Alberta is rich in resources, energy, pioneering, and the entrepreneurial spirit.

Alberta is also a resource and a leading exporter of some of the best leaders, motivational speakers, engaging trainers, inspirational leadership, sales training, business success coaches, innovative consultants, experts, and business expert authors across North America.

Leverage the 'Alberta Advantage' for your team, today!

Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey

C: 780-707-0189

President 2012 CAPS Edmonton

Past CAPS National Director

CAPS Foundation Trustee

Co-founder and Past President CAPS Vancouver

Alberta Speakers Creative Lead

Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey, CKD-Emeritus, Accredited Speaker, SoC
Author, Business Success Catalyst, and International Speaker
2011 Spirit of CAPS Recipient

If you are in leadership, sell for a living, or depend on your ability to persuade for your success... Canadian Ideaman, Bob Hooey can give you the 'Alberta Advantage' in hosting a successful meeting or conference, in building a successful career, in selling more, or in successfully leading your organization to the next level.

Protect your conference investment - leverage your training dollars. Call NOW to engage Canada's Ideaman, Bob Hooey and his profitable, innovative Ideas At Work! for your company, convention, or association. Ideas At Work! - Strategies to Success!

Bob's humorous, interactive, conversational and, sometimes provocative style inspire his audiences across North America and around the globe. As a business, leadership, team and sales success expert, as well as a prolific author, Bob's innovative development programs have successfully helped thousands of leaders and professionals dramatically and profitably increase their effectiveness.

Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey will help you inspire, equip, and lead your meeting's audience, association, sales team, or company to greater success! Bob is committed to helping leaders build more effective teams; and sales teams become sales leaders.

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Kamran Akbarzadeh

780-439-5361

Founder of Dream Achievers Academy

Author of Amazon Best-seller Leadership Soup

Creator of the Leadership Makeover Coaching Program

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Kamran Akbarzadeh, PhD, PMP, P.Eng., CDC
Leadership Makeover Expert

Are you willing to take yourself, your people, and your business to remarkable levels of performance, productivity, and profit? No matter how big or small your organization, Dr. Kamran Akbarzadeh can equip you and your team with tools and techniques that help you:

• become more innovative
• provide unbeatable services
• achieve long-lasting success with inspired people
• position your organization as a leader in your industry
• and soar to greatness together

As an inspiring and motivational speaker, seminar leader, and coach, Kamran believes that the world in general and organizations in particular are in desperate need of authentic leaders who lead with their hearts and empower people to soar to greatness no matter where they are and what they do. It was this conviction that inspired him to found Dream Achievers Academy and author his Amazon best-selling book, Leadership Soup with a vision to inspire others to live on purpose and lead on purpose.

With years of experience in the corporate world and a background in research, engineering, and leadership, Dr. Akbarzadeh equips business owners, executives, managers, entrepreneurs, and their teams with profound tools, techniques, and solutions to develop the culture of authentic leadership in their organizations and attain long-lasting success, outstanding performance, unity, and productivity as a result.

Kamran’s keynotes, seminars, workshops, and trainings are highly informative, action oriented, and motivational, with attendees reporting amazing results. He creates a positive momentum that energizes your audience and inspires them to take the next necessary steps toward achieving the goals, whichever topic is chosen. Best of all, Dr. Akbarzadeh guarantees delivery of high quality services that meet or even exceed your expectations. If you are not satisfied with any of his services he will refund your investment.

Kamran’s topics include:

• Leadership Soup: How to make a perfect “soup” for your organization.
• Success Toolbox: Equipping you with the right tools and techniques for achieving true success.
• Beyond the Blame at Work: Develop the culture of authentic leadership within your organization.
• Vision Alive: Tools and techniques for keep your vision alive and making it a reality.
• Blueprint of Achievers: Upgrade your blueprint to achieve success at its highest level.

Now, it is up to you to decide for your future. Don’t delay though because tomorrow might be too late. Call now.

Desiree Bauer

403-356-1598

Desiree Bauer, Certified Professional Development Facilitator
2020 Mindsight: Energizing Teams, Engaging Talent!

Generations @ Work: Power Up Your Team!
Traditionalists? Boomers? Gen-X? Gen-Y? Conflicting values? Or worn-out clichés?

