Keynote Speakers

Holly Ransom is a global voice on leadership, change, and highperformance cultures—helping leaders lead what’s next.

As CEO of Emergent Global, Holly advises Fortune 500 companies, governments, and trailblazing brands like Microsoft, Virgin, and P&G on how to build future-ready teams, drive cultural change, and lead through complexity.

A globally sought-after keynote speaker, emcee and master interviewer, Holly has captivated audiences in 25+ countries across 6 continents—and is trusted by brands like Coca-Cola, Volvo, Mastercard, and EY to elevate their most critical events.

When Barack Obama visited Australia in 2018, he personally selected Holly to moderate their conversation. Since then, she’s interviewed, leaders and icons including—Sir Richard Branson, Malala Yousafzai, Malcolm Gladwell, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Venus Williams, Brené Brown and Matthew McConaughey—transforming every exchange into a masterclass in leadership through her signature mix of curiosity, clarity, and fearless questioning.

Holly has earned the U.S. Embassy’s Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Leadership Excellence, co-chaired the G20 Youth Summit, and the UN’s Coalition of Young Women Entrepreneurs. She delivered a Peace Charter to the Dalai Lama and is a Fulbright Scholar from Harvard Kennedy School, Class of 2021.

She is also the co-founder , event designer, and lead moderator of Energy Disruptors: UNITE, the award-winning summit voted Canada’s Best Conference three times.

Her bestselling book, The Leading Edge, is a practical playbook for navigating disruption and unlocking high-performance cultures— used by leaders and teams across the globe.

Offstage, Holly is passionate about mentoring the next generation, championing intergenerational collaboration, and bringing leadership insights to the world of high-performance sport. When she’s not advising global leaders or igniting rooms full of changemakers, you’ll find her on a sunrise run, baking something delicious, or brushing up on her already impressive Spanish.

From the NFL to the finals of America’s Got Talent, Jon combines world-class magic with an awe-inspiring personal journey. Whether it’s a keynote, corporate event, or conference, Jon delivers your organization’s message through a powerful personal story that moves audiences and keeps them talking for years.

With 14 years in the NFL as a professional athlete, a finalist on America’s Got Talent and America’s Got Talent: The Champions, a regular on the ELLEN Show, and a world-class speaker on Fortune 500 stages, Jon shares his inspiring journey from tragedy to self discovery.

It’s an extraordinary and empowering story of resilience, forgiveness, and living a life of purpose in the face of unfathomable obstacles.

He seamlessly incorporates your company’s message through storytelling and world-class magic. Your audience is sure to be motivated and aligned with your organization’s mission by the end of his insightful and inspiring keynote presentation.

Mandy Rennehan (a.k.a. Bear) is called the Blue-Collar CEO™ for her ability to seamlessly navigate between the white-and blue-collar worlds, and to respectfully ‘tell it like it is’.

Not only is she the Host, Designer and Contractor for HGTV’s new show, Trading Up, Mandy is a sought-after speaker, multiple award-winning entrepreneur, philanthropist, trade-industry ambassador and CEO/founder of Freshco.ca (not the grocery store!)

Mandy defies labels. The description she often gets is “refreshing.” Her (respectfully) uncensored honesty is matched by her quick wit, East Coast humour, and big heart. It is impossible to remain unchanged after coming into contact with this authentic, self-taught and self-made powerhouse.

Her vision goes well beyond building successful businesses. She is redefining the collar, blue™ and changing the answer to ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’ in order to help solve the massive skilled trade shortage world wide.

Mandy is challenging the misconception that white-collar jobs are “better” or “more desirable” than blue-collar ones; society needs both collars!

Rennehan is also a lead advisor to the Federal Governments national campaign encouraging apprenticeships and promoting the skilled trades as a career and has a book called The Blue Collar CEO, My Gutsy Journey from Rookie Contractor to Multi-Millionaire Construction Boss with Harper Collins Publishing.