Paul Mercer inspires others to discover how action can create self-belief, so they can live a life of independence and happiness. At Portable Power Technology he inspires and facilitates that independence with efficiency - off grid access, with monitoring where required, to power for multiple uses. From film sets, pandemic-response and emergency vehicles, to glamping, mobile services, and sump-pumps the potential is remarkable. Overcoming personal and business challenges Paul inspires other entrepreneurs to succeed.

Kavita Ganesan immersed herself in the academic side of AI and then, through assisting clients, identified a core problem. The understanding and vision at the leadership and technical levels, of both what AI is and what it does, can be very different. It can cause potentially catastrophic failure of projects. So she created the perfect bridge, with aids customized for everyone.

Bryan Clayton turned a teenage chore into a successful business and then into a second. GreenPal enables consumers to “press a button for lawn care and move on”. Building both companies to multiple eight-figures without external funding, Bryan’s experience demonstrates that the role of a successful founder is that of capital allocator and consistently focusing in the right places. Delight the customer, fix what needs it, and become a competent generalist - place talented people in every role and know enough to be able to speak effectively with them about the business.

John Cuomo gained deep experience in how fire, both heat and challenge, improve leaders. Love of the people served and making them feel safe, valued, and well led amplified his passion for his work as a fireman. He believes this love should feed every job success. John spent his career honing his leadership skill, and evidences the fact that any quality you work on to make you a better leader will also make you a better person. His new book, Leadership Refined by Fire, arms leaders in all roles with the tools to create a workplace fueled by meaning.

Cici Castelli achieved an impressive rise from young Venezuelan exchange student in the USA to technology executive, coach, author, and single parent. Driven by an intense desire to achieve what she set her mind to, Cici now assists others through her book – Mindset Unlocked, Do What Others Can’t, Won’t or Don’t Do for a Successful and Balanced Career and Life – mentoring and coaching to also set themselves apart.

From a background in people, and coming from a family of entrepreneurs, Stacey Brown Randall proved that business survival requires sustainability and scalability. But constant prospecting and asking for referrals is uncomfortable and exhausting! A more comfortable approach, and one that honours both client and you as the service provider, is to generate referrals naturally. No asking, compensation, or manipulation to fuel a quality pipeline of referred clients.

Purush Cannane believes that if someone cannot laugh at your idea you are not innovating enough, but at the same time one must resist the urge to chase every shiny object. This view led this serial entrepreneur to innovate the paper bag market. Greenii Inc. combines Purush’s engineering creativity, passion for solving environmental problems, and his drive to help vulnerable communities in order to convert waste paper for good.

Promote and develop your enquiring mind with Carol Sanford. Carol has authored six books and, as a philosopher, encourages people and society to go against the grain, break free of the accepting and unquestioning chains. See the shadows in the cave for what they are, and develop a methodology to truly think and question – through indirect work all can change and grow for the better. But it also cannot occur alone.

Darby Vannier proved that you never can underestimate the impact of an indispensable leader, or predict where your career will take you. His experience from amusement to alpacas, for profit and not, informed his latest book on the amazing potential available to grow companies, careers, and teams.

Devin Durrant, speaker, real-estate investor and retired NBA player saw close ties between adding value to properties and adding value in all aspects of personal and professional lives. He took it a step further by assisting people and groups to create significant value through intentional focus on priority values. His recent book, The Values Delta, makes the technique accessible to all. It teaches how sustainable effort in focusing on personal values positively impacts people and things that a person values.

Julie Broad, entrepreneur and overall number one best-selling author tells incredible stories. Living her belief that it makes no sense to keep making the same mistakes, and that book idea will never have an impact if they stay in the author’s head, she founded Book Launchers and BookLaunchers.TV to help non-fiction authors write and market sought after books.

