Caleb Parker is an American entrepreneur in London, and Founder of Bold (acquired by Newable/NewFlex in 2019).
He believes in "challenging the status quo" and is a champion for entrepreneurial and innovative thinking.
Caleb has served as founder, Board member, advisor, investor and consultant to numerous startups and small businesses, and has a keen focus on innovation and technology, with interests in the MICE market, Space-as-a-Service, and the future of work.
Caleb has been a guest lecturer, speaker, and moderator for topics such as entrepreneurship, the sharing economy, the future of work and commercial real estate at academic institutions and large corporations. He regularly takes the stage at numerous trade conferences as keynote speaker, MC, host or facilitator.
Some of his past engagements:
Georgetown University
London School of Economics
Oxford University
Sheffield University
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC)
CBRE
Colliers
London Coworking Conference
Global Coworking Unconference (GCUC UK)
Place Northwest
Meeting Planners International (MPI) Beligium
Event Tech Live
Caleb is the former CEO of MeetingRooms.com (2013-2016), the world's largest online marketplace (at the time of his exit) to search, book and pay instantly for meeting rooms in over 130 countries. Prior to that role, Caleb co-founded a technology startup in 2012 to create the first global distribution system for on-demand office & meeting space.
Earlier in his career, Caleb was named one of Savannah, Georgia's “40 under 40” business leaders" in 2006 after launching two successful small businesses in the city's booming hospitality industry. A year later he moved to Washington, DC to join the The Regus Group DC management team. In 2009, Caleb co-founded a flexible workspace consulting firm where he brokered flexible workspace and advised businesses on agile working strategies.
Caleb is one of the first licensed commercial real estate agents to speak on the new economy, mobile working trends and the rise of flexible workspace, and has been quoted in numerous publications.
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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!
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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
www.theinfluentialvoicebook.com
Social Media:
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https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBigTalkwithTriciaBrouk
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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Over the past 15 years, Dr. Jody Carrington has assessed, treated, educated, and empowered some of our most vulnerable and precious souls on the planet. She is a child psychologist by trade, but Jody rarely treats kids. The answer lies, she believes, in the people who hold them. Especially when kids have experienced trauma, that’s when they need big people the most. Some of her favorites include educators, parents, first responders, and foster parents. Jody has shifted the way they think and feel about the holy work that they do.
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.
Mr. Stacey Petersen has gained national recognition for his leadership in the addictions sector and the homeless serving sector as the Executive Director of Fresh Start Recovery Centre for the past 17 years and was the President and CEO of Simon House Recovery Centre where he worked for 9 years prior to that. Mr. Petersen helped steward Fresh Start to restructure its entire operating and funding model both securing multi-year funders as well as increasing the agencies profile in the community and addictions sector in Calgary and Canada. Under Mr. Petersen’s stewardship, Fresh Start has been named one of the top three treatment agencies in Canada by the Fraser Institute 2006-2012 and the number one treatment facility in all of Canada in 2010, 2013, and 2014 as well as receiving the prestigious Peter F Drucker Award for Non-profit management in 2014 and the overall Donner Award for Excellence in Social Services. Charity intelligence Canada also chose Fresh Start as a Canadian Top Agency from 2007-2020. Mr. Petersen has led the agency to broker the City of Calgary’s very first Good Neighbour Agreement with the communities of Greenview, Thorncliff, and Highland Park and oversaw the completion of their purpose-built 50-bed treatment facility. The new facility opened in June of 2012. In 2012 Fresh Start received a Calgary Award for Advocacy. In 2020 Fresh Start acquired a 23-bed co-ed treatment center in Lethbridge Alberta.
Mr. Petersen is a Registered Social Worker with the Alberta College of Social Workers and has been involved in the field for more than 33 years and is a person in long-term recovery with as many years clean and sober. In 2011, Mr. Petersen was the recipient of the McKillop Award honoring individuals working in human services who demonstrate a personal commitment to improving the social fabric of Calgary and he had previously been chosen as one of Calgary's top "40 under 40" in 2001 for leadership, earning this distinction while President and CEO of Simon House. During nine years at that agency, he helped lead the agency to receive several national recognitions and awards.
