Theme: Uncharted

The theme this year revolves around the word UNCHARTED. This abstract and open-ended word was chosen in hopes that you can brand it with your own definition and story.

UNCHARTED: something yet to be discovered, something that represents endless possibilities.

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Albert Nerenberg

Hypnologist Albert Nerenberg is a part of a new wave of hypnotists who use informed, cutting-edge techniques in performance as well as hynotherapy.

Anna Maria Tremonti

Anna Maria Tremonti has been the host of CBC Radio One's The Current since it first burst onto the airwaves in November of 2002. She brings a mix of hard-edged journalism and hard-won empathy to a 90-minute program that tackles everything from the politics of the day, to the changes that affect our society, to the stories of individuals whose personal journeys and traumas affect us all. Anna Maria is a graduate of the Communications Studies program at the University of Windsor. She has honorary doctorates from the University of Windsor and Carleton University in Ottawa.

Heather Evans

Heather Evans is an undergraduate student from the Smith School of Business. She has represented Canada at International Business Conferences in Germany, Switzerland, the United States as well as at the United Nations. Although she never grew up thinking she would become an entrepreneur, she is starting her second company through Canada’s Next 36 program. The first, Mosaic Manufacturing. Ltd, she co-founded through Queen’s University. Heather is unsure of exactly what her life path will entail, but is looking forward to the ride.

Jamie Gruman

Jamie Gruman’s passion is to understand the psychological underpinnings of effective living and effectively organizing human behavior. Jamie Gruman is a professor of organizational behaviour at the University of Guelph in Canada and is the Founding Chair of the Canadian Positive Psychology Association. He is co-editor of Applied Social Psychology: Understanding and Addressing Social and Practical Problems, now in a 3rd edition. The book, and his career, focus on understanding the psychological foundations of human behavior and how this understanding allows us to structure activities, organizations, and interventions to promote the outcomes we most desire.

Jeff Whiting

Recently acclaimed as a 'director with a joyous touch' by the New York Times, Jeff Whiting is a director and choreographer for theater, opera, television, special events and concerts around the world. Broadway Credits include: Bullets Over Broadway, Big Fish, The Scottsboro Boys, Hair, Young Frankenstein, and Wicked. Jeff is the owner and Artistic Director of The Open Jar Institute, a music theatre training program founded in 2003 for the development of music theatre artists of all ages. Stage Write Software, designed and developed by Jeff, marks the worlds first digital method for documenting staging and choreography and is already in use for over 40 Broadway shows and tours, including Newsies, Book of Mormon, Matilda, The Producers, amongst other esteemed productions.

Karla McGrath

Originally from Newfoundland and raised in Nunavut and Labrador, Karla McGrath is a graduate of Carleton University in Ottawa (BA, 1988), the University of Kentucky College of Law in Lexington, Kentucky (JD, 1996) and Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario (LL.M., 2013). Karla was called to the bar in both Ontario and New York and her law practice in the Kingston area has included private practice with a focus on Family Law and seven years litigating as in-house legal counsel for a local children’s aid society. Currently, Karla is the founding Director of the Faculty of Law’s newly minted Queen’s Family Law Clinic, a sessional instructor at Queen’s Law teaching Children’s Law to second and third year law students and the coach of the Queen’s Walsh Family Law Moot team. Karla lives in Kingston with her two children and their larger than average collection of pets.

Laura Anderson

Eighteen-year-old Laura Anderson has a big voice and a driven initiative for change. She took her negative experience and turned it into something girls everywhere could feel connected to and proud of. She is the founder of the #mybodymybusiness youth feminism movement, a current Queens University student, and has vivid dreams of becoming a lawyer one day. Her passion and authenticity gives a voice to the hundreds of young girls who have felt degraded from judgement. Through her love of public speaking, she wants to induce the important conversations necessary to change the way we think about people. For more information on Laura’s journey to empowerment, go to: www.mybodymybusiness.org

Luc Boutin

Luc is a 4th year life sciences student from Queen’s University who grew up playing competitive golf for a number of years, before eventually giving up the sport in order to focus on his academic pursuits. Even to this day, Luc uses the lessons he learned in golf in order to deal with the every day challenges he encounters in his life, including strategies on how to maintain a healthy mental state.

Paul Waldie

Paul Waldie is an award-winning journalist who has worked in business journalism for more than 20 years at the Globe and Mail. He has a unique perspective on the fate of the media given his experience as a reporter, editor and author. At the Globe, Waldie has reported on everything from the collapse of Bre-X to the conviction of Conrad Black and the global financial crisis. He has also covered three Olympic Games, worked as a foreign correspondent in Europe and served as editor of the Report on Business. Waldie has won three National Newspaper Awards for business journalism and wrote a best-selling biography of the McCain family.

Samir Sinha

Dr. Samir Sinha is a passionate and respected advocate for the needs of older adults. He currently serves as the Director of Geriatrics with the Sinai Health System and the University Health Network Hospitals in Toronto and as an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. A former Queen’s student and subsequent Rhodes Scholar, Dr. Sinha's breadth of international training and expertise in health policy and the delivery of services related to the care of the elderly have made him a highly regarded expert in the care of older adults. In 2012 he was also appointed by the Government of Ontario to serve as the expert lead of Ontario's Seniors Strategy and is now working on the development of a National Seniors Strategy. In 2014, Toronto Life named him one of Toronto’s Best Doctors while Maclean’s proclaimed him to be one of Canada’s 50 most influential people and its most compelling voice for the elderly.