LinkedIn Local Toronto Meetup - "How to Rise Above Cancel Culture"

LinkedIn Local Toronto Meetup – "How to Rise Above Cancel Culture" - Mar 30, 6:00pm ET

About this Event

Are you trying build your brand in an age of trolls, sabotage and cancel culture? We get it. It's hard to know how to avoid the pitfalls/traps and come out a winner or what are the key dangers you need to know and rise above it and thrive. This event is designed to help you.

As you all know, Women’s History Month is a dedicated month to reflect on the often-overlooked contributions of women to United States history. This year's theme is “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories”.

The 22nd Toronto LinkedIn Local Meetup is doing just that. We invite you meet an incredible panel leaders who are championing powerful causes and initiating change. They are leaders, disruptors, social activists, and more. One of the biggest challenges women are facing are dealing with Cancel Culture. We're having this panel to talk about the challenges and learn how to navigate it. In particular we will focus on how it can impact women who are stepping up and calling out the status quo. Join us to meet the awesome speakers and attendees, ask questions, and share knowledge.

Date: Mar 30th, 2023

Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location: Creator Club, 48 Yonge Street, Suite 1200, Toronto, ON

During this LinkedIn Local event, you will gain insights from experts, senior leaders and professionals from across the city who will share their insights creating change, empowering women, leading diversity, and more.

Our featured panel will share stories and insights into how they have championed causes, demonstrated courage, and what they have learned about Cancel Culture. We will put particular focus on how we can empower more women leaders to step up and speak out to create positive change in this world. The audience will have a chance to ask questions during the panel session.

We will also have an Open Mic session afterwards for you to share your story, ask a question, and offer a tip.

This event is ideal for you if you’re:

• An ambitious leader within your organization and are interested in taking the next steps to advance your career or business

• Looking to build a valuable like minded network consisting of leaders from renowned organizations

• A passionate advocate for inclusive workplaces and are looking to access experts in the field to learn key insights from

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

CARYMA SA'D: Lawyer, Entrepreneur, Activist, Media Personality and Political Satirist

BOBBY UMAR: 5x TEDx Speaker and Inc Magazine Top 100 Leadership Speaker, Digital Influencer with over 650k followers

YOU: At our Open Mic session - share your experience of dealing with trolls, cancel culture or having your diverse voice heard.

FOOD & DRINK: Light beverages and snacks will be available on a first come first served basis

AGENDA

6:00pm: Registration and Networking - get warmed up again in-person!

6:30pm: Welcome by Bobby Umar (Host)

6:40pm: PANEL EVENT: Caryma Sa'd, Bobby Umar, with Ramneet Brar (Panel Moderator)

7:40pm: OPEN MIC session - this is a chance for YOU to shine. Share a tip, introduce yourself, ask a question, tell us something you're grateful for. You have 30 seconds. First come, first serve!

8:10pm: Closing thoughts

8:15pm: Group photo, then networking

9:00pm: Event officially ends and exits, After party TBC

HASHTAGS: #LinkedInLocal #LinkedInLocalTO

Toronto LinkedIn Local Meetups were first hosted and organized in 2017 by Swish Goswami, Bobby Umar and DYPB. To date we have run 19 events for over 2,500 people. Topics have included Women Breaking Barriers, Diversity in the Senior Ranks, Transitioning Your Career or Business, Resilience, Gratitude/Reflection/Planning, Side Hustles, Burnout/Life-Balance, and many more.

ABOUT THE LINKEDIN LOCAL TORONTO HOSTS

Bobby Umar is an Inc. Magazine named Top 100 Leadership Speaker, a 5x TEDx speaker and one of the top influencers in the world, with over 650,000 followers. He has been named the 2nd best business coach to follow on Twitter and the 4th best leadership influencer according to Kred. Bobby is an international author of three books, including an Amazon #1 best-seller, and was named one of the Top 7 Networking gurus to follow. He currently is the CEO of DYPB - Discover Your Personal Brand and the Founder of the Thought Leadership Branding Club.

Swish Goswami is the CEO of Surf, a tech company providing brands a better way to engage and understand consumers while compensating consumers for their data.

Swish has given four TEDx talks and is the bestselling author of “The Young Entrepreneur”, a book encouraging and teaching students to build a business while in school. For his entrepreneurial and philanthropic achievements, Swish was inducted into Plan Canada's Top 20 under 20 and Bay Street Bull’s 30 under 30, recognized as LinkedIn’s Top Voice and Startup Canada's Young Entrepreneur of the Year and awarded the United Nation’s Outstanding Youth Leadership award.

DYPB is the only organization in the world that is dedicated to using our personal branding expertise to change the world. We achieve this through our signature training programs, high-profile events, helpful online resources and in-depth consulting. DYPB develops your employees’ individual strengths and values to serve your organizational mission and vision. The result? Leaders have more clarity and purpose. Teams are more collaborative and motivated. Organizations have greater retention, loyalty, productivity and growth. To learn more about DYPB - Discover Your Personal Brand: https://www.dypb.ca/

This event is not sponsored, endorsed, or operated by LinkedIn. TY to our event space and food sponsors King Street Media and Creator Club.

SEE SPEAKER BIOS, SPONSORS & PARTNERS BELOW:

CARYMA SA'D

Lawyer, Entrepreneur, Activist, and Political Satirist

Caryma Sa'd is a sole practitioner in the areas of housing, criminal, and cannabis law. She also documents political extremism.

