Lisa Sansom is the owner of LVS Consulting, a boutique consulting firm that helps to build positive and effective organizations. In these roles, Lisa shares positive psychology tools and techniques with her clients through speaking, corporate training, consulting, and coaching. Her clients come from a variety of industries including finance, education, technology, government, law, not-for-profit and health care.
Lisa has been working in Organizational Development, Leadership Development and Change Management since 2000. She is a certified coach at the PCC level (with the International Coaching Federation), working with leaders and aspiring leaders as well as high-performing teams. Lisa has also written several articles for magazines and other online publications and has contributed chapters in published books and e-books.
Educationally, Lisa obtained her MBA from the Rotman School of Management, and earned her coaching accreditation from Adler International Learning / OISE-UT. In addition, she holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Waterloo and a Bachelor of Education from Brock University. She completed her MAPP (Master of Applied Positive Psychology) from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010, one of the first five Canadians to do so.

Additional certifications include Prosci Change Management, ShiftPositive 360, Designing Your Life (Stanford), Gallup Strengths Certified Coach, Process Management (Excellence Canada) and Change Cycle™. Lisa also has experience leading strategic design workshops, Appreciative Inquiry summits and visioning workshops for leadership teams. She recently (2022) won an award with CASE as part of her ground-breaking inclusive facilitation cocreating new remote working environments for a previously traditional work unit.
She is a founding Board member of the Canadian Positive Psychology Association, has presented at the International Positive Psychology Association’s World Congress four times and was the co-Chair of the practice review committee for the 2017, 2019 and 2021 World Congresses on Positive Psychology. Lisa is currently enrolled in the DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) program at Royal Roads University researching the workplace impacts of positive feedback.
Lisa’s LinkedIn profile is available at https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisasansom/
You can learn more about Lisa from her website at https://www.lvsconsulting.com/about-lisa/

Sophia L Primus is currently the Learning and Development Manager at CARILEC where she is charged with the responsibility of charting new directions in the learning and development agenda for Caribbean utility employees.
In executing her role, she has led the way in instituting the CARILEC Resilient Energy Community of Practice, provided leadership in establishing the CARILEC Line Workers Training Programme as the premiere training programme for Caribbean Utilities and ushered that programme to NVQ status in St. Lucia. Laurena has successfully spearheaded the CARILEC signature Line Workers rodeo event for five years and established the Occupational Health and Safety Committee at the CARILEC Secretariat.

Ms. Primus obtained her coaching credential from the Coaching and Positive Psychology Institute in the USA and is working towards attaining an International Coaching Federation Credential this year. As a Social and Emotional Intelligence Coach, Laurena partners with professionals in mid-level leadership positions, so they can boldly navigate the vagaries of the leadership landscape to attain leadership excellence.
Ms. Primus has a career background in education serving as a teacher and school principal for several years in St. Lucia. She holds an Honours Bachelors of Education Degree from the University of Technology in Jamaica, M. ED from Sheffield University in the UK, MSc. In Leadership and Management from Springfield College USA.
Laurena is a mother to one son, she enjoys the outdoors, yoga, reading and theatre.

Lisa Dublin is in the business of helping people win in both their professional and personal lives. As a certified health and life coach, she helps professional and executive women get unstuck in both their personal and professional lives so that they can enjoy all round success. She coaches mainly black, professional immigrant women who want to be fulfilled at work, and fulfilled in their private lives, in their new culture. Lisa also runs an online speaking program called Speak With Confidence that helps professionals, immigrants and business people to overcome fear and present their best selves while speaking.

Through a combination of inspiration, insight and strategy, she offers seminars, video and written blogs, performance poetry, speeches and presentations to youth, executives and professionals. Lisa holds an MA in Literatures in English from the University of Alberta, an MBA from the Australian Institute of Business, and a BA (First Class) in English Literature & Spanish from the University of the West Indies, Trinidad. She is certified with the Health Coach Institute and is working towards a bigger certification goal this year. She lives in Edmonton with her husband and three sons and loves running and reading.