He has worked in both the non-profit and government sectors, bringing with him such experience as staff management, fundraising, public speaking, public relations, group facilitation, outcomes measurement, accounting, and overall agency structuring.
Mr. Petersen has served four terms on the United Way’s Agency Advisory committee, three terms as Chair of the Calgary Addiction Sector served on the Addiction Initiative Steering committee for the Norlien Foundation(Palix), and Co-Chaired of the Services Sub-Committee of the Calgary Committee to End Homelessness (10-year plan). Stacey has done two TED X talks for Alta Link where he spoke on Innovation and Change. Mr. Petersen served on the National Recovery Advisory Committee and serves on the Canadian Research Initiative for Substance Misuse. In late 2019, Mr. Petersen was appointed to the Alberta Mental Health and Addiction Advisory Council. Mr. Petersen serves on three different boards of directors - the Alberta Addiction Service Providers, Recovery Access Alberta, and the Bruce Oake Recovery Centre in Winnipeg Manitoba.
Ian has over four decades of experience in inspiring, networking, and provoking individuals and organizations to think bigger. His ability to ask difficult questions, stir vision, impart faith and create leadership development processes are the hallmarks of his coaching style.
He has proven his ability to connect resources with opportunities by developing sustainable organizations. In addition, he has traveled globally engaging communities of faith, NGOs, organizations, and businesses to become solution orientated in their areas of influence.
Abe Brown, MBA, CMCT, CPHSA is known as the Coach’s Coach and is an Entrepreneur, Professional Speaker, International Best-Selling Author, and High-Performance Leadership Coach. He is also the Founder of the Flourishing Life Coaching Program and has trained and certified thousands of Life & Executive Coaches over the last decade. Along with being passionate about mental health, Abe is the CEO of Wellness Innovate Corporation, which brings holistic and data-driven solutions for resilience, well-being, and mental health into the workplace.
Abe has been a professional speaker for over two decades, generated millions of dollars in speaking fees, and has spoken professionally in 4 continents and over 20 countries around the world, from audiences of two people to tens of thousands. Abe Brown positively impacts people all over the world.
Graham Sherman is a self-professed “high-level geek” who met his business’ Co-founder while working throughout Afghanistan on contracts for the Canadian and US governments and military forces installing encrypted, tactical communication networks. While overseas, they rolled around Afghanistan in armored vehicles, “geeking out” in the world of satellite communications. But when back home in Calgary, they aimed their obsessive, high-level thinking at perfecting batches of craft beer brewed out of Graham’s backyard Tool Shed.
Now sold in over 1000 locations throughout Canada, Tool Shed Brewing Company has a beautiful 22,000 square foot brewing headquarters in Calgary.
When Graham’s NOT at the brewery he can be found speaking across the country delivering keynotes on entrepreneurial passion, disruptive marketing, and promoting local agriculture!
Graham has been nominated as Canadian Entrepreneur of the year, was named as Calgary's 2016 “Top 40 Under 40” recognition from Avenue magazine, and is a recipient of the 2018 business leaders in Calgary award. In 2020 Graham received the tremendous honour of being selected as one of Canada's 250 emerging leaders to embark on the Governor-General of Canada's leadership convention.
This Mental Health Week, our focus on Mental Health goes beyond just your workplace and the individual and impacts families. It’s time to put the HUMAN back in work.
