"I inspire greatness in personal, professional and organizational excellence, building organizations by building people."

Dr. Don Carmont is a leadership and organizational development specialist, and an executive coach, who brings to his consulting practice an expertise in “people skills,” gained from more than forty years of leadership, teaching, training, writing and public speaking to hundreds of thousands of people in nearly thirty countries.

His book, The Naked Mentor, which examines 31 leadership principles, learned from a legacy of mentors in his life, has sold out its second printing. Don is a Certified Master Coach with the global Behavioral Coaching Institute.

During his career, Don has served as CEO in organizations, built a successful financial services company, headed a multi-million dollar non-profit organization, and served as a consultant and director on numerous international boards. He has hosted daily radio programs, and weekly television, as well as appearing on national television. Don has designed, developed and delivered training programs, leadership development courses, and several thousand seminar sessions to international conferences, graduate school classrooms, and on-site for organizations in both public and private sector, from A-Z: from American Express to Zurich Life. In the past 20 years, more than 15,000 organizations have had employees in attendance at seminars that Don has conducted throughout Canada, the US, the UK and Asia.

In addition to the work through his private practice, he has conducted both public and on-site programs through the most respected seminar and training companies in the world including, The Canadian Management Centre of the American Management Association, Waterloo Management and Education Centre, CareerTrack, SkillPath, National Training Seminars and Fred Pryor Seminars.

E-mail Don at drcarmont@rogers.com

Hugh Latif has over 35 years experience in management consulting and general management. Since 1996, his management consulting practice has successfully completed over 350 consulting assignments. He specializes in strategic planning, sales and marketing, succession planning, advisory boards governance and business turn-arounds.

Previously, he held senior executive positions with the Dun & Bradstreet – A.C.Nielsen Group in Canada, Italy, Brazil and France.

Hugh has a BA in Economics from Cairo University and has completed the Advanced Management Program with INSEAD of Fontainebleau, France.

Hugh is affiliated and member of several associations across North America including Toronto Board of Trade, CFIB Canadian Federation of Independent Business, The Italian Chamber of Commerce, The BDC Consulting Group, The Canadian Professional Sales Association and others. He serves on many private advisory boards.

Hugh speaks fluently English, French, Italian and Portuguese.

For more information please visit www.hughlatif.com

As an accounting and systems specialist, Scott has combined a background in accounting, psychology, education and computer systems over the past 25 years to improve clients' financial systems efficiency and reporting. He acts as an interim controller and as a forensic accountant.

Andrew Penny is in the business of helping companies grow. He has provided advice to hundreds of small and mid-market organizations in just about every vertical market. With almost 20 years of consulting experience he brings unmatched knowledge of what works and what doesn’t. He looks at all aspects of revenue generation including corporate strategy, market research, customer satisfaction, sales, channels, distribution, market position, pricing, market communications. He works with directly with business leaders offering insights and an effective sounding board for new ideas.

Andrew is Chair of the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce’s Economic Development Committee, Advisor to the University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Business MBA program and holds the CMC designation with the Canadian Association of Management Consultants. He has a BA (Hon) from Concordia University in Montreal and an MBA from the University of Ottawa.

In a former life Andrew was a Vice President with Bell Mobility and General Manager of Telesat Mobile.

With 22 years of service with Revenue Canada (CRA) working as an Auditor, Appeals Officer and Team Leader in the Auditing Division, Denis assists in preparation and presentation of SR and ED claims for small, medium and large companies, with and impressive claims ratio.