Dawn Frail

519-927-1730

Dawn Frail

Dawn inspires leaders to build trust and loyalty so their teams will increase productivity and deliver higher bottom-line profits.

How do you consistently deliver breakthrough business results? By building a powerful leadership team - from the inside out. Timeless wisdom is brought to life for you and your organization through interactive workshops, seminars and keynotes.

Drawing on her background in Finance and IT, Dawn's style is powerful and persuasive. With a natural gift for teaching, Dawn will help you bridge the gap between knowing and doing to get measurable business results.

Everyone can benefit from the leadership message, and Dawn focuses her attention on helping women in leadership unleash and develop their natural talent. She shows women (and men who work with women) how being a woman in leadership is an advantage and how to overcome some of the common obstacles that women continually face.

PROGRAMS/TITLES INCLUDE:

• The Female Advantage
• Leadership Excellence for Women in Business
• The Ethical Advantage
• If You Build It, They Will Come
• Unleashing Greatness with Myers-Briggs

Cate Gibson

905-720-3401

Cate Gibson, Powerful Journey Consultants
When your heart is right, your world is right!

As an inspirational speaker, author and trainer for over 18 years, Cate's expertise is to ignite the Authentic Self in her audiences so they will soar! She takes her audiences to the core of the matter and beyond! Her specialties are The Power of Work/Family Balance, Speak your Customers' Language, Tenacious Team Building and Loss. Cate's counselling and fitness background create well Researched, Insightful, Interactive and Powerful Keynotes, Seminars, Coaching and Retreats that identify participants blocks, build on their strengths, assess their lifestyles and examine their choices along with the core distorted beliefs that prevent them from creating the long term change they desire. We help re-align employees and their teams so they will confidently tackle anything!

Cate takes audiences on a very powerful journey so they will take themselves to a much higher level; be more connected to themselves and others, increase performance, enhance passion and creativity in the workplace and in their life, reduce absenteeism and positively affect their overall wellbeing.

She is committed to working with the “whole” person to provide creative solutions to achieve their ultimate career or life goals. Cate created effective and user friendly resources to support some of the common blocks that occur in employees so they can get back on the horse to perform at their peak. Cate Gibson is the author of highly successful resources which include; a Loss CD that addresses relationship endings, a Bereavement CD to address unresolved Grief along with an insightful Parenting DVD to address family pressures.

Cate has been featured on Breakfast Television, Rogers, radio stations across Canada along with several newspapers. Her venues have included working in Puerto Rico, US, Montreal, Quebec City, Alberta, all across Ontario.

Cate's clients are primarily the Health Care Field, Colleges & Universities, Medium size Businesses, Mental Health, Funeral and Women's Associations, Education, to name a few.

Her audiences rave about the effective, innovative, playful, and superior delivery that she provides! Cate customizes presentations to the specific needs of her audiences. She receives such feedback as "It was like she worked here and she really understood what our issues were and helped us find solutions!"

Alan Goff

780-505-0773

Alan Goff

Alan Goff is a multi-gifted, award-winning Motivational Teacher, Keynote Speaker and Author who one enthusiastic audience member called “The most passionate speaker on the planet.” His message conveys the perfect blend of ‘been there – done that’ real life experiences and proven success strategies with wisdom, humor and fun. He lives and breathes the strategies and tools he shares with people around the world.

Alan not only Entertains, Educates and Equips audiences with his signature programs on Legendary Leadership, Performance & Results, Purpose/Vision/Goals, Goal-Achievement and Self-Confidence, but Hits Hard and ‘tells it like it is’ with his life-changing and character-building personal story. His content is rich and practical, and his style is dynamic and engaging.

If you want to see real change in your life, or the life of your organization, connect with Alan. As an enthusiastic catalyst, Alan provides you with proven tools, and teaches you how to use them to achieve Remarkable Results.

Alan has spoken throughout Canada, the United States and abroad. He has been featured on the CBS Network program 'Leading Experts' and interviewed on numerous radio and internet broadcast stations.

Alan has spoken to CEO’s and C-Level executives, sales professionals in a wide variety of industries, network marketing professionals, colleges, schools and governments. He has shared the stage with internationally-recognized experts, best-selling authors and politicians.

