March 21-23, 2019

San Diego, California

Our 4th Year!

This amazing 3 Day Event in San Diego, California will not only provide invaluable, tangible take-aways to launch 2019 in the right direction to increase your impact. And, as a priceless bonus, will create a unique environment to connect with other transformational thought leaders from around the world.

Gail Watson is CEO AND FOUNDER OF Women Speakers Association ( WSA ), the go-to place for innovative leaders, change agents, and women with a message. Under Gail’s leadership, WSA provides a platform for women to get seen, booked and paid and be part of a global network reaching women in 120 countries. Whatever her “stage”, be it the classroom, a boardroom, or the floor of the UN, Gail is dedicated to empowering women to authentically express themselves, build a thriving, prosperous business, and transform the lives of their clients, companies, communities and the world.

As a speaker, author, and transformationist for over fifteen years, Joseph Ranseth has been helping people transform their lives and organizations using the same blueprint and principles that transformational leaders like Gandhi and Dr. King used to change the world.

He has been a featured expert on national television, including Fox News, CBS, CTV, CBC, etc. in leading industry publications, such as Advertising Age, and has been recognized several times by the Huffington Post for using social media to inspire the world.

An active volunteer, Joseph believes that the best way to change the world is by starting locally. He sits on committees for several local charities and he is on the board of directors for the National Autism Association in the U.S.. His favorite volunteer role, however, is that of Big Brother. Living on a small farm just outside of Winnipeg in an almost off-grid home that has no television or internet, Joseph enjoys spending time with his beautiful daughter, Winter, and joyful son, Enoch.

Karen Sahetya, the founder of Brand Central Marketing, is not just another marketer or digital agency owner. In an online world where noise of the newest online trends can drown out seasoned experience, she has established herself and her team as among some of the internet's leading marketers.

With nearly a decade of corporate marketing experience with FORTUNE 100 companies, Karen brings the best of offline marketing and combines it with a full suite of digital marketing services. In the past she has worked with such brands as Disney, Target, and Warner Bros., just to name a few, but as the founder of Brand Central has established a team that is second to none. Having established a team that works hands on with each client to know what marketing strategy to implement for best results, Karen oversees a business with expertise in Facebook Ads ™, full website & sales funnel builds, bot building, and much more.

Karen knows that never before in the history of marketing have small brands and new businesses been able to compete directly and so effectively with their competitors. Whether it's email marketing or full web automations, her team's poised proficiency allows their clients to see online sales conversions above industry standards.

Mariette Fourmeaux du Sartel guides leaders to build sustainable, resilient, high-performance teams, enabling them to develop innovative solutions to world-scale problems with compassionate, human-centered leadership. After 20+ years in business, solving cancer, access to electricity and education challenges, Mariette was called to bring this same expertise to prison, where she discovered the mechanisms of turning our society's cycle of violence into one of transformation and healing. This unlikely journey for an Ivy League and Berkeley MBA graduate started with the organization of the wildly successful TEDxDonovanCorrectional and has led to the creation of a nonprofit called Brilliance Inside, with the mission of transforming prison from being strictly a container of violence to a creator of peace. Finally, Mariette is a true global citizen: born in France, she’s lived on four continents and has explored some of the most remote corners of our world

She's been a TEDx attendee, TEDx sponsor, TEDx organizer and TEDx speaker. She's explored most angles. She is the license holder for TEDxDonovanCorrectional and, with the organizing Core Team of prison residents, she is putting together the 3rd annual TEDxDonovanCorrectional. Yes, that's a TEDx event that's held *inside* state prison. 100 people from outside come into prison to spend the day with 100 prison residents for a day of TEDx talks and TEDxpression, a special experience crafted by the residents to create conversation, connection and humanity. It's transformed the participating residents, their families and friends, the prison yard, the outside attendees, the staff and the greater community. She is also a TEDx speaker having shared her "Breaking Society's Cycle of Violence? A Solution Among Prisoners" talk at TEDxNarbonne in the south of France in November 2017.

Dr. Ganz Ferrance is an International speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, and award-winning Psychologist. He holds a PhD in Counselling Psychology and an MA in Developmental and Educational Psychology from Andrews University in Michigan. He is the former Public Education Coordinator and former Vice-President of the Psychologist’s Association of Alberta. For over twenty-five years, Dr. Ferrance has been helping individuals, couples, families, and corporations reduce their levels of stress, improve their relationships, and enjoy more success.

“Dr. Ganz” is a favourite of the media, and over the past fourteen years has been interviewed by The Edmonton Journal, CBC Radio, 630 CHED, Good Morning Canada, CTV News, Psychology Today, Ebony magazine, Bloomberg Business Radio Network, Proctor and Gamble “Every Day,” Bustle magazine online, BYU Radio, and many other media outlets. He reaches over 400,000 viewers every month with his ongoing segment on CTV’s Noon News. He has also been a regular “Health and Lifestyle” panel expert on Alberta Primetime for over seven years. 

He holds the John C. Patterson Media Award from the Psychologists Association of Alberta and the Rosalina Smith Award from the National Black Coalition of Canada for Exceptional and Prolonged Service from An Individual from the Black Community Conducting a Business.

