The Staff
Leaders Today staff embody the philosophy that “we are the generation we have been waiting for”. Coming from all walks of life, we are expert youth facilitators and motivational speakers and we hope to inspire you to be the same.
Team members include: Harvard, Stanford and Oxford graduates; Rhodes scholars; young people with extensive travel and international development experience; and driven youth who have overcome challenging life trials and home environments.
All Leaders Today facilitators have the passion necessary to teach leadership to young people and to be the change they want to see in the world. Our fun and energetic team wants to meet you, so read on.
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Title: Kenya Trips Facilitator
Interesting Fact: Born in Rhodesia, Adam has the dubious distinction of coming from a country that no longer exists.
Email: adam@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: International Trips Coordinator
Interesting Fact: Afton enjoys belting out jazz and Broadway tunes into a wooden spoon.
Email: afton@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: O Ambassadors International Trips Coordinator
Interesting Fact: Aimee’s first volunteer experience involved squeezing penguins between her knees and massaging their throats.
Email: aimee@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Special Projects Consultant
Interesting Fact: Legend has it that Alex, wily and clever, crafted most of the jokes hidden in our curriculum.
Email: alex@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Life in Action Facilitator
Interesting Fact: Passionate about learning languages, Ali can count to 100 in French, Italian, Ukrainian and Amharic.
Email: ali@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: China Development Coordinator
Interesting Fact: Annie grows her hair out 10 inches or more every two years to donate to Locks of Love.
Email: annie@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Leadership Facilitator
Interesting Fact:Once an aspiring actress, Bina was an extra in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.
Email: bina@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Kenya Program Director
Interesting Fact: A go-getter who apparently likes the number 9—after nine years at camp, she completed a nine-mile swim achieving a nine-year goal!
Email: brooke@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Leadership Facilitator
Interesting Fact: Early in his university career, Dan received the nickname “Snuggles.” Much to his horror, it stuck.
Email: dan@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Leadership Facilitator / Motivational Speaker
Interesting Fact: Darren went to art school for more than five years, but still can’t colour inside the lines.
Email: darren@metowe.org |
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Title: Leadership Facilitator
Interesting Fact: David once travelled 300 kilometres by foot from Calgary to Edmonton to raise awareness about human rights violations in Darfur.
Email: davidjohnson@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Leadership Facilitator / Motivational Speaker
Interesting Fact: Emily has held a wide range of odd jobs including: selling furniture, writing film scripts, pulling out invasive plants from local parks, shelving books and driving a golf cart at an airport.
Email: emily@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Director of Leadership Programs, Arizona-Mexico Program Director
Interesting Fact: Erin has a freakish love of manual labour and has spent countless hours stacking firewood, bailing hay, building schools and tool sheds, and pick-axing water holes in African soil.
Email: erinblanding@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Senior Leadership Facilitator
Interesting Fact:Our musician in residence, Garrry plays 10 different musical instruments. Guitar was his first and his latest passion is the tabla, which is an Indian hand drum.
Email: garry@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Leadership Facilitator
Interesting Fact: Giustina once performed during the halftime show at a Toronto Argonauts game with York University’s cheerleading team.
Email: giustina@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: BC Leadership Facilitator
Interesting Fact: In the last five years, Hilary has spent more than 6000 hours paddling on rivers across Canada as a whitewater canoe guide.
Email: hilary@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Coordinator
Interesting Fact: A lover of dance, Jackie has taught everything from ballet to break-dancing!
Email: jackie@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Director of International Trips
Interesting Fact: A language buff, Janice is able to translate Hebrew, Latin and ancient Greek without breaking a sweat!
Email: janice@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: International Trips Coordinator
Interesting Fact: Jen has a tricky parrot named Tika who has a sneezing habit and has recently learned how to fake a sneeze to get Jen to say “Bless you!”
Email: jen@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Leadership Coordinator & International Trips Facilitator
Interesting Fact: Jesse has had several hair-raising encounters with grizzly bears while living in Alaska. Fortunately, he managed to deter them with firecrackers and a series of “Your fur is so brown…” jokes.
