Build authority for your keynote speaker by including any books, articles, or media that allows your potential audience to get associated with the speaker and their material.
3. Leverage Social Media Channels
It’s undeniable: Social media is an essential tool in modern promotion, and one of the best ways to promote keynote speakers for your event.
Try to use predetermined hashtags that align you with the speaker or the event. Work to get all organizations involved and try to create a sense of community around your event. Create groups on Facebook, share flyers on Instagram, and use #hashtags to reach guests on Twitter.
For example, our hashtag #SBCspeaks helps our colleagues attract followers and gain attention from potential guests.
The biggest benefit of using social media to leverage your event? Speakers are social people. More often than not, their social media channels are traffic-heavy communities with people who are truly interested in what your event is all about. Part of the benefit to hiring the best keynote speakers is the notoriety that comes along.
4. Invite the Media to Your Event for Publication
Looking to invite the local news to your event? Before the event, send a short news release to the editors of the newspapers and news channels you’re interested in inviting to the event. Send promotional materials as well as a copy of the program and invite them to publicize the event.
Talk with your keynote speaker to arrival times, leaving times, and interview times. Try to connect them with the association leaders who have expressed interest in publicizing your event. Keep your eye on the news and if you see an opportunity to relate your event to a current event. Think about what you can do that will generate good visuals, photos, and media buzz. Your keynote speaker should be able to connect with your event organizer to explore these avenues further, as well as create a game plan for managing the media when they arrive.
By following these 4 steps your event will gain momentum before, during and after it transpires. Speakers welcome the chance to promote themselves and your event, delegates love the opportunity of personal engagement and most of all, you are the one who can take credit for the success of the event. Please do keep in mind that it takes some time to build all 4 steps working in the same direction and off one another, but once it does, the event will not only be a success, but the event itself will gain long term popularity with its own sense of identity.
By Roger Breault, President
& Gordon Breault, Executive Director
Speakers Bureau of Canada
Jan 12th, 2017
4 Vital Tactics that Improve Public Speaking
No matter who you are, or what you do for a living, you’re going to make mistakes. It’s part of human nature! Luckily, we’re also very adaptable. Which means even if you forget your lines during a keynote presentation, you can recover and become a better keynote speaker than before.
In this guide, we’re going to highlight 4 Vital Public Speaking Tactics that are as overlooked as they are valuable.
1. The 3P’s – Preparation, Practice and Perfection
The actor Sir Anthony Hopkins is said to read a script 200 times before the cameras start rolling.
How often do you practice your lines?
Despite how often you may hear this, it’s the #1 preparation most speakers fail to do. Think about it: If you’ve mastered your speech, it’s highly unlikely that even the worst pre-stage jitters could throw you off your game.
- Preparation is what you do before any speaking engagement.
Craft your speech. Overcome your anxieties and perfect it. Share it with your colleagues, family members, or even the mirror. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned pro, it’s important to take your time with preparation.
- Practice is how you perfect your speech and tone.
You may have great information, but if you’re presenting it poorly- no one is going to listen. The more you practice your speech in the mirror or in front of a friend, the more familiar you become. This allows you the room to put a personal twist to your speech and helps you connect with audience members.
- Perfection occurs when you can segment your original speech.
Good speakers will have a speech. Great speakers will have a foundation they can segment for a specific group. Once you’ve perfected your speech, it’s time to segment the original presentation. When an organization requests your presentation, they are looking for a public speaker than can address their specific needs. The more you’ve segmented and analyzed your speech, the better. Not only can you create a more targeted experience for your client, you can create a more personalized bridge of communication to your audience.
Your original masterpiece has the potential to become 3 masterpieces (or more, get creative).
2. Positive Energy is Contagious
This is your speech. You should present yourself as being elated, excited, and able to share your soul with the audience. After all, your audience is judging the merits of your speech by your behaviour. If you cannot get excited about your speech, why should they?
Any great presenter must deliver presentations that entertain the audience.
No matter what the topic. Whether it is a keynote, workshop, or interactive training session: the audience should be captivated by what you have to say. By you showing your excitement for the session, the audience members will pick up on that energy.