Leora Hornstein is a passionate health and wellness professional focused on cultivating individual and
organizational well-being. Leora is a certified Occupational Health Nurse and has worked in various
industries but predominantly in Oil and Gas where she has worked for over 15 years. She is also a fitness
and yoga instructor and relies on physical activity to counter the challenges of her busy life! In moments
between working full time and being a mom of three active boys, you can find Leora on a spin bike, on a
walk in nature, or in the kitchen cooking up nutritious food. Leora most enjoys the diversity of her role,
though her current scope of practice is centered around mental health and total wellness protection and
promotion. Presently, she is most grateful for being in love with life and recognizing this and waking up
each day feeling a sense of honour in fulfilling her life’s purpose by doing work that serves others. Leora
knows there is always something good to be found - you just need to look for it and hopes to nurture
this sentiment in others.
Jason Hancock is the Director of the National Hope Movement, and a mental health advocate with a passion to help others find their place in the world. He also serves as an Employment Counsellor.
Jason Hancock
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Jeff works with leaders to build high-performing teams.
Having spent many of his earlier years leading teams and helping to build world-class addiction treatment programs, he’s developed a skill set and approach to change that is grounded in the human experience and a deep understanding of power and motivation.
Today, Jeff works with a wide range of leaders (and their teams) on a single mission ~ to help build world-class, human-centred organizations that create the kind of impact that we usually only dream about."
The Ally Co. - https://www.theallyco.world/
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-ally-co-team
Zach Mercurio, Ph.D.
Author, “The Invisible Leader”
Purposeful Leadership, Meaningful Work, & Positive Organizations Researcher
Zach is an author, researcher, and consultant specializing in purposeful leadership, meaningful work, mattering, and positive organizational development.
He wrote "The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose" to provide individuals, leaders, and organizations with the tools to activate their purpose and create cultures where everyone matters. It was praised by Arianna Huffington as "a compelling book filled with powerful stories, cutting-edge research, and practical tools that show us how to lead with purpose."
In his work with over 100 global companies, non-profits, schools, and universities around the world, Zach helps forge purposeful leaders and provides practical tools to cultivate positive organizational and team cultures that enable more meaning, motivation, and well-being.
Some of his clients and partners have included The University of Notre Dame, Hewlett-Packard, The National Park Service, The Food and Drug Administration, The Ghirardelli Chocolate Company, Crocs, Broadcom, and The Alzheimer's Association.
Zach earned his Ph.D. in Organizational Learning, Performance, and Change from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado where he serves as an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Psychology's Center for Meaning and Purpose and as an Instructor in the School of Education.
His research on meaningful work has been awarded by The Association for Talent Development, The Academy of Management, and The Academy of Human Resource Development.
Zach also writes regularly on his blog and newsletter, and his thoughts on purposeful leadership, mattering, and meaningful work have been featured internationally in media outlets such as Forbes, Inc. Magazine, The Denver Post, Psychology Today, and The Huffington Post. He is also a regular guest on a wide range of leadership and organization development podcasts.
Zach lives with his wife, two young sons, and adopted dog in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Website: www.zachmercurio.com
Twitter: @ZachMercurio
Instagram: ZachMercurio
Facebook: @ZMercurio
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/zachmercurio
Riley Ohler is a design-based education specialist with an incredibly diverse background. Completing his Master's of Education in 2020, Riley focuses his time on helping others, building strong organizations through human-centered design practices, and building resilient communities. Following the death of his son Colin in 2018, Riley has worked to improve the mental health of the community of grieving parents in Calgary. As a Co-founder of the group Dad's In Grief, he has helped provide Calgary with a much-needed outlet for Dad's experiencing the loss of a child between 0-18. Riley has also spearheaded an informational film for recently bereaved parents, giving parents a place to turn to in those early stages of loss. This project is expected to be released early this year through the Alberta Children's Hospital Grief support program. Riley's main message is always focused on his three main values: Love-Connection-Community.
Karen Young (she/her) is President and CEO of United Way of Calgary and Area, a visionary leader who knows the power of partnership and collaboration to achieve a common purpose. She is driven by her belief that all Calgarians have the right to a good quality of life. Under her leadership, UWCA has raised more than $370 million for the local Calgary community, delivering a profound impact to people from all walks of life. Follow Karen on Twitter @KarenYoungYYC.