Let’s level the playing field and change the way each generation interacts by understanding the incredible talent each team member brings to the table. Finding your niche and engaging your strengths generates personal fulfillment, optimizes your work/life experience and empowers you to fulfill your potential.

Based on the “whole brain thinking” model, participants will implement a system that encourages self-directed leadership in creating a workplace culture of collaboration and respect. Experience substantial benefits by actively engaging this system for team-building, embracing diversity, enhancing communication and improving customer service.

This session is for every member of your team who would like to:

• Perform more effectively by understanding whole brain thinking
• Resolve conflicts and communication problems before they become major issues
• Recognize, value and make appropriate use of the team’s natural strengths

In business since 2003, professionally-trained practitioner and business owner Desiree Bauer can provide testimonials about the success of this program with businesses and organizations across Alberta. Don’t put off getting better results for your business; visit our website for more information or call Desiree today to discuss the best options for your company.

Generations @ Work is available in a variety of formats including lunch 'n' learn presentations, conference break-out sessions or 1/2 day professional development workshops.

Contact Desiree Bauer for available dates, 403-356-1598 or via email: desiree@2020mindsight.com

Power Up Your Team!

Mark Bernard

403-933-9112

Past Director
CAPS Calgary

Mark Bernard

Mark Bernard is more than an energetic speaker, trainer and sales coach. Mark’s infectious enthusiasm and passion radiate on the platform.

Mark is a co-author of the Canadian best seller, “Sales Gurus Speak Out”. He specializes in Telephone Prospecting--Getting the Elusive First Appointment and Closing the Sale, as well as Sales Coaching, Sales Training, Consulting and Personal Development.

Mark prides himself on his knack of seeing people’s strengths, and helping them to find methods to overcome both sales and life challenges. He provides his audiences with practical tools. His sales system motivates his audience to put these tools to use to get powerful results. Mark is a business builder. He blends his expertise in sales with the desire to help awaken personal power in others.

Val Carter

403-281-8841

Past Director
CAPS Calgary

Val Carter, CHRP, CTDP

Val Carter helps people create lasting change for personal and professional success. She encourages everyone to turn the mirror on themselves. This is when the fun begins!

She’s walked the talk. From over 20 years of experience in the corporate, entrepreneurial, public, and not-for-profit sectors around the world, Val has gained a wealth of knowledge – plus some excellent stories. Val does her homework. This ensures that your audience connects with Val, laughs with her, learns with her - and thanks you!

Popular sessions:

• How to Win a Goat
• Beyond “Here’s My Card”
• The Time of Your Life
• Wasps in the Workplace
• “No” Is Not a Four-Letter Word

Michelle Cederberg

C: 403-850-5589

Past President
CAPS Calgary

Michelle's Books

Michelle Cederberg, CSP / MKin, BA Psyc, CEP, Co-Active Coach

Giving you The Energy to Succeed in Business & In Life

• Work-Life Balance
• Stress Management
• Increased Productivity …NOW, more than ever!
  

Health and Productivity Expert, Michelle Cederberg helps people with full schedules and a long list of responsibilities maximize their personal energy so they can optimize their productivity and success. As a highly accomplished speaker, author, educator, fitness professional, life coach and entrepreneur, she equips people to feel their best so they can do their best.

With a Masters in Kinesiology, a BA in Psychology, and a specialization in Health and Exercise Psychology, Michelle combines mind, body, and practicality to inspire change! As a Co-Active Life Coach she helps clients find their focus and create a healthier, happier, more fulfilled life.

As a Certified Speaking Professional she shares her experiences in a humorous and realistic way with delighted audiences across North America. Through her presentations, products and personality she motivates you to take small steps toward big changes, so you can actually find energy, productivity and success - even with a busy schedule!

Work-Life Balance – Stress Management – Exercise Success - Personal Development

With Michelle’s Guidance your team will:

• Make genuine progress against procrastination and prioritize personal and professional growth
• Gain new strategies for time and energy management – even with a busy schedule
• Laugh and learn through her stories and messages, and;
• Get focused on what matters – health, life balance, stress management – so they can find more purpose and productivity in work and life.
  

