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Previous speakers include:

Lord Jeffrey Archer
F. Lee Bailey
Matthew W. Barrett Commissioner Gary Bettman
Benazir Bhutto
Dr. Kenneth Blanchard
Willy Brandt
Dr. Zbigniew Brezinski
William F. Buckley Jr.
Hon. James Callaghan
Jimmy Carter
Rt. Hon. Jean Chrétien
Winston S. Churchill III
John E. Cleghorn
Stephen M.R. Covey
Walter Cronkite
Mario Cuomo
Robert Deluce, Porter Airlines
The Hon. Jim Flaherty
Gerald R. Ford
David Frost
Louis Gerstner
Malcolm  Gladwell
Gen. Alexander Haig
Hon. Edward Heath
Rev. Jesse Jackson
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Larry King
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Dr. Henry Kissinger
Prof. John Kotter
Robert MacNeil
President Nelson Mandela
Walter F. Mondale
Jean C. Monty
Akio Morita
Nicholas Negroponte
Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill
George Plimpton
Faith Popcorn
General Colin L. Powell
Gen. Yitzhak Rabin
Ronald W. Reagan
Angus Reid
Madame Jehan Sadat
Helmut Schmidt
Natan Sharansky
Commissioner David Stern
Dr. David Suzuki
Don Tapscott
Lester Thurow
Alvin Toffler
Caspar W. Weinberger

If you plan to attend one conference in the next year - This Is It!

Entrepreneurs and small businesses have an enormous impact on the Canadian economy. And the fact that 98% of all business in Canada is small business clearly makes this the most important conference of the year.

Objectives

• DRIVE business success and growth

• To inspire, motivate and educate

• PROMOTE the entrepreneurial spirit

• PROVIDE valuable tools, information and resources to businesses to support your future growth and success

Keynote Speakers

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In our fast paced business environment, adaptable organizations have leaders who work effectively with teams to respond to complex issues This interactive session examines how to lead innovative teams through complex issues.

Understand difference between resolving complicated vs complex issues

Explore how leaders help teams respond to complexity through innovation thinking

How to support innovative thinking in the workplace

How to establish a clear framework for innovation that defines boundaries and accountabilities   

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Catherine Swift Chair, President & CEO Canadian Federation of Independent Business   Topic:  What Does Small Business Want?

Keypoints:

• The good news about entrepreneurship in Canada

• What needs to be done by governments, financial institutions and entrepreneurs themselves to improve the current environment

• Global factors influencing our prospects for success

• The medium-term outlook for Canadian entrepreneurs

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Steven Woods Google Site Director

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Sam Geist Bestselling Author   Topic:  Doing More With What You’ve Got Strategies for tough times. Strategies for all times.

Keypoints:

• Execution IS the strategy - profits are execution-driven

• Frontline equals bottomline  - moving the thinking to the doing 

• Become a company of leaders - motivating each employee to lead, to accept responsibility, to execute.

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The Facts

• There are over ONE MILLION small businesses in Canada, and growing.

• Over 98% of all employer establishments in Canada are small businesses.

• Over 5.2 million Canadians (48% of the total labour force) work for small enterprises.

• Last year, small businesses created 70,000 jobs, which accounted for over 50% of all jobs created in Canada in the private sector.

Trailblazing Women

• Just over one-third of Canadian Small and Medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are owned by women.

• There are more than 821,000 women entrepreneurs in Canada

• Women contribute in excess of $18 billion to Canadian economy each year.

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Sources: Statistics Canada / Industry Canada

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