TORONTO | MAY 26, 2015 | 8:30AM - 5:00PM

LEEZA GIBBONS SUZY WELCH GRETCHEN RUBIN DR. KELLY McGONIGAL TARA MOHR "We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.” - Sheryl Sandberg COO of Facebook MAY 26, 2015 | 8:30AM - 5:00PM

Metro Toronto Convention Centre South Building - Hall G 222 Bremner Blvd, Toronto, M5V 3L9 ABOUT THE ART OF LEADERSHIP for WOMEN www.mtccc.com

WHAT TO EXPECT WHY ATTEND This one day conference features five internationally renowned bestselling authors and The Art of Leadership for Women responds to the fundamental changes in today’s evolving thought leaders, who will share an exciting blend of cutting edge thinking and real world business landscape. From practical tips, to innovative strategies, this conference is designed experience on today’s most critical leadership issues. Don’t miss out on your chance to gain to teach new ways of thinking and will provide essential connections and knowledge that a competitive advantage and network with over 1,500 of Canada’s most influential women. will help you advance and flourish in your career. You will be equipped with directly related, easily applied, and relevant tools and techniques that can be implemented within any corporate culture.

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Opening Remarks Tara Mohr Gretchen Rubin Executive Panel Networking Break

Doors Open Kelly McGonigal Networking Break Lunch Suzy Welch Leeza Gibbons WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

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Gretchen Rubin Dr. Kelly McGonigal Tara Mohr Working Better Than Before: Understanding The Upside of Stress: Why Stress is Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Habits to Manage Yourself & Others Better Good for You & How to Get Good at It Your Mission, Your Message

• How understanding crucial differences in how people • Why embracing stress is a more effective coping • How to recognize your inner critic and approach the world allows us to manage ourselves strategy than avoiding stress. practical tools you can use each day to better, manage other people better, and reduce quiet its voice. arguments about who is “right” and “wrong." • How to cultivate a "challenge" mindset that helps you • thrive under pressure. How being “hooked” by both positive and • The difference between Abstainers vs. Moderators negative feedback limits women’s "playing (about how to fight temptation); Marathoners vs. • Simple strategies for transforming the biology of your big", and the gentle way to get free of that Sprinters vs. Procrastinators (about the pace at which stress response, to improve health and well-being. – including a radical way of understanding work should be completed-a real issue within teams); and utilizing feedback. Finishers vs. Openers (about a person’s willingness to • Why stress and meaning are linked, and how to use • work toward completion or to start something new); and stress as a catalyst for personal growth. The “little things” we do in our speech and the “Four Tendencies” framework (about how a person writing that diminish our impact. How to responds to a request or an order). • How bigger-than-self goals create resilience and hope let them go, and what to do instead. during adversity. • • How to best motivate people, help them change their How to identify your callings and practical habits, make it possible for them to work and live steps to start living yours right away – even together harmoniously and how to manage yourself. if that seems near impossible now.

LEARN MORE - LEARN MORE - LEARN MORE - LEEZA GIBBONS Emmy Award Winning Journalist, New York Times Bestselling Author & Winner of Celebrity Apprentice

Emmy Award winner Leeza Gibbons Now alongside , and the weekly as a trusted girlfriend, valued confidante is one of the most well-known pop- TV news show My Generation on PBS, for and source of inspiration and information, culture icons on the air. In addition to which she won the 2013 Daytime Emmy empowering women to show up for their her impressive background in the field of Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host. lives with confidence and pride. Whether entertainment and news media, Gibbons is it’s her scrapbook line honoring the value an instrumental advocate for healthcare, Recognized as a social entrepreneur, of memories, her jewelry collection to wellness, and caregiving. She is also a wife, Gibbons has become one of the leading symbolize transformation, or her cosmetic mother, winner of voices for issues facing family caregivers. products to reveal inner and outer beauty, Season 7 against , EMMY When her mother and grandmother were Gibbons develops programs and products award winner and a New York Times struggling with Alzheimer’s disease, she to help women claim their strength and bestselling author. created what she wished she and her family rewrite the story of their lives. had and started the Leeza Gibbons Memory The spectrum of Gibbons’ career in Foundation. Her training as a journalist In 2013, Leeza Gibbons published Take 2, entertainment and news media is diverse united with her compassion and business a personal growth guide designed to help and impressive. Her on-camera hosting savvy when she opened the foundation’s people recreate themselves and hit the dominance in the entertainment-news signature programs Leeza’s Place and reset button on their lives. Her uplifting and talk-show arenas ranges from the Leeza’s Care Connection, offering free personality shines through in this New most popular entertainment news show services for family caregivers encouraging York Times bestseller. Recognizability, in history, , to her them to call on their courage and summon Relatability and Reputation – that and more award-winning daytime talk show, Leeza. their strength for the long journey ahead. is what you get with Gibbons as she uplifts, Her current roles include hosting the empowers and motivates audiences and syndicated TV news magazine show America Over the years, Gibbons has become known viewers to get more out of life and business.

