KEYNOTE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT


Matt Rolfe
Matt Rolfe Hospitality Leadership Coaching
Coach - Speaker - Facilitator
The Great Resignation
Let’s Not Just Talk About Mental Health, Let’s Take Action

Matt Rolfe is a hospitality leadership coach, speaker, and entrepreneur who mentors leaders in the hospitality industry toward unlocking their true potential. As founder of Results Hospitality and Westshore Hospitality Group, he has worked with hundreds of leadership teams throughout North America.

Beginning his career with companies like Bacardi and Labatt/Anheuser Busch, Matt has become an industry expert dedicated to helping leaders examine the human element of their businesses and execute effective team building strategies unique to their needs. Over his 15+ years leading Westshore Hospitality Group, Matt has studied hundreds of operations and identified what the top ten percent do that is fundamentally different from the rest of the industry.

Asking the question, "What do they do that makes them stand out from the competition?" Matt has developed concepts that have been tested, challenged, proven and continuously improved. Everything he coaches and advocates for is based on experience, successes and failures.

Pete Bombaci
GenWell, The Human Connection Movement
Master of Ceremonies
THE POWER OF HUMAN CONNECTION - In Crisis & Beyond
President's Reception, Dinner & Awards

Pete Bombaci is a visionary business and social change leader who believes that by doing the right thing every day, exceptional results are created. His engaging leadership style comes from an enthusiasm and genuine desire to help others, as well as the understanding that building a more connected workforce, delivers incredible benefits to both the employees and the business.

In 2016, Pete launched GenWell, a Canadian led, Global Human Connection Movement, which has become more relevant than ever. The mission of GenWell is to make the world a happier and healthier place by educating, empowering, and catalyzing people in workplaces, schools, and communities across Canada, around the importance of proactive face-to-face social connection as an action we can all take for our health, happiness, longevity, and the betterment of society.

As a human connection expert, Pete is frequently called upon to share the knowledge and insights gained over nine years leading the Canadian Human Connection Movement. Often a guest on global podcasts, radio, television, a panelist and speaker at conferences around the world and in workplaces and classrooms, Pete has been leading the way in the conversation around social health for some time.

Pete previously led the Movember Canada Foundation for nearly five years, growing the cause from a few thousand participants nationwide to the largest fundraising country worldwide, leading the incredible team that raised $142 million dollars for men’s health over that period of time. Prior to joining Movember, Pete was a 20-year veteran of the beverage and hospitality industry, serving in roles from sales to brand management.

Pete has been able to draw on these broad range of experiences in both the for-profit and not-for-profit fields in his work with business, classrooms and community and he looks forward to every opportunity to connect people with the importance of human connection in their lives.

John Lagimodiere
ACS Aboriginal Consulting Services
President
A Different Look at Canadian Indigenous History

Recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal and Saskatoon’s Living in Harmony Award, John Lagimodiere is a dedicated educator and entrepreneur. President of ACS Aboriginal Consulting Services and the former Editor/Publisher of Eagle Feather News, Lagimodiere is also the recipient of the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce ABEX Award Business for Aboriginal Business.