Dr. Ferrance’s deep belief in “positive psychology” helps you be the best version of yourself. He presents his information in a straightforward, down-to-earth, no-nonsense way. He prides himself on being a fellow “work-in-progress” and does not present anything that he has not personally put his blood, sweat, and tears into. 

This approach has made him a sought-after public speaker—with audiences in the United States and Canada enjoying his fun, engaging, and life-changing presentations on beating stress and building superior relationships.

Dr. Ferrance has a black belt in karate and is currently studying Aikido. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada with his wife and two children.

Married to best friend Geordie and mother of three, Yvonne is loving life in beautiful Muskoka, Canada. And she is on a mission.

In 27 years of nursing she witnessed our society’s reluctance to talk about, plan prepare for grief causing excessive suffering in life and at the end of life. She suffered too, not knowing how to do it differently.

In 2015, at age 50 she left her career and blazed a new trail. Her new purpose?

To empower compassionate communities and professionals to live life to the fullest, learn to grieve and support others and to have “The Talk” about end of life…

long before it arrives and diffuse the fear.

Yvonne shares her message—with heart and humour—as an Inspirational Speaker, with her book entitled Love Your Life to Death, as a television and radio host and through social media. She has also created the I Just Showed Up Global Movement. Stay tuned for her upcoming TEDx Talk, March 30, 2019! 

Yvonne loves to collaborate and help change makers, non-profit and do-gooder organizations along the way. 

Together we can create a culture of change

Charmaine Hammond has been in the business of transforming lives, building sustainable collaborations, and helping businesses succeed for more than 25 years. CSP™ Certified Speaking Professional, bestselling author ( 5 books & featured in 6 others) with a Master's Degree in Conflict Management, she has developed collaborations and sponsorship relationships with more than 40 sponsors and 60 business partners and has helped her clients do the same. Clients are securing cash sponsorship, getting no fee speaking engagements sponsored to full fee paid speaking, selling books in bulk, and are having things like travel, printing, marketing and more covered by collaborations and sponsorship. 

Charmaine will be joining the Global Influence Summit virtually and will be providing GIS attendees with a post event Sponsorship video so you can step into action generating more revenue by doing good and making an impact!

Annemarie Shrouder is an International Speaker, Facilitator and Consultant on issues of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging.

Annemarie Shrouder started her professional interest in Diversity and Inclusion as an elementary teacher. In that capacity she strove to create a classroom where her students saw themselves reflected in the curriculum, and learned about each other. She was also a workshop facilitator for the Peel District School Board's The Future We Want. During this time, she earned a Masters Degree and wrote her these on bias awareness.

When she left teaching, she determined that inclusion wasn't just important for children, and set about helping organizations to create inclusive workplaces. She has been doing this ever since.

Annemarie's passion is encouraging people to see more - more of themselves, each other and situations - in order to create healthy workplace communities where people thrive. She facilitates this through her speaking engagements, working with organizations using her Signature Methodology: The ABCs of Inclusion, as well as with individuals through her Association of Change Agents for Inclusion and Belonging.

Notable accomplishments include:

• the creation of a D&I Strategy for the Canadian Diabetes Association

• the creation of an LGBTQ Strategy for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health 

• long-term work with the Toronto Catholic Children's Aid Society, helping to address the disproportionality of Black children in care

• creation of LGBTQ-inclusion training for Egale Canada, and training of school administrators and teachers across the province of Newfoundland and Labrador

• Former radio host: Creating Families on HealthyLife.net

• Speaker at Women's Economic Forum (India - 2017)

• Interviews on CBC radio about Unconscious Bias and the Starbucks training

In addition to being an entrepreneur for 15 years, I am most proud of the fact that I am a mom, and have created a family that honours my love of community and my identities as a queer woman of colour.

Kevin Tracy is the creative director of Scrum.Marketing - a small branding and design shop in Denver, and a multidisciplinary designer with coaching skills that draw the best out of each client. He brings skills honed by speaking and teaching leaders in developing countries around the globe to help businesses turn complexity into simple and engaging brand strategy and design. 

In a complicated world, your brand is an accelerant or a drag. Brands that know their audience and tell a compelling story win. But, simplicity demands greater effort. Amazingly the same skills needed to distill complex new ideas into usable constructs for brilliant leaders in the developing world apply equally well to businesses here. 

Kevin is an award-winning designer; but found his passion leading clean water development, well repair, and water hygiene efforts in West Africa. He's spoken and taught on five continents, been a pastor, led multimillion dollar design projects for Hallmark Cards, and is a father, husband, and entrepreneur.

“I’ve finally found my tribe!” is the sentiment expressed by attendees of the Global Influence Summit.

If you’re a thought leader on a mission to change the world, you’ll be among your tribe and will have the opportunity to make connections that will last a lifetime!

How would your business grow if you had over 100 partners and supporters in the same room for 3 days? Last year’s event attendees had a combined reach of audiences of over 80 million people. Would mailing partners with a reach like that increase your impact and revenue? Would the wisdom and experience of the authors, speakers and coaches in the room add value to your business?

We are so entirely confident that you’ll get exactly what you need to take your business and global impact to the next level that we are willing to put our money where our mouths are!

Come to the Global Influence Summit – with Zero Risk! If by lunchtime on Day 2 of the event you haven’t already had a major breakthrough and gotten 10x the value of what you paid, we’ll give you a full refund, no questions asked.