Speakers

Charmaine Hammond, CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) is a highly sought-after business keynote and workshop speaker, entrepreneur, author and educator who teaches and advocates the importance of developing trust, healthy relationships and collaboration in the workplace. She has helped clients in many industries build resilient and engaged workplaces, develop high trust/high accountability relationships, and solve workplace issues that get in the way of success and profitability. She is respected as a “no fluff” and “rich content” speaker who delivers tangible tools to step into action immediately.

This former Correctional Officer (yup!  She worked in jails) and Corporate Dispute Resolution Expert now travels the world teaching the principles of collaboration, communication/conflict resolution and resilience. She also has an extensive background facilitating process to help collaborations when they go sideways. As a former mediator she has helped facilitate some of the most complex collaborations and partnership arrangements.

Her corporate clients have included all 3 levels of government, oil and gas sector, trade associations and companies (health, nursing, engineering, safety, and more), technology businesses, human resources, community partnership departments, educational institutions, police/fire and rescue, non profit organizations and everything in between.  She has presented to more than 300,000 people worldwide.  Her extensive background in  the corporate, small business and non profit worlds, her past role as a contract negotiation specialist for government,  and a business owner, she has an interesting perspective of being on all sides of the collaboration table. She has owned several businesses over the past 21 years. She is a champion of gratitude, hosting several Kindness Tours, one being a 14,000 km kindness tour across North America. In her business Raise a Dream, Charmaine helps people raise their dreams, which involves recognizing partners and champions in meaningful ways.

She has a Master’s Degree in Conflict Management & Analysis is a bestselling author (of 5 books & featured in 6 others), and CSP™ Certified Speaking Professional. Charmaine has been featured in renowned publications such as Inc., Occupational Health & Safety Magazine, and many others, as well as having appeared as a guest on numerous TV and Radio Programs.

Speaker for Appreciation

Title:  Collaboration to Appreciation
Description:  In this powerful and interactive presentation, Charmaine shares the process of how collaborating with others creates a cycle of reciprocity for appreciation and doing good in the world. She shares case studies of collaborative projects and the innovative creative ways that people engaged in the project recognized/appreciated and celebrated their partners, champions, sponsors and funders.  You will learn how you can create change one conversation, one collaboration and one appreciation at a time.