I'm an entrepreneur, knowledge seeker, student of life, foodie, husband, dog owner and other labels we usually like to use to describe each other. In my life pursuit I'm a seeker of knowledge, spirituality and consciousness. I'm interested in ways people manifest their identities through activities and careers. I'm fascinated by concepts like "meaning of life", "who am I" and "why am I here". I'm determined to live the best possible life and manifest my creative spirit through business ventures and other creative pursuits. My main goal is to not have any regrets at the end of my life.

"Alexis is the Lead Steward of Dovetail, a global community on a mission to advance female entrepreneurship through generosity, collaboration, education, and unforgettable shared experiences. Prior to launching Dovetail, Alexis worked around the world an entrepreneur, a facilitator, educator, and adventure travel guide. "

Mark Evans is the principal with ME Consulting, which helps fast-growing B2B technology companies attract more high-quality leads and sales through customer engagement and brand awareness. Mark offers a CMO-for-Hire service for companies looking for marketing leadership to operate, build or lead marketing teams. He also helps companies with messaging, brand positioning, and strategic storytelling, and marketing/communication plans, Mark recently published Marketing Spark, a book that provides entrepreneurs with guidance on how to embrace the power of story-driven marketing.

Founder of Cold Star Technologies, helping companies with tactical operations excellence as they scale from 12-500 people. Focus is primarily on process engineering. Past co-founder of The Closing Engine, a third party high ticket sales-as-a-service business. Jason was a factory manager at 25 and at 26 had 150 people reporting to him. Experience also includes many years as a sales trainer, four years as credit manager at a national electrical wholesaler responsible for collecting $2 million a month in receivables, and as a turnaround consultant. He has also been a senior executive at an Inc. Top 1000 franchise business. There is not much he hasn't seen in the business world.

Experienced leader with a demonstrated history of working in the education management, healthcare, and military industries. Skilled in Leadership Training, Team Building, Executive Coaching, Strategic Planning, Corporate Culture, Personality Assessment, and Crisis Intervention, Dr. Agliata uses assessment, public speaking, teaching strategies, and a focus on organizational relationships to strengthen leaders, build effective teams and improve corporate cultures by improving interpersonal skills and developing meaningful connections that result in peak performances inside and outside the workplace. Strong education professional with a Board Certification focused in Executive Life Coaching from The Institute for Life Coaching, as well as a Certificate in Advanced Educational Leadership from Harvard University.

"Fluent in Russia, Portuguese and English, Ilya Brotzky is the CEO and founder of VanHack. After graduating from Cornell University with a Degree in Applied Economics and Management, Ilya spent 4 years working in the Brazilian startup scene where he joined the country's most successful early stage accelerator. "

"Colin Morgan is a former professional golfer who now is The Host of the popular podcast, The Daily Grind, where he interviews successful and interesting people 5 days a week. Colin is also part owner of The Plan2Profit Group, where they help entrepreneurs grow their businesses through creating strategic business plans. Colin’s main obsession is human growth and development and works tirelessly to continue to seek progression and clarity every day. "

Michael Kobrin is the founder and president of The Kobrin Group, a boutique creative leadership firm. As a facilitator, coach and keynote speaker, he connects the worlds of creativity, leadership and strategy to drive organizational change. Drawing on his diverse experience across multiple industries and business functions, Michael’s mission is to build more inspiring, creative and human workplaces. As a CPA, Certified Executive Coach, and professional photographer, he enjoys challenging traditional ways of thinking, and offers a unique perspective on creativity and innovation, leadership, and business transformation. Prior to establishing The Kobrin Group, Michael spent several years working for OMERS and Oxford Properties in a variety of senior risk, finance, and learning and development roles. His global work experience also includes positions at EY and Deloitte.

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Cherry Rose Tan is a Certified Transformative Coach known as the ""Founder Whisperer."" She helps founders create a healthy and indestructible relationship with their emotions. Once an award-winning educator, she has taught Canada’s billionaire families. A fifth-generation entrepreneur, Cherry Rose has built companies alongside her brother for 14 years. It led to the creation of Paycase Financial, Canada's first fully-compliant crypto exchange with TMX and BMO. She acts as an early investor. Cherry Rose is a mental health authority in the tech space, speaking regularly at conferences. She has been featured by CBC, The Globe and Mail, and Inc. She leads For Founders by Founders, a platform where founders and investors pledge their mental health stories.

