Deanah Shelly and Jeremy Warning

HR Lawyers, Mathews Dinsdale & Clark LLP

https://mathewsdinsdale.com

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Deanah Shelly is a partner in the Toronto office of Mathews, Dinsdale & Clark LLP, and member of the firm’s national Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) and Workers’ Compensation Practice Group. Deanah has focussed and special expertise in provincial and federal OHS regulatory matters affecting all sectors across the country. Deanah advises and represents organizations and their management immediately following serious workplace incidents, during regulatory inspections leading to orders/directions that require strategic compliance and/or filling an appeal and suspension application. Deanah also advises employers during work refusals, reprisals, and other OHS issues. Deanah has defended and represented Canadian employers at trial, in appeals, at hearings, and at Coroner’s Inquests. In September 2022, Deanah became the Chair of the Occupational Health and Safety Committee of the Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers (CACE) and is a frequent speaker, writer and instructor, on all topics related to workplace health and safety.

 

Jeremy Warning is a partner in the Toronto office of Mathews, Dinsdale & Clark LLP. He is a member of the firm’s National OHS and Workers’ Compensation practice group.  Jeremy provides advice on the full range of labour and employment matters and represents clients before the provincial and federal courts, administrative tribunals, boards of arbitration, and at Coroner’s inquests.  As a former health and safety prosecutor, Jeremy has developed a practice with a particular emphasis on occupational health and safety.  In that regard, he provides proactive and strategic advice and representation following serious workplace accidents and in relation to sensitive workplace safety matters.    Jeremy is an experienced litigator who has appeared before all levels of court in Ontario while conducting numerous trials and appeals involving the Occupational Health and Safety Act and other regulatory statutes.   He is also a frequent writer and speaker on matters relating to occupational health and safety and workplace law.  Jeremy is also a co-author of the Annotated Occupational Health and Safety Act, a leading health and safety text, and is listed in The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as a “consistently recommended” occupational health and safety lawyer and Best Lawyers in Canada as a leading occupational health and safety lawyer.

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Matrixx Ferreira and Myles Methner

Strength and Conditioning, Iron Performance Center

https://www.ironperformance.ca

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Matrixx is the founder and owner of Iron Performance. He believes in the relentless pursuit of knowledge with practical application to ensure the success of his athletes and clients. Matrixx has a Bachelors Degree of Science in Kinesiology from Brock University and a postgraduate certificate in Exercise Science for Health and Performance from Niagara College. He is an author for Teambuildr and helps educate coaches in the private sector. Matrixx was featured in YourWorkoutBook.com for his rowing strength program and has his educational articles displayed in multiple college curriculums. He is currently certified with the National Strength and Conditioning Association as a Registered Strength and Conditioning Coach and Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist. He is also certified with the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology as an Exercise Physiologist.

 

When he isn’t coaching, lecturing or preparing programs, Matrixx can be found lifting heavy weights, reading books or spending time playing with his extremely handsome dog, Fisher.

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Myles is the Head Strength Coach at Iron Performance Center. He believes strongly in the value of hard work and discipline. Myles has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Kinesiology from Wilfrid Laurier University. Additionally, he holds his CSCS, CPPS, AASc, and Pn-1 certifications. He has been featured in Epoch Life with his article Why Everyone Should Train Like An Athlete.

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Myles believes that what clients do outside the weight room is just as important as what they do inside the weight room.  He hopes to continue building leaders and making positive changes in his clients’ lives. When Myles isn’t creating programs or lifting weights, he can be found coaching football, spending quality time with friends and family, or travelling.

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Uchechi Ezurike-Bosse

Strategist/Author/Speaker/Publisher, My Empowered Living

https://www.myempoweredliving.com/

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Uchechi Ezurike-Bosse is an Award-Winning Business Strategist, International Speaker, Author, and Publisher of five co-authored self-help books, helping passion-driven entrepreneurs increase wealth, confidence, impact and freedom.

