D!D Leadership Conference Agenda
Here you will find the agenda for the day.
We’ve built this event for business leaders and those who aspire to lead with creativity, curiosity, and courage. From the moment you arrive, you’ll dive into a day framed by play, self-awareness, and practical frameworks you can use immediately.
Do It Differently is an experience. Engage in conversations, test new ideas, and celebrate the art of creative, human, and impactful work. End the day energized, inspired, and ready to bring fresh approaches back to your team.
A dynamic team bringing expertise in leadership, human behaviour, creativity, and sustainable growth, here to rethink the way we work and help you Do It Differently.
Helping You
Do It Differently
Designed for business leaders and those who aspire to lead, this day is a chance to elevate your leadership, challenge assumptions, and create meaningful change in how you and your team work.
TEDx speaker and leadership development expert with 15+ years of experience helping leaders build lasting habits, build relationships and balance both performance and well-being at work to drive high-performing teams.
Jane Helbrecht
Uplift Engagement
Red River Métis entrepreneur, experience designer, public speaker, and founder of Pop CoLab, helping teams build trust, spark creativity, and design experiences where play drives real results.
Donavan Robinson
Pop CoLab
Capacity strategist for high responsibility leaders, helping them succeed at a high level without their health, relationships or quality of life paying the price.
Kate Hanson
Kate Hanson Co.
Business strategist and podcast host helping business owners grow sustainably by designing a
business that aligns with their energy, values, and life.
Jordan Labelle
Evergreen Growth Collective
Enneagram specialist and former educator helping professionals understand what drives behaviour, strengthen team dynamics, and lead with greater self-awareness and confidence.
Tamara Kroeker
EnneagramAWARE
Event strategist, producer, and emcee designing professional development programs and intentional community spaces where growth, engagement, and belonging genuinely thrive.
Kristine Tubiera
LMVA Consulting
Together, they create an engaging, human-centred experience that sparks connections, ignites self-awareness, and delivers practical strategies you can use for meaningful impact.
You Will Leave With ...
A Deeper Understanding
Self-awareness is the foundation of everything.
You'll walk away knowing the instinctual patterns and internal drivers that shape how you think, decide, and lead, and how to use that self-knowledge to show up more effectively for your team.
A frameworks that works.
These aren't ideas you'll forget by the time you're back at your desk. You'll leave with hands-on tools, from Play Personality frameworks to problem-solving sprints, that you can apply immediately in your workplace.
Frameworks for Complex Challenges
Structure for the messy stuff.
When priorities compete and problems pile up, instinct isn't enough. You'll gain proven frameworks to identify your real bottlenecks, make better decisions under pressure, and stop carrying it all yourself.
Resilience That Lasts
Lead with clarity, not just strategy.
You'll leave with a stronger internal capacity to lead through uncertainty, grounded, steady, and clear, so you can sustain both your performance and the people around you, without burning out in the process.
Connections That Go
Beyond the Room
Your peers are experimenting too.
You're not figuring this out alone. Leave with relationships and insights from other business leaders and owners who are navigating new ways of working and are willing to share what they're learning.
Actionable Items
Action beats intention every time.
You won't leave with a to-do list a mile long. Just one or two concrete leadership experiments, ready to test immediately, with real results you can measure and a weekly action plan to keep momentum going.
Ready to
Do it Differently?
I think we forget that everything starts from doing something differently. We get so used to our systems and whatever we call "the norm" that we forget that at some point that system had to be created and was a shift from something different. Doing things differently is simply a reminder that possibility is endless if we open up our mindset to seeing things from a new perspective.
Tamara Kroeker
EnneagramAWARE / D!D 2026 | The Skill Beneath the Skills
Because the playbook you've been following was written for someone else's game.
What if the reason it's not working isn't that you're doing it wrong? But instead, because you're playing someone else's game?
Everyone you look up to built something around who they are, what they have, and what they're willing to give up. Some of that is worth borrowing. But what if the real work isn't learning their moves? It's figuring out which ones are actually yours.
Jordan Labelle
Evergreen Growth Collective / D!D 2026 | The Game with No Rules
If we keep doing the same things, we will keep getting the same results. Work has changed. People and their expectations of work have changed. It's time for leaders to reflect and experiment to drive better results, more engagement and ensure the team's overall well-being. What worked in the past doesn't always work today. It's time to do it differently.
Jane Helbrecht
Uplift Engagement / D!D 2026 | The Art of Doing It Differently
What limits leadership growth is rarely ambition or capability. It is how leaders are operating under pressure. As expectations increase, many continue to push harder without questioning the patterns creating the strain. To do it differently is to shift how you lead so success can continue without the hidden cost.
Kate Hanson
Kate Hanson Co. / D!D 2026 | Success That Sustains
Play is Performance
"Play is the most underrated performance tool we have. It lowers our defenses, raises our creativity, and connects us to each other in ways no meeting agenda ever could. Doing it differently means treating play like the competitive advantage it actually is."
Donavan Robinson
Pop CoLab / D!D 2026 | How to Lead with Play: Understanding How Your Team Can Perform Together
We spend so much time with the people we lead and work with, so let’s make it fun and do it differently. By creating spaces that give room to explore, experiment, and have conversations, we invite everyone to play, learn, and lead.
Kristine Tubiera
LMVA Consulting / D!D 2026 | Host & Event Producer
Ready to
Do it Differently?
* During the day, these sessions will be offered in two time slots. Attendees will have the option to select two of the three sessions.
And your experience goes beyond the sessions
Every moment is designed to give you practical tools, new perspectives, and inspiration to
Do It Differently.
Partner
with D!D
Our Title Sponsor
This is the space to introduce the title sponsor and a brief description of their company.
Thank You
Premier Partners
Event Partners
Event Supporters
Media Partners
D!D Advisory Group
A curated group of professionals who contributed time, expertise, and insight to shape the event’s content and overall experience.
Premier Partners
This event would not be possible without the support of our amazing partners.
Land Acknowledgement
We are on Treaty land.
We acknowledge that our water is sourced from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation (Shoal Lake 39 is also impacted) in Treaty Three Territory, and that most of our hydro-electricity comes from Treaty Five Territory in northern Manitoba. Through the land, we recognize our connection and commitment to working with the Red River Métis, all First Nations Peoples across Turtle Island, and the Inuit of Canada.
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