Looking for a POWERFUL KEYNOTE SPEAKER? Be the hero and have Alan appear live to speak at you next event!

Peggy Grall

905-659-6683

Past President
CAPS Toronto

Nominated for 2004 Business Person of the Year

Nominated for the 2005 Athena Award recognizing Women in Business.

Chapter Chair for the international Women President’s Organization, Toronto Chapter

Peggy Grall, CSP

Your event is important… and you need the best speaker you can find. Your audience wants to come away feeling hopeful and refreshed - and you need to know that they learn something in the process. You need an expert who speaks professionally to fill that bill!

The Toronto Star calls Peggy Grall, ‘Tonic for the transition challenged.’ And her clients say she’s the change agent you want in your corner when the task is tough.

Peggy delights her audiences with her quick wit and captivating stories about real people and companies with real change issues, sharing secrets about how they cope and succeed! Peggy provides custom, well-researched presentations, delivered with an informed and engaging style, and her clients say her relaxed approach is a great fit for today’s change-weary audiences.

Peggy Grall is a Certified Executive Coach and former psychotherapist with 19 years experience in helping individuals, teams and organizations make essential change. Peggy’s distinctive background in both business and Human Services equips her to quickly identify and support her clients to address the personal and professional barriers blocking their change success.

Peggy’s Keynotes:
Leading Change and Learning to Love it! (Change leadership)
Managing the Big Fat Changes At Work (Navigating change for employees)
Who Are These People and Why Are They Driving Me Crazy? (Dealing with difficult people)

Peggy’s believes that the best way to ensure the success of a change is to strategically equip and fiercely support the leaders of the change. Peggy mentors and coaches change leaders through every step of implementing their change initiatives. Peggy has demonstrated her ability to assist individuals and organizations to explore and resolve complex personal and group issues, through working with organizations that are navigating mergers, moving facilities and initiating culture changes.

She is a columnist with Company Magazine, the past-Editor of Psychologica, the trade magazine of the Association of Mental Health Professionals and the author of: Just Change It, Professionally Speaking, Change Bytes and 19 Hopeful Hints for Managing the Big Fat Changes at Work, as well as numerous other articles and CD’s. Peggy is the creator of the popular training game Transition Poker, a learning experience where change theory meets real play!

Peggy’s clients include:

Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey

C: 780-707-0189

Past Director
CAPS National

Co-founder and Past President CAPS Vancouver

Past Director
CAPS Edmonton

Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey,
CKD-Emeritus, Accredited Speaker, Creative 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 leadership 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.

As a business, leadership, sales success expert and prolific author, Bob's innovative skills 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. Bob completed a 8 day speaking tour in Iran followed by an event in Mumbai, India. He just returned from Australia (Jan. 2010) and will be presenting in The Netherlands and Russia this spring.

Michael McGauley

C: 416-917-5389

Michael McGauley

An inspiring national speaker and coach, Michael McGauley captivates audiences with his compelling life story and how he learned to excell beyond normal human expectations in the face of tragedy and adversity.

From earning his degree in business after childhood dyslexia led educators to classify him as "Incompetent", to regaining the full use of his legs after they were threatened for amputation as a result of being serverly crushed in a car accident whioe he was being a 'Good Samaritan", Michael reveals the true value of tenacity and is earning the reputation of being the "Power of Persistence" expert.

Michael is the president of The Dream Builders Inc.

Michel Neray

416-534-4766

Past President
CAPS Toronto

Michel Neray, MBA, B.Sc.
Do your customers know your Essential Message®?

Michel Neray has a science undergraduate degree from the University of Waterloo, a second-degree black belt in Karate and an MBA from McGill University. He's married with three children, two dogs, two canoes and one motorcycle.

He also has over 25 years of experience as an award-winning copywriter, an Internet pioneer, a tradeshow pitchman and a senior sales and marketing executive.

He has worked with major corporations including Honda, Volvo, Upjohn, Alias-Wavefront, Nikon, The Royal Bank, The Quaker Oats Company, Marathon Brokerage, Guardian Mutual Funds, Mackenzie Financial and many others.

