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YES Montreal – Youth Employment Services Artists Conference – This Monday

It’s already sold out but YES Montreal is holding their fifth annual Youth Employment Services Artists Conference this coming Monday. I am proud to be a part of their Board Of Directors and very eager to take part in this special event.
I was just notified that the event is sold out. It is taking place June 13th from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm at the Centaur Theatre here in Montreal, Quebec.
Along with Robert Gervais from Pre2Post Technologies, we will be doing a session on how to build and create a network so aspiring artists can learn what myself and Gervais know, namely: “it’s who you know, it’s who knows you.”
The fifth YES Montreal Self-Employed Artists Conference: Business Skills for Creative Souls is also featuring Keynote Speaker Yann Martel, Bestselling Author, Life of Pi.
Over three-hundred people will spend the full day attending workshops, panel discussions and networking opportunities. One of the best parts of the YES Montreal Artists Conference is the morning panel discussion which is moderated by Andy Nulman, President, Airborne Entertainment.
Two other key points:
1) The winner(s) of the $5,000 Artists Start-up Grant Contest, co-sponsored by YES Montreal and La Fondation du maire de Montréal pour la jeunesse, will also be announced at the conference.
2) You can also grab a copy of the YES Montreal book, Business Skills For Creative Souls: The Montreal Artist’s Handbook – which I also had the honor of helping to organize.
For more information, please visit: YES Montreal (it’s one of my favorite charity organizations).

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.