Featured Guest Speakers

Fotini Iconomopoulos is an award-winning negotiation consultant, keynote speaker and MBA instructor based in Toronto. She works with everyone from Fortune 500 companies to small business entrepreneurs to help them achieve their goals. She is regularly featured in the media and Harper Collins asked her to write her first book “Say Less Get More: Unconventional Negotiation Techniques to Get What You Want.” Her father unknowingly influenced her career path at the age of 6 when he nicknamed her “the negotiator.” You can learn more about her work and find more of her tips at www.fotiniicon.com.

With over 20 years of corporate experience leading teams and implementing organizational change, Michelle partners with companies and organizations to improve employee retention and productivity by eliminating your employee's money stress.  She does this by elevating their financial literacy and confidence managing money, so they can plan for their futures and be happy today.

Michelle is a Canadian Certified Professional Accountant, a Money and Wealth coach and a Financial Planning candidate.  She is passionate about sharing her deep financial and mindset knowledge in order to elevate the critical life skill of personal finance in society, as the education systems didn't teach this.

Siobhan is an award-winning marketer, business professor, and co-founder of Hiver Academy. She and her partner Amanda Forsyth have built Hiver into an online community of over 60,000 people looking to become their most financially confident selves. They have partnered with companies like CIBC, Neo, Borrowell, and Koho to create accessible and educational content around spending, saving, and investing. Most recently they launched Money 101: What They Didn't Teach Us in School - a completely free course for anyone at any age looking to improve their financial literacy skills and take control of their future. You can learn more about her work at www.hiveracademy.com

Jadyn is a Vice President at Xfund. Prior to Xfund, she was the Chief Strategy Officer of Harvard Student Agencies (HSA), the largest student-run company in the world, with 12 separate business units, over 600 employees and over 50 managers. Leading up to her role as the CSO, Jadyn was the Chief People Officer of HSA. In her years in the C-suite, she led the strategic development of the company, updated the compliance standards of the business, and drove innovation at the company which resulted in the creation of new agencies.
 

A successful Bay Street executive for over 25 years, she has championed for women in different countries for many decades. Host of EMPOWERED with Elizabeth Naumovski (formerly Finance Is Personal), public speaker, emcee, and panelist, she is highly sought after for her passion, knowledge, engagement and compassion.

In 2022, Elizabeth was a recipient of the noteworthy Queen's Platinum Jubilee award for her contribution to community.

Temi is a business leader who delivers strategic financial solutions to enable client success, and achieve strong bottom-line results for the organization.

One of Temi's personal interests is teaching people how to become financially independent, through basic financial literacy skills that help them learn in a practical manner. This is a big part of her life, given Tem understanding of how financial literacy and inclusion can contribute to socio-economic development; especially leveraging data and technology.

Jennifer is passionate about prosperity and the good it can create in the world. Concerned about the low levels of investment literacy and the fact that traditional methods are not meeting the needs of the next generation, Jennifer took her knowledge as a CFA and a CPA and her experience in start-ups (co-founder of hyperWALLET, company that exited to PayPal in 2018) to create INVRS - gamified investment education and research.

Parween is a Millennial Money Coach on a mission to provide honest and relatable financial coaching for WOC from immigrant upbringings through 1:1 coaching and mentoring.

Parween holds an economics degree from the University of British Columbia, is an Accredited Financial Counselor - Canada®, a certified Trauma of Money Facilitator.

She coaches millennial WOC from immigrant upbringings how to rebel against their broke & traditional immigrant mentalities so that they can make intentional decisions & reclaim financial independence.

Cori Arnold was drowning in $260,000 of debt 12 years ago, including $140,000 in student loans and $22,000 in credit cards.

Of her friends, she was supposed to be the one best with money as she was the one working in finance.  Today she has over 20 years of experience working in small and large companies, from lending to corporate finance.After two major turning points, she figured it out. She paid off her debt in 5 years and became a millionaire in 10 years.

She finally saw how powerful patience, discipline, and consistency are, both in her money and in her career.

Sheina is a somatic empowerment coach currently living in the Caribbean.

She spent six years traveling the world as a dancer and content creator before experiencing a breaking point that woke her up to her inner joy and fulfillment. Sheina took the path of becoming a coach, using her passion for movement to guide her clients through massive breakthroughs, healing, and empowerment using the most powerful wisdom we have, our body.

Sheina utilizes a range of techniques, including somatic healing, embodiment practices using breath, sound, voice, and body, dance therapy, emotional release, nervous system regulation, and inner child and mother healing. Her goal is to empower her clients to connect with their inner selves, release emotional and physical blocks, and live life to the fullest.

Tracy is an entrepreneur and successful part-time investor dedicated to helping people invest with confidence. Her work is for the ambitious, the hustlers, the entrepreneurs, and the action takers who are building wealth through real estate, businesses, and investments.

Tracy's mission is to accelerate people's path to financial independence by teaching everything she knows - and everything she learned the hard way - so they shorten your learning curve by decades. She launched Financial Nirvana Mama to give access to all the principles, tips, rules, and techniques that helped her build multiple streams of income while juggling a job, kids, and life—without any inheritance, lottery winnings, or previous experience.

Lindsay is a member of the boards of the Jewish General Hospital Foundation and the Jewish Community Foundation. She is also on the Advisory committee of the hospital. 

Lindsay guest lectured at McGill Desautel teaching Introduction to Investing as part of their Financial Literacy course. She has also participated in several panels at the Smith School of Business at Queens University and at the McGill Faculty of Law and Investment Club. Lindsay has obtained the Chartered Investment Manager accreditation (CIM).

Victoria is a High Conflict Divorce Coach, a Divorce Mediator and the creator of the Reclaim Your Power System™. She helps her clients overcome the pain, fear and overwhelm caused by an abusive spouse by helping them escape their victim mentality and opening their minds to the amazing possibilities available. 

Aside from being a certified life coach, Victoria went through a drastic transformation from earning the lion's share of the family income yet being financially, emotionally and physically abused, to emerging as a strong, empowered, intuitive and successful woman. She is dedicated to making this transformation happen for her clients, too.

Chantel Chapman is the CEO and co-founder of the Trauma of Money - an accredited course certifying professionals in trauma-aware and trauma-informed approaches to finance. Drawing influence from 14 years of experience as a mortgage broker, 10 years as a financial literacy consultant, and extensive research in addiction, behavioral science, trauma, community economic development, and mindfulness, Chantel is renowned for her cutting-edge, relatable, and trauma-informed money guidance.

Chantel is a member of the National Task Force for Economic Justice, supporting CCFWE's mission to end economic and financial abuse and empower all women and those who identified as being women. 

Chantel is a settler of European descent who works and resides on the stolen traditional lands of the Kwantlen (kwaant·luhn), Musqueam (“mus-kwee-um”), and Tswassen (saa·wa·sn) peoples.