Stephen A.
Clarke
Stephen Clarke was born in Toronto and grew up in the Beaches area of the City.
With a long history in the Advertising industry he has worked with some of the top
companies in the world developing business strategies. His specialty was creating
an ROI and has spoken all over North America to thousands of people on the need
to ensure everything is measurable.
Stephen now has a passion for helping others. He speaks on the philosophies of The
Law of Attraction and his favorite subject is Change Your Attitude – Change Your
Life. He has a consulting practice in Toronto and several clients all over North
America. His strength in developing creative business strategies for his clients
has allowed him to work with companies like HP, SAP, Toyota and P&G to name a few.
He currently resides in Toronto, back in the Beaches.
Lisa Shepherd
Lisa Shepherd is the Founder and President of Mezzanine Consulting, one of Canada’s
fastest growing companies as named by Profit Magazine. She is an expert on marketing
and market intelligence, having consulted for a wide breadth of growth oriented
organizations - from small businesses like Oak Heights Winery north of Toronto to
Fortune 500 companies like Research In Motion. Lisa has close to a decade of experience
helping organizations grow and is a frequent public speaker.
For more information visit:
www.mezzanineconsulting.com
Lori Raudnask
Skillfully blending her 11 years of “corporate world” with 20 years of professional
sales experience, Lori Raudnask is able to connect with audiences immediately. Through
an interactive process, participants are driven to look at their own professional
and personal lives and identify what they can do to achieve desired results. She
is the author of Persistence Pays – How Getting What You Want is Easier Than You
Think.
Chosen as Stoney Creek ’s "Citizen of the Year" and nominated for Hamilton “Woman
of the Year,” Lori is active in her community believing that service is a critical
tool to success and fulfillment. Her community leadership includes Director with
the Stoney Creek Chamber of Commerce, Board of Directors for Courage to Cope (a
support group for families with missing children); Past Commodore of the Fifty Point
Yacht Club; Past Chair of the Orchard Park Secondary School Council; and volunteer
for Camp Trillium within the cancer clinic at the local hospital. Lori’s family
includes husband, Lembit, children Megan and Kyle and the family dog, Madison.
For more information visit:
www.persistencepays.ca
Dave Farrow
Dave Farrow is north America’s foremost expert on memory and speed learning. A two
time Guinness world record holder and Sony’s literacy spokesperson Dave will bring
his energy and enthusiasm to the stage.
Imagine if you had a Super mind. The ability to recall the names and details of
people you meet, Know how to say hello in many different languages, be the walking
encyclopedia that will ensure your place at the top of your field in any economy.
You can! In just the first few minutes you will be amazed when Dave triple’s your
memory. This is not a trick this is a real measurable result that gives a sense
of accomplishment and excitement to everyone involved. This one technique is a incredibly
powerful live experience. Don’t miss it. You will go home that very night to teach
this to your children with the same amazing results. That is just the warm up. This
talk goes beyond. Dave will empower you to use your new memory power to Keep organized,
master changing industry information and get the edge in this economy. Finally he
will share tips on The art of names and faces and you will walk away knowing how
to say hello in 7 languages.
Dave broke into the Guinness book of records by memorizing and recalling the exact
order of 59 decks of cards. That’s a total of 3,068 cards in all. He recalled them
live on the discovery channel. He speaks to large groups across the US and Canada
and recently partnered with Sony corporation to be the spokesperson the for Sony
youth literacy campaign. For his part he lived in a store window for the month of
October/08. He was speed reading while in the window and for every page he read
a school gets an eBook library. He read 102 books a total of 44,097 pages and that
means that schools got about 4.4 million e books as a result. The live feed of the
event attracted over 100 million viewers! They called him Sony’s David Blaine.
Here is a link to the Sony Reader revolution Campaign and the today show. SONY SPEED-READER:
click here
Nov. 11: TODAYTM Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford get secrets to getting
a great memory from memory expert Dave Farrow. TODAY SHOW CLIP: click here
For more information visit:
www.millionairememory.com
Joanna Andros
& Tanya Chernova
Courageous Living is the brainchild of Joanna Andros and Tanya Chernova.
Joanna Andros is a successful entrepreneur with 20 years of business experience.