Asya Grigoryan (Mrs.) is an ICF certified Leadership and Career coach and results oriented Business professional with 4 years of experience in Leadership and Career Coaching and 15 years of experience in talent management, organizational development, change management and business consulting. Recognized for adding value to clients' business, performance and well-being by bringing to the table a unique background mix in Psychology, Comparative Legal Studies and Business Administration and work experience in three different sectors: public, private and intergovernmental.
Asya is experienced in working in diverse international teams with a work attitude of bringing in different perspectives and hearing everyone's unique voice and offering a holistic approach in coaching with the main focus on the well-being of individuals and organizations. She is an executive contributor to Brainz Magazine, Stockholm, Sweden, a speaker at TEDx and HR conferences and events.
As a Leadership Coach, Asya has Partnered with more than 30 young leaders on enhancing their leadership skills as well as with CEOs of small and medium companies.
Mrs. Grigoyan is a business partner and co-founder of profiles international in Armenia where she specialized in offering business solutions that impacted quality of management, leadership, teamwork, employee engagement, customer service and sales.

Asya was Head of Human Resources with Inecobank, Yerevan, Amenia where she managed the learning and development agenda of more than six hundred employees. She has also served the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, there her work involved benchmarking of management practices of private, public and intergovernmental organizations and leadership development of the fund.
Educationally, Asya attained a certificate in Leadership Coaching for Organizational Well-Being from the George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA; she holds an MBA from the University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, a Master of Comparative Legal Studies from the American University of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia, a Master of Science in Psychology from Yerevan State University, Armenia and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Yerevan State University, Armenia.
``Some fun facts about Asya: she has lived in four different countries and is versed in four languages: English, French, Russian and Armenian; in her spare time, she writes poetry and artistically transforms glass with paint. ``

John Minyard has over four decades of developing executive leadership and team building experience. Over his career he has solved the issues of that teams commonly such as setting goals and attaining them, clear and concise objectives, and developing a strategic plan in setting up accountability from the top to the bottom. John’s unwavering commitment is to provide you and your teams with the tools necessary to complete your purpose and direction that leads to ultimate success.

John served over 29 years in the United States Navy, as the 15th Fleet Master Chief. He was the Senior Enlisted Advisor for the Commander US Pacific Fleet, the largest fleet command in the world. He led over 140,000 Sailors, Marines and Civilians before retiring with honorable and faithful service in 2013. Over the last nine years, John has worked as a Project Manager, Executive Coach and Teambuilding Coach, leading projects throughout North America for world-wide oil and gas operations. He was recognized as “Coach of the year” among his peers due to his leadership and coaching skills. He is known for his guidance to get inside organizations and improve their leadership development. He incorporates how to fine-tune operational methods. This saves millions of dollars in valuable equipment, property but most importantly saving lives. He is a graduate and four-year veteran Instructor at the US Navy Fighter Weapons School “TOPGUN,” Chairman of the Board for Love Hope Ranch a non-profit dedicated to rehabilitating Veterans, First Responders and their families dealing with trauma and addictions. He currently lives in San Marcos TX with his wife of 37 years Mechele and their 7 dogs.

John Minyard has over four decades of developing executive leadership and team building experience. Over his career he has solved the issues of that teams commonly such as setting goals and attaining them, clear and concise objectives, and developing a strategic plan in setting up accountability from the top to the bottom. John’s unwavering commitment is to provide you and your teams with the tools necessary to complete your purpose and direction that leads to ultimate success.

John served over 29 years in the United States Navy, as the 15th Fleet Master Chief. He was the Senior Enlisted Advisor for the Commander US Pacific Fleet, the largest fleet command in the world. He led over 140,000 Sailors, Marines and Civilians before retiring with honorable and faithful service in 2013. Over the last nine years, John has worked as a Project Manager, Executive Coach and Teambuilding Coach, leading projects throughout North America for world-wide oil and gas operations. He was recognized as “Coach of the year” among his peers due to his leadership and coaching skills. He is known for his guidance to get inside organizations and improve their leadership development. He incorporates how to fine-tune operational methods. This saves millions of dollars in valuable equipment, property but most importantly saving lives. He is a graduate and four-year veteran Instructor at the US Navy Fighter Weapons School “TOPGUN,” Chairman of the Board for Love Hope Ranch a non-profit dedicated to rehabilitating Veterans, First Responders and their families dealing with trauma and addictions. He currently lives in San Marcos TX with his wife of 37 years Mechele and their 7 dogs.