An online pioneer, Mr. Neray was one of the first marketing professionals to embrace the Internet by building websites as early as 1993. In 1994, Michel co-authored a book entitled “The Great Crossover: Personal Confidence in the Age of the Microchip”, which made it to Jack Canfield’s Achiever’s Recommended Reading List. Michel founded Portfolios.com in 1995, the world’s first online source directory for creative professionals.

Since creating The Essential Message® in 2003, Michel has helped thousands of independent professionals and entrepreneurs as well as growing corporations find a better way to differentiate, position and brand themselves.

In 2005, his chapter, "Everything Starts With A Conversation" was selected as the lead for the book, "Sales Gurus Speak Out" and re-published in 2008 for 'Awakening The Workplace Volume 3'. He is also a co-author of In the Company of Leaders (2008) with 40 top North American leadership experts and authors.

"Michel you were an awesome addition to our speaker line-up this year and a great facilitator for some of our sessions at the SOHO SME Business Conference & Expo! We received great feedback on your presentation and I want to thank you for bringing exceptional value to the event and to our attendees." Moe Somani President/CEO

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Michel's presentations include:
Ditch Your Pitch!
Everything Starts With A Conversation (including your next sale)
What Drives You Crazy Makes You Great!
Sales Telepathy
Differentiation-Based Leadership

Richard Peterson

905-887-6876

Past Director
CAPS National

Past President
CAPS Toronto

Richard Peterson
"Coaching professionals to become more powerful presenters" - "Specializing in High Stakes Presentations"

Richard Peterson
CSP, (Certified Sales Professional)
North America's Presentation Coach™High Stakes Presentation Specialist
Founder and CPO (Chief Presentation Officer) of the Presentation Coaching Institute

How you present yourself to any audience, including internal or external customers and whether two or two hundred listeners, is critical to your success or failure…the stakes are that high!

Break through career barriers and business or workplace obstacles more quickly and easily with powerful presentation skills, the ultimate success tool for professionals! Presentation coaching is an excellent way to catapult up the corporate ladder.

Richard has perfected a self-discovery coaching system that can easily be learned in just a few simple steps. Those simple steps help business professionals speak more effectively, conduct meetings in a more powerful manner, and make business and sales presentations with more command and power!

Richard is the coach and author of internationally recognized business presentation skills programs: To find out more on the hottest programs his clients demand:

• High Stakes Tactics for Presentation Warriors!™
• Presenting with Impact & Integrity™

A former freelance photographer and contrasted by more than twenty years in the corporate business world at senior executive levels with Blue Chip Corporations, Richard is engaged in private practice catering to the business and personal development needs of a broad range of individuals ranging from corporate executives to professional athletes.

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Attributes of note:
• Founding Board Member - Promotion Marketing Association - Toronto Chapter
• Contributing author, Sales Gurus Speak out!
• CSP - Certified Sales Professional, CPSA Institute

David Saxby

403-244-7450

Past President
CAPS Calgary

Past Director
CAPS National

David Saxby
Spark Communications, Inc.

David Saxby will ignite innovative thinking and boost your sales and marketing results.

A speaker and trainer for over 20 years and a marketing communications consultant for 30, David is President of Spark Communications Inc.

Keynote presentations range from 45 minute to 90 minutes and can be customized for you audience. Seminars or Training programs can be delivered in a 90 min to one and two day presentations and can also be customized for you audience.

All presentations are interactive, motivating sessions and packed full of strategies, tactics and tips based on over 30 years of professional experience in the areas of; Creativity and Innovative Thinking, Sales and Marketing and Professional Presentation Skills.

David has served on the CAPS National Board and a second term as President of the CAPS Calgary Chapter.

Claire Sookman

416-398-5160

Claire Sookman
Distinguished as Canada’s pioneer in virtual team building, she specializes in helping teams that are geographically dispersed reduce their costs and reach their maximum potential, through training, coaching consulting and designing.

As the driving force behind the training/consulting firm of Virtual Team Builders, Claire Sookman brings to the table over a decade’s worth of corporate training experience, working with well over 4,500 Managers in the past three years alone Specializing in virtual team building and communication strategies, Claire's company provides training that enables global teams to work more efficiently and effectively.