She is a passionate lecturer, life and emotional healing coach, who brings her vast
knowledge and experience to assist others in overcoming obstacles to create a life
they love! Joanna has developed a proven coach-therapy process called the Andros
Resolution Process to uncover and eliminate the negative subconscious beliefs that
hold people back from achieving their goals - all within 1 hour.
Tanya Chernova is an innovative entrepreneur, NLP strategic business coach and a
sought after educator on the concepts of Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace.
As an inspiring professional speaker and author, she presents before audiences in
over 30 countries. She is also the creator of Time Reverse, an award winning non-surgical
facelift brand that generated over $1 million in sales in its first year on the
international shopping channels.
They have partnered to create Courageous Living with the goal to make an extraordinary
contribution to the people in their community and the world. They provide access
to transformational education events and resources that motivate and inspire people
to live fulfilling and courageous lives and make more of their personal and professional
dreams come true. Today, Courageous Living has come here to help us create a Vision
for Success.
Vision for Success!
Do you have the mindset for success? Don’t miss this energizing, engaging and informative
presentation from the founders of Courageous Living. Participate in exercises to
discover the limiting beliefs that hold you back from your success and how to overcome
them. Ignite your business vision; create the strategy to attract the clients you
want and the money you deserve. Reconnect to your passion for the work you do. Harness
the power of your mind and get the tools to turn crisis into opportunity. Get ready
to break out of your comfort zone and gain the vision to succeed with Courageous
Living!
For more information visit:
www.courageousliving.net
Michael A.
DiMuccio
In 1986 Michael became a graduate of Aerospace Engineering at the University of
Toronto, after which he was briefly signed to a music contract to write and perform
original music. He then went on to working as a supervisor in the field of electrician
for three years while getting his feet wet part-time in network marketing.
In January 1992, Michael launched a major network marketing company in Canada, and
in his first month achieved the company’s first leadership level, Silver. He soon
became Canada’s first Gold, Platinum, and Diamond and in 1997 Royal Diamond Distributor,
the youngest, and one of only a handful in North America. Also that year Michael
was awarded the company’s most prestigious award: Distributor of the Year. Michael
is CEO of Good Vibrations International, Inc. and has generated over $500 Million
in worldwide sales, with more than 50,000 people operating in 34 Countries and $20
Million in earnings since 1992. He has also created some of the most influential
and accurate training systems in the business. This includes the often borrowed
“You cubed” System, which has since evolved to the free online version called The
Wellness Trak System. He also co-founded Team Diamond, a field support organization.
To date remains one of the company’s Top 5 income earners, a Member of the President’s
Club, Millionaires Club and serves on the company’s Leadership Council. Michael
lives in Barbados and is active in two other start-up businesses that advance the
cause of safety and education for children and providing a platform for social giving.
Of all his achievements, Michael is most proud of being the father of two beautiful
girls and a boy; Sophia, Savannah and Michael.
For more information visit:
www.michaeldimuccio.com
Alex Makarski
If you ever wanted to ...
- o Turn your existing clients into referral ambassadors
- o Get the local business community to think of you as a friend and recommend you
to others, and
- o Get people to remember you when someone is looking for your product or service
… this could be the most important presentation you will attend this year. Alex
Makarski is a hockey dad and a founder of www.ReferralFormula.com. He conducts referral seminars and
workshops for small business owners in Canada and USA showing them some unusual,
kick-butt referral-generating tactics. His last tele-coaching class attracted 3,000+
entrepreneurs.
Alex started doing consulting work for companies like McDonald’s, Siemens, and Proctor
& Gamble in the early 1990’s. And while working with the large companies was fun,
Alex’ passion has always been small business. So in 2004, he resigned from his job
and started his own company that shows small businesses how to become not so … ahem
… friggin’ small.
Nicole Jansen
Nicole Jansen is the owner of a SalesPartnersTM franchise in Toronto,
specializing in sales training, business coaching and team development. Drawing
on 20 years experience building businesses and coaching others to play to their
strengths, Nicole now partners with business owners and their teams, helping them
increase sales, profitability, and team performance.
Nicole has worked with people in the health and beauty, wholesale and retail distribution,
financial services, real estate, legal and pharmaceutical industries, to name a
few. Nicole’s ability to instill positive energy, encouragement and expectation
into her clients makes her a highly engaging, highly effective SalesPartnerTM,
trainer and coach.
For more information visit:
www.sp-ww.com/ca/torontocentral
Donna Messer
Donna Messer Networking Guru & Business Matchmaker President, ConnectUs Canada.