Kelly Ruta knows from decades of experience that people do not arrive with overnight success. They bring baggage, some conscious and some unconscious, and many years of experience. Subconscious beliefs will override intellect nine times out of ten, and so Kelly’s strategic CEO development empowers entrepreneurs to move beliefs and paradigms out of the way, and become the best version of themselves. The limitless entrepreneurs lead exceptional companies and teams to greater impact and revenue. It is not possible to build a successful life and business with focus only on the tactical. Inner work differentiates and enhances resilience and fortitude.

Ryan Margolin has grown and expanded Professional Hair Labs, in size and achievements, but is not stopping any time soon. Already a multi-million dollar company, one of the 500 fastest growing companies in the USA, small team successfully operating and trading world-wide, and beating counterfeit. All because Ryan has built a company founded on doing good. Doing good for the employee team, and good for customers. Sustainable services and products. Replacing harmful, subpar products with quality. Research, development and business progress led by an enthusiastic team, motivated by owning their roles and growing. A model everyone can appreciate.

Face-to-floor in the financial district through drive, creativity, and the hamster wheel that steals health and quality of life. This was what it took for Kristina Shea to focus on elevating women’s holistic natural health and wellness - founding BlueSkys LifeTM. Having been widowed twice, driven to succeed and re-establish what she lost, and witnessing how judgement and discrimination can rob life for all self-identified women, Kristina became a master at reinventing oneself. Now she is focused on helping others through a range of wellness and natural products and services, natural beauty products, and her content platform. This transformational journey is for Kristina and her customers.

Is there a way to truly create a win-win in the world of fighting climate change? For a company or individual to advance their own financial wealth while at the same time reducing and eliminating carbon and expediting environmental projects? To find a way to encourage really large companies to fund conservation and environmental enhancement projects, which tend to be starved for capital, in a significant way and also improve their own carbon footprint? Justin Cochrane is leading Carbon Streaming Corporation to achieve exactly that.

New uranium mines are needed urgently to supply the clean power industry. Daniel Major is leading GoviEx to develop their first project in West Africa to meet this demand, and potentially benefit from a significant increase in the commodity price. With a noteworthy ESG focus using local talent, advancing the local communities, and ongoing investigation of improving technology, water efficiency and clean energy, GoviEx is driving a win-win for the shareholders and the countries in which they operate.

How do entrepreneurs, small companies, authors, speakers, professionals, even start-ups get the word out about themselves and their activities? Distribute effective press releases to a large group of publications and journalists of course! But that is INIQUITOUSLY expensive and hard to get any attention … not when handled by eReleases founded by Mickie Kennedy. Energized by the challenge to get media attention for every customer, including those who don’t believe they are newsworthy, Mickie serves the niche so well he even has Dragons’ Den clients.

Is plant-based protein set to dwarf the cannabis industry? Is it an emerging investment niche with significant upside potential, or a societal change to healthier eating? Jim Pakulis and Boosh Plant-Based Brands believe they are onto something, and are growing both company size and the variety of good quality, quick-serve meal options very fast. Set to dominate the supermarket frozen, refrigerated, and shelf stable categories as well as expand, both organically and through acquisition, into other food service niches Boosh is a story to be heard and watched.

The team discovered a rainbow! A rainbow VMS deposit that is. Copper, gold, silver and zinc at the Callinex Mines Flin Flon district property with the potential to become a continuation option for the mine scheduled to close in late 2022. At a time when the demand for base metals is increasing with the move to green energy and large infrastructure projects, and as the supply in known mines declines, this discovery is exceptional. The team at Callinex is accomplished, and aside from the Manitoba property has exploration projects ongoing in New Brunswick and Newfoundland that also hold significant promise. Are new base mineral mines likely to be developed in time? Are investors primed to benefit as the stock market rebounds with increasing commodity prices?

There is a cancer in every business that destroys productivity and creates frustration. It absorbs valuable time of employees in two-minute tasks that are repetitive and often administrative. Macanta no-code software tool automates them with increased consistency. Bespoke process and workflow automation ensures business processes flow efficiently, customer communication is effective, and employees can instead perform the value-added tasks they enjoy. Cure the cancer with business excellence!