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Caleb Parker is an American entrepreneur in London, and Founder of Bold (acquired by Newable/NewFlex in 2019).

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Julie Kerr is the Executive Director of Hull Services. She has a passion for providing leadership to high-performing teams and programs within complex settings, such as health care and social services. She believes well-being happens within the context of meaningful relationships and activity and she works to create a community that welcomes all to use their unique gifts to create an inclusive, safe, healthy, and connected society where people thrive.

Alex Brown is a Personal Development Speaker, Writer, and Rapper. His aim is to motivate and inspire others to set and achieve their goals, become the best version of themselves, and create the life that they truly deserve and desire.

Dr. Shannon Polk, Esq. is the executive director of The Witness Foundation.  She received her DMin at AGTS at Evangel University, her JD at Western Michigan University, and her BA at Michigan State University. Her work focuses on eradicating racial and gender bias in the workplace, leadership training for women and people of color, and promoting social and economic justice for disadvantaged populations. Most recently, she co-authored an essay included in Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience published by Harvard Business Review Press.  She currently serves as the President of the Junior League of Flint in addition to other volunteer activities. She lives in Michigan with her husband and daughter.

"What if..." is the question that keeps Lindsay Harle-Kadatz up at night. It's the question behind her curiosity and what inspires her to support overwhelmed business leaders in shaving years off their business stress through brand and content strategy. As the owner of The Write Harle and Quirky Lindsay Harle, she helps these overwhelmed leaders become overjoyed in using their own original voice to attract, connect, and convert raving fans into raving clients. When not working with small business brands, she is a vocal mental health advocate creating connection through humour. She even wrote a book about it called Depression Constipation: How Pooping Saved My Sanity…and Other Stories, a real-life tale of understanding depression in terms of constipation, humour, and mental prune juice.

A speaker on a number of entrepreneurial topics, including mental health and the creative brain, growing your readers with branded content, and gaining brand trust through consistency, Lindsay leaves value through tangible takeaways while connecting with a bit of humour here and a well timed pun there. This is what saw her receive the 2019 Women of Inspiration – Influencer award, through the Universal Women's Network.

With everything, Lindsay continues to focus on the foundation for her true love: connection through stories. And, it's what she'll continue to use to support businesses connect with their communities!

Lindsay Harle-Kadatz

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Tricia Brouk is an international award-winning director. She founded The Big Talk Academy and was the executive producer of TEDxLincolnSquare. She curates the Speaker Salon in NYC, hosts The Big Talk an award-winning podcast, and wrote her book, The Influential Voice: Saying

What You Mean For Lasting Legacy was the #1 pre-order new release on Amazon

Recent Awards:

2021

• The Influential Voice: Saying What You Mean for Lasting

• Legacy- #1 pre-order New Release on  Amazon

• Right Livelihood A Journey to Here won Best Short Documentary

• Los Angeles Movie Awards

• Right Livelihood A Journey to Here won Official Selection

• Manhattan Movie Awards

• Named Empowered Woman of the Year by The International

• Association of Top Professionals

New Book- The Influential Voice: Saying What You Mean for Lasting Legacy

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Kaylor is the founder of the Mental Wealth Podcast and Mental Wealth Coach. He is deeply passionate about helping others live their best life and develop unshakeable self-worth. Kaylor has overcome many mental health challenges to be in a beautiful place to be equipped to help others. He is an entrepreneur that started in the fitness industry, eventually building and running a private gym for 5 years. He has helped hundreds of clients with their physical and mental health. More recently, in the last 3 years, he has focused on helping people achieve Mental Wealth, which means achieving their highest potential.

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Before Jody started her own practice and speaking across the country, she worked at the Alberta Children’s Hospital on the inpatient and day treatment units where she helped families with some of the difficult stories. They taught her the most important lesson: we are wired to do hard things. We can handle those hard things so much easier when we remember this: we are wired for connection.

This all started when Jody received her Bachelor of Arts with Distinction from the University of Alberta. She completed a year-long internship with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police during that time and worked alongside families struggling with chronic illness at the Ronald McDonald House. She received her Master’s degree in Psychology at the University of Regina and completed her PhD there as well before completing her residency in Nova Scotia.

Her first book, Kids These Days: A Game Plan for (Re)Connecting with those we Teach, Lead & Love, came out in 2019 and sold 20,000 copies in just three months. It is now on Amazon’s Best Sellers List.

Executive Director at Brown Bagging for Calgary’s Kids

Founder of Tanya K Leadership Consulting

Tanya is an authentic and collaborative leader who has built her life's work around her education, experience, purpose, and passion for empowering people, organizations, and communities to be the best they can be so they can create good in the world!

In her capacity as Executive Director of Brown Bagging for Calgary’s Kids (BB4CK), Tanya feels privileged to be part of a team that is inspiring a city of people to take meaningful action, by feeding and caring for kids who would otherwise go hungry.

She has proudly led this successful and impactful organization through many opportunities, struggles, and organizational pivots for the past ten years with a vision that communities ensure no kids go hungry. As an influential community leader, across Alberta and Canada, she knows what it takes to practice the tactical and the caring side of leadership.

When she's not focusing on BB4CK, Tanya has a passion to help leaders have the courage to be more authentic and human-centered in their practice of leadership. The leadership paradigm is shifting to this way of leading. She guides leaders to learn more about how to listen to themselves, to know their purpose, and how to care for others so that they can be impactful in life and leadership. She refers to this as a “people-centered leadership” practice. This practice allows people to lead with authentic confidence to be their best selves in the effect they want to have and creates an opportunity to be better together!

Tanya is also a mom of 4 young adults and a spouse to a retired Tactical Police Officer. She can often be found at the little bunkie cabin they built, active in the outdoors, giving back to the people and things that mean the most, and trying to live life to the fullest!

Steve Osmond loves helping people succeed! His greatest feeling of accomplishment comes when he helps individuals and organizations overcome obstacles. He is the type that always sees possibilities and consistently rejects cynicism and hopelessness.

Steve is at his best when he’s having fun. He is fuelled by fun, adventure, and belonging. He firmly believes that making the right decisions, even in difficult times, will win the day and propel businesses and business leaders into their preferred future.