The way Leeza was able to intertwine the message of empowerment throughout her own story and then find such common threads that each of the listeners could relate to was masterful. I amconfident that each attendee walked away with something personal and long lasting from her address."

- Judi Pitchford, Epic Entertainment & Production Group SUZY WELCH New York Times Bestselling Author & Former editor-in-chief of the Harvard Business Review

Bestselling author, popular television Team, and Growing Your Career. Together perceptive commentary has made her commentator and noted business Jack and Suzy will explore the most a popular commentator on television journalist Suzy Welch is the author of pressing challenges related to creating programs including Good Morning bestseller 10-10- winning strategies, leading and managing America, The View, Morning Joe, Your 10: A Life Transforming Idea. The book, others, and building a thriving career. World With Neil Cavuto, and Power Lunch. which presents a powerful decision- making strategy for success at work and In 2009, the couple launched the Jack Born in Portland, Oregon, Suzy received in parenting, love and friendship, was Welch Management Institute at Strayer her degree from before published in 29 countries. University, a unique online MBA and joining The Miami Herald as a reporter. certificate program aimed at giving She left daily journalism to attend Harvard Suzy and her husband co- students around the world and at every Business School, where she graduated as authored the international bestsellers career level the tools to transform their a Baker Scholar in 1988. Suzy joined the Winning and the follow up Winning: The lives and the organizations of the future. Harvard Business Review in 1995 and was Answers. Together they have also written named editor-in-chief in 2001. During her business columns for several publications, On her own, Suzy has written extensively tenure at HBR, Suzy was the author of including Business Week, Fortune magazine about work-life balance and other cultural numerous articles on leadership, change, and The New York Times. Up next, they issues for publications ranging from O, creativity and organizational behavior, as will release The Real-Life MBA: Your No- The Oprah Magazine to The Wall Street well as the contributor to several books BS Guide to Winning The Game, Building a Journal. In addition, her candid and on management.

Suzy Welch sparkles with brilliant ideas. In 10-10-10 she offers a profound, easy-to-apply tool for making tough decisions simple, finding clarity amid life's confusions. If you're wondering what to do, which path to follow at the fork, whether to stay or leave, 10-10-10 will help you find your way."

- Dan Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence Gretchen Rubin #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Happiness Project, Happier at Home & Better Than Before

Gretchen Rubin is the author of several “To be happy at home is the ultimate result she has addressed corporate audiences books, including the #1 New York Times of all ambition.” at places such as GE, Google, LinkedIn, and international bestseller, The Happiness Accenture, Procter & Gamble, as well as Project—an account of the year she spent Gretchen’s latest, Better Than Before: university audiences such as Yale Law test-driving the wisdom of the ages, Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives, School, , and the current scientific studies, and the tackles the critical question: How do we Wharton. lessons from popular culture about how change? Gretchen Rubin’s answer: through to be happier. On her popular blog, The habits. Habits are the invisible architecture Rubin was one of the first people asked Happiness Project, she reports on her daily of everyday life. It takes work to make a to become a LinkedIn “Influencer,” where adventures in the pursuit of happiness. habit, but once that habit is set, we can she has an enormous, active group of harness the energy of habits to build followers. She was named one of the In her next book, Happier at Home, Rubin happier, stronger, more productive lives. “100 Most Influential People in Health embarked on a new project to explore how and Fitness,” one of the Inc.’s Top 50 to make home a happier place. Starting in A graduate of Yale and Yale Law School, Leadership and Management Experts, and September (the new January), Gretchen where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale one of the “22 Brilliant Thinkers Everyone dedicates a school year—from September Law Journal and winner of the Edgar M. Should Follow on Twitter” by Business through May—to concentrating on the Cullen Prize, Rubin started her career Insider. factors that matter most for home, such as in law, and she was clerking for Justice possessions, marriage, time, parenthood, Sandra Day O’Connor when she realized Raised in Kansas City, she lives in New York body, neighborhood. The book’s title was she really wanted to be a writer. City with her husband and two daughters. inspired by a line from Samuel Johnson: Rubin is much in demand as a speaker, and

Gretchen Rubin combines deep research and observations from her own life to explain how habits emerge and—more important—how they can change. It’s indispensable for anyone hoping to overhaul how they (almost unthinkingly) behave.”