Featured on Rogers TV, Marie TV, Hay House Radio, The Huffington Post, Mompreneur and named "Top 100 Black Women to Watch in Canada", Uchechi is a multi-passionate entrepreneur. She is the Founder of My Empowered Living and Bossurike and Author of From Aspiration to Fulfillment ~ Bridging the Gap from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, available at all major online booksellers worldwide and Chapters-Indigo stores across Canada. She's also the Creator of the Dream Life Designer Planners, a goal-setting planner system used by thousands of customers worldwide.

Uchechi proudly serves on the board of directors for BACD (Business Advisory Centre Durham). She's also the former Host and Co-Producer for Empowered Living in Durham Region, which aired on Rogers TV.

Dubbed the 'Dream Whisperer' by clients, Uchechi has coached thousands of entrepreneurs worldwide and is passionate about educating and empowering others to dream bigger and have the confidence and know-how to make their goals a reality.

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Richard Burton

Richard Burton, Manager of the Health and Safety Training Administration and Certification Unit,  Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development’s Prevention Division

https://www.ontario.ca/page/ministry-labour-immigration-training-skills-development

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Richard Burton is the Manager of the Health and Safety Training Administration and Certification Unit in the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development’s Prevention Division. His team administers, on behalf of the Chief Prevention Officer for Ontario, Supporting Ontario’s Safe Employers (SOSE) an occupational health and safety accreditation and employer recognition program. In addition, they oversee mandated training delivery for Joint Health and Safety Committee Certification and Working at Heights training.

 

Richard has been a practitioner in health and safety since the early 1990s holding many different roles in Ontario’s health and safety system with the ministry and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB).  Some of his previous roles include: inspector, coordinator of OHS training for small business owners, and manager of safety audit teams.

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Dean Turner

President, F.A.S.T. Rescue

https://fast-rescue.com/our-team/

 

Dean Turner serves as President of F.A.S.T. Rescue Inc., an Occupational Health and Safety company that supports hands first aid on-training, among other topics.

 

He had spent over two decades with the Canadian Armed Forces as an Infanteer, with the Royal Canadian Regiment & 3 Commando of the Canadian Airborne Regiment.

 

Dean retired from the Forces in 1998, then took the entrepreneurial route, went back to school, and started a first-aid training company called F.A.S.T. Rescue.

F.A.S.T. was born from the idea of creating an organization using the skills he had learned while in the military and focus on teaching Canadians the skills required to save lives in a friendly non-threatening environment.

 

Dean sits on the board of directors for Renos for Heroes, a veteran organization that assist wounded veterans by home renovations to improve the quality of life.  He is also on the board of directors for Treble Victor, responsible for memberships where he helps promote the values of transitioning service men and women to Corporations across Canada.

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Janet Bewers

Workplace Safety and Insurance Board

https://www.wsib.ca/en

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Janet Bewers is a Health and Safety Consultant employed by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board.  Janet’s work focuses on promoting WSIB’s Health and Safety Excellence Program and supporting businesses through their journey in the program. 

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The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) is one of the largest insurance organizations in North America, covering over five million people in more than 300,000 workplaces across Ontario.  We are funded by premiums paid by Ontario businesses. We provide no-fault collective liability insurance and access to industry-specific health and safety information.  Our vision is to make Ontario one of the healthiest and safest places to work. A big part of that effort is the support we provide to people who have suffered a work-related injury or illness. We help them as they recover and safely return to work.

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Loui Nedanis and Brian McGonegal

RBC Group Advantage

https://www.rbcroyalbank.com

 

Attract and retain top talent through a comprehensive savings program from RBC Group AdvantageTM
An employee group plan built on a foundation of personalized advice, overall workplace wellness and award-winning investment management.

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Loui Nedanis serves as the Regional Manager at RBC Bank and is a passionate community volunteer. Brian McGonegal is an experienced Group Consultant who helps employers attract and retain their top talent. With a combined 25+ years of experience, Loui and Brian are keen to explain how financial wellness programs benefit and impact the employee, employer and overall company productivity.

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