Positivity IS contagious.
Even a simple smile on the crosswalk can brighten a person’s day. Human beings feed off of one another’s energy and that’s exactly why a positive attitude goes a long way. As speakers, we must be able to interact through (and with) this energy in order to create an excitement around the topic. New and empowering information can electrify a crowd and actively involve the many attendees at your session.
In the majority of cases, the speaker with the most ‘energy’ was the star of the presentation. This ‘energy’ directly correlates to positivity. When you’re excited, warm, and welcoming about your topic: Other people are going to feel it.
However, you must find the perfect balance of sharing your positive energy along with addressing desired learning objectives of your presentation or the event itself. Having too much energy can sometimes come off as fake. By finding the perfect balance of energy and genuineness, audience members will connect with you, as they will be able to relate to you.
(Find out new ways to boost your daily energy through small daily steps by forming new habits.)
3. Connecting With Audiences!
You do not need to become best friends with your audience, but you should be united with them through a common goal. Usually, this goal is your speech.
Audience members have traveled from far and wide to hear you. They would not have done so if they had any doubts in your character or your subject matter. From how you prepare for the presentation, to what you wear when you are presenting, remember that you are representing your own personal brand. That brand must connect with the audience on every level.
That connection will help grow your brand, hence getting you more engagements in the future.
Always rigorously prepare with the event coordinator while planning your speech on the specific needs of the organization, the time and day of your presentation, the composition of the audience, if there will be special guests attending the event or if any attendees will be under the age of 18.
Doing so can show your willingness to find common ground with your prospective audience, and it can make the difference for how you prepare or deliver your presentation.
To learn more about professional standards of public speaking and how to prepare for a presentation, check out the Event Planning Tools section in the Speakers Bureau of Canada’s website.
4. Controlled Breathing Techniques
Although fidgeting may be a natural physiological response for you whenever you are speaking, it means something else entirely for your audience.
Fidgeting is part of any nervous interactions that humans face. Fidgeting is associated with a total lack of confidence. It can create a distraction that interferes with your presentation content, creating a disconnection between you and the audience members. Don’t be a scarecrow, but try to limit the amount of time you spend twiddling your thumbs.
We all get nervous, but being able to handle that nervousness will help you on your path to becoming a great speaker.
Using a controlled breathing technique to slow your heart rate can have a mass effect on your thought process and delivery style of your presentation. If you feel your heart rate start to rise, breathe in through your nose for 3 long seconds and exhale for 3 of the same.
The ability to control your speech tone and voice speed can make or break your presentation. It is essential to remember that you are giving speeches, not selling items at auction. By controlling your heart rate through mastering your breath before and throughout your presentation, you will be able to set your mind, body and energy into the right zone.
Speak slowly and concisely. Your audience will thank you.
In Conclusion
Remember, you are your own worst enemy, but you can also be your own hero. Listen to your heart and practice your lines. Most importantly: Never forget the little things. Like most aspects of life, it’s the little things that make a big difference.
By Gordon Breault,
Executive Director, Speakers Bureau of Canada
Jan 5th, 2017
Wade Sorochan is a well-known radio personality in Edmonton and is recognized as one of the best mental health experts in Alberta. Wade Sorochan was the first broadcaster to use music to enhance a radio talk show and has interviewed numerous celebrities, politicians and everyday people for over 35 years.
Wade Sorochan is recently divorced and is now living by himself. In an effort to combat the loneliness he turned to social media. However, Wade found that social media actually increased his symptoms of anxiety and depression. He says, “Social media makes him feel less accepted” as a result of all the ideals he is constantly bombarded with. Seeing post on Facebook of his peers in the perfect light and comparing them to himself made Wade Sorochan feel worse about himself and his situation.
This led Wade to write his first book Unsocial Media: Virtual World Causing Real World Anxiety. The self-published book explores the emotions attached to social media and emphasizes that only real world communication can satisfy your emotional and social needs.
You can learn more about booking Wade Sorochan for your next event at the Speakers Bureau of Canada.
Written By Gordon Breault,
Executive Director,
Speakers Bureau of Canada
Dec 22nd, 2016