Opening Keynote

Kimberly Lyall
Solutionary Leadership Expert

Kimberly Lyall is an award-winning leadership strategist, speaker, and the creator of Solutionary Leadership: a strategy movement for leaders who dare to build better. With over 25 years of experience across corporate, nonprofit, and government sectors, she helps leaders navigate complexity by leaning into challenges, uncovering opportunities, and leading forward with clarity and courage.

Her approach is grounded in real life experience. At 26, she became CEO of a regional tourism organization that later suffered a devastating fraud and suicide. She led a turnaround that tripled revenues, retained 90% of members, and forged million-dollar partnerships. She has since led innovation in several industries.

Kimberly is known for her calm presence, compelling storytelling, and practical strategies that move people into action. She is a Woman of Distinction, Governor General’s Award winner, Queen’s Jubilee Medal recipient, Past-President of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (Alberta), co-author of Trailblazer Secrets, and a non-Indigenous woman gifted the Blackfoot name Kómmonoi Saamiaki (Blue Paint Headdress Woman).

Closing Keynote

Linh Huynh
Author | Keynote Speaker |

Linh is a professional speaker, author, educator, and extreme non-athlete. She has completed the Antarctic Ice Marathon (in Antarctica), the North Pole Marathon (in the North Pole – for realzz), and a series of ultra-marathons of 250km each in common places like the 4 deserts.

She’s delivered a TEDx talk called “Rethinking Limits” and is the author of the upcoming book called “Luckpusher”.

Linh is a passionately curious and adventurous person. Her first adventure began at the age of 4 when she and her family were part of the mass exodus of Boat People who fled Vietnam after the war. Arriving in Canada in the 1980s, her journey as a child opened her eyes to what is possible if one lives intently and fearlessly.

Surviving a harrowing journey at such a young age instilled a deep sense of gratitude for the life that was gifted to her. Her driving philosophy is to explore everything that life has to offer. Linh loves exploring (40 countries and counting), running to the ends of the earth, devoting herself to the culinary arts, and other outrageous adventures and shenanigans. She is on a mission to inspire people to face challenges and create an extraordinary life full of courage, joy, and wonder.