Jamie Mason Cohen

Leadership & Performance Expert

Jamie is a keynote speaker and facilitator who has been hired to teach resilience, wellness, leadership and communication at organizations like Sun Life, Meeting Planners International, Canada Life, Lar-Mex Mechanical Contractors, Celgene Bio-Pharma, Broadway Video Entertainment, Canadian Society of Association Executives, Assante, University of Western, Hospitality Human Resource Professionals Association, Revera, Ontario Municipality Administrators’ Association and more.
Jamie uses a tool kit of unconventional, practical approaches to cultivating resilience by helping audiences build psychological safety and trust and develop proven leadership communication strategies through a non-boring and engaging cinematic format.
He is a frequent media commentator on CNN, Forbes, The Social and Global’s, The Morning Show. His TEDx talk on leadership has been viewed over 2.2 million times.
He lives in Maple, Ontario with his wife, Karen and their two children.

Maanit Zemel

Are You Complying with Canada's Digital Privacy and Marketing Laws?

Maanit Zemel is the Founding Partner of Zemel van Kampen LLP, a boutique Technology and Litigation Law Firm in Toronto.

Maanit has over 15 years of experience in Internet law and commercial litigation, with particular expertise in Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), online defamation, privacy and data security. She is the sole Canadian member of the Internet Law Leadership Summit, an international organization of leading lawyers with expertise in Internet law.

Maanit has successfully represented clients before all levels of courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada. Maanit’s extensive litigation experience earned her a position as (former) Member of the Ontario Landlord and Tenant Board, where she adjudicated disputes between residential landlords and tenants.

Maanit also teaches business law, Internet law and International law at the University of Toronto and Ryerson University. Prior to founding Zemel van Kampen, Maanit was a Partner at a leading National law firm on Bay Street in Toronto, Ontario and, prior to that, she was an Associate at a leading International law firm on Wall Street in New York, USA.

Nitsan Shachor

An experienced Privacy and Compliance Specialist

Nitsan led privacy and compliance programs in a large global organization for 8 years and worked as a privacy consultant here in the GTA during the last year.
He started his career as a Training Specialist 25 years ago, after which he became specialized in IT, utilizing his project management skills from training to IT.

In the past eight years, he found a great interest in the rapidly developing privacy domain, which he strongly believes is only the beginning of a new era, challenges, and opportunities.

Stephen Shedletzky

Igniter

Stephen engages people in meaningful ways so that we connect with depth and live in a more fulfilled world.

Stephen is a dynamic speaker and facilitator who speaks, leads workshops, and coaches leaders and organizations to discover, articulate, and live their WHY. He supports leaders and organizations to create environments where people feel inspired, safe and valued at work.

Stephen joined the Start With Why team in 2012 by answering fan email and is now Head of Brand Voice. He is committed to ensuring the Start With Why team and those they serve live their WHY from the inside out.

Lahav Gil

CEO, Medtech and Innovation

30 years of experience in tech-innovation, design, and development.

Founded Kangaroo Group (ISO 13485) in 2003, a full-spectrum outsourcing platform for Medical Devices innovation, MedTech commercialization strategies, engineering, design, productization, regulatory submissions, and contract manufacturing.

Built into a national brand and sold to Starfish Medical in April 2017.
Contributed to over 200 technology product launches and game-changing innovations for Canadian startups.

Lectured at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Israel and guest lectured at major universities in Toronto on Innovation Culture, Technology Entrepreneurship, Medical Devices Commercialization, and Values-based Leadership

Shlomit Kenigsberg, Ph.D., MBA

Speaker

I guide people into new ways of thinking, offering new points-of-view, and help them find their inner strengths to overcome personal and professional challenges in their life and business.
I am a “Doula-for-Ideas”, I draw upon my experience and background – Biomedical Sciences (my Ph.D.) and Business (my MBA), working in competitive and challenging environments to facilitate motivating and life-transforming workshops using unique and interactive tools – games, cards, and playfulness.
My workshops are designed to create personalized experiences where individuals, teams and organizations can explore their true essence, discover new ways of thinking and coming up with actions plan to overcome challenges.
I love crafting these experiences to embrace creativity and innovation through authentic communication, mindfulness and empathy.

My philosophy in life is “I criticize by creation, not by finding fault” (Cicero, 63 BC)