Jamar “J Niice” McNeil is a Queens, New York native, veteran radio personality, DJ, and live event host with more than two decades of experience entertaining audiences across North America and the Caribbean. A former 10-year morning show host on Chicago’s B96 and now heard on CHUM 104.5 and iHeartRadio, Jamar has built a reputation for blending the polish of radio with the energy of a world-class DJ. Having performed at festivals, clubs, private events, and corporate activations, he is known for reading the room, moving the crowd, and creating unforgettable experiences. Whether behind the mic or behind the turntables, Jamar brings charisma, professionalism, and high-level energy to every stage.

Noel Baldwin has been the Executive Director of the Future Skills Centre (FSC) since June, 2024. He brings nearly two decades of experience in leading strategic initiatives and policy development in postsecondary education, adult learning and skills development.

Since joining FSC in 2019, Noel has provided leadership in navigating the complex skills ecosystem and working with diverse stakeholders to foster innovation in skills development that addresses the evolving needs of the workforce and promotes inclusive economic growth.

Mary Ann Baynton, MSW, is an internationally recognized leader in workplace mental health, psychological health and safety, and conflict resolution. She is the Director of Collaboration and Strategy for Workplace Strategies for Mental Health, an initiative of Canada Life that develops and shares free, evidence-informed tools and resources to help organizations prevent harm and promote psychological health and safety at work.    As an independent workplace relations specialist, Mary Ann works with individuals, teams, executives, unions, associations, and employers to resolve complex workplace issues, reduce psychosocial risk and strengthen organizational culture. Her focus is on practical, sustainable solutions that improve working lives.   Mary Ann is the author of several influential books, including Less Stress, Better Business; Mindful Manager; Keeping Well at Work; Preventing Workplace Meltdown; Resolving Workplace Issues; Building Stronger Teams; and The Evolution of Workplace Mental Health in Canada. Her writing reflects decades of hands-on experience supporting safer, more respectful, and more effective workplaces.  She has contributed nationally to the advancement of workplace mental health and accessibility, serving as Co-Chair of the Technical Committee for the National Standard of Canada on Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace, a member of the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s Workforce Advisory Committee, and a member of the Employment Standards Committee for the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).   Mary Ann is driven by a commitment to reducing workplace stress and conflict in order to create safer, healthier, and more productive organizations where people and performance can thrive.

Tonie Chaltas is the Chief Executive Officer of Achēv, one of Canada’s leading workforce development and newcomer-serving organizations, creating faster paths to prosperity for more than 100,000 clients annually, most of whom are permanent resident newcomers. Under her leadership, Achēv helps individuals build the skills, language proficiency, confidence, and connections needed to succeed in Canada’s labour market while partnering with employers to address talent shortages, advance workforce inclusion, and develop the skilled workforce they need to grow.

A recognized leader in organizational transformation, strategic partnerships, and public affairs, Tonie joined Achēv after a distinguished 20-year career with a global communications firm, where she held senior leadership roles spanning consulting and operations.

Tonie’s career has placed her at the intersection of business, government, and community impact. Her experience as both a consultant and a political advisor to the Leader of a political party then Premier of Ontario provided her with a unique understanding of how organizations, governments, and communities can work together to address complex social and economic challenges. She is known for building high-performing teams, fostering collaborative cultures where everyone belongs, and creating partnerships that generate lasting impact.

An experienced board director and community leader, Tonie currently serves on the Board of Directors of Kids Help Phone. Her previous governance experience includes Women’s College Hospital Foundation, the Toronto Zoo, and Excellence Canada’s Board of Governors. She has also chaired and served on numerous community and advisory committees, including leadership roles with the BlackNorth Initiative and supported a wide range of charitable organizations through volunteerism and fundraising.

Katherine Dudtschak spent nearly four decades inside the highest levels of Canadian banking before building a career around something banking never asked of her: telling the truth about being human.

She began at RBC and rose to Chief Executive Officer of RBC Caribbean, leading operations across nineteen countries, then to Executive Vice President over more than 25,000 employees serving millions of clients. She was recognised with the Catalyst Award for record-breaking results delivered alongside a genuine advancement of inclusion, and later served as CEO of HomeEquity Bank.

The moment that defined her leadership was not a quarterly result. Raised on a modest farm in rural Ontario by German immigrant parents, Katherine carried a gender identity suppressed since childhood, alongside the quieter inheritance of neurodiversity. When she affirmed her gender to 80,000 colleagues, the compassion she received reshaped how she understood leadership. What followed was a flood of trust, as colleagues and strangers began entrusting her with stories of hardship and hidden selves.