Michelle is the author of three books. Her GOT TO IT accountability journal is a ground-breaking resource that supports people on their path to change. Her second book; If Your Life Sucks It’s Your Fault is a fun and provocative pocket-book on personal responsibility. Her first North America wide publication; ENERGY NOW! Small Steps to an Energetic Life will be released January 2012 in book stores everywhere.

Lisa Chell

780-865-5605

C: 780-817-1497

Lisa Chell Big Breakthroughs, Bold Actions and Bodacious Life!
Senior Certified and Group Certified Power Coach®, Speaker, Trainer

• What would it be like if you could Break Through to living your purpose and passions each day and boldly love your life and everything in it?
• How would your day improve if you looked at yourself and others from a place of compassion and acceptance instead of conflict and annoyance?
• What would change if you had simple, immediately usable tools to improve communication, concentration, confidence, cooperation and compassion?

Sound farfetched? It’s not!

Lisa Chell is The Big Breakthrough Coach. She coaches and speaks from experience and the heart about what it takes to have your own Big Breakthroughs, Bold Actions and Bodacious Life! From Individuals to Corporate Transformation programs, you will find the coaching program or workshop you need to get clear, take action and accelerate results.

What results can you expect from working with Lisa?
• Your team will have immediately usable ideas and action steps to improve communication, confidence and concentration in the workplace with customers, clients and colleagues.
• Power Coaching with Mind Kinetics® (PCMK) tools develop strong, values based relationships with self and others which translates into more productive, cooperative and peaceful environments at work and at home.
• The client’s negative self talk and patterns of thoughts, words and actions turn into positive patterns creating an overall positive effect on all relationships.
• PCMK assists in peacefully resolving complex situations like harassment. This means employees go back to work with no blame. Productivity improves within the team.
• The self coaching and peer coaching tools develop teams that have the mindset and skill set for excellence.

Lisa presents Keynotes and Workshops/Breakouts/Seminars on the following topics:
• Big Breakthroughs, Bold Actions and Bodacious Life!
• Tongue Fu! How to get along with difficult people without becoming one yourself
• Concentrate: When life is filled with pressures, distractions and multiple priorities
• What’s Holding You Back? The six C’s of confidence
• Network Naturally: You can become more polished, poised and persuasive
• The Passion Test: The effortless path to discovering your life purpose

Need some Coaching Tools for your managers, supervisors and staff? Lisa’s Power Coaching workshops:
• The Brain Walk® Take a walk, move a mountain
• Value-able Tool Games for supporting Enlightened Leadership
• Lasers: A quick coaching tool you can use anytime, anywhere with anyone

Power Coach® with Mind Kinetics® is a trademark and registered trademark of Coaching and Leadership International Inc.

Russ Dantu

403-978-2589

Russ Dantu

Russ Dantu is a speaker, trainer, author, and coach. He has been speaking professionally for over 15 years. If you are looking for someone who entertains, educates, inspires and leaves your audience wanting more, look no further! Russ is an expert in the areas of trade shows, customer service, and presentation skills. His workshops and seminars are known to be highly entertaining and filled with group activities to drive the message home and leave your audience with the tools they need for immediate results. With 29 years in the trade show industry and customer service field, he’s a perfect fit for your next conference or convention. He also offers youth workshops and a killer keynote that keeps even the toughest of teenage audiences listening intently!

His programs include:

• At Your Service – all about Service Excellence
• Speak Up – creating powerful presentation skills for adults and youth
• Making Trade Shows Work – everything you need to know about participating in a trade show

His keynotes include:

• If good customer service is common sense, why isn’t it common practice?
• Be the Exception! (for youth groups)
• The 4 E’s to Excellence

In 2009 and 2010, Russ placed in the top 1% out of over 30,000 people competing for the coveted title of World Champion of Public Speaking. Whether you are looking for a break-out session, a 2 hour or half day workshop, a full day seminar, or a keynote to open or close your upcoming event, find out what this award winning speaker can offer your audience! Contact Russ now....you won’t be disappointed!

Freddi Dogterom

C: 403-892-7879

Freddi W. Dogterom, CCDP, CPT

Audiences have dubbed this award winning speaker, leader and personality trainer "The Tundra Lady”. Freddi Dogterom's popular keynotes showcase the amazing stories of her adventures while working in the High Arctic. Can you imagine a young woman driving a huge truck full of high explosive up the Mackenzie River ice road to the Arctic Ocean? Apply the lessons from this adventure and others to your workplace challenges.

