Paul Copcutt

The Magic Pill for Managing Your Career

Square Peg Solution

Paul Copcutt is Canada’s leading personal brand consultant, combining a passion for people and branding with a realization that strengths and specialization are the keys to success, he guides his clients to that outcome. He works with top performing executives who want greater confidence about their future career choices. He helps them clearly identify what it is that makes them unique and successful and develop a personal brand blueprint. This helps them achieve their ultimate career goals in less time and with less effort.

One of the world’s first Certified Personal Brand Strategist’s and the first Certified On Line Brand Strategist globally, he is a regular contributor and specialist for several leading on line resources including the Career Hub blog and Higher Bracket.ca, Canada’s only $100k+ job board. He is also the top global Career & Training contributor on the Knowledge Forum at Marketing Profs.com. Recognised by Forbes as one of the top certified personal brand strategists, he is also a well-sought-after brand specialist for the media being interviewd by Elle magazine, The National Post, Toronto Star, he is often quoted in The Globe & Mail, Canada’s leading national newspaper.

Jeff Doan

Once Upon a Slide: Creating Influential Presentations

Nycomed Canada

Jeff started his career in IT as a programmer for a small IBM business partner in London, Ontario. After 7 years of intensive travel doing marketing, sales, installations, training, support and strategic planning, he decided to get some pure sales experience.

He moved to Addison Wesley, an educational publisher, and managed the Ontario East and North territory. That led him to pharmaceuticals, where he has been for the last 13 years, starting in Sales, then Sales Management, CRM for 2 years, Marketing for 4 years and now Business Development. He started with Merrell Dow (Aventis), but has spent most of his career with Nycomed (Byk Canada and Altana).

JILL DONAHUE

PERSUASION Rx: How to Influence Ethically

Excellerate

Jill Donahue shares nationally and internationally her research on how to Influence Behaviour Change. With a Masters degree in Adult Education focusing on physician behavior change, awards for some publications and 15 years of research projects, she brings a strong academic background to her work.

What marvels her clients however is her talent to translate the theory of behavior change to the practical application to help them achieve measurable results.

Says one client “You were the ‘tipping point’ in my career as a sales manager. After working with you, I have seen a 30% increase in sales results.”

Starting her career in the pharmaceutical industry over 15 years ago “carrying the bag”, she soon identified her passion for changing behavior and began to research the questions she had. When she left big pharma she was the National Manager of a Continuing Health Education team, where she oversaw the development and dissemination of educational tools for physicians and representatives, in addition to managing the development of physician thought leaders and company personnel.

Jill brings the perfect mix of academia and business experience to show your team how to increase their effectiveness in their efforts to influence others to change behavior.

Her commitment to lifelong learning is fueled by her drive to continually improve, inspired by the beautiful smiles of her 3 impressionable daughters. In pursuit of that drive, she launched her own company EXCELLERATE to help others reach personal and professional success.

EXCELLERATE combines the two ideas that her company is all about; excellence – what she commits to impart on her clients and acceleration – which speaks to the universal need in medicine and business to speed the pace of change. EXCELLERATE works with leaders in Sales, Training, Marketing and HR by providing ideas, strategies and training to increase outcomes.

She prides herself in the quality of her work, the respect she gains from her clients and her innovative approach to promoting long lasting behaviour change. Choosing EXCELLERATE means working with a highly motivated consultant who will listen to your specific issues and custom create a solution to propel you ahead; giving you the elusive “edge” to achieve your goals.

Giselle Kovary

Generational Differences

n-gen People Performance Inc.

Giselle co-founded n-gen People Performance Inc. over 5 years ago after seeing an emerging trend in the workplace. A gap was surfacing between what employees expected from their employers and what these employers were delivering. She forecasted that this gap was going to become more significant as labour market conditions shifted to a sellers-market because different generations have different values, behaviour and expectations.

n-gen focuses on helping clients get, keep and grow a multigenerational workforce. Their expertise help organizations maximize the skill sets of all four generations – Traditionalist, Baby Boomer, Gen X and Gen Y – while managing the differences. n-gen is a performance improvement company that offers keynote presentations, workshops and consulting services designed to improve the performance of your organization. Their team of facilitators work across North America in the private sector, partnering with clients in every industry including banking, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, packaged goods, retail and hospitality. n-gen also works extensively In the public sector, including working with federal ministries, as well as the of province of Ontario and municipal managers of Alberta.

Giselle has a masters degree in communication from the University of Windsor and co-authored, with Adwoa K. Buahene, the book “Loyalty Unplugged – How To Get, Keep & Grow All Four Generations”, released last year.

JEFF MACINNIS

Pushing Your Race Forward

Race to Win

Explorer, award-winning downhill skier, best-selling author and entrepreneur, Jeff MacInnis achieved a four-hundred-year-old impossible challenge when he led the first team to sail the Northwest Passage. This epic journey covered 4,000 kilometres over 100 days in an 18-foot boat — using only the wind and a dream as the sources of power. The expedition survived one of the harshest environments on the face of this planet, through an ice-choked passage that has claimed more lives than Mount Everest.

Jeff has been involved in numerous gruelling challenges including the Eco-Challenge, the World Championships of Expedition Racing, watched by over a billion people. He led his team through 500 km over nine days through dense rainforest, ancient caves and some of the most beautiful coral reefs on the planet.

Using extraordinary footage, Jeff illustrates what it takes to go to the extreme and succeed. As a world-class speaker on teamwork, leadership and excellence, he has inspired, coached and motivated over 500 audiences in nine countries.

Richard Worzel

Dark Clouds and Silver Linings: The Future of Healthcare and How Pharma Will Fit

Future Search

Richard Worzel is Canada’s leading futurist, with a client list that includes such organizations as the Government of Canada’s Department of National Defense, the National Research Council, IBM, the Bank of Montreal, Sun Life, and Coca Cola, among many others.

Mr. Worzel studied computer science, economics and world trade in university, and has written articles on the future for The Report on Business, Canada Computes, and The Financial Post, among many others.

He started work in the investment industry as an institutional investor, and received the industry’s Chartered Fisnancial Analyst designation in 1978. Since 1979, he has run his own consulting firm, helping companies and organizations plan and prepare for the future.

Richard has written five best-selling books, including Who Owns Tomorrow, which reached the Financial Post’s best-seller list in the second week of publication.