Email: jesse@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: International Travel Consultant
Interesting Fact: While in high school, Jon hosted his own radio show called the Big Mac Hour at a local radio station.
Email: jon@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Kenya Trips Facilitator
Interesting Fact: Josh was actually born on July 12 and not July 14 as all his documents (and his mom) insist.
Email: josh@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Leadership Facilitator
Interesting Fact: Knowing that her daughter was an Indiana Jones fanatic, Kathryn’s mom invited Harrison Ford to her 10th birthday party. He didn’t come, but perhaps that was because he was celebrating his own birthday that day.
Email: kathryn@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Kenya Trip Facilitator
Interesting Fact: Kevin is happy to walk many rugged kilometres through the woods with a canoe on his back—canoes are his first choice of transportation.
Email: kevin@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Leadership Facilitator
Interesting Fact: After being a competitive figure skater for nine years, Krystal Loverin won an essay contest and received the honour of skating for an afternoon with Canadian Olympic silver-medalist figure skater, Elvis Stojko.
Email: krystal@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Life in Action Facilitator
Interesting Fact: Most people are unaware of Long's plan to organize the coolest, most tacky sweater party! His sweater will consist of flashing multi-coloured lights with 3-dimensional singing reindeers!
Email: long@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Leadership Facilitator
Interesting Fact: She can’t complain of a crooked back. While in Guyana Louise slept in a hammock for six whole months!
Email: louise@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Leadership Facilitator
Interesting Fact: An aspiring singer/songwriter, Luke has toured his music across Canada and performed in venues from Toronto to Victoria.
Email: luke@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Speaking and Leadership Facilitator
Interesting Facts: As a camp counsellor, Matt had a game similar to dodge ball named after him—it was called “Tod’s Ball”.
Email: matt@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: International Trips Coordinator
Interesting Facts: Megan started a school-wide food fight . . . by accident!
Email: megan@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Leadership Facilitator
Interesting Facts: To help pay for university, Mike worked for a promotions company where he was required to dress up as Tony the Tiger as well as model for Zellers Magazine!
Email: mike@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Kenya Trips Facilitator
Interesting Facts: Our travelling nurse, Nicole learned to scuba dive in the Red Sea when living and working in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Email: nicole@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Africa Projects Director
Interesting Fact: Peter is an expert tracker and safari guide able to lead our youth safely through Kenya’s Masai Mara without so much as a scratch.
Email: peter@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Chief Operations Director, Leaders Today
Interesting Fact: Renée is careful to find a balance in life. She trains yearly for duathlons and captures the wonders of nature with a paint brush and canvas.
Email: director@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Special Projects Consultant
Interesting Fact: In January 2000, Roxanne was selected by Maclean's magazine as one of the “Top 100 people to watch out for in the Millennium”
Email: roxannejoyal@hotmail.com |
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Title: Leadership Facilitator
Interesting Fact: In 2007, Sally received the Youth in Motion Top 20 under 20 Award for demonstrating exceptional leadership within her community and worldwide.
Email: sally@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Leadership Facilitator
Interesting Fact: With only five minutes of notice, Sarah was asked to address 2,000 students about stopping violence against women…and she did it!
Email: sarah@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Ecuador Program Director
Interesting Fact: During his university years, Scott had an unusual, but fun, summer job—keeping Canada geese off a family estate. A pacifist, he convinced them to move along by quacking like a duck!
Email: scott@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Leadership Facilitator, Speaker
Interesting Fact: Shelby looks to create awareness about HIV/AIDS in any public place she can.
Email: shelby@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Tour Speaker
Interesting Fact: Spencer is known for Italian cooking, cartwheels, handstands and bird impressions.
Email: spencer@leaderstoday.com |
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Title: Leadership Coordinator
Interesting Fact: Stefanie once tried to master the art of coconut harvesting in Cuba.
Email: stefanie@leaderstoday.com |
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