Keynotes:
“Tire Tracks on the Tundra” - Living without limits.
“Rock Stars of the Arctic!” - Learn to build your Inukshuk of life, one rock at a time.

Personality Training: Learn how to use the Power of YOUR Personality to influence the behaviour of others.
• “Like Sandpaper on a Sunburn” – personalities in personal relationships
• “Juggling the Jerks @ Work” – personalities in the workplace
• “Juggling the Jingle in Your Genes” - personality and your money management.

Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton, PhD

C: 403-390-3999

Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton, PhD
21st Century Education and Leadership

Dr. Sarah provokes thought, invites laughter and adds zeal to educational conferences and events.

An educator for almost 20 years, Dr. Sarah excels at challenging and inspiring others to think in new ways and then implement what you've learned in actionable ways.

Keynote presentations range from 45 minute to 90 minutes and are tailored for you audience. Seminars, workshops and training programs are offered as 90-minute, half-day or full-day interactive presentations. Dr. Sarah's presentations are content-rich and offer practical "how to" tips in the areas of 21st century education, educational trends, e-learning and webinars and literacy and language education.

Dr. Sarah Eaton has touched audiences in numerous countries. Her authentic, sincere style is interactive and inspires educators to think in new ways, and then put what they've learned into practice. Call now to book Dr. Sarah for your convention or association.

Crystal Flaman

250-769-7097

Crystal Flaman
Professional Speaker, Entrepreneur, Author,
100km Ultra-Marathoner and Ironman Triathlete

Crystal Flaman is dynamic, enthusiastic and funny! Crystal specifically works for and speaks with organizations who want to help their people live a more inspired life and have more energy on a daily basis! She inspires her audiences to achieve greater success, find fulfillment and discover their potential! Crystal specializes in assisting individuals, businesses and organizations to get more out of their day and out of their life through interactive keynotes and workshops!

Crystal Flaman is an Entrepreneur, Five-time Ironman Triathlete, 100km Ultra-marathon runner, Author & Storyteller! Crystal is also the creator of a unique and inspiring product line. Crystal’s goal is to use her gifts and talents to make a difference in the world, on and off the speaking platform, and she has personally raised almost ONE MILLION dollars for charities, including the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada, The Canadian Diabetes Foundation, and Partners In The Horn of Africa through various athletic endeavors! Crystal & her twin sister rode the first ever tandem bike across Canada, cycling 7906 km, raising $500,000 for the Heart and Stroke Foundation, entering the Guinness Book of World Records for this feat!

Crystal has also run a 100km ultra-marathon to raise funds for Africa & has raised over $80,000 in three annual 100km “Great Big Run For Africa” ultra-marathon events! These funds have assisted more than 1000 females throughout Africa in starting their own businesses! Currently, 30% of Crystal’s fee is being spent on sponsoring a school in Nepal which will be built by the end of 2008, in the name of her clients! Crystal truly inspires her audiences to live & work with greater joy, passion & purpose & assists clients in achieving their dreams, goals & potential!

Creator of The Ripple Effect - www.imaginetherippleeffect.com

Co-founder of D.I.V.A. Retreats - www.divaretreats.wordpress.com

"Become more than you were when you woke up this morning!"

Lynn Fraser

780-465-9893

Past Director
CAPS Edmonton

Lynn Fraser offers Power Coaching with Mind Kinetics to improve your performance and renewal in all areas of life.

Mentoring packages are customized to your needs: Get Organized mentoring includes tele-mentoring or Skype sessions for the purpose of organizing your space & your life.

Coach mentoring programs combine Power Coaching tools with Lynn’s experience to guide you step by step on your journey.

Lynn Fraser, PHEc, Associate Power Coach
The Practical Life Balance Expert - Balance Your World Training & Coaching

• Do you walk into your office and feel overwhelmed before you even check your email?
• Do you feel like a “hamster on a wheel?”
• Are you looking to reclaim control over your piles of clutter, save time and money, PLUS enjoy your work & life more?
• Boy, do we GET IT!

Lynn Fraser provides impactful solutions for clients so they can create lives that have balance and meaning. We’re all about creating a practical life template to assist individuals & teams to become healthier and focused to attain sustainable results.