Her work and commentary are regularly featured by major national and international broadcasters including CBC, CNN, CP24, CTV, Fox News, Global, NEWSTALK 1010, TVO, VICE News, and Yahoo News.

In addition to media appearances, Caryma creates and produces original content, using social media to publish analysis and satire on a range of social, legal, and political issues.

Caryma graduated cum laude from the University of Ottawa in 2015. She hung out her shingle in 2017.

In her spare time, Caryma likes to watch professional wrestling.

[LinkedIn Local Toronto Meetups HOST] Bobby Umar: CEO of DYPB - Discover Your Personal Brand, 5x TEDx Speaker and Inc Mag Top 100 Leadership Speaker

Bobby Umar is one of the most prolific heart-based leaders in North America. Inc. Magazine named him one of the Top 100 Leadership Speakers, named alongside such noteworthy giants as Richard Branson, Brene Brown, John Maxwell and Robin Sharma. Bobby is a 5x TEDx speaker and one of the top influencers in the world, with over 650,000 followers. He has been named the 2nd best business coach to follow on Twitter and the 4th best leadership influencer according to Kred. Bobby is an international author of two books, including an Amazon #1 best-seller, and is a Huffington Post contributor. He hosted a weekly tweetchat called “The Power of Connection” that reached over 65 million impressions weekly. To date, his social media influence has garnered over a billion impressions. Bobby was also named a “2015 Speaker to Watch” and one of the Top 7 Networking gurus to follow.

A social media influencer, who champions authentic connection and heart-based leadership, Bobby has appeared on dozens of podcasts, TV & radio shows. With a background in brand marketing (Kraft & Unilever), engineering (Bombardier) and the performing arts (Second City), Bobby has led Raeallan for almost a decade and is now a recognized thought leader in Networking, Social Media and Personal Branding. He founded DYPB via the Discover Your Personal Brand conference, the largest event in North America dedicated solely to personal branding, featuring 60 experts and over 300 delegates. DYPB now runs personal branding programs, events, courses and consulting to help leaders and organizations achieve greater alignment, focus and impact in the workplace. 300,000+ people from across the world have experienced Bobby’s high-energy keynotes, interactive teambuilding activities, and engaging workshops.

Bobby is also a fiercely proud and committed dad and is passionate about diversity, gender equality, entrepreneurship and youth. He has worked with thousands of professionals to become thought leaders in 2 ways – help professionals ramp up their careers or businesses with focus, clarity and mindset and help ‘lost leaders’ transition to find their authentic path of passion and purpose.

FOLLOW ON: LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube

Ramneet Brar [Panel Moderator]

I am a Consultant with five years of experience in US and Canada cross-border personal tax for high net-worth clients. I work with tax compliance, residency advisory and estate planning.

Apart from that, I am the Chief Growth Officer at EMPOWER. We design courses and mentorship programs for International students to help them with their professional development. As a CGO, I act as a liaison between marketing, sales, product development and finance - making sure we grow as a new business and serve our mission of helping international students.

Oh wait - did I also mention that I am a speaker. I have been a keynote speaker at numerous events and podcasts sharing my journey in Canada as an international student, getting into the Big 4 and my love for LinkedIn of course.

[LinkedIn Local Toronto Meetups CO-HOST] Swish Goswami: CEO & Co-Founder, Surf

Swish Goswami is the CEO of Surf, a tech company providing brands a better way to engage and understand consumers while compensating consumers for their data. Swish has given three TEDx talks and is the bestselling author of “The Young Entrepreneur”, a book encouraging and teaching students to build a business while in school. Through his angel fund AGEX, Swish is an investor/advisor in popular social companies like FaZe Clan, Wombo, and Upstream. Swish has close to 140,000 followers on LinkedIn and he enjoys speaking around the world on topics like mental health, personal branding and entrepreneurship. For his achievements, Swish was recognized as LinkedIn’s Top Voice and Startup Canada's Young Entrepreneur of the Year and awarded the United Nation’s Outstanding Youth Leadership award.

THANK YOU to our partners and sponsors

Sponsors: DYPB, Surf, King Street Media, Creator Club

Surf is a Toronto based tech company putting the power of personal data back into people’s hands. Surf’s browser extension lets users earn from the data they already share everyday. Surf recently crossed the 125,000 user mark. Surf has made two acquisitions, raised over $5M to date (from several NBA players and venture firms) and has customers like Sony Music, Netflix, NBA, Electronic Arts, and a plethora of small to medium sized businesses.

Partners: Raeallan, Thought Leadership Branding Club

ABOUT DYPB (Host & Sponsor)

is the only organization in the world that is dedicated to using our personal branding expertise to change the world. We achieve this through our signature training programs, high-profile events, helpful online resources and in-depth consulting. DYPB develops your employees’ individual strengths and values to serve your organizational mission and vision.

The result?

Leaders have more clarity and purpose. Teams are more collaborative and motivated. Organizations have greater retention, loyalty, productivity and growth.

To learn more about DYPB - Discover Your Personal Brand: https://www.dypb.ca/

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Refund Policy: Due to limited availability, DYPB cannot offer refunds once your tickets are purchased. If you cannot make the event due to unforeseen circumstances, you may transfer your ticket(s). Thank you.