Award winning speaker featured on ABC Nightline for his Real Estate investing and TEDx for his Performance Coaching, Jarrod Haning specializes in a Nobel Nominated process that allows you to access different parts of your brain on demand to level up your business.

Kevin leads OCAD U CO, a new venture by OCAD University. OCAD U CO helps senior leaders and their teams build the skills they need to transform their organizations and drive innovation. For over a decade, Kevin has been helping large organizations develop radical customer-centricity through design-led innovation. He’s gone end-to-end on breakthrough innovation projects: from identifying new and emerging opportunities, to standing up MVP launches with tens of thousands of users. Kevin has worked with clients like Oxford Properties, Bell Canada, BMO, City of Toronto, RBC, and others. Prior to leading OCAD U CO, Kevin led large-scale design-led innovation programs for some of Canada’s largest organizations at Doblin, the human-centred innovation consultancy at Deloitte. Kevin is a proud OCAD U alum, with a Master of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation.

As an authority on brave leadership, Carol has been educating and entertaining international audiences for a decade. She holds a BFA in Theatre Performance, an MA in Communication, and two postgraduate certificates in coaching and mentoring. As the creator of ‘Women Living BIG,’ she’s worked with thousands of women to get them out of their comfort zone and into their BIG zone; whether that’s skydiving, getting a promotion, or achieving what they never thought possible. (and as someone who’s lived in Ashrams in India and vans in New Zealand, had dreadlocks in Thailand and shaved her head for breast cancer - even bungee jumped in her birthday suit - Carol certainly walks her talk!) She is a contributing author to 3 best-selling published books, and has been featured in numerous magazines, podcasts, and appeared as a returning guest expert on Rogers TV. Having lived and worked in 16 countries, traveled through an additional 25, and recently back from a ""Remote Year' - where she lived and worked and hosted events in a new country monthly for the course of a year - she brings a global perspective on people and empowerment to all she does. When Carol is not bringing women to learn to surf In South America or climb Kilimanjaro in Africa, you can find her volunteering as a bereavement facilitator, training for her next triathlon, or practicing her serious carpool karaoke game.

Rivers Corbett, MBA, is a serial entrepreneur, TedX speaker, entrepreneur in residence, video author of 13 Fears of Entrepreneurs, host of the Startup Canada Podcast and founder of The ScaleUp Garage and The Chef Group. He has received numerous business awards including: Business Person of the Year and most recently the StartUP Canada Champion Award. Rivers has also landed on Canada's Hottest Start-ups List and Canada's Fastest Growing Companies list through Profit magazine and he is recognized as one of Canada’s 10 RockStar mentors in the country. These days is also proudly fulfilling his role as Entrepreneur in Residence with Opportunities New Brunswick where he continues to significantly move the needle on the spirit and actions of entrepreneurship throughout the province. In 2018, Rivers founded HeadSpaceFE, a strong community of Global Entrepreneurs, all sharing lessons from their journey and helping each other succeed

" Lloyed is the co-founder of Boast.AI which helps businesses automate the complicated process of claiming R&D incentives from the government. At Boast, Lloyed is responsible for growth, go-to-market and new product strategy. Lloyed is also the cofounder of Traction which brings together founders and leaders from the world's fastest growing companies to share best practices on business growth. "

Catherine Tanaka is a fitness, nutrition and accountability coach, and the host and producer of The Body Project Podcast. Her passion for fitness and helping come from a deep desire to serve others and sharing how fitness was a means to heal her own life challenges. Catherine has been a trainer since 1999 and uses fitness as a platform to teach self-care, and how fitness is the access point to optimizing all aspects of your life.

Sam is the Founder and Host of the Freedom Lifestyle Podcast series and online community of freedom seekers who want to live and work on their own terms. She's also the Co Author of The #LDR Activity Book which is currently available on Kickstarter and in January she'll take her freedom to new heights as a digital nomad working remotely from South America for the first half of 2019!

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Mo Dezyanian is a seasoned marketer, who has spent the past decade designing and executing successful programs for national and international brands. In 2015 he established Empathy Inc. a management and media consultancy to help brands navigate the media landscape with meaningful business intelligence. During his career, Mo has provided insights and built campaigns for brands such as Popeyes, BMO, Mattel, Oxfam Canada, Royal Conservatory of Music and many more. He has appeared in notable publications such as the Globe and Mail and been a guest lecturer and speaker for McMaster.