Balance Your World assists you in your quest for less stress and more joy in your life: whether you’re in need of a work-life balance seminar, keynote for your retreat or conference, a practical approach to your office, meal or home organization, or one-on-one mentoring or Power coaching to dramatically improve your performance both at home and at work.

As a Professional Speaker, Associate Power Coach, Mentor, avid volunteer, wife of 25 years and mother of two teenagers, Lynn understands what many of your daily juggling acts look like. For her own life balance, she walks her standard poodle and is a yoga enthusiast. Lynn is a columnist for The Edmontonians and is quoted in the December 2010 Today’s Parent issue.

Please contact Lynn on the following topics:

• Keynote: A Perfectly Balanced Life & The Easter Bunny - What do these two have in common? Neither one exists. (45 - 60 minutes)
• Half Day Seminars:
  • Your Pivot Point Strategy
  • Finding meaningful balance at home and at work
  • The Power of a Clean Slate
  • Taking control of the clutter in your life
  • Dinner at the Speed of Life
  • The surprising ease and benefits of preparing family meals
• The Brain Walk workshop: Remove judgement & feel peaceful and focused for your day. Use innovative Power coaching tools to increase productivity and renewal.

Natashia Halikowski

403-238-5424

Past President
CAPS Calgary

2012 Chair CAPS Editorial Board

Natashia Halikowski, B.A. (Econ), C.E.C

Learn how to refresh your entrepreneurial spirit by tapping into your intuitive and creative intelligence. Learn how dynamic relationships create dynamic results. During a period of more than 20 years, Natashia Halikowski has mentored, trained and inspired entrepreneurs, executives and individuals to realize their goals by harnessing their intuitive wisdom, creating ultimate clarity and embracing dynamic relationships.

As President of Intuitionworks, Natashia integrates systems and tools in a strategic methodology to help you achieve personal, professional & organizational empowerment:

• Develop new strategies & create clarity for achieving your goals
• Learn how to chunk down the steps for manageable goal setting
• Refresh your entrepreneurial spirit by tapping into your creative intelligence
• Learn the secrets behind your intuition & develop your intuitive wisdom

Natashia Halikowski is a dynamic, personable and sought after expert who establishes immediate rapport with the audience by speaking with passion, inspirational insight, immediately functional content and a sprinkling of intelligent humour. Natashia provides the inspirational, educational and entertaining messages you need to hear to move you forward.

Charmaine Hammond

780-464-3828

Past Director
CAPS Edmonton

Best Selling author of On Toby's Terms

Charmaine Hammond , M.A., B.A.

Bounce Forward™ with Charmaine Hammond- building resilient & inspired teams!

As an international professional speaker, author and consultant she inspires people to be the best version of themselves and exceed their potential, personally and in business! Her first career was in the Correctional System, where she worked as a Correctional Officer and then a Director. She pursued her passion for conflict management and was a mediator of corporate, community and workplace disputes for ten year. Charmaine has been featured on CTV, Global, CTSTV, radio, and in other print media. Her book On Toby’s Terms, published by Bettie Youngs Books, has been optioned for a motion picture. She is also co-author of GPS Your Best Life ™ to be released in spring 2011. As one of Edmonton’s 27 Influencers and nominee for the RBC Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Charmaine inspires and mentors businesses to apply her Ready, Set, Grow approach to identify what gets in the way of success, and plant the seeds for growth, an inspired life and success. www.hammondgroup.biz or www.tobytales.com

Charmaine Hammond has a Master’s Degree in Conflict Analysis and Management; a BA in Social Development Studies and a diploma in general social work. Charmaine is a down to earth, dynamic speaker who engages the audience and challenges participants to take bold and intentional actions, taking learning to the next level. She weaves in humour, motivation, and stories into her presentations and creates the opportunity for meaningful impacts. Engaging the audience and participants to take intentional steps towards change is Charmaine’s call to action.

Charmaine provides keynotes, presentations and seminars on the following topics:

• Igniting Resilience
• The Resilient Business
• From Confrontation to Conversation
• Courageous Dialogue
• Communication for Success
• Healthy Teams, Productive Workplaces

Charmaine also facilitates team building, strategic planning, vision board, and employee engagement processes.

