Champions of Change

Champions of Change creates profitable and impactful communities around individuals unique skills.
The World needs your gifts.
Discover, Create & Grow your Movement.

Founder & Community Builder

Scotiabank

I am blessed to work on providing Secure Integrated Authentication to Scotiabank's infrastructure.

● Creates and facilitates Scrum events to improve productivity, team wellness and mature the organization and team's agility

● Manages the JIRA instance and applies techniques for effective workflow visualization and management

● Servant-Leader: Identifies, manages, and helps mitigate issues and risks, with the timely removal of impediments for the team and/or directing obstacles to appropriate owners for quick resolutions

● Coaches the development team and guides towards adopting an Agile mindset

Scrum Master | Authentication Technology

The Nature Mindset

The Nature Mindset uses Ecotherapy and coaching practices to benefit all facets of the human being and the natural world. 
Explore how this powerful knowledge can bring alignment and empowerment to live authentic purposeful lives in harmony with nature.

Founder & Coach

The Fast Forward Group

● Delivered end-to-end virtual programming to over 30 corporate clients such as Google, Meta, Amazon, Spotify, TikTok, Twitch, Visa and Ford, with client success leading to an increase in scope and account size.

● Analyzed and presented program feedback with focus towards measuring the client’s ROI and growing the client portfolio.

● Quantified measurable client improvements in core focus areas: Confidence, Relationships, Time management, Resilience, Well-being and Happiness.

● Programs managed were delivered with exceptional quality, with NPS scores of 70+, driving repeat business.

● Championed and implemented DEI programs for people of colour across North America and U.K.

● Researched, proposed and implemented new technologies for an upcoming Membership platform. Tracked project timelines, onboarded new members, developed and tested the platform.

● Created a membership community of conscious growth through the merging of technology and heart-centered coaching.

● Developed a Community Engagement strategy, aimed at driving meaningful engagement to grow the community to critical mass. 

● Collaborated with the facilitation team to create engagement deliverables to accommodate client specific needs.

Client Engagement

●  Produced over 100 hours of content with mid to C-level executives from 30+ Fortune 500 companies such as: Google, Meta, Amazon, TikTok, Spotify, Twitch, Visa, Volta Charging and Ford.

●  Expert on producing and facilitating on video-conferencing software including: Zoom, Google Meets, WebEx and MS Teams. 

● Supported the production and management of program assets (slide decks, worksheets, storyboards) along tight deadlines.

● Supported client stakeholders, facilitators and participants during live programming. Worked in a fast-paced environment effectively managing scripts, production material and timelines with ambiguity, change, and shifting priorities.

●  The Fast Forward Group provides leadership development programs and services that change mindsets, and behaviors which drives growth. Programs focus on leadership, EQ, change management and ambitious, action-oriented strategic planning.

Producer

StackPros Inc.

Scrum Master

Hudson's Bay Company

Portfolio Project Coordinator

Babylon VR

Babylon VR is a Virtual Reality company created to accelerate the adoption of Virtual Reality. 
Services included providing immersive virtual-reality experiences to allow designs and immersive learning to become a reality. 

Custom projects were developed for clients in the Real-Estate, Design, Automotive, Public Institutions and Retail industries. Projects included developing interactive experiences in the Real-estate and Design industries, allowing users to visualize and design spaces that haven't been built yet.

Company highlights:

● Developed experiences implemented in showrooms for Real-Estate developers in Toronto, changing how buyers bought and customized their new homes.

● Created the first Virtual Reality experience for the University of Waterloo’s Hyperloop team (Waterloop), which was the only Canadian team to compete at the SpaceX HQ in 2017.

● 1 of 5 companies in the 2016 Google for Entrepreneurs Incubation cohort.

● Part of Velocity, a tech incubator founded at The University of Waterloo, and housed in the Communitech Incubator Hub.

● Delivered projects using Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban etc.) and intensive customer discovery data; gathering business requirements through prototyping, interviews and UX workshops.

● Pitched at the CNE Innovation Garage, winning first place ($5K) under the VR/AR Category.

Babylon VR - Create Without Constraint

Co-Founder / Business Operations

City of Oshawa

Swim Instructor | Lifeguard

Dagmar Ski Resort

Snowboard Instructor

My mission is to elevate 1M+ people to financial and time freedom by living their purpose and using their power as a force of good in the world.

🔶Ex-VR tech startup founder 
🔶Passionate and lifelong student of Human / Animal / Community Psychology
🔶My perspective of Business as a vehicle for Positive Change and Work/Life Balance
🔶Worked in Executive Coaching with Fortune 500 Executives to understand how to upgrade life
🔶On a lifelong quest for self-improvement and the uplifting of the collective human consciousness

I look forward to creating meaningful connections with you. 

Usman Aaron

La Barrique Wine Consulting

Independent Wine Consultant

BlackRock

As the Business Manager and Head of Sales Enablement for iShares Canada, I was responsible for leveraging the digital wealth platform and tools to enhance engagements with clients, as well as expanding connectivity with strategic partners to empower the retail distribution strategy and drive the effective operation of the sales business.

Director, Head of Sales Enablement & Business Management, iShares Canada

Vice President, iShares Canada Business Manager

As part of the business operations team, we are responsible for the oversight and administration of the BlackRock Canadian iShares and Institutional products.

Vice President, Fund Administration

State Street

I was responsible for the coordination and management of the financial statement reporting and fund audit process for over 450 Canadian mutual and pooled funds. I also used to oversee the taxable processing of corporate actions, tax distribution calculation process and the annual tax return preparations. In addition, I helped lead the development of the IFRS transition plan for the Canadian mutual and pooled fund products.

Vice President, Financial Reporting & Taxation

Assistant Vice President Financial Reporting & Taxation

Associate to Senior Manager Investment Accounting

As a wine consultant, my goal is to broaden the palates of my clients by carefully curating cases of new and exciting wines. I also deliver private and corporate tasting experiences to help you explore the wonderful world of wine. 

I am Level 3 certified with the Wine & Spirits Education Trust and have completed the French Wine Scholar designation with the Wine Scholar Guild. I sit on the Board of Directors of the Ontario Chapter of the Canadian Association of Professional Sommeliers.

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