LinkedIn Local Toronto Meetup – "Building Resilience & Courage - Movie Screening"

About this Event

Are you open to doing this differently?

We've done 27 LinkedIn Local Toronto Meetups. But here is a NEW thing we are trying: A MOVIE SCREENING featuring Joze Piranian!  -- 5x TEDx speaker, Disability & Mental Health Advocate | Stuttering Awareness | Corporate Comedian

Our topic "Building Resilience and Courage" is perfect for this incredible award winning 50-min documentary movie called "Words Left Unspoken", nominated for three Canadian Screen Awards. AND we're bringing 3 awesome experts to discuss this, including the star of the movie.

We're proud to keep LinkedIn Local Toronto different.

Words Left Unspoken has been nominated for three Canadian Screen Awards! 🎉✨

🎬 Best Documentary Program
🎬 Best Direction (Documentary)
🎬 Best Writing (Documentary)

This film shares a deeply personal journey, one about fear, resilience, and the power of embracing your uniqueness. Directed by the film-maker
Josiane Blanc and produced by Rayne Zukerman, who both worked on this for the past 8 years!

There has been a huge wave of support for this film. Many watched the premiere and other locations (at film festivals, corporate screenings or
on CBC Gem). Now with the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for these nominations, we are excited to also support them with this special screening and post-film panel.

LinkedIn Local Toronto Meetup – "Building Resilience & Courage - SPECIAL Movie Screening & Panel"
🔹 When? May 14th | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM EST
🔹 Where? OneEleven, Toronto
🔹 Why join? Be inspired, meet the actors, and listen to experts

🔹 Cost? $20 to support the artists OR $15 each for groups of 4.

Secure your spot now!

This event is ideal for you if you’re:

🟢 An ambitious team member 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 better workplaces and entrepreneurial spaces who is looking to access experts in the field to learn key insights from

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

JOZE PIRANIAN: Global Keynote Speaker | Forbes & 5 TEDx| Disability & Mental Health Advocate | Stuttering Awareness | Corporate Comedian

DR. SAMRA ZAFAR: Award-Winning Keynote Speaker | Bestselling Author | Courageous Leadership & Wellness Expert | Charity Founder | Physician | Economist | Top 100 Most Powerful Women Canada

BOBBY UMAR: CEO of DYPB - Discover Your Personal Brand and the Thought Leadership Branding Club | 5x TEDx Speaker, Inc Magazine Top 100 Leadership Speaker, Author of Best-Seller 'How to Network Anytime, Anywhere, with Anyone'

YOU: Stand out in our networking interactives and Q&A sessions - pitch your brand, share ideas, ask a questions.


AGENDA

6:00pm: Registration and Networking - get warmed up again in-person! Mill around and meet some new people.

6:30pm: Welcome & Opening Remarks by Bobby (Co-Host)

6:40pm: Short Talk with Dr. Samra Zafar on Personal Resilience Through Trauma

6:50pm: MOVIE PREMIERE: Watch this official screening of the Award nominated film "Words Left Unspoken" (50 minutes)

7:45pm: Panel with the featured star of the film Joze Piranian, along with Dr. Samra Zafar and Bobby Umar (Moderator)

8:30pm: Closing remarks, networking and exits

HASHTAGS: #LinkedInLocal #LinkedInLocalTO

ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS & HOSTS

Toronto LinkedIn Local Meetups were first hosted and organized in 2017 by Swish Goswami, Bobby Umar and DYPB. To date we have run 26 events for over 3,000 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.

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 sponsor OneEleven.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Joze Piranian

🌍 Global Keynote Speaker | Disability Inclusion & Mental Health | Stand-Up Comedian | Featured in Forbes & TEDx

Joze Piranian is a Beirut-born, Toronto-based lifelong stutterer turned award-winning keynote speaker and stand-up comedian. His transformative journey, captured in a feature film and an upcoming book with a major publisher, centres on turning fear into courage, an “inner stutter” into resilience, and personal obstacles into the fulfillment of one's true potential in life.

🎤 Keynote Speaking & Media Features
Joze has delivered talks at Google, Meta, Netflix, Tesla, the United Nations, and other leading organizations, conferences, and educational institutions. His story, of going from avoiding speaking due to a severe stutter to then thriving on stage, has inspired audiences around the world.
His documentary Words Left Unspoken premiered at the Reelworld Film Festival in Toronto on October 26, 2024. It also had its US premiere at the Socially Relevant Film Festival in New York City on March 14th 2025.

🎭 Comedy
When he’s not speaking on corporate stages, Joze brings laughter to comedy clubs around the world, including in Los Angeles, Dubai, and Edinburgh. His stand-up combines sharp cultural insights and vulnerability to challenge assumptions and spark meaningful conversations about identity, differences, and resilience.

✍️ Writing & Personal Mission
Featured in Forbes and on TEDx, Joze’s work highlights the power of embracing discomfort and owning the parts of ourselves we often try to hide. Through humor and reflection, he creates space for others to confront their fears, step into discomfort, and lead more authentic lives.

Whether through a keynote, a comedy set, or a creative collaboration, Joze Piranian’s mission is to share stories that move, connect, and empower.

Dr. Samra Zafar

Samra Zafar is an award-winning internationally renowned speaker, bestselling author, and educator for equity, mental health, and human rights. She has been recognized among the Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada, Top 25 Inspirational Women in Canada, and Top 25 Canadian Immigrants.

Her book, A Good Wife: Escaping The Life I Never Chose, based on her journey of escaping an abusive child marriage to pursue her education
and shed light on gender-based oppression, is a national bestseller, was one of CBC's Best Books of 2019, and is being adapted to a premium TV
series.

She serves as a Governor at the University of Toronto, a Celebrated Ambassador for Plan International, and a board member for Women's College Hospital Foundation. Her work has impacted millions and has been extensively featured in global media. Samra's speaking portfolio includes three
successful TED Talks, and many leading corporations, universities, and nonprofits around the world.

To find out more, please visit www.samrazafar.com

Bobby Umar

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.

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About the director/producer - Josiane Blanc

Josiane is a Film & TV writer, director, producer, whose creative work often speaks on everything related to social justice. Name as one of Playback’s Magazine 10 talent to watch, in the past 5 years Josiane had the pleasure of writing & directing a variety of projects including her documentaries TALES OF ORDINARY FATPHOBIA, LOUD & HERE and WORDS LEFT UNSPOKEN as well as 2 seasons of her debut short-form scripted series AINSI VA MANU/HOGTOWN. Josiane’s creative work received more than 50 nominations & won 20 awards in national and international festivals, including best film, best screenplay & 5 times best director.

About the producer/story editor- Rayne Zukerman

RAYNE ZUKERMAN is a lawyer by training but has embraced the woo of the creative process. At IGP, Rayne has produced the scripted prime-time dramas STREET LEGAL, REMEDY AND KING. As co-founder of the francophone production company Zazie Films, Rayne created and produced two seasons of the comedy series PARIS PARIS, the documentary film HYMNE MIGRATOIRE and feature LE DIVAN DU MONDE, amongst others. Consistently drawn to innovative narratives with a strong point of view, Rayne works with the most talented and originalvoices this country has to offer and helps steward the projects from inception to completion.

THANK YOU to our partners and sponsors

Sponsors: DYPB, OneEleven, Teecee Business Solutions, ChangeMaker Collective

Partners: Raeallan, Thought Leadership Branding Club

ABOUT DYPB (Host & Sponsor)

DYPB - Discover Your Personal Brand 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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