Marco Iafrate

403-803-1821

Past Director CAPS Calgary

Marco Iafrate, B.Sc.(Hons), MA, IAC-CC, CPT

Marco Iafrate is a professional speaker and certified coach sought after for his ability to help organizations develop better learners, creative thinkers and cohesive teams. The result is a work and learning environment that is more productive, more engaged and more profitable giving your organization a true advantage in today’s economy.

Marco’s presentations and workshops are filled with inspiring concepts and engaging calls to action designed to help your teams:

• Develop a stronger sense of personal accountability, leadership and initiative.
• Develop the skills to size up situations efficiently and effectively for better workplace decisions – essentials for great leaders.
• Build a culture of continuous improvement and creativity.
• Assimilate information less time and with more retention.
• Design and deliver great learning experiences.
• Communicate with more interpersonal understanding for less confusion and greater cohesion.

Marco is a member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, International Association of Coaches and Certified Professional Trainers Network. A partial list of past speaking clients includes: Petro-Canada, City of Calgary, Medicine Hat Police Services and Environics.

Debra Kasowski

780-819-3891

Debra Kasowski, BScN

Are you looking for an engaging speaker or presenter who will energize, empower, and educate your audience?

Debra Kasowski, The Millionaire Woman, is a passionate, success-driven woman entrepreneur, speaker, and author who helps highly motivated individuals and organizations to achieve the success that they desire. Through her keynotes and personal and professional development workshops, Debra will inspire, educate and empower you to:

• Discover your life purpose and live it with passion
• Embrace the change in your world or workplace
• Not just survive but to thrive
• Expand your potential by conquering the roadblocks to your success
• Attract more wealth in your life by creating richness from the inside out

Debra Kasowski is dedicated to the success of others. The Millionaire Woman believes that richness begins from the inside out.

Her keynotes and presentation can be customized just for you:

• NEW for 2012: Empowering the Woman in You
• Living Life with Passion and Purpose
• Conquer Your Fears
• Casting Your Stone: Building Rock Solid Relationships
• The Power of Change

Debra’s Personal Motto: "Don't let your biggest regret in life be that you never took action."

"It can be an accumulation of life’s little moments or one big moment that
changes the way we think about ourselves and how we view the world around us. It is these moments that define who we are and who we were meant to be. When you discover what you love in your life and what you don’t love in your life, only then do you begin to live." – Debra Kasowski

Robert Manolson

780-929-5949

Past Director CAPS Edmonton

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Robert Manolson, Powerful Play Experiences
Workplace Fun & Wellness Workshops

Planning your next team building session, staff retreat, conference or seminar?

Stuck with planning something that is fun and have no idea what to do or
who to bring in?

Powerful Play Experiences is in the business of raising fun levels at your next event. We use cooperative play as our innovative and creative, leading edge tool to engage co-workers, open lines of communication, manage stressors, and improve staff relations. Powerful Play Experiences achieves the goal of simply bringing people together in a most unique experience. Nothing else compares.

Your company is a great place to work, right?

Then show your staff how important they are. Invite fun and playfulness into the daily grind. Powerful Play Experiences are highly interactive, highly engaging, results-based workplace fun & wellness workshops. Create the WOW FACTOR to your company's next event that's so amazingly awesome, your staff leave 100% re-charged, re-juvenated, and re-energized.

After all, isn't it really all about a smile on everyone's faces at the end
of the work day?

Patricia Morgan

403-242-7796

2011 President
CAPS Calgary

Patricia Morgan, MA, CCC
2010 Spirit of CAPS Recipient

Patricia Morgan helps you bounce back from life’s challenges. She provides practical how-to’s that decrease stress and increase resiliency. Her uplifting, insightful, and fun message leaves audiences inspired and enlivened.

Patricia Morgan is a certified counselor and holds a Masters degree in Psychology. She is the author of several publications and was chosen as a Woman of Vision by Global TV and the YWCA.

Contact Patricia to ask about The Rubber Band Principle: Strategies for Strengthening Your Resilience and her other upbeat presentations.

Dr. Randy Ritz

780-235-7190

Communication
Coach to
Olympic
Medalists &
Hollywood
Actors

Past Director CAPS Edmonton

Dr. Randy Ritz
Actor, Film-Maker, Communication Coach

Want to build esprit de corps? Want to create a common corporate vision? For leaders, accomplishing this can be a daunting task. For those in the workforce it can be a relentless challenge.

