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Meet our amazing conference speakers!

(seriously - check out these impressive women)


Your Emcee:

Dr. Chandi Chandrasena 

Your Speakers:

Hilary Blair

CEO, Speaking & Voice Coach - ARTiculate: Real & Clear
Hilary Blair
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  • Hilary Blair

    Hilary Blair is a keynote speaker, reframer of executive presence, and the CEO and Lead Coach for ARTiculate: Real&Clear. 

    As a speaking, communication & voice expert, Hilary is a highly regarded coach and facilitator working globally with a variety of businesses including American Express, Maersk, Liberty Global, and Hunter Douglas. 

    Hilary’s years as a teacher, stage, film and voice-over actor present a unique skill set. She sees beyond habits and learned behaviors to what is unique and authentic in groups & individuals. Hilary facilitates interactive workshops to heighten executive presence, deepen interpersonal communication, and strengthen leadership skills, teams, and messaging. 

    She is a CSP™, Certified Speaking Professional, and past board member of the Colorado Chapter of the National Speakers Association. Hilary is a member of VASTA, the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, and is certified in Conversational Intelligence™ (CIQ), and CultureTalk. She holds an MFA in acting from the National Theatre Conservatory and a BA from Yale. 

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Dr. Chandi Chandrasena

Family Physician
Dr. Chandi Chandrasena
  • Dr. Chandi Chandrasena
    Dr. Chandi Chandrasena has been a family doctor in Ottawa since 2004.   She graduated from the University of Ottawa Medicine and completed her Residency in 2002 from the Northern Ontario School of Medicine Family Medicine Program (NOFM) in Sudbury. 

    After graduation she locumed and worked in Northern Ontario for a few years before settling in Ottawa where she is married and has two amazing daughters. 

    She is currently the co-owner of her medical clinic and is the Family Health Organization (FHO) IT Lead. 

    Dr. Chandrasena has been a OntarioMd Peer Leader for over five years and is dedicated to encouraging her colleagues to use their EMR and other advanced technologies to improve physician workflows, efficiency and patient outcomes. She is currently interested in medical apps for physicians and patients and you can catch her talks and blogs at various websites. She is also active with CME planning and involved with the Department of Family Medicine in Ottawa.  She is on a number of different Virtual Care Working Groups and loves to help docs harness the power of their smart phone. 
     
     
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Perdita Felicien

Canadian Olympic Athlete & Two-Time World Champion Hurdler, TV Host and Author
Perdita Felicien
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  • Perdita Felicien
    Perdita Felicien is a two-time Olympian, two-time World Champion & 10- time National Champion in the 100m hurdles. 

    She retired from sport in  2013 & is now an author, television host, public speaker, and sports  broadcaster.  
    She hosts the new television series, All Round Champion, which airs on TVO  in Canada and on BYUtv in the United States. 

    Perdita has covered multiple international sports events for the CBC,  including the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, 2016 Summer Olympics and  2015 Pan American Games. 
    One of Canada’s most decorated track and field athletes, she has been named Canada’s Female Athlete of the Year, and was given the keys to her  hometown of Pickering, Ontario. 

    A recipient of the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee medal for her  charitable work, Perdita is a supporter of many initiatives including those  that work to end violence against women.  

    Her first book, My Mother’s Daughter, will be published by Doubleday  Canada in March 2021. Perdita’s memoir chronicles her experience as a  child witness to domestic abuse, homelessness and the highs and lows of  her illustrious racing career. 
     
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Fotini Iconomopoulos

"The Negotiator" - Negotiation Coach
Fotini Iconomopoulos
  • www.fotiniicon.com
  • Fotini Iconomopoulos
    Nicknamed “the negotiator” as a child, Fotini has been honing her skills her entire life.
     
    For the last decade, she’s been empowering Fortune 500 executives and their teams to achieve their objectives through her expertise in negotiation, communication, and persuasion. She guides companies through high-stakes scenarios and creates tailored intensive negotiation workshops for clients across all industries who want to develop their teams.
     
    When she’s not strategizing with clients, Fotini is a frequent guest on CBC & CTV Television and an instructor of MBA Negotiations at the Schulich School of Business. She also offers her experience to non-profit initiatives including an empowerment programs for young girls, an attempt to close the gender gap before it starts. 
     
