Carol talks about her book, People Problems Solved, current pressures on leaders, and much more!

Carol Ring is not an HR person who learned business. She is a business person who made culture her competitive advantage. As a culture transformation consultant, executive coach, and keynote speaker, Carol works with mid-market CEOs who are done firefighting the same problems and ready for a diagnosis that actually goes somewhere. Her proprietary Purpose-Powered Performance Framework grew out of thirty years inside organizations, including leading a major turnaround of Rogers Communications' largest, worst-performing division, a billion-dollar business. Carol is the author of IGNITE Your Culture and People Problems Solved, both built on the same premise: people problems are never just people problems; they are symptoms of the system people live in. She has been named to Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women and holds the FCPA, CPA designation along with certifications through the Barrett Values Centre, Dare to Lead, and The Leadership Challenge. Her governance experience includes board and audit committee work with healthcare and professional organizations.

John talks about selling high-priced systems, learning customers' businesses, simplified CRMs, and much more!

Before retiring as North American Sales Manager for Zünd Systemtechnik AG in 2019, John Cote had a long career in sales of capital equipment and systems. Over his career, John was in sales or sales management with several large and medium sized companies including Fuji Film and HP. He also owned a couple of his own companies in the marketing, graphics and photography fields. John has given a lot of thought to the types of personalities and characteristics which seem to be common to top notch sale people and how to manage teams of these diverse and sometimes troublesome folk. John not only managed successful sales and sales support teams but gave talks to management teams in his own and other companies about how to recruit and manage sales people and sales teams.

Avish talks about his new book, how improv plays a role in leadership, the different reader personas, and much more!

Avish Parashar is a keynote speaker, author, and former engineer who helps leaders and teams navigate change with greater adaptability, creativity, and engagement. By combining practical business insights with the principles of improv comedy, he shows organizations how to replace "Yes, But" thinking with a "Yes, And" mindset that transforms hesitation and apathy into initiative and possibility.