“Speaker”, “journalist”, “author”, “coach”, “trainer”, “advisor”, “facilitator”,
“mentor” and “leader” are all words that describe Donna Messer to a tee. Look closer,
however, and you’ll see that a common theme runs through them all – a love of people.
For more than two decades, Donna has been a renowned expert on and promoter of the
often overlooked, true currency of business – personal relationships – how to forge,
nurture and leverage them to enable those who properly cultivate these relationships
to put them to mutual benefit.
As President of ConnectUs Canada, Donna’s contact network extends well into the
tens of thousands – a network that she routinely and freely shares with her clients,
associates and acquaintances via the extensive speaking engagements and workshops
she holds around the world.
A dynamic, highly sought-after speaker, Donna has spoken throughout North America,
the Caribbean, Mexico, Europe and Iceland on a host of topics dealing with the art
of networking and the ties that bind. She has spoken before Federal, Provincial,
Municipal and State governments, even serving as an advisor to the Prime Minister’s
Office (PMO) on issues relating to women in business.
Donna has directed and advised on numerous boards and committees and has won various
awards including Woman of the Year - Women in Pursuit of Excellence WFIM, International
Leader’s Award – Women and Diversity, and the Award for Outstanding Achievement
– CACEE. She was also Ernst and Young’s nominee for Entrepreneur of the Year.
Andrew Patricio
Andrew is an owner of www.BizLaunch.ca
a company that trains, coaches and mentors Entrepreneurs. BizLaunch presents practical
training courses, seminars and coaching for entrepreneurs. BizLaunch is the largest
private provider of training for small business in Canada.
Andrew is the author of "Up & Running – a guide to running your own business", has
started 7 businesses of his own and worked with entrepreneurs in Canada, Russia,
Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Korea, USA, Holland, Namibia, Belgium, USA, Barbados and
South Africa.
Sean Ryder
HBA, HBSc
Consultant, Field Trainer
(416)860-1668
sean.ryder@investorsgroup.com
Sean Ryder started his path of education 16 years ago at the University of Western
Ontario where he received his Honours Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry. He then
attended the Richard Ivey School of Business to receive his Honours Bachelor of
Business. His passion for learning is still ongoing.
Throughout his time as a financial planner, Sean has helped numerous small businesses
and start-ups structure a financial plan that provides them financial stability
and peace of mind. Whether you are a small business owner, or have grown your business
into a large corporation, managing cash flow is the key to making money as well
as reducing risks to your financial well being.
Sean focuses on the six disciplines of financial planning with all of his clients.
These include cash management, tax planning, investing, retirement planning, estate
planning and insurance. Addressing all of these areas ensures businesses and individuals
accomplish their financial goals and dreams.
For more information visit:
Sean Ryder's website
Danish Ahmed
Danish Ahmed is a blind, Pakistani albino. Really. That's who he is. He's an entrepreneur,
inspirational speaker, and best-selling author of "A Dictionary of Distinctions."
His vision is to help transform the lives of millions of people around the world
through a new media genre: the convergence of entertainment and inspiration. For
example, he produced "What is Love?" --
www.TheLoveMovie.com -- a three minute movie on the Internet, now seen by
a million people across 112 countries. His greatest passion is working with projects
like co-producing hit shows (such as I DECIDE and SHIFT), and is now working on
a feature-length reality-based biographical movie of his life called "an Ordinary
Story"!
Let's love the world together...
Ash Silva
Ash Silva was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India and immigrated to Canada with his
family as a young boy. Overcoming struggles and setbacks, he climbed the corporate
ladder, achieving an executive rank for top sales performances at leading telecommunication
companies, as he raised a family of five children...
Realizing that the ladder was leaning against the wrong building, and noticing his
diminishing family time, Ash committed himself to become a successful entrepreneur
and work from home so he could balance success with more time with the family too.
Not only has Ash built successful businesses, he is a new-world Entrepreneur deriving
income from various active and passive sources such as Barter Networks, Joint-Ventures,
Network Marketing Organizations, Affiliate and Partner Marketing Programs, Real
Estate and other Investments. He has created international businesses, one of which
was sold for a large profit. The best part is that Ash will help you enjoy the benefits
of profiting from any or all of these systems if you want as well?
For more information visit: www.ashsilva.com
