Elizabeth Danckwerts (aka Biffy) is a travel agent, Rotarian and gives back significantly her community in Cape Town, South Africa. She has helped decrease the number of children sleeping on the streets, spent 4 years doing volunteer work for the Street Children of Claremont and has been responsible for more than 30 Global Grants.

Heer biggest passion is helping children in the largest township, Khayelithsa, in Cape Town in a primary school and a senior school.

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Maria Konikov is Director of Operations at the York Entrepreneurship Development Institute (YEDI) which is recognized as a leader in entrepreneurship education and training, offering a range of options for entrepreneurs to reach their educational and growth goals.

YEDI has several programs and alumni and mentoring groups. Check out the organization on https://yedi.ca/

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Joseph Sharon operates Circles Enrichment was organized in Toronto, Canada to meet the needs for ongoing learning and cultural enrichment in the retirees sector. Check out www.circlesenrichment.com and email [email protected] for more information or to request/suggest another topic.

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Kasey Devine is employed by https://procarehr.com/ which provides HR Solutions for Senior Care & Disability operators in several states and is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His role is strategy and revenue generation.

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Walace is a resident of Brazil who is a creative technology engineer with a master's degree. While has a job he also likes working with friends to create new businesses.

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Natalie Podwinsky, Life Enrichment Manager of the Village Langley,
https://verveseniorliving.com/the-village/ joined Noor Din of Human Endeavour, https://www.humanendeavour.org/ to talk about the Dementia Village facilities and activities, and to provide information on the tablets created by Noor and his team. The purpose is to determine if customized tablets could be tested in Langley.

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Dementia Village and Tablet

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Nickolaas van der Velde was born and educated in the Netherlands and came to Canada for 10 years, eventually being hired about 4 years later by https://indwell.ca/ which manages several buildings in south-western Ontario with a head office in Hamilton. They are a Christian charity with over 285 employees, a volunteer board of directors and also have volunteers and have been operating for 50 years.

They are willing to share their knowledge and skills with those setting up in other areas, particularly the use of a Community Bond as a financing tool.

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Becca is an openly Autistic Professional on a mission to close the disability gap in leadership by working with companies to attract and retain disabled talent. Her focus is Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DEIB) in the workplace because, as a female, disabled person, has been in search of Belonging as an employee her entire working life.

As a consultant and advisor she has taken her experiences and learnings to create a book which is available on Amazon. She grew up in New York and now lives in a rural area in Maine.

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Michelle tells the story of herself, husband and children lived in the Philippines, their trip coming to Canada and getting jobs here. Their daughter is a competitive swimmer and trains with a club at the Pan American stadium in Toronto, Canada.

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