Shane Feldman believes community is the answer to every question, and the solution to every problem.

Recognized by the White House, Prime Minister of Canada and United Nations, and named one of North America’s Top 40 Under 40 LGBTQ+ Leaders, Shane Feldman helps leading brands optimize team culture, leadership, engagement and retention. He has been featured by Oprah, Larry King, Dr. Oz, Forbes, People Magazine, and is the subject of a TV series from A&E.

In this digital age of distraction and disconnection, our leaders are facing a community crisis spanning all generations. Shane Feldman has researched community leadership on the ground across more than 100 cities, towns and villages across 6 continents, uncovering universal strategies that help leaders create engaged communities.

Shane’s “Leadership Passport” framework helps companies cultivate a work environment centered around community, enabling individuals and teams to perform at their highest levels. As one of the most in-demand speakers in America, Shane has worked with dynamic brands including Disney, Google, TD Bank, T-Mobile, Kaiser Permanente and Mercedes-Benz.

In this new age, brands are struggling to optimize team culture, leadership, engagement and retention. Through his firsthand experiences traveling the globe and spearheading the world’s largest millennial-led movement, COUNT ME IN, Shane has decoded frameworks that help leaders build better relationships, and better workplaces.

Since its founding in 2011, COUNT ME IN has initiated more than 30,000 projects worldwide, contributing a value of over $2.6 billion to the global economy through service.  Shane started COUNT ME IN in 2008 as a school project. With an alumni network spanning 6 continents, COUNT ME IN is now a social entrepreneurship incubator and community, engaging 10-million members in 100+ countries.

A serial entrepreneur, Shane is also the co-founder of a fintech startup supporting the real estate industry, and a boutique hospitality brand.

Heather leads the Marketing mandate to support businesses across all segments in Canada. In her role, Heather provides strategic direction for planning, product marketing, campaign management, branding, and employee communications.

Heather has more than 20 years’ experience in the Canadian technology Market. She is a proven, accomplished, and dynamic leader specializing in motivating people for change and increased productivity with successes across Marketing, Sales Channel Development, Product Management, and Mergers & Acquisitions. She is a passionate and intuitive leader who leverages persuasive reasoning to drive change, engage and build alignment with leaders/teams across functional areas.

Prior to joining ADP in early 2016, she held various roles at BCE, primarily in Bell Business Markets, across Sales, Marketing and M&A.

Dr. Seema Parmar is the Director of Health Intelligence and Insights, Advisory Services at Cleveland Clinic Canada. Dr. Parmar is an experienced senior management consultant and health-based knowledge expert who combines consulting, research, and public health expertise to drive health insights and innovation.

She has served clients in Canada, the US, and Middle East as an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company. With deep experience in health-based data and analytics, Dr. Parmar has helped to propel numerous innovative, strategic, and care delivery models through multi-sector partnerships. Having worked as a researcher with Alberta Health Services, her expertise is augmented with quantitative and qualitive research and program evaluation. She has a passion for health equity and supporting underserved communities. Her experience also includes global health, community health work, and board-level experience in the health sector.

Dr. Parmar holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, an MHA from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a BSc in Life Sciences from Queen’s University.

Throughout his 28 year career at BMO, Jeff has been known as a fixer, a change agent who has led enterprise change initiatives and refined North American operations in diverse areas such as technology development, procurement, learning, talent acquisition and now benefits, wellness performance and recognition.  

As Managing Director and Global Head, Benefits, Wellness, Performance and Recognition at BMO Jeff is leading a transformation and integration agenda aiming to Boldly Grow the Good in the lives of BMO's employees by delivering programing that meets evolving needs with inclusive, flexible, and digitally enabled offerings that prioritize mental, physical, social and financial health, support growth and drive a winning culture. Jeff is passionate about disrupting the status quo, loves to ask the question “Why not?”, apply a little common sense and bring everyone along for the ride.