    She’s been recognized with the Network of Executive Women’s Inclusion award as well as the Greek America Foundation’s Top 40 under 40 award for her achievements and philanthropic work.
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Dr. Miriam Kirmayer

Clinical Psychologist & Friendship Expert
Dr. Miriam Kirmayer
  • www.miriamkirmayer.com
  • Dr. Miriam Kirmayer
    Dr. Miriam Kirmayer is a clinical psychologist and leading friendship expert who has studied the science of social connection and friendship for over a decade. Her work focuses on helping others navigate life transitions, cultivate resilience and self-compassion, and build stronger relationships with the people that matter most. Dr. Kirmayer's words and advice have appeared in outlets such as The Atlantic, CNN, Forbes, The New York Times, TIME and Vogue. She is a featured expert for Psychology Today and Women's Health and a frequent guest on television shows and podcasts, including the TODAY Show and NPR. As a speaker and consultant, Dr. Kirmayer partners with businesses and organizations on events, initiatives, and global studies related to social connection and mental health. Whether Dr. Kirmayer is working one-on-one with clients or sharing the science of connection and compassion, her goal is to help others create meaningful relationships and fulfilling lives. 

    Dr. Kirmayer lives in Montreal with her husband and their sweet, curious, and spirited son, Liam. She is currently writing her first non-fiction book on adult friendships. Connect with Miriam and learn more about her work at www.miriamkirmayer.com
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Sarah Knight

International Bestselling Author of the No F*cks Given Guide series
Sarah Knight
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  • Sarah Knight
    Sarah Knight's first book The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck, has been published in more than thirty territories, and her TEDx talk, "The Magic of Not Giving a F*ck," has eight million views and counting. All of the books in her No F*cks Given Guide series (Calm the F*ck Down, etc.) have been international bestsellers, including Get Your Sh*t Together, which was on the New York Times Business bestseller list for sixteen weeks. Her writing has also appeared in Elle UK, Glamour, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, Red, Refinery29, and elsewhere. After quitting her corporate job in 2015 to pursue a freelance life, she moved from Brooklyn, New York, to the Dominican Republic, where she currently resides with her husband, two feral rescue cats, and a sh*tload of lizards.
     
    You can learn more and sign up for her newsletter at nofucksgivenguides.com, follow Sarah on Twitter and Instagram @MCSnugz, and follow the books @NoFucksGivenGuides (Facebook and Instagram) and @NoFucksGiven (Twitter).
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Emily Nagoski & Amelia Nagoski

Bestselling Authors of "Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle"
Emily Nagoski & Amelia Nagoski
  • Emily Nagoski & Amelia Nagoski
    Emily Nagoski, Ph. D., is a sex educator and author of Come as You Are: The surprising new science that will transform your sex life. Her job is to travel all over the world, training therapists, medical professionals, college students, and the general public about the science of women's sexual wellbeing. 

    Amelia Nagoski, D.M.A. (it stands for Doctorate of Musical Arts), is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Music at Western New England University. Her job is to run around waving her arms and making funny noises and generally doing whatever it takes to help singers get in touch with their internal experience. 

    In that way, her work is very much like Emily's. Emily's Masters' degree is in counseling and Amelia's is in choral conducting; one day they realized they both got graduate degrees in how to listen and feel feelings, which maybe says something about their shared childhood? 

    They both live in New England with a variety of cats, dogs , and spouses. Yes, they're twins. Yes, they're identical. Yes, one time they pretended to be each other; it did not go well. 
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Glynnis MacNicol

Writer and Author of "No One Tells You This: A Memoir"
Glynnis MacNicol
  • www.glynnismacnicol.com
  • Glynnis MacNicol
    Glynnis MacNicol is a writer and the author of No One Tells You This: A Memoir (S & S, 2018). Her work has appeared in print and online for publications including The New York Time, The Guardian, The Cut, New York Daily New, W, Town & Country, The Globe & Mail, The Daily Beast, Shondaland, and ELLE.com, where she was a contributing writer. She lives in New York City. 


    MacNicol co-wrote HelloFlo: The Guide, PERIOD: The Everything Pubery Book for the Modern Girl (Dutton, 2017) with HelloFlo founder Naama Bloom. She co-edited and contributed to the best-selling Amazon Kindle essay collection The 10 Habits of Highly Successful Women.Her series of articles for Chase's award-winning "From the Ground Up" package on Brownsville, Brooklyn won a 2015 Contently Award. 


    Previously, MacNicol was the media editor at Business Insider. During the 2008 election year she was a regular contributor to Playboy.com. She began her media career as the editor of FishbowlNY, prior to that she was an associate editor at the Huffington Post media blog Eat the Press. MacNicol has spoken frequently on the intersection of media and politics and has appeared on Fox News, MSNBC, CBC, Al Jazeera, and CNNs Reliable Sources. 


