Accelerate: Collaborating for Sustainability Conference | Speakers

A full roster of incredible speakers from across Canada and around the world will be presenting at Accelerate.

Keynote Presenters

Jenn Heil
Freestyle Mogul Skier; Multiple Olympic Medalist, World Cup Champion, and World Champion; Canadian Female Athlete of the Year Honoree; Co-Founder, B2ten; Analyst, Sochi Winter Olympic Games, CBC 

Nicholas R. Parker
Founding Managing Partner, Global Acceleration Partners Inc.; Founding Chairman, Cleantech Group Inc.; Former Chairman, Corporate Knights Media Ltd.

Dr. Peter Senge
Senior Lecturer in Leadership & Sustainability, MIT Sloan School of Management; Founding Chair, Society for Organizational Learning (SoL); Author, The Fifth Discipline and The Necessary Revolution

Avrim Lazar
Former CEO, Forest Products Association of Canada; Champion of the Canadian Boreal Initiative

Special Guest Presenters

John Brodhead Executive Director, Evergreen CityWorks	Tim Brodhead Interim President & CEO, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation; Adjunct Professor, University of Waterloo	Mark Cabaj President, From Here to There; Associate, Tamarack Institute	Geoff Cape CEO, Evergreen
Tania Carnegie Leader, KPMG Impact Ventures & National Executive Director, Community Leadership, KPMG	Karen Clarke-Whistler Chief Environment Officer, TD Bank Group	Helen Clarkson Director, Forum for the Future US	Tim Draimin Executive Director, Social Innovation Generation (SiG) National
Jayne Engle Curator, Cities for People, The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation	Tom Ewart Manager of Sustainability & Citizenship, The Co-operators Group Ltd.	Ashley Good Founder and CEO, Fail Forward	Dr. Barbara Gray Professor, Pennsylvania State University; Lead Researcher, Sustainability Through Partnerships report, Network for Business Sustainability
Kelly Hawke Baxter Social Innovation Consultant; Board Member, The Natural Step Canada; Chair, Tostan Canada	Linda Hawkins Director, Institute for Community Engaged Scholarship, University of Guelph	Dr. Geoff Kendall Co-Founder and CEO, 3D Investment Foundation	Mike Morrice Founder and Executive Director, Sustainability CoLab; Founder, Sustainable Waterloo Region; Ashoka Fellow
Claude Ouimet Senior V.P. G.M. Canada and Latin America, Interface	Patricia O’Reilly Director, Sustainability Strategy, Suncor Energy	Monica Pohlmann Senior Consultant, Reos Partners	Ben Powless Organizer, Idle No More Movement; Co-Founder, Canadian Youth Climate Coalition
Brendan Seale Sustainability Manager, IKEA Canada	Lorraine Smith Director, SustainAbility	Esther Speck Sustainability Consultant, Speck Consulting; Past Director, Sustainability and Community, Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC)	Frank Spencer Principal/Partner, Kedge; Author, Turning Wicked Problems Into Wicked Opportunities
Joeri van den Steenhoven Director, MaRS Solutions Lab; Co-Founder and Former CEO of Knowledgeland	Bob Willard Author, The NEW Sustainability Advantage, The Next Sustainability Wave & The Sustainability Champions Guidebook	Steve Williams President, Constructive Public Engagement

Staff and Associate Presenters

Sarah Brooks Senior Associate	Tamara Connell Director of Sustainability Literacy and Communications	Saralyn Hodgkin Director of Collaboration Programs and Evaluation	Chad Park Executive Director
John Purkis Senior Associate	Barb Steele Managing Director