Manitoba 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, leadership, career and business expert authors across North America.

Winnipeg, Manitoba is the home and/or preferred workplace of some amazing speakers and trainers from across the world.

Helen Dyrkacz

204-269-2311

President-elect CAPS Winnipeg

Helen Dyrkacz, CMA

Helen works with people to have breakthroughs in their personal and professional lives by providing new value added approaches.

Leadership, motivation and focus are the primary ingredients for success in this global environment. Enthusiastic, dynamic and interactive presentations give participants practical ideas that produce results. Helen's coaching and training experience in communications, human relations, leadership, and stress management motivate audience members to Take It Up A Notch - And Make It Happen.

Helen Dyrkacz is a Certified Management Accountant who has gone beyond the bottom line to understand the people and their impact in organizations - Beyond the Bottom Line. New ideas...New approaches...New successes...

Elaine Froese

204-534-6846

Elaine Froese
Award winning author of Planting the Seed of Hope... encouragement for families.

Elaine is a high energy encourager. She delivers practical tools for people to look at their ruts and get unstuck. Audiences take-away fun action plans for a purposeful life.

Elaine Froese uses her daily experiences of life on her farm to sow Seeds of Encouragement with her audiences. She is a certified professional coach, and has a special heart for rural folks. Agricultural clients appreciate her ability to connect with the heartfelt issues her audiences face. Elaine uses stories, props, and a sense of play and creativity.

As a Farm Family Coach (TM) Elaine gleans many insights that help families deal with family business dynamics and the emotional factors affecting planning. Elaine is trained by the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara, a member of the International Coaching Federation. She offers Planning for Change Workshops. Hire Elaine if you are looking for a high content speaker with Tools to Help you Talk through the Tough Issues...

Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey

780-736-0009

Past CAPS National Director

Past CAPS Vancouver President

Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey,
CKD-Emeritus, Accredited Speaker, Creative Leadership Catalyst

If you are in leadership, sell for a living, or depend on your ability to persuade for your success - Bob can help give you the Edmonton Edge in building a successful career, in selling more, or in leading a successful organization to the next level.

Protect your conference investment - leverage your training dollars. Call NOW to engage Canadian Ideaman, Bob Hooey and his profitable, innovative Ideas At Work! for your company, convention or association. Ideas At Work! - Strategies to Success! Bob now lives in the country North-East of Edmonton.

Bob's humorous, interactive, conversational and, sometimes provocative style inspire his audiences across North America. As a business, leadership, sales success expert and prolific author, Bob's innovative development programs have helped thousands of leaders and professionals dramatically and profitably increase their effectiveness. Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey will help you inspire, equip, and lead your audience, association, sales team, or company to greater success!

Bob was the 48th person worldwide to earn Toastmasters International's coveted professional level, Accredited Speaker designation. Watch his induction into Toastmasters International Hall of Fame for his "professionalism and outstanding achievements in public speaking," at their 1998 International convention.

Rolande Kirouac

204-256-6215

Rolande Kirouac, CLYT
Leading with Laughter

Keynotes and seminars for leaders who want to create an environment that energizes and engages people to do their best.

Rolande Kirouac, a professional member with the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, delivers a refreshing and innovative approach to organizational wellness. She believes that leaders who can learn to smile, giggle and laugh more easily and more often, foster cooperation, creative thinking, job satisfaction and a workplace where employees want to be. And her programs and presentations teach them how.

A certified Laughter Yoga™ Teacher, Rolande has trained dozens of leaders to promote the health benefits of “laughing for no reason.” Over 1,000 people have received the health benefits of her program. Owner of the Manitoba-based consulting company Spadrole and co-creator of the laughter CD ‘HA! ‘, Rolande builds on her extensive experience in stress management, leadership development and team building to help organizations become more effective and efficient.

She has taught clients from such diverse backgrounds as health care, education, justice and administration how to access their inexhaustible power source of laughter and build healthy work environments. Rolande has logged over 11,321 laughter hours and has appeared on national and local television and in the press.

Rolande is bilingual and works with leaders who want to create an environment that energizes and engages people to do their best. Get ready to exercise your laughter muscles and enjoy the liberating and empowering effect that proves laughter is not only good medicine, it’s good business.

Stephanie Staples

204-255-5912

Stephanie Staples
Personal Development & Life Enrichment Coach

Stephanie Staples speaks from the heart to empower her clients and audiences to move their lives from good to great. Using her proven A5 Success Building Strategies , she combines wellness and personal growth strategies with fun and practicality to create a unique, comprehensive package that works and keeps on working!

Host of "Your Life, Unlimited," her own Canadian radio talk show about personal growth, Stephanie's mission is to connect with her audiences using humor, sensitivity and passion. With a background as a nurse and adult educator, she speaks about real issues that matter and while she predominantly speaks in the fields of healthcare and education, people say "everyone" should hear her message. Her program has been called "life changing," simply put, it gets to the heart and soul of the audience members and elicits positive, lasting change.

Bring Stephanie Staples in to connect with your group if you would like to see an improvement in:

• attitudes
• understanding
• communication
• change management
• personal development

Her style is described as high energy, empowering and entertaining. Whether for keynotes, breakouts or full day workshops your group will be involved, interested and excited to begin using the practical, do-able skills they have learned, tools that will make them more successful in their personal and professional lives, tools that will last long after the presentation is over.