- Charles Duhigg, New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Habit DR. KELLY McGONIGAL

Bestselling Author of The Upside of Stress, The Willpower Instinct & Lecturer at Stanford University

Kelly McGonigal, PhD, is a health a number of teaching awards for her Time magazine, USA Today, and the psychologist and and a leading expert on undergraduate psychology courses, American Psychological Association’s the mind-body relationship. She is a lecturer including Stanford University’s highest Monitor on Psychology. She is also a at Stanford University, for the Graduate teaching honor, the Walter J. Gores frequent source of expert advice and School of Business's MBA and executive award. Her popular public courses through commentary for media outlets such as education programs, and for the School Stanford’s Continuing Studies program— the New York Times, the Washington Post, of Medicine's Center for Compassion and including the Science of Willpower and the the Los Angeles Times, MSNBC.com, Web Altruism Research and Education. Science of Compassion—demonstrate the MD, Time, Fitness, Women’s Health, and applications of psychological science to more. In 2010, Forbes named her one of She is the author of several books, personal health and happiness, as well as the 20 most inspiring women to follow on including the The Upside of Stress, the organizational success and social change. Twitter. In 2012, she teamed up with the international bestseller The Willpower Through a wide range of conferences, Oprah Winfrey Network and Superbetter Instinct, and The Neuroscience of Change. workshops, university-affiliated programs, Labs to create an online game that would She has consulted for a wide range of and consulting, Dr. McGonigal also provides spread the benefits of gratitude to millions organizations and industries ranging continuing education and training to of people worldwide. from healthcare and higher education to executives, teachers, healthcare providers, technology and finance, helping to bring and other professionals. Dr. McGonigal received her PhD in evidence-based strategies for resilience psychology from Stanford University, with and well-being into the workplace. Dr. McGonigal’s work has been covered a concentration in humanistic medicine. widely by the media, including the CBS She received a B.A. in Psychology and a She teaches for a wide range of programs Evening News, U.S. News and World B.S. in Mass Communication from at Stanford University and has received Report, CNN.com, O! The Oprah Magazine, University.

Kelly McGonigal is a leader driven by compassion and pragmatism.” - Forbes TARA MOHR Author of Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message & Creator of the Acclaimed Playing Big Leadership Program for Women

Tara Sophia Mohr is an expert on Tara writes a popular blog on women’s named a Girl Champion by the Girl Effect women’s leadership and well-being. careers and wellbeing at TaraMohr.com organization, honoring her work on girls’ She is the author of Playing Big: Find and has been featured on The Today education in the developing world. She is Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message. Show and in publications ranging from also a poet, and the author of Your Other She is the creator of the acclaimed Huffington Post to Harvard Business Names: Poems for Wise Living. Playing Big leadership program for Review to MariaShriver.com. Tara received women, which now has more than her MBA from Stanford University and She lives in San Francisco and loves dance, 1,000 graduates from around the her undergraduate degree in English art, and long walks with her beloved world. literature from Yale. In 2010, Tara was husband, son and golden retriever.

Tara and I share the same philosophy: we hope inspirational ideas will ignite you to go out and make an impact in your own life. Whether she’s writing for mariashriver.com or urging others to become a change agent through her book, Tara is practicing the Playing Big words she preaches.”

- Maria Shriver WHAT PEOPLE NOTABLE PAST ATTENDEES ARE SAYING

‘‘Inspiring – Informative – Impactful – Illuminating – Invaluable. Bravo!” - Julie Reid Education Officer Ministry of Education

‘‘Excellent day, the speakers expressed similar, consistent leadership priorities for now & in the future. This one day session is enough to gain significant insights on leadership.” - Bernice Parent Director, Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness MTS Allstream

"This is just what I needed to be recommitted to building a strong team.” - Mary Butcher Senior Manager Rogers

"All the speakers were extremely innovative and experienced in their fields. They presented new ideas in a way that emotionally and intellectually stimulated the audience... Great choice of speakers!”

- Alexandra Margulescu Concordia University REGISTRATION INFORMATION GENERAL PASS VIP PASS PLATINUM PASS

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