Speakers

He leads his own coaching practice, as a Co-Active Coach, working with clients to improve their lives professionally and personally. Stephen specializes with a keynote presentation on overcoming a stutter, how fear plays a factor in all of our lives, and what we can do to reach our full potential (Click here for a youtube video clip). Stephen also conducts strategic facilitations with organizations to help them find and follow their core purpose and founding ideology.He has taken his corporate experiences to pursue his passions in people and leadership development. Stephen has worked with Knightsbridge Human Capital Solutions as a Junior Consultant in their Organization and Leadership Solutions practice; with Suncor Energy Inc. as a Business Analyst in their Leadership Development Program; and with Ernst & Young LLP as a Change Management Consultant.

Stephen is a passionate and dedicated supporter of Future Possibilities for Kids (www.fpcanada.org) – an organization whose mission is to “Grow Leaders.” He volunteers on a subcommittee of their Board of Directors and is a Lead Coach and Facilitator within their youth-oriented leadership programs.

He is a 2009 HBA graduate from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. Stephen is a trained Co-Active Coach and is continuing his education with the Coaches Training Institute (CTI).

Stephen’s aspirations are to continue working with people, causes and organizations he shares values with and believes in. He is all about creating positive impact to improve the personal and professional lives of others in and outside of organizations.

Business Improvement through Quality and Innovation (QI) means instituting significant change that adds value to the organization by developing new ideas that lead to new (maximizing) value, new revenue, while simultaneously increasing the efficiency of how work gets done, increasing the effectiveness of how work gets done, and reducing costs of doing business.

QI is a change process. As such, it is amenable to the effects of process management, change management and Performance Measurement techniques. QI is also a collective process-it takes place within the Toronto Pearson organizational cultures and environments; it requires collaboration. It is a team effort, rather than the work of an individual that is required.

The requirement that QI should lead new value, revenue, efficiency, effectiveness of how work gets done, and reducing costs of doing business is what makes the QI process complete. Without these conditions being met, QI may be considered as “hollow” to the organization. Unless new ideas can be converted into products or services that people want (buy or use), and unless the change can be done efficiently and effectively enough so that the new idea leads to revenue, there is no QI. Great ideas count; originality counts; but in a business context-the context of commercial and operational value at the organizational level-usefulness trumps. Quality and Innovation is the route that Toronto Pearson takes to realize our mission, vision and values.

Under Drew’s direction, the University of Toronto Scarborough Leadership Program quickly grew into one of the largest and most dynamic in the country, offering over 200 workshop and lecture opportunities each year, and welcoming high-profile Canadian leaders like broadcaster Peter Mansbridge, CFL Hall-of-Famer Mike “Pinball” Clemons and Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Dr. James Orbinksi as guest facilitators. After winning two consecutive University of Toronto “Stepping UP” Awards for staff excellence, Drew left the campus to pursue a life of entrepreneurship as the Founder & Chief Catalyst of Nuance Leadership, Inc. Ask him how to define entrepreneurship, he’ll tell you it means waking up for work every day at 6 a.m….and not putting on pants until 11.

Drew works with dozens of corporations, universities, colleges, high schools, charities and other organizations around the world to empower people to increase their leadership capacity. He has spoken to almost 100,000 people in Canada, the US, Europe and the Middle East, and has three times been invited to present at the prestigious TEDx series of events. His work with some of Canada’s largest schools, corporations and government agencies has led to him being called “one of the most motivating and inspiring speakers on leadership out there right now” (Dr. Brian Harrington, Oxford University).

He owns what his friends call an embarrassingly large stuffed penguin collection for a grown man, and is unhealthily addicted to both “The West Wing” and “How I Met Your Mother”.

You can follow Drew at @NuanceDrew on Twitter

Colleen started as a career counselor and job search seminar leader in 1991. She has facilitated hundreds of job search workshops and seminars as well as counseled people in transition, both employed and unemployed through her own practice and for several outplacement firms in the Toronto area.

Colleen is a qualified Myers Briggs Typology Indicator 1 & 2, True Colors, Personality Dimensions and EQ-i.2 facilitator. She conducts seminars and assessment evaluations to those who want to improve their interpersonal relationships, build better and stronger teams and improve communication.

Author of Networking How to Build Relationships That Count and How to Get a Job and Keep It, so whether speaking or writing, Colleen insightfully and humorously shares with her audience the practical insights and “hands-on” approaches and techniques she has developed as a motivational leader.

Colleen is often quoted in magazine and news articles and has numerous radio and television interviews to her credit. She was the career columnist for two Toronto commuter newspapers for 8 years and now is a guest columnist for Canada’s national newspaper The Globe and Mail. Colleen is a regular career columnist for Workopolis.com.

Colleen authored a chapter in ‘The Power of Mentoring’ book series, The Mastermind Group, with Brian Tracey, Zig Ziglar, Bob Proctor, Marie Diamond and other inspirational and knowledgeable professionals called “If You Aren’t Appearing You are Disappearing.”

An interesting thing people don’t know about Colleen is she started tap dancing when she was 5 years old and danced professionally until her early 20′s.

You can find out more about Colleen at www.colleenclarke.com.

You can also find her on LinkedIn and Facebook.