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Leaders Series: We introduce Bill McGill, CEO of Versapay Corporation, Canada's fastest growing company. Bill talks about inspiration and taking on Canada's big banks at their own online payments game. 

Leaders Series: David Brown is the co-founder and past president of the Exempt Market Dealers Association of Canada. He talks with us about the surprises and benefits of launching and belonging to an industry advocacy association. David also offers up some great advice for entrepreneurs raising capital in today's world.  

Leaders Series: Dave Simpson, Executive Director of the Business Families Centre at the Richard Ivey School of Business shares secrets of family business success. In operations and transition, Dave talks about how family businesses are better at business than most others.

Leaders Series: Jordan Banks, Managing Director Facebook Canada, talks with us about using facