Stephen M. R. Covey Jr. is co-founder and CEO of CoveyLink Worldwide. A sought-after and compelling keynote speaker and advisor on trust, leadership, ethics, and high performance, he speaks to audiences around the world.    more

KEN FISHER is best known for his prestigious Portfolio Strategy column in Forbes, where his 22-year tenure of high-profile calls now makes him the fifth-longest-running columnist in Forbes’ nearly ninety-year history.    more

SAM GEIST's business roots were first established in a small sporting goods store in Toronto, Canada.  With his belief that at start-up, business operation is 90% hard work, 10% know-how, he gradually grew The Outdoor Stores into a 15-store national sporting goods chain.     more

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Dr. Donald Low, a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, completed his undergraduate training and postgraduate training in medicine and infectious diseases at the University of Manitoba and his training in Medical Microbiology at the University of Toronto. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.     more

GORDON PITTS is an author and business journalist, with a specialization in issues of management, strategy, leadership, family business and entrepreneurship in Canadian companies.           more

KERRY STRATTON is a Conductor and Music Director of the Toronto Philharmonia, the orchestra-in-residence at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. Since 1992, he has also been Music Director for the Huntsville Festival of the Arts, Ontario.      more

Ron MacLean is best known as the straight man on Coach’s Corner, the listener, and some might argue the voice of reason that saves Don Cherry from getting a puck in the head. Ron’s broadcasting career began in 1978 when he took over a 16-month part-time position at a radio station in Red Deer, Alberta.      more

BRIAN WILLIAMS, considered the dean of Canadian sports commentators, with more than a quarter of a century of broadcast experience, Williams maintains a youthful exuberance that is appreciated by fans of every sport he covers.          more

LINDA SIMS has been a powerful force in Canadian business journalism for more than 20 years.  From more than a decade on CBC’s premier business program, VENTURE, to her years as business anchor on CTV’s Canada AM, and CTV Newsnet, and now reporting on the markets for BNN – Business News Network; Linda has extensively covered key business issues here in Canada, and around the world.              more

JOHN AMATT   “The challenge of change is forcing us to rethink our values and to rekindle our spirit of adventure . . .         more

Michael Vaughan is the host of Michael Vaughan Live, Canada's leading business interview program. Vaughan engages CEOs, politicians, authors, athletes, scientists, entertainers and newsmakers in lively one-on-one discussions and debates.         more

DAVID FOOT, Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto, is co-author of the bestselling books Boom Bust & Echo 2000: Profiting from the Demographic Shift in the New Millennium and Boom Bust & Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shift (with Daniel Stoffman, Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, 1998, 1996.          more