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Sarah McVanel Professional Speaker and Recognition Expert

Ms Sarah McVanel

Chief Recognition Officer | Greatness Magnified

Recognition, workplace culture, appreciation, turnover, workforce trends, the great resignation, organizational development, recognition and rewards programs, employee experience, retention

Dr. Kari Sampsel

Medical Director, Sexual Assault and Partner Abuse Care Program, Attending Staff Emergency Physician | The Ottawa Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine & University of Ottawa

Emergency Medicine, Sexual Assault and Partner Abuse Clinician, Educator and Advocate

Hélène Emorine

Senior Researcher | G7 Research Group, G20 Research Group

Global affairs, international relations, international affairs, geopolitics, G7, G20, climate change, public policy

Ella Ophir

Associate Professor, College of Arts and Science | University of Saskatchewan

English, Modernist Literature, British and American Modernist Literature, Poetry, Documentary, Life Writing, Language, Power, Relationship between Language and Power, Conceptions of Voice

Dr. Carole Estabrooks

Professor, Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Knowledge Translation | University of Alberta

Elder care, Long term care, Health sciences knowledge translation, Knowledge translation on patient/resident, provider and system outcomes