Faculty
April Jaffe
April Jaffe is a business growth consultant executive coach and facilitator, with a passion for empowering professionals to realize their potential and build successful companies and careers
April brings more than twenty years experience working in the advertising industry, holding positions as Executive Producer, and Head of Sales and Marketing. Her vast network includes partnerships with top advertising agency and broadcast network executives. Her entrepreneurial work has involved launching new businesses, developing brand strategies, and training and leading sales teams.
She has created a powerful methodology combining improvisational acting techniques with business strategies to help clients communicate more effectively and transform company culture and drive growth. Using her vast experience working with top advertising agencies and entrepreneurs – and launching several businesses – she has the knowledge and experience to impact you and your team.
Barbara Odenwald
Barbara is a professional, dynamic Education and Communications Specialist with over 18 years of experience creating, tailoring and delivering educational content and providing coaching to a wide demographic of audiences. Barbara has worked with teams to develop innovative PR, marketing and communication strategies for a range of private and public sector clients. As a manager and consultant she has overseen the creative development and implementation of innovative products and services to meet the changing needs of clients in the education sector. To this she adds an eclectic range of expertise in strategic communications and outreach, event and project management, government relations, and professional development. Barbara has brought her skills in negotiation, public speaking, partnership building, change management and strategic planning to previous positions held with a number of provincial and national-level organizations in which she has held management and executive positions. Barbara speaks five languages fluently, including French and English, and has a B.A. in Social Sciences and a professional degree in Education from the University of British Columbia.
Brent Moore, CMP (Emeritus and Fellow), CMM
Brent has planned and managed hundreds of conferences, consultations and events nationally and abroad. His career spans government service and he was the founder of a successful event management firm that provided full services to government, association and the private sector. As a Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) with over 25 years of experience, he is internationally recognized as a subject matter expert and continues to advise on event industry standards. He holds the CMP certificate awarded by the Events Industry Council. He was awarded the CMM (Certified Meeting Manager) designation by Meeting Professionals International (MPI) and l’École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales, one of France’s Grandes Écoles. The CMP-Fellow designation distinguishes CMPs and/or Emeritus who have made a long-standing commitment to excellence, experience and education; it is a testament to personal commitment to the profession, the community and loyalty to peers in service to the Global Business Events Industry.