Claire's personalized, focused seminars have garnered numerous accolades, putting her services in high demand Worldwide. Some of her clients include: AT&T, Weyerhaeuser, CIBC, TD/Canada Trust, Siemens, Bell Canada, Ministry of Correctional Services, USDA Forest Services, Sick Kids, Orange FT and the Insurance Board of Ontario.

In addition to acting as a consultant and trainer, Claire has participated in a range of public speaking conferences including: Project World, Seminars World, CEPEX, Federated Press, Institute For International Research, Human Resource Professional Association and McMaster’s World Congress. In addition, Claire’s articles have been published in CIO magazine, Computer World, Network World and in the Training Report. Claire is also a published author on Virtual Teams.

Distinguished as Canada’s pioneer in virtual team building, Claire’s Virtual Team Certificate Program helps reduce costs and teaches global teams to work more effectively together.

Her polished communication and training skills were honed though both practical and educational channels including a Master Trainer Certification through Langevin learning Services. Claire’s technical expertise in training is complimented by the Canadian Association for Professional Speakers and a long-standing association with Toastmasters International. Visit our website. Take a minute to complete our Virtual Team Builders Needs Assessment and get a 5% discount on your next engagement with Virtual Team Builders. We look forward to being of assistance!

George Torok

905-335-1997

Past Director
CAPS National

George Torok
Marketing expert, Executive Speech Coach, Creativity Catalyst

Out-market, out-communicate and crush the competition.

Your Success is Guaranteed
Your Toronto event is important. That’s why George Torok will work with you before the event to ensure that we do everything possible to guarantee your success. Plus – your satisfaction with George Torok’s program is 100% satisfaction guaranteed. Read the 100% satisfaction guarantee.

Your Unfair Advantage
George Torok offers you a winning edge because he believes that you deserve more than your fair share. When you work with George Torok you get critical principles, easy-to-use techniques and real-life examples. If you want to learn how to use success-ensuring systems then George Torok can help you claim your unfair advantage.

Imagine getting results like this:

"Secrets of Power Marketing helped us increase our business 3,000% - and that was from just one client. This client had been giving us about $10,000 annually, in business, for the past six years. We were frustrated with this amount because we knew there was more business available.

After attending George Torok's program we applied a fresh and innovative approach with our client. We immediately used his ideas to grab attention and boost credibility. We continued to follow his marketing system to build relationships and offer more value. Listen to the numbers. That client doubled the first year and has doubled every year for the past five years.”
Richard Maude, President, Ad Plus Promotions Inc.

Motivational Business Speaker
Business doesn’t need to be boring. Just ask Richard Branson and Donald Trump. As host of the weekly radio show, Business in Motion, George Torok has interviewed over 400 business leaders. Imagine the secrets, stories and perspective he has gained. You will hear the best of these gems when you arrange for George Torok to speak at your Toronto event.

What is George Torok’s presentation style?
Engaging, entertaining and encouraging. He is direct, sometimes disruptive and often dramatic. He has been likened to Robin Williams. One CEO even called him goofy. Watch George Torok on YouTube Videos.

Business Leader says:

“My sales brokers were not only presented with excellent, useable material that they can apply in their daily work, but were also thoroughly entertained - what a rare combination.

I highly recommend your presentation to any organization looking for a dynamic speaker who can deliver a meaningful message with enthusiasm and humour. George, you never disappoint - thanks again!”
Dan Lawrie, President & CEO, Dan Lawrie Insurance Brokers

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Summary of your Toronto business speaker, George Torok

• Bestselling author of Secrets of Power Marketing
• Host of the weekly radio show, Business in Motion
• The Speech Coach for Executives
• Visited over 22 countries on five continents
• Written and published over 350 articles
• Frequent media guest expert
• Marathon runner

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Can George Torok help you make your Toronto event a success? Perhaps. It depends on what you want. Visit his website and give him a call now – before it’s too late.

Helen Wilkie

416-966-5023

Helen Wilkie

Communication! What the heck is it? Well, that depends who you ask and that's the problem. One of the most common complaints in today's workplace is, "There's no communication around here!" But ask ten people what they mean by that and you'll get ten different answers.

