PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE

As one of the leading mental performance consultants in the field, Dr. Kimberley Amirault-Ryan has coached and trained some of the world’s top athletes and teams. Throughout her career, she has witnessed what habits and behaviours are required for success. She will share her expertise on how you can create an environment that is more conducive to achieving success through personal and professional excellence.

Whether you’re in the sport arena or in the boardroom, Amirault-Ryan will share universal traits that are possessed by those that experience the most success in their field and how you can replicate it within your own careers, teams and organizations. Interspersed with real life examples from her Olympic, NHL and NBA championship experiences, Amirault-Ryan will ensure you leave this session armed with the recipe for success.

The true measure of leadership is not how much your team needs you. It is how well they can keep moving forward when you are not there.

In this keynote, Phil Jewell challenges the traditional idea that strong leaders must be involved in every decision, solve every problem, and remain at the centre of all progress. Drawing from his leadership experience across military, government, and corporate settings, Phil explores how leaders can unintentionally create dependency by over-helping, over-controlling, and stepping in too quickly.

Participants will be invited to rethink leadership through the lens of trust, empowerment, and capability. Rather than building teams that wait for permission, this session will help leaders understand how to build teams that take ownership, make decisions, and move forward with confidence.

Many employees hear terms such as vision, mission, values, and strategic priorities but aren’t always clear on how these translate into the projects they work on every day. Strategic planning can sometimes feel abstract or disconnected from day-to-day tasks, something that happens at the leadership level and doesn’t directly influence frontline work.

Strategy comes to life through projects. Projects are the vehicles that turn strategic priorities into action, and they shape how work gets planned, delivered, and measured across the organization. This session will explore how strategic priorities are translated into real project work through defined scopes, deliverables, timelines, resources, and success measures. It will also highlight the importance of employee involvement in shaping and delivering projects, ensuring alignment from strategy through execution.