That convergence became the foundation for Sincerely Inc. At its centre sits Sincerely Human, a research inquiry into what allows people and organisations to flourish. Katherine's model of human wholeness, the Essential Self, the Physical and Inherited Self, and the Lived Experience Self, gives leaders a new language for understanding how identity and lived experience shape flourishing.

Katherine is the author of Sincerely, Katherine and host of The Sincerely Show, where conversations with leading thinkers become field research into leadership and contribution. Through The Sincerely Letter, she distils the patterns emerging from those conversations into insight for leaders navigating similar terrain.

She sits on the board of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and lives at Maison Millefleurs, her lavender and honeybee farm in Prince Edward County, the living home of Sincerely.

Rahaf Harfoush is a Digital Anthropologist and New York Times Best Selling Author. She is the executive director of the Red Thread institute of digital culture.

Rahaf is a member of France’s National Digital Council and was recently named to the United Nations High Level Advisory on Artificial Intelligence. She is a Visiting Policy Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute and a Research Affiliate at Minderoo Center for Technology and Democracy at Cambridge University. 

Formerly, Rahaf was the Associate Director of the Technology Pioneer Program at the World Economic  Forum, a Senior Consultant to Unesco on AI and Gender Inequality, and a member of President Barack Obama’s digital media team during the 2008 Presidential Campaign. 

Rahaf’s work has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, CNN, TED, and more.

A serial entrepreneur who entered the United States as a refugee from the Soviet Union at the age of 8, Diana had launched and sold millions of dollars worth of products and services by her early thirties. Today, she is an innovation consultant, keynote speaker, and New York Times bestselling author whose books have been taught in over 100 universities.

Hamza Khan believes the future of work is more human, not less. He's on a mission to help organizations revolutionize leadership and rehumanize the workplace by adopting a bold "people first" approach. Khan is a two-time bestselling author and multi-award-winning entrepreneur whose TEDx talk "Stop Managing, Start Leading" has been viewed millions of times. As a world-renowned keynote speaker, he empowers audiences to amplify human potential through collaboration and technology while prioritizing long-term impact. 

Khan is the Co-Founder of SkillsCamp, an award-winning learning and leadership development company whose clients include FIFA, Shopify, Peloton, Deloitte, Microsoft, Mercedes-Benz, The United Nations, and hundreds of colleges and universities. These world-leading organizations trust Khan to enhance modern leadership, inspire purposeful productivity, nurture lasting resilience, and navigate constant change.

Khan’s latest venture, Saige, is an AI-powered leadership development platform that upskills leaders for the wisdom economy. He is also a visiting scholar, top-ranked university educator, and the bestselling author of The Burnout Gamble: Achieve More by Beating Burnout and Building Resilience and Leadership, Reinvented. As a respected thought leader, his insights have been featured by notable media outlets such as Inc., Bloomberg, and Business Insider.

Jared Lindzon is a freelance journalist, public speaker and co-author of Do More in Four: Why It’s Time for a Shorter Workweek.

Over the last 13 years his reporting on the future of work has been regularly featured in leading publications, including Fast Company, TIME Magazine, the Toronto Star and the Globe & Mail.

Lindzon reported on the rise of the gig economy long before the arrival of delivery apps, on remote work long before the pandemic, and on the changing nature of skills in an automation-driven economy long before the release of ChatGPT. Now Lindzon has turned his attention to what he believes will be the next major workforce trend: the shorter workweek.  

His writing has also been featured in The New York Times, the BBC, The Guardian, Fortune Magazine and Rolling Stone.
As a public speaker Lindzon shares the data, real-world stories and lessons learned from his reporting on topics like AI, leadership, entrepreneurship and the future of work. 

Lindzon earned an MA in Journalism and an honours BA in media studies from Western University.

At Dayforce, David's role as Chief Data & AI Officer involves spearheading their data strategy and AI initiatives, focused on translating human capital data into actionable AI-enhanced products. This responsibility includes overseeing AI governance and ensuring that their solutions empower customers with predictive analytics that enhance decision-making and drive business value.

David's past experience at PostBeyond, 247.AI, and Intelliresponse honed his skills in general ML including recommender systems, chatbots, and natural language interactions to bolster employee engagement, consumer insight, and brand advocacy. With a track record of delivering innovative AI solutions and nurturing high-performing teams, David's mission is to continually elevate the intersection of data, AI, and human capital management.