As a communication specialist, Helen Wilkie will make sure she understands your communication issue before she begins to speak or work with your people. Whether you need a keynote or workshop session for your conference, an in-house seminar or coaching for your people, if it has anything to do with communication, you need Helen Wilkie. And by the way, according to Helen it's ALL about communication!

Her most popular topics include:

• The Hidden Profit Center - keynote and workshops based on her book of the same name. Poor communication across an organization is extremely expensive, reduce your costs by improving your "applied communication".
• How to Get People to Do What You Want without Bribery, Blackmail or a Magic Wand! Available as a keynote or workshop, this program takes a quirky but practical look at persuasive communication skills.
• Now Go DO It! End your conference with a rousing keynote that will remind participants of what a great event it has been, give them a practical tool to make real-world use of what they've learned, and inspire them to take action!
• Sowing and Growing Your Network - how to network effectively at the current event while still being able to enjoy it, and then grow and make use of your network in all areas of your life, for your entire life.
• Yin and Yang at Work - helping men and women work together without killing each other!

The "Helen's 9 Rules" series of 60-90 minute programs are equally effective as conference workshops or in-house lunch and learn events:

• Helen's 9 Rules for Better Business Writing
• Helen's 9 Rules for Pithy Presentations
• Helen's 9 Rules for Meaningful Meetings
• Helen's 9 Rules for Publishable Prose
• Helen's 9 Rules for Excellent E-mail

Helen also conducts full-length in-house workshops on business writing and presentation skills.

If you want to tap the latent wisdom of everyone in your organization, at all levels, talk to Helen about leading The World Cafe at your event. This fascinating, fun, enlightening process can uncover solutions to real issues from unexpected sources.

Helen Wilkie is passionate about communication. When she speaks?in a keynote, concurrent session, in-house workshop or one-on-one consulting or coaching her audience is captivated by that passion. She strongly believes that in business, communication directly affects the bottom line, and her mission is to help business people get their message across, so that the effect will be positive.

A graduate of the University of Strathclyde and Jordanhill College of Education, both in Glasgow, Helen taught commerce and economics in Scotland for two years. When she came to Canada, she moved away from education and into the world of business, where her career has encompassed marketing, human resources, international, shareholder relations and corporate development.

Blending her teaching skills with her business knowledge and communication talents, Helen speaks on all aspects of communication. Her content-rich programs are presented with humour and knowledge, offering a lively, enjoyable learning experience. Her unique Communication Contract? is the core from which all her messages spring.

Helen is the author of Message Received and Understood! and The Hidden Profit Center, as well as many articles on communication. She is an active member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers.

Bruno Wiskel

780-689-2944

Bruno Wiskel, "The Prosperous Farmer"
Helping People in Agriculture Become Outstanding in their Field.

Sharing his experience, strength, and hope, Bruno has been described by conference organizers as "wildly entertaining" and "hit of the evening". Bruno's presentations combine knee slapping humour with real life knowledge from an agricultural entrepreneur who has increased his farm income from $30,000 per year to $30,000 per month – not bad for 35 acres.

In his keynote presentation "The Joy of Farming" Bruno shows what it was like, what happened, and what it is like now in a cornucopia of poignant images and anecdotes. "'The Joy of Farming' is a must see for all the beleaguered farmers of the world."

As a syndicated newspaper columnist and bestselling author, Bruno combines head knowledge with heart knowledge in 9 separate workshops designed to help ordinary farmers achieve extraordinary results. These agri-business seminars include:

*The Rural Millionaire – 21 Secrets to Ag-Marketing
*Big Bucks for Beef Barons
*Diversify or Die – The Layman’s Guide to Ag-Prosperity
*The Art of Successful Negotiation
*Building an Energy Efficient House for Less
*Woodlot Management
*Building a Lake at the Cabin
*Drilling a Water Well Without Getting Soaked

Want to see Bruno wake up a pyrogy stuffed crowd? Check out his “Joy of Farming” sampler.

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Click here to purchase your own copy for only $20 (CDN) plus GSt. Proceeds to the CAPS Foundation.