Dr. Randy Ritz shows how the sharing of stories can motivate and inspire team members to access and own corporate vision—to be more accomplished and collaborative.

In his active presentations and keynotes, humor abounds while participants discover moments of significance in their work journey—moments worthy of sharing—and transform them into entertaining and meaningful narratives.

Randy has a PhD in curriculum (creative communication) and for 25 years has been an educator and head of the drama department at Concordia University College. What makes Randy different from other ivory tower academics is his extensive experience in the broader community as a performer and presenter. With an advanced degree in acting, he has the expertise of a master storyteller and uses his ability to captivate audiences, large or small.

Dr Ritz lives what he coaches—what he performs—by telling stories in many mediums. He is a “published in the U.S.” author, a Nashville recording artist and has just completed producing his second independent feature film, a supernatural thriller, called “Unfinished Business."

Dave Rodwell

780-460-3028

Past President
CAPS Edmonton

Dave Rodwell - SecuritySpeaking.com

Your audience will never forget Dave Rodwell. Using security strategies that are street-smart, practical and easily implemented in your daily life or corporation, Dave motivates his audiences to action, to prevent them being the victim of a crime.

In an entertaining manner, Dave imparts his gems of wisdom based on 28 years of investigating major crimes with the RCMP, and a 12 years year business career as an investigator and security consultant.

Using personal crime stories to illustrate his points, Dave will leave the audience with wisdom and the motivation, to take steps to reduce the chances of being a crime victim.

Find out why Dave Rodwell is your best choice if you are looking for a high impact, thought provoking speaker for corporate or association meetings, conventions, lectures or special events.

Dave speaks on a wide variety of corporate and personal security topics.

Nelson Scott

780-433-1443

Past President
CAPS Edmonton

Nelson Scott
Creating Staff & Customer Loyalty

During Nelson Scott’s presentations, your managers and supervisors will develop skills that will enable them to:
• obtain high-quality information about job candidates needed to make hiring decisions matching the right person to the right job.
• use no-cost/low-cost recognition to improve morale, increase productivity, and reduce turnover.
• create customer loyalty by delivering exceptional service and responding quickly and effectively to customer complaints.
• retain top performers without spending buckets of money (which wouldn’t work even if you could afford it).
• conduct meetings that achieve more in less time.
• use effective leadership and communication techniques to guide productive work teams.

Is Nelson Scott the right speaker/trainer for you?

You decide. Nelson is the right person for your association, public, or private sector organization 'if' you want a speaker/trainer who:
• customizes presentations to your needs
• listens to you first, before planning his presentation
• provides content-rich presentations, delivered with clarity and humour
• challenges participants’ thinking
• focuses on changing behaviours, rather than just creating “good feelings”
• invites feedback from participants and shares everything he hears with you
• supplies follow-up information to participants

Barb Semeniuk

780-431-1284

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Barb Semeniuk
Author, Speaker, Industry Safety Guru

Safety Guru, because the 20 years of Industrial Health and Safety advice that Barbara offers saves lives… and forces your company to take a look at what might get in the way of keeping your employees safe and happier on the job.

Speaker, because she reflects the dynamic professionalism of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS)… Barbara facilitates inspiring Industrial Health and Safety programs. She conducted over 500 audits of companies both large and small in the Construction, Food Processing, Oilfield, Trucking, Retail, Security, and Manufacturing industries. She taught auditing skills at Red Deer College, for the Food Processor’s Association, the Manufacturers’ Health and Safety Association and the Alberta Construction Health and Safety Association (ACSA). Barbara also pioneered the creation of ACSA’s auditor training course and the peer auditing system.

Any company in the Construction, Food Processing, Oilfield, Trucking, Retail, Security and Manufacturing industry who were wise enough to hire Barbara see transformations in their offices, construction sites and experience greater satisfaction in the quality of health and safety in general.

As an Author, Barbara Semeniuk specializes in industrial and high-tech safety and loss management articles about how to improve the safety policies and safety management systems in your company. Two decades of invaluable Industry Safety education is at your fingertips. Be the one to take action in your company with one of the industry best in your quest for safety issue solutions.

To receive details on how you can prepare your company to pass audits and safety inspections, contact Barbara Semeniuk.