    MacNicol is also the co-founder of TheList with Rachel Sklar. Named to Good Housekeeping's 2016 Awesome Women Awards by Shonda Rimes, the list has been covered in the NYT, The Guardian, Elle, Marie Claire's 'New Guard', SAI 100, Lucky, Mashable, Fast Company, Refinery 29, HuffPost, and the New York Post.



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Dr. Laura Markham

Clinical Psychologist and Parenting Expert, AHA Parenting
Dr. Laura Markham
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  • Dr. Laura Markham

    Dr. Laura Markham is the author of Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How To Stop Yelling and Start Connecting; Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings: How To Stop the Fighting and Raise Friends for Life; and now her latest book, The Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook: Using mindfulness and connection to raise resilient, joyful children and rediscover your love of parenting.

                    

    Dr. Laura Markham earned her PhD in clinical psychology at Columbia University and has worked as a parenting coach with countless families across the world. Over 160,000 moms and dads enjoy Dr. Laura’s free weekly coaching posts via email. You can sign up on any page of her website, AhaParenting.com, which serves up Aha! Moments for parents of babies through teens. Dr. Laura’s aspiration is to change the world, one child at a time, by supporting parents. The proud mother of two thriving young adults who were raised with her peaceful parenting approach, she lives with her husband in New York.

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Dr. Onye Nnorom

Family Physician, Public Health and Preventive Medicine Specialist
Dr. Onye Nnorom
  • Dr. Onye Nnorom
    Dr. Onye Nnorom is a Family Doctor and a Public Health & Preventive Medicine specialist. She is the Associate Program Director of the Public Health & Preventive Medicine Residency Program at the University of Toronto. As the Black Health Theme Lead, she is tasked with developing education content for teaching medical students about Black Canadian health and inequities due to systemic racism. She is also a clinical consultant for the Nicotine Dependence Clinic at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health. 

    She is the President of the Black Physicians' Association of Ontario. She was also the chronic disease prevention lead at TAIBU Community Health Centre, where she led a number of successful cancer screening initiatives. Most recently she has taken the role as the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Lead, within the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. And she is the host of a podcast called Race, Health, and Happiness where she interviews succesful Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color, providing wisdom on how to stay well in a "racialized world". 

    Dr. Nnorom completed her medical degree at McGill Univeristy and then completed a Masters of Public Health (Epidemiology) and residency training at the University of Toronto. Being of Nigerian and Trinidadian heritage, she is particularly interested in Black community health and wellness and racism as a social determinant of health. 



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Dr. Wendy Troxel

Clinical Psychologist and Sleep Expert
Dr. Wendy Troxel
  • Dr. Wendy Troxel
    Dr. Troxel is a Senior Behavioural Scientist at the RAND Corporation and Adjunct Faculty in Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and University of Utah. Her research focuses on the interface between sleep, the social environment, and health, and the implications for public policy. Dr. Troxel is considered the leading authority on sleep in the context of close relationships, including couples. She is the PI or Co-PI of several projects funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense and foundations. Her work has been published in top-tier medical and psychiatric journals and has also received widespread media attention, including film interviews on CBS Sunday Morning, Good Morning America and print interviews with the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, MSNBC, and CNN. Troxel's TEDx talk on sleep in adolescents has received over 1.9 million views, and is at the forefront of policy discussions on the impact of early school start times on adolescent sleep. Troxel is also an active clinical psychologist with a focus on behavioral (non-pharmacologic) treatments for sleep disorders. She has served in leadership roles in several professional sleep societies, including the Society of Behavioural Medicine and the Sleep Research Society and serves as an Associate Editor for the journals Sleep Health and Behavioural Sleep Medicine. Her book, Sharing the Covers: Every Couple's Guide to Better Sleep will be released in April 2021 by Hachette Go. 
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Dr. Katrina Ubell

Physician, Certified Life & Weight Loss Coach
Dr. Katrina Ubell
  • katrinaubellmd.com
  • Dr. Katrina Ubell
    Katrina Ubell, MD is a pediatrician-turned-certified life and weight loss coach. She helps busy women-identifying physicians permanently end their overeating and weight struggle through life coaching and the latest weight loss science.  She also hosts the podcast Weight Loss for Busy Physicians. She lost 50 lbs herself utilizing the tools she teaches. To learn more, check out katrinaubellmd.com
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