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Rob Deptford

Rob Deptford is an online course instructor and career management coach based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He teaches strategies and tools to navigate the modern world of precarious work and enjoys coaching people through career advancement and transition.

Rob spent 12 years working in the Canadian post-secondary education system in roles that included marketing, communications, student recruitment and coaching. His last post-secondary role saw him helping to grow faculty of engineering enrolment applications to record levels and coaching young engineering leaders before his position was eliminated.

While taking formal training in life coaching during his work gap, Rob made connections with people who turned out to be future colleagues when he was asked to join a talent management firm to help with outplacement and career transition coaching. He drew on his own job loss experience in combination with life coaching, career development and post-secondary advising to help more than 300 clients prepare to compete for their next job, pursue entrepreneurship, or transition to retirement.

As the husband of a busy dental assistant, and a parent of two active boys, Rob has an intimate understanding of the pressures of managing both career and life commitments and helps create solutions for fulfillment in all important areas of life.

Despite being an introvert, Rob loves public speaking and uses skills learned in broadcasting school to deliver with a calm but powerful presence you can easily notice in his social media videos and online course instruction. He talks with audiences of all sizes as though he’s talking with a friend sitting right next to him.

Rob holds a Bachelor of Journalism from Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia, a broadcasting diploma from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary, Alberta and a coaching certificate from Erickson Coaching International in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a member of the International Coach Federation.

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I absolutely love personal development! When we become life-long learners, we can achieve great things! While completing my doctorate degree in education, I taught as an adjunct professor at five different universities in two years, then realized academia was not for me. I'd obtained a PhD, but had no desire to use those credentials in the traditional career path. After 12 years of service in nearly every role in learning and development (corporate trainer, instructional designer, program manager, and educational researcher), I found my calling. Most of us have a desire to leave a legacy, to give back, to share lessons learned from a fulfilled life. I help entrepreneurs do just that. My skills and passion are now serving a consulting business I own that helps authors and entrepreneurs transform their unique subject matter expertise into learning products that transform people’s lives. When I'm not building learning products, I am building or renovating homes in Austin, TX. In the past two years, I purchased and renovated five rental units (doing much of the work myself). Now, I earn enough passive income to do only work that I love, driving positive transformation through learning. You can learn more about my consulting company at: bydesigndevelopmentsolutions.com. Connect with me via email at [email protected] or via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/alaina-szlachta-phd-5a9ba594/.

Janice Weir-Germia Janice Weir-Germia is an eLearning Developer at One Savings Bank since 2018 with previously 25 yrs experience Lecturing in Computer Science and the Director of Foodtruly Ambitions Ltd. She is a highly qualified Food Safety and Computer Training Specialist. Her brand, Turnahpot Kitchen has won 3 Gourmet Great Taste Awards in the UK, the Stellar Awards of food. She has also trained 100s of young people and adults in Computing and Food Safety. Her passion is to build Leaders and pass on a Legacy to help people develop themselves. She is an Author and her recent book sums up her Ethos: I Decided To Live - No More Excuses. www.foodtrulyambitions.com - The Educational Group website www.turnahpotkitchen.com - Seasonings Listen to another #12minconvo

Mary Henderson

Mary Henderson is an internationally recognised Personal Branding & Online Business Expert.

Mary helps Service Based Entrepreneurs, Startups & Business Owners align their Personal Brand, skills, expertise & life lesson's into an end-to-end (online) solution so they become recognised as an industry expert.

Mary has 18 years experience building 7 & 8 figure businesses in the IT sector and 13 years delivering online solutions for large and small businesses. She has been featured in many publications and is regarded a thought leader in the digital sector.

Mary's point of difference is her Personal Branding Methodology. In today's economy defining a person's uniqueness & what they stand for and applying it across all communication touchpoint's is key to a successful vocation.

When you engage Mary, you access 32,000+ hours of experience and knowledge in personal branding, client profiling, lead generation strategies, online course development, sales, content development and digital knowledge.

Mary embraces technology and social media in a big way and her followers are growing daily.

Mary is a heart centred, compassionate and tenacious entrepreneur who thrives on sharing her knowledge and witnessing people fulfil their dreams.

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Derek Stewart

Derek Stewart - Podcaster Interviewing Entrepreneurs Running the FASTEST GROWING Companies in Australia

Discovering that accounting was not for him, and having caught the travel bug, Derek packed his life into a 12kg backpack and moved to Manila, Philippines to do an internship with an Australian outsourcing company. He jumped into the deep end, despite taking the job before ever having visited Asia, launching head first and not looking back. Starting in a new job, in a new industry, moving to a city where he knew no one, and a continent he had never visited before was just the beginning. The journey and adventure of expatriating and coming with nothing but his instincts and judgement to survive and thrive took him through a roller coaster of ups and downs, and an amazing period of self-learning and self-improvement. To say it was life changing would be an understatement.

After spending nearly half a decade across Asia, working for fast growing Aussie-led companies, helping Aussie small businesses and entrepreneur clients go global, think bigger and achieve more, he returned home to Melbourne. Believing that entrepreneurship, business, new enterprise, capitalism, big ideas and innovation will be the building blocks and motor driving Australia forward he created the "FUTURE OF AUSTRALIA" project, to interview the Founders, CEOs and Entrepreneurs behind the fastest growing new businesses in Australia. "FUTURE OF AUSTRALIA" is about interviewing, celebrating and sharing the knowledge, aspirations, struggles, goals and achievements of these people with a broader audience.

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