Navaid Mansuri is Dialogue Health Technologies Inc.’s Chief Financial Officer. Since joining the company in 2019, he led its IPO on the TSX in 2020 and its subsequent acquisition by Sun Life in 2023. During his tenure, he has also played an integral role in bringing Dialogue to sustainable profitability. Prior to joining Dialogue, Navaid was Chief Financial Officer at Just for Laughs and has held roles in finance, marketing and business transformation at Rogers Media and Bell Canada. Mr Mansuri is a Chartered Professional Accountant, starting his career at Deloitte after earning a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University.

Neda Nasseri is a dynamic healthcare leader, driving innovation and cost-saving measures for private payers. With a doctorate in pharmacy and experience in the pharmaceutical industry, she excels as Product Director for Drug Strategy, improving access to high-quality care while ensuring cost-effectiveness. Nasseri emphasizes customer satisfaction and healthcare equity, ensuring employees receive the best care. Her creativity inspires teams and shapes the future of private payer services

Joe O'Connor is the CEO and Co-founder of Work Time Revolution, a global consulting and research firm that specializes in redesigning work models for the age of AI. He is a strategic advisor and keynote speaker on human-centered AI adoption, work redesign, and sustainable performance, and a leading voice on the future of work.

He is the co-author of Do More in Four: Why It's Time For A Shorter Workweek, published by Harvard Business Review Press in January 2026. He previously designed and led the world's largest shorter workweek pilots, supporting hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of employees across the US, Canada, UK, EU, and Australasia to reduce hours without sacrificing performance, and is a former visiting research scholar at Cornell University.

His perspective draws from more than a decade of leadership experience across purpose-driven organizations, think tanks, and labor movements, combining academic depth with real-world expertise to help shape what's next in how we work. His mission is to create a world of better work and more balanced lives, in which we can achieve more while working less.

PAUL R. PINT, CPA, CA Chief Executive Officer Paul R. Pint is a Chartered Professional Accountant with more than 30 years of experience in the capital markets. He began his career in 1991 with Ernst & Young’s Financial Services Group before transitioning in 1995 to Institutional Equities at CIBC World Markets.

Over the course of his career, Mr. Pint has held a series of senior leadership roles across investment banking and equity sales, working with major Canadian financial institutions as well as boutique investment banks and dealers. He has extensive experience in capital formation, having led and participated in initial public offerings and private placements across a broad range of industry sectors.

Throughout his career, he has been involved in financing and taking public more than 500 companies. In 2016, Mr. Pint co-founded Troilus Gold Corp., where he served as President, playing a key role in the company’s early-stage financing and its successful listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Mr. Pint currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and Director of Naia Relief Inc., a global mental resilience and coaching platform. In this role, he oversees corporate strategy, capital raising initiatives, and the commercialization of the company’s platform, while successfully achieving its planned initial public offering in September 2026. He has served as a director of both public and private companies across multiple sectors. Mr. Pint holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Toronto and is a member of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario.

Zabeen Hirji is a strategic advisor, board director, speaker and writer whose work focuses on leadership, culture, purpose, the future of work, AI and human capabilities, and equity, diversity and inclusion. She brings more than four decades of senior leadership experience to her work across business, government, academia and the not-for-profit sector.

Zabeen had a distinguished career at RBC, culminating in a decade as Chief Human Resources Officer, with responsibility for 80,000 employees across 40 countries. Her portfolio also included oversight of brand, communications, and social impact, and she served as Chair of the RBC Foundation. She was a member of RBC’s Group Executive, responsible for setting the strategic direction of the bank.

Today, Zabeen is in what she calls her Purposeful Third Act, living her purpose: unlocking human potential and building inclusive prosperity. She is the Founder of Purposeful Third Act (P3A), where she is helping to catalyze a movement that helps accomplished leaders intentionally design their next act, leveraging their wisdom, expertise, relationships, and resources to strengthen society and build inclusive prosperity.

Her current roles span the private, public, academic and not-for-profit sectors. She is Executive Advisor at Deloitte Canada and Senior Advisor to Knockri, an AI-enabled recruitment platform. She serves as Chancellor of Trent University, Executive-in-Residence at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business, and contributes to various other university advisory groups. She is also a Board Director at Junior Achievement Worldwide, the Public Policy Forum and Canadian Club Toronto, and serves on the Mayor of Toronto’s Economic Advisory Panel. She previously served as Special Advisor to the Clerk of the Privy Council.

Her honours include the Order of Ontario, the Governor General’s Meritorious Service Medal, an honorary Doctor of Laws from Trent University, the Canadian HR Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, and induction into the WXN Top 100 Most Powerful Women Hall of Fame. She holds an MBA from Simon Fraser University and an ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors.