
Virtual Leadership Event
February 5-7, 2021

Virtual Leadership Event
February 5-7, 2021
AGENDA
5
February
Friday
Kick off Event
Welcome, recognition, introduction to Leading with Enneagram and International Leadership Coach and retired VP of Pampered Chef International, Janice Gerol.
5:00 pm - 8:00pm
Top Sips Virtual Party
Mixology with Sebastian, drinks & special recipes with Tonia & Kim. Dance party with DJ Jason, lots of interaction and fun, fun, fun!
8:00 pm - 9:00pm
6
February
Saturday
Session 1
Career plan, system training and reporting and returning guest speaker Allison Nelson on Time Management as the Result, not the Method.
11:00 am - 1:00pm
Lunch Break
1:00 pm - 2:00pm
Session 2
Special guest, Health and Wellness coach Debra Basch on nutrition and Sipology. How to use stories to sell product with guest, Jessica Hovey. Social media training with our favorite Megan Brewster.
2:00 pm - 5:30pm
7
February
Sunday
Session 3
Leading with Enneagram, exciting new announcements and more...
11:00 am - 1:00pm
Launch, Learn, Level Up! - Available to ALL Sipologists
Exciting new catalog launch! New product training, operations update, mixology, special guests Debra Basch, Jessica Hovey and Megan Brewster. Mixology session with Tonia & Kim.
2:00 pm - 6:00pm
8
February
Monday
Presidents' Club Meeting
Special Annual Meeting
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
SPEAKERS & SPECIAL GUESTS
Organizational and Leadership Consultant
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Rob Luke is an Organizational and Leadership Consultant who provides strategic advisory, organizational development consultation, and group facilitation services to start-ups, mid-size markets and global firms. Areas of focus include strategic planning, program design/implementation, performance review programs, structure design, change management, and talent planning.
Prior to co-founding Allen Leigh, Rob held various leadership roles within the public and healthcare sectors, and was responsible for implementing large multi-stakeholder change and quality improvement initiatives. In that environment, Rob managed the performance of over 1,500 healthcare professionals. Rob has delivered over 3,000 leadership assessments, has worked with more than 500 senior leaders, and has managed 30+ organizational change, development, and leadership projects in industries such as hospitality, retail, technology, healthcare law, accounting, construction, manufacturing, and non-profits
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Business Strategist
Allison’s mission in life and in business is to empower female entrepreneurs to confidently build long-lasting businesses that will give them financial freedom. Her background includes successful careers in marketing, management and career counseling, and she’s now an entrepreneur in addition to being a sought-after business coach. With her deep marketing experience, she’ll show you easy and effective ways to put organic marketing strategies to work for your business.
Jess is a Facebook and Instagram Story strategist who specializes in product based businesses. A multi passionate business owner herself with seven years in the Network Marketing Industry, she fell in love with stories when they first launched and has since used them to launch two different business. She believes the authenticity and closeness stories can bring to you and your audience is exactly why this feature can help you take your business to the next level. Shes shows people how to create a stories strategy designed to propel their business forward WITHOUT taking time away from other tasks.
Professional Mixologist
“Mixology is one of my greatest life passions, which fills me with joy and zeal. I have been in the hospitality industry since 2002, and my recent experience has been with the Intercontinental Toronto Yorkville Hotel and the Four Seasons Hotel Toronto. Creating Tea themed cocktails is a new passion. Hard working, passionate about mixology, dedicated and easy going are a few ways to describe me!
Nutritionist/ Certified Trainer
Debra has over 30 years of experience as a fitness professional specializing in the links between mindset, nutrition, stress and hormonal health, pre and post-natal nutrition & training, metabolic disorders, gut health, and body transformations.
Debra is a lifelong athlete and in her mid-fifties, is currently training to compete at the national level next year in bodybuilding, bikini level. Here credentials are extensive. She is a registered nutritionist and is a certified trainer in pilates, gravity, group exercise and more. Without established and sustainable, healthy habits, no amount of dieting or exercise will bring about the changes you desire.
International Leadership Coach
Janice began her career as a teacher and during her 14th year of teaching met and fell in love with Direct Selling. She joined a new Direct Selling company to Canada - Discovery Toys in 1986 and moved into the top Leadership role, Executive Director in one year!
From there she became the only Diamond Director in Canada and developed a team of over 3000 consultants with 172 leaders within 5 years.
In 1996 she was given the opportunity to launch Pampered Chef in Canada. Janice started the business in her home and again enjoyed a successful start - but this time as a corporate leader. She began by doing shows and recruiting the founding consultants of the business. Within the first 6 months Pampered Chef had over 300 consultants and sales exceeded a million dollars!
In her 24 year career at Pampered Chef she wore many hats and ended her career as VP of International Business Operations, opening other countries for Pampered Chef including Mexico, Germany and the UK.
Currently she consults with Direct Sellers and coaches other leaders on Intentional Leadership.
Janice is passionate about leadership, teaching others and alerting people to the many opportunities within the Direct Selling world! From day one her passion was to share the many opportunities within the world of Direct Selling and how we can bring out the greatness in others through growing a business and leading others!
Entertainer/ DJ
DJ Jason was a hit with Sipology at the Canadian Conference in 2019. He is back to interact, play your favorite tunes and make sure our Virtual Leader Party is a fantastic fun and memorable event!!
Founder & President, Sipology by Steeped Tea
Perseverance, commitment and focus are at the core of what Tonia believes and these beliefs have kept her on that road to success. It has also helped her inspire those around her to stay with her on that road. The ultimate goal of sharing her story is to help pave the road for those who have a plan of their own for personal success. Sipology by Steeped Tea began in a basement and has become a successful Profit 500 company. Tonia was proclaimed as Canada’s #1 Female Entrepreneur by W100; received the Ernst and Young Entrepreneurial Winning Women award and has been listed as 1 of 6 Women to Watch on forbes.com
CEO, Sipology by Steeped Tea
Hatem Jahshan is CEO and Co-Founder of Sipology by Steeped Tea. “What sets our company apart is the personal relationships we support, the incredible healthy products we manufacture, and the opportunity to make a difference for Sipologists.” An entrepreneur, an engineer, and a team-builder; Hatem empowers teams to innovate products, services, and opportunities that touch thousands of lives. He breaks down product development from creation to selling and empowers teams to continuously succeed. He is the driving force, along with Tonia, that secured Steeped Tea’s rank as one of the fastest growing companies in Canada 6 years in a row and attracted billionaire investor, Jim Treliving, and David Chilton from the hit TV show Dragons’ Den.
Leader Development Specialist
In 2007 Kim took a chance on a new company called Steeped Tea.This was the beginning of an adventure and a career spanning over 14 years!Kim has a proven track record of success both as a Sipologist who built an amazing business and now corporately as our leadership trainer for the field.She resides in Northern Ontario with her husband Ed, her puppy Samara and Christian Grey, her motorcycle.She’s going to blow your socks off at conference with her training, laughter and enthusiasm!
Social Media/Branding Coach
Megan Brewster is a Social Media and Branding coach who has been an online entrepreneur for 5 years. She started off doing everything wrong and after years of studying marketing, social media platforms, psychology, and lots of experimenting, she found her passion in helping people build successful online businesses in a way that is both fun and sustainable. She loves helping people become confident in sharing what makes them unique and make genuine connections with people online.
Product Development Supervisor at Steeped Tea
Amanda is the Product Development Supervisor at Steeped Tea. She has a passion for loose leaf tea as seen by the many tea sommelier courses she has taken! She creates all of the new consumable products here at Steeped Tea- from our loose leaf teas to salad dressings and more. She has an education in food science (Culinary Innovation and Food Technology) and years of experience in the food and beverage industry. She is excited to show you the secret power of sensory science, and how you can use it to help sell products and grow your business.
Operations and Procurement at Sipology
Hrvoje Cmrecki is Sipology's Operations and Procurement expert with over 15 years of industry experience. He has worked in logistics and supply chain overseeing a global network. Hrvoje currently oversees Sipology’s complex global supply chain to ensure that Sipologists have the highest quality ingredients and products for their customers.
Warren comes to Sipology by Steeped Tea with an extensive history of Customer Success and Support experience. During his studies at The Ohio State University, he worked in worked as a Manager in a Customer Service department for a regional Bank. After graduating with his Bachelor’s degree in Spanish, he had every intention of working for the FBI. As he began the application process, he began to realize that he truly enjoyed the dynamic environment found in supporting customers and decided to guide his career in a different direction. Since then he has managed teams in all verticals of business, from Online Customer Service, BPO support, and Direct Sales. Through out the years he has found that there is no greater satisfaction than helping others to succeed in their work or personal lives. After receiving his Bachelor’s degree, Warren continued his education and received his MBA focused in Finance from Franklin University.