Joining us today is Daneal Charney, Fractional VP of People for high-growth technology firms, who loves playing a key role in the success of early and mid-stage technology companies.

Daneal is a successful entrepreneurial HR leader with a reputation for understanding the business, supporting business transformations, providing creative solutions to key people issues and coaching founders and executive teams.

Most recognized for her relentless pursuit of optimizing individual and team performance over the past 15 years, she has had the opportunity to hone her expertise in talent acquisition, creating delightful employee experiences, inspiring teams to think bigger, and bottom-line orientation, ultimately creating great places to work.

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Adam Gellert is a serial entrepreneur on a mission to reshape recruitment and change the candidate experience. Since 2002, he has been instrumental in building teams both at the corporate and recruitment agency levels. His latest venture, HiredHippo, is a hiring marketplace that connects top employers and candidates based on mutual interest, saying goodbye to traditional resumes in the process and helping companies recruit their most passionate teammates.

In addition to HiredHippo, Adam has founded the Linkus Group and is a co-founder of The Help List and DisruptHR. Adam is also an active member of Toronto’s tech and recruitment community and has been named the Peak's 2023 Emerging Leader, placing him among a community of bold, young Canadian leaders who are shaping the course of their industry.

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Anita Ramdas helps businesses simplify their storage and logistics as Founder & CEO at Shufflespace, a simple and effortless on-demand storage solution service for businesses in Toronto. Customers can simply schedule a pickup on the Shufflespace platform to have their team retrieve any assets that need to be stored. Those assets then get inspected, photographed, catalogued, and added to the customer's online account where they can be scheduled at any time to be delivered to a specified address.

Anita has accumulated over 10 years of international experience in startups and the telecom industry, with work experience on 4 continents and talks about her entrepreneurial journey.

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Hayden Cole, Account Executive at Dialogue, loves to engage with Candian HR leaders about virtual care and how it raises the bar in promoting employees' mental and physical health. Dialogue is a telemedicine pioneer partnering with leading organizations to enable healthy and happy workplaces. Their mission is to improve well-being by using technology to deliver excellent care.

Through Dialogue’s healthcare app, clients connect to primary care, mental wellness, and EAPs within one integrated services platform. Employees can access support during work hours and life outside the office, all through their phones, allowing them to be present and productive. Hayden tells our listeners about his career journey and what sparked his interest in virtual healthcare.

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Since joining Plum in December 2021, award-winning sales leader and Chief Revenue Officer Jason Putnam has helped drive substantial growth in the company’s pipeline and client base, which under his guidance, jumped 20 percent in six short months. Prior to Plum, Jason served as Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Enterprise Business Unit of PandoLogic, where he increased the company’s new business pipeline by 6X.

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Imagine transforming a high school business plan into a thriving Canadian business! That is exactly what entrepreneur Ameen Fadel, Co-Founder & President at Cedar Valley Selections, did. Starting as a school project when Ameen was only 16 years old, Cedar Valley envisions a better future for Canadian eaters—blending flavourful and family-focused foods with local ingredients, handiwork, and a touch of fun in every bite. Today, Cedar Valley pita chips and salad dressings are enjoyed by families across Canada. A reminder that meals can be memories, too.

Working closely with his mom and co-founder Surria, Ameen keeps the ship sailing in the right direction by managing manufacturing, sales, branding, marketing, and customer experience. He shares his amazing journey and passion for family-friendly foods that taste and feel better.

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Dipesh Mistry is a builder, operator, executive, and advisor. His sweet spot is shaping strategy & culture for companies that are trying to find product market fit and those that are scaling, specifically in climate. Currently, Dipesh is building toward a world with healthier food, more resilient farms, and a happier planet, through regenerative agriculture at Vayda as its Chief Operating Officer.

Vayda is a farming company working to advance Regenerative Agriculture through farm-based services and market-building. They develop regenerative practices for resiliency, efficiency, profitability, and productivity in our farming and food systems in order to improve both farmer livelihoods and the surrounding economy.

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With over 13 years of experience in strategy, talent management, leadership development, change management and employee engagement our guest, Alex Meers, Director of Employer Branding and Culture at Blu Ivy, has been enabling organizations to grow and succeed through their culture and people practices to attract top talent.

He works with executive leaders to develop best-in-class employment brand and employee experiences including some of North America's largest brands helping them build cultures where people love what they do, know how to be successful and strive for excellence.

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Today we welcome experienced SaaS-tech business leader Sam Daviau, Co-founder of UpBeing, a remote-first wellness start-up. Sam tells us the origin story & inspiration behind UpBeing's desktop-friendly web application that seeks to help you improve your mental well-being. By using the UpBeing App regularly, users can expect to gain a deeper understanding into the hidden patterns in their life that bring them up and down.

He shares his passion for building resilient communities, technology that changes the world for the better and improving access to mental health support.

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As Chief People Officer, Rachel Stephenson is responsible for all aspects of Northland Power’s Human Resources strategy, including talent management, leadership development, compensation and benefits, as well as leading all human resources functions globally. She works closely with the Executive team to ensure Northland continues to build a culture that attracts, retains and develops high performance talent to deliver on its global growth objectives.

Rachel brings to Northland more than 15 years of leadership in Human Resources, including extensive experience leading human resources strategies and functions for national and global organizations across multiple sectors, technologies and geographies. Rachel shares her impressive career journey and discusses the importance of courageous leadership.

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