2024 MORNING KEYNOTE
Harnessing Productive Conflict
Ryan Smith, Leadership & Collaboration Coach
Ryan is an experienced leadership and collaboration coach, and founder of Unearth Coaching Inc. based in Peterborough, Ontario. With a strong track record of coaching leaders for many years, he specializes in refining leadership and interpersonal skills to tackle common organizational challenges such as:
· Miscommunication
· Unproductive conflict
· Leadership gaps
· Employee disengagement
· Siloed teams and departments
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Ryan holds a Bachelor of Business degree from Trent University and certification as an Everything DISC trainer. Beyond his coaching work, he excels as a dynamic public speaker and skilled workshop facilitator.
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Born and raised in Peterborough, Ryan is passionate about his hometown, where he currently resides with his wife. When he's not coaching, you can find him indulging his love of basketball, strumming his guitar, and maintaining his impeccable beard.
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2024 AFTERNOON KEYNOTE
Building an Effective Multigenerational Workplace
Jeff Butler, Speaker, Author, Workforce Strategist
Jeff Butler is an author and workplace strategist who explores human behavior within the working world. His experience spans over 40 industries in 4 continents on how different cultures and employees interact with each other. He studies common threads of behavior in industries such as IT professionals, underground utility workers, police officers to clothing retail chains. In addition, Jeff has also worked with companies like Google, Amazon, John Deere and Coldwell Banker. As a researcher and practitioner, he also runs a consulting company and a tech company, TrinityFix where he is able to test his ideas in different workplace environments. His ideas have made it to TEDx twice, appeared in dozens of media outlets including two books on human behavior:- The Authentic Workplace and The Key To The New You . Currently, he lives in Dallas, Texas as an out of place Californian.
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