Compliance is essential—but it is only the floor. In this engaging keynote, Kore Training explores the hidden gaps that keep organizations from being truly ready when work changes, risks emerge, or fast decisions are required. Leaders will uncover five common health-and-safety blind spots and leave with a practical framework for strengthening frontline communication, training, inspections, supplies, and ongoing readiness.
Kayla is the founder and CEO of Kore Training, a women-owned Canadian company reimagining how people learn to save lives. A former paramedic and certified Advanced Emergency Medical Care Assistant, she’s spent over a decade In emergency care — and set out to bring that same urgency, skill, and humanity into the classroom.
Frustrated by outdated, check-the-box safety training, Kayla built Kore around a different standard: inclusive, immersive instruction that treats every learner like their competence actually matters — because it does. The result is a company known for raising the bar on CPR, first aid, and workplace safety education, one confident, capable learner at a time.
An award-winning entrepreneur and a married mother of three, Kayla brings the same resilience she relies on at home into everything she builds — proof that the best training comes from someone who understands what’s actually at stake.
Most capable people don’t stall because they lack drive, direction, or ideas. They stall because growth has outpaced the structure underneath it, so the business ends up running on personal bandwidth instead of designed capacity. This is Nile Saïd’s territory.
As founder of GoOneUp and the Capacity Growth Strategist to growth leaders, Nile helps entrepreneurs, business owners, and high-performers install the strategies, structures, and clarity that allow a business to grow without depending on the founder for every single move. His work spans optimizing operations, marketing, messaging, leadership, decision-making, and execution.
His perspective draws on 35+ years studying human behaviour, alongside 25+ years of entrepreneurial and leadership experience, including building multi-million-dollar business operations. He’s known for clarity that changes how leaders show up the same week.
Most owners build something successful, then feel trapped by it. No free time, too much personal risk, and their net worth locked inside a company they can’t easily leave. Simon, founder of Freedom For Founders, calls this the Freedom Gap: the distance between the business they built and the freedom they dream of.
Selling or acquiring a business isn’t just financial. It’s personal, tied to identity, family, and what comes next. A well-planned merger or acquisition is the path out. From joint ventures and partial share sales to employee stock ownership plans and many more paths, owners have far more options than they realize. Each comes with its own advantages: immediate liquidity, the chance to stay involved, real tax efficiency, or the ability to protect employees and preserve a legacy.
Simon is founder and President of Freedom For Founders, an M&A advisory firm. A Certified Exit Planning Advisor and Licensed Business Broker with over 12 years guiding founders through selling or acquiring, he’s built his work around one mission: founder, financial and personal freedom.
