Transforming Practices Conference 2026

• Tyler’s journey as a survivor of the Humboldt Broncos tragedy and his subsequent mental health challenges underscores the vital role of belonging in healing and personal growth. Tyler Smith highlights how inclusive and compassionate spaces strengthen connections and provide crucial support during life’s most difficult challenges. He shares practical insights on cultivating self-compassion, building networks of care, and finding strength in community. His inspiring message empowers audiences to embrace the power of belonging to foster resilience, support others, and create cultures of collective well-being.
  This presentation offers practical steps to create advocacy efforts and inclusive environments where individuals feel heard, valued, and supported. Drawing from his personal experiences, Tyler shares actionable strategies for communities, organizations, and individuals to build programs and support networks that prioritize belonging, healing, and connection. Attendees will learn how to foster resilience, prevent disconnection, and address the challenges faced by those who feel isolated from their family, work, peers, or even themselves.

When teams face burnout, change fatigue, and diminishing engagement, Jessica Janzen delivers the spark they need. She is an in-demand motivational speaker, entrepreneur, bestselling author, and expert in resiliency whose high energy keynotes unlock a clear pathway from adversity to achievement. She empowers audiences to shift from a problem to a possibility mindset, making her an essential voice for navigating today's challenging business landscape. Janzen doesn't just inspire — she equips audiences with actionable strategies to re-wire their thinking, get curious, and bring on the joy.

An entrepreneur and a fierce advocate for mental health, rare disease, and all things joy, Janzen co-founded The Love for Lewiston Foundation in 2017, which has raised over $3 million for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) research and medical care. It was also pivotal in implementing newborn screening for SMA in Alberta. Her foundation continues to support the Alberta Children's Hospital today.

Janzen’s contributions have been recognized with several prestigious awards,
including being named one of Calgary's “Top 40 Under 40”. She is the bestselling author of Bring the Joy, which encourages readers to reconnect with themselves and find joy even during the most difficult times. It draws from her personal mental health journey through love, life, and loss.

From growing up on a family farm to now speaking on global stages, Janzen brings both heart and business acumen to every engagement. Her infectious enthusiasm and straight-talking approach create immediate connection as she guides audiences through her blueprint for resilience. Audiences leave with proven strategies to thrive in uncertainty and adversity and create lasting and meaningful change in both their personal and professional lives.

Child sexual abuse is not a single event—it is often a sustained disruption to development that can shape a person’s emotional world, relationships, identity, and life trajectory over time. Its effects may emerge, recede, and re-emerge across the lifespan, often in ways that are misunderstood or overlooked.
This keynote invites participants to understand child sexual abuse not simply as an internal experience, but as a relational betrayal and violation that alters the course of development and connection. This understanding provides critical guidance for how we recognize, respond to, and support those affected.
Dr. Lori Haskell, a nationally recognized expert in trauma, challenges conventional approaches that treat child sexual abuse as a time-limited clinical issue. She calls for a developmentally informed, trauma-responsive perspective that recognizes the evolving needs of survivors across the lifespan—from early childhood through adulthood and into later life.
Drawing on neuroscience, clinical practice, and decades of work with justice and health systems, this keynote will explore:

• How child sexual abuse shapes development across emotional, relational, and neurobiological domains
• Why the impact of trauma may re-emerge at key life stages such as adolescence, parenthood, and aging
• The limits of symptom-focused approaches, and the need for long-term, context-sensitive support

This keynote is an invitation to reframe how we understand and respond to child sexual abuse—across clinical, educational, legal, and community settings.