Gayle and Judy are the networking experts
Our networking speakers offer you the most up-to-the-moment networking training for your new hybrid-work world. Choose from our selection of business networking events via in-person speaker presentations or our new online course.
Meet our business networking event speakers
Teaching the skills of networking isn’t something Gayle and Judy do off the side of their desks. It’s their expertise and their passion. Their training is based on the latest research on networks and behavioural science, their extensive years of experience in the networking world, tactical and practical tips, and their proven system of learning.
That is why having Gayle and Judy speak at your next business networking event to your employees, customers or at your conference will provide the best networking skills training you can get. They deliver the most up-to-the-moment networking content, such as Hybrid Networking™, which is the new way of the world. As engaging speakers, clients say that Gayle and Judy have a special way of connecting with their audiences. Not only that, but they get their audiences connecting with one another!
Gayle and Judy will tell you that networking isn’t ‘rocket science’, but it’s a very important soft skill that anyone with their training can master.
Gayle Hallgren
Gayle Hallgren is a writer, speaker, and innovative marketer who co-founded one of Canada’s unique entrepreneurial ventures, Cookies by George. She is a recipient of the YWCA Women of Distinction award and has spent over two decades observing and writing on networking around the world and is an expert on the “art of conversation.” She has attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland over eleven times and is a member of the elite Davos Circle, where networking happens at the highest level. As a networking evangelist who loves teaching networking, she knows that the network you build can transform your life and career.
Judy Thomson, CPA, CA
Judy Thomson is a chartered professional accountant who has held executive positions in human resources and administration with global companies in Canada and Asia and was also part of the start-up management team of the world-famous Rocky Mountaineer Railtours. An advocate for women in business, she spent six years as the vice-chair of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade’s Women’s Leadership Circle advisory council and eight years as a director of the BC Women’s Enterprise Centre. She also has ten years of corporate director experience in the public sector.
Judy and Gayle frequently present together at business networking events and their list of corporate clients include RBC Financial Group, RBC Dominion Securities, Scotiabank, Envision Financial, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, TELUS, and many more.
Book our Leap Start!™ keynote for your next conference
Our Leap Start!™ keynote is Shepa Learning Company’s signature conference opener. Although conferences are perfect for networking and meeting new people, many attendees default to their comfort zone – hanging out with the people they already know and using networking breaks to check messages on their phone, instead of starting conversations with the people standing next to them!
Our networking experts, Gayle and Judy, will share tactical and practical networking tips that will have your attendees connecting throughout the conference and beyond!