Coaching & Consulting

He writes. He coaches. He teaches. All with one goal to help you reach your God-given Potential

Gabriel Basque believes in everyone’s potential. He quickly understood his mission in life at an early age. Simply put, he is helping others achieve their God-given potential and to share the message of Faith, Hope, and love. Gabriel’s greatest passion as an entrepreneur is helping people surpass their limiting belief of what’s possible.


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PLAY is the new frontier of creativity and innovation

Once upon a time, there was a little girl whose childhood was full of mud pies and leaf soup, snow castles, and swings. The little girl believed very much that anything was possible and spent much of her time imagining worlds filled with magic and mystery.

As she grew up, people told her that “life was not a fairy tale” and “in the real world it was different,” and she started to believe this was all true.

Yet, no matter how she painted the picture, it was never complete.

So the girl decided to change the script and became the Master of Play.

The tools we need for navigating change and challenge have been in our back pocket our whole lives, but we left them on the playground long ago. We traded imagination and discovery for stability and steady.

But we know that when creativity and innovation intersect people thrive, and profits dramatically increase. COVID has left little space for new, bold, ideas and actions. Now more than ever businesses face larger hurdles in complex problem solving, employee engagement, retention, communication, and ideation.

PLAY is the new frontier of creativity and innovation.

Play is the catalyst for, undefeatable resilience, increased employee engagement, and empowerment. It’s not ping pong tables and pool tables, it’s knowing and understanding whole people, what motivates and inspires them and drives them to share ALL of their strengths at work.

Brandi Heather is a respected award-winning, passionate trailblazer powered by 25+ years of success developing, directing, and optimizing innovative strategies and programs for education and industry leaders. She is well known for spearheading, influencing critical organizational change initiatives. As the co-founder and co-owner of AMPED2PLAY INC., and best-selling author of Return to Play: Rebuilding Resilience, RIsk, and Reconnection she is helping organizations get back “in play”. She is a member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS) and frequently speaks about using the power of PLAY for navigating diversity, inclusion, change management, communication, self-care, mental and physical health.


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Learn how to get your head around strategy

A globally active strategist, executive coach, and board advisor, Alex Brueckmann partners with corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, and (small) business owners. He coaches them on designing intentional strategies with measurable impact, and on shaping cohesive teams able to implement strategy faster and more successfully (http://www.brueckmann.ca/).

Alex Brueckmann has been in the trenches as a strategy manager for a global media company, and later as a management consultant. His academic background is in General Management with degrees from EBS University (Germany) and Universidad ORT (Uruguay), as well as certificates from INSEAD (France) and Harvard Business School (USA). Today, he lives in Vancouver, Canada.

Clients include industry leaders in healthcare, finance, tech, engineering, and retail, as well as high-growth / late-stage startups, not-for-profits, and (E)NGOs. They value Alex’s hands-on approach of combining the strategic side of business and the human aspect of transformation.


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Mathieu Lippé nous sensibilise à l‘importance de développer un esprit créatif qui nous permettra de suivre son intuition

Mathieu Lippé exerce le métier d’artiste depuis plus de vingt ans. Chanteur, conteur, poète, il a fait des spectacles dans de nombreux pays et produit trois albums de chansons (Les Amants de l’Aube 2017). Il a remporté le Festival international de la chanson de Granby en 2011, il a obtenu la médaille d’or aux VIième Jeux de la Francophonie à Beyrouth en 2009 et la deuxième place à la coupe du monde de poésie à Paris. Bachelier en Études Françaises incluant une majeure en littérature et un certificat en musique à l’Université de Sherbrooke, Mathieu Lippé a toujours su mener, en parallèle de sa carrière artistique, une étude et une pratique spirituelle axée sur l’humanisme. Il a écrit des chansons pour de nombreux artistes tel que Fred Pellerin, Ima, Brigitte Boisjoli, L’Isle (aka Ariane Brunet) Céleste Lévis, Stéphanie Bédard. Pratiquant le yoga et la méditation depuis près de vingt ans, il a entres autres complété la formation professorale Hatha yoga et Vinyasa à l’école de Yoga Sangha auprès de Sylvie Tremblay. Mathieu combine les éléments de sa passions pour l’art et le développement de l’être en offrant des conférences, cours, ateliers et retraites à travers différentes collaborations et par le projet ÊTRE ICI : Inspiration-Création-Initiative. Il a aussi créé un corpus de cours d’Écriture créative en ligne.


