Meghan Telpner is a Toronto-based author, speaker, nutritionist, and the founder of the Academy of Culinary Nutrition. She’s written two bestselling books: UnDiet: Eat Your Way to Vibrant Health and The UnDiet Cookbook. Meghan’s success in cultivating a global community of UnDiet enthusiasts and Culinary Nutrition Experts has garnered her a feature in Forbes, and ranked her as one of the top 100 female entrepreneurs in Canada. She is married to Josh (see below!) and together they have a 2-year-old son.

Meghan will be presenting on the connection between our goals and intentions and how they can serve to fuel or break down our resilient.

Josh Gitalis, Clinical Nutritionist and Functional Medicine Practitioner, runs a Toronto-based private practice, with a worldwide client base. He is a recognized expert in integrative healthcare, merging the best of functional medicine and integrative therapeutics. As a leader in his field, Josh has taught Clinical Nutrition for several natural health colleges and runs the Functional Nutrition Certification Program. He is also the first Canadian nutritionist to become an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner (IFMCP).

Josh will be presenting on the innate ability of the body to build up health reserves to improve resilience.

Dr. Gillian Mandich has a PhD from Western University in Health Science, and her primary areas of research are happiness and health. She is the founder of The International HappinessInstitute of Health Science Research; co-lead investigator of The Canadian Happiness At WorkStudy; appears regularly in the media on shows such as The Social, Marilyn Denis, BreakfastTelevision, The Morning Show, and CBC; and is a top-rated keynote and TEDx speaker.

Gillian will be presenting on the connection between happiness and resilience.

Named one of Forbes “Top Networkers to Watch,” Jayson Gaignard runs one of the world’s most exclusive communities for entrepreneurs. With just shy of 19,500 applications since their inception in 2013, his invite-only event MastermindTalks has a lower acceptance rate than Harvard University, and brings together brilliant minds from various industries. Jayson’s work has been featured by Entrepreneur Magazine, Forbes, Life Hacker, Business Insider, and most recently the Tim Ferriss’s #1 NYT’s Best Selling Book, Tools of Titans. He also hosts a top rated business podcast on iTunes and is the author of Mastermind Dinners: How to Build Lifelong Relationships by Connecting Experts, Influencers and Linchpins.

Jayson will be presenting on the foundation  community connection as an essential part of our resilience.

Trudy Stone is an author, certified Culinary Nutrition Expert, TV guest expert, podcast host, and the founder of Trudy Stone Nutrition. From healthy habits to brain health, Trudy is passionate about empowering people to build healthier habits and unlock the power of food to build a strong and vibrant brain and body. Trudy is also the instructor of the course Feed a Healthy Brain with Clean Eating Magazine. The course explores the connection between diet, cognitive decline and mental health, helping people to realize the full potential of food to support a healthy brain, so people can thrive now into the future.

Trudy will be presenting on the connection between diet, fatigue and mental health and how we can build up our brain and mental health resilience to become a brain boss.

Ariel Garten is the female founder of InteraXon, makers of Muse: the brain sensing headband that helps you meditate and sleep. Ariel studied neuroscience at the University of Toronto and worked in labs at Toronto’s Krembil Neuroscience Centre researching Parkinson’s disease and hippocampal neurogenesis. Ariel was also a therapist in private practice. Muse is used by hundreds of thousands of people around the globe to help start or enhance their meditation practice, including by patients at the Mayo Clinic. Ariel has been featured in WSJ, CNN, Forbes, Fortune, etc and is a headlining keynote speaker with an expertise in mental health, healthy workplaces, and how we can learn to better support our own mental and emotional wellbeing through meditation.