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How to 100x your mindset and your business in 100 days

Edwin Frondozo is Co-founder & CEO of Slingshot VoIP. He is a fellow podcaster and social buzzer, who has built an awesome company on his 100 x goals. He shares his audacious goal of 100xing his tech business within 100 days. Something, he publicly declared on Sept 22, 2020, during a global pandemic. Before the pandemic hit, he was already questioning his decision, whether he should leave his tech business and pursue a life around impact and purpose. Like many entrepreneurs, he started to look for collaborations, partnerships and projects. The buzzword in the community was pivoting. Don’t stay still; look for opportunities. He ended up joining different startups, initiatives and partnerships. Almost all failed, which brought him to a dark place, looking within to find out who he was. Realizing that was the answer, he faced fear and took the plunge to make an audacious goal publicly. In this podcast we share why he did it, what happened, and some of the tools and frameworks he developed on his journey to 100x. As an award-winning podcaster, Edwin gives some key takeaways for us.


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Activism comes in many forms with Dr. Robyn Bourgeois

Dr. Robyn Bourgeois (Laughing Otter Caring Woman) is a mixed-race nêhiyaw iskwew whose Cree family comes from Treaty 8 territory (Lesser Slave Lake). She is an associate professor in the Centre for Women’s and Gender studies at Brock University, but is currently serving as the university’s acting Vice-Provost, Indigenous Engagement. As a survivor of multiple forms of violence, Dr. Bourgeois’ research examines violence against Indigenous women and girls, but also Indigenous women’s anti-violence leadership. In addition to speaking and publishing nationally and internationally, Dr. Bourgeois testified as an experiential and expert witness at the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in October 2018. Along with being an academic, Robyn is an activist, artist, and proud mom to three kids.

Learn about the Niagara Leadership Summit for Women at www.niagaralsw.ca


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Réussir dans un contexte d‘entreprise familiale

Né à Saint-Georges en 1964, Marc Dutil a terminé ses études au Boston College en 1987 pour ensuite fonder une entreprise en technologie de l’information.

En 1989, il se joint à Le Groupe Canam Manac inc. tout en poursuivant sa formation dans diverses universités canadiennes et américaines.

En 2001, il est nommé vice-président exécutif et, en 2002, membre du conseil d’administration. Il est nommé président et chef de l’exploitation en 2003 et président et chef de la direction de Groupe Canam inc. en 2012.

M. Dutil a été président du conseil d’administration de l’Institut canadien de la construction en acier (ICCA) de 2001 à 2003. Il est membre du Cercle des présidents du Québec et le président-fondateur de l’École d’Entrepreneurship de Beauce.

En 2013, il reçoit le titre d’Entrepreneur de l’année EY pour le Québec et est nommé membre de l’Ordre du Canada pour ses implications communautaires et entrepreneuriales.
M. Dutil a accompagné plusieurs organismes communautaires au chapitre de la gouvernance et du financement. Il est l’auteur de l’essai « Nos faux combats » publié en 2021 et il est fréquemment invité comme conférencier au Canada et à l’étranger.

Marc Dutil est marié à Catherine Larochelle depuis 1989 et père de cinq enfants.


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Entrepreneurship and the subconscious mind

Julia Cha is an International Success Coach and best-selling author based in Vancouver, BC. She works with entrepreneurs and alpha leaders to shatter the glass ceiling by leveraging their subconscious minds to create their dream life in all aspects: a thriving career, financial abundance, and supportive relationships.


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Sustainable self-care for entrepreneurs

Justine Sones (www.justinesones.com) is a writer and stress management coach who loves drinking coffee, helping burnt-out humans set boundaries, and talking about things that hurt. During her career as a massage therapist, Justine’s practice was dedicated to exploring the roles that stress, pain, and relaxation play in healing the physical body. She came to realize that the support her clients needed required more than a massage, and made it her mission to help them. Justine now spends her time writing about feelings and coaching other over-functioning humans develop healthy boundaries and practice sustainable self-care as they navigate the messy intersections of partnering, parenting, -preneuring, and pandemicking.


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Douglas Vermeeren is an author, filmmaker, and founder of the Certified Entrepreneur Coach program

Douglas Vermeeren is an author, filmmaker, and founder of the Certified Entrepreneur Coach program. He has written over 50 books, produced five award-winning films, and built multiple eight-figure companies. Douglas’s training programs share strategies of how to connect with the highest level achievers and expand your network to grow your business. He is a world-renowned speaker and trainer featured at some of the globe’s largest events such as Grant Cardone’s 10X Con and has interviewed more than 400 top experts in the fields of business, psychology, and human performance, including Bob Proctor, Dr. Joe Vitale, John Assaraf and more. Douglas Vermeeren has been featured by CNN, Business Insider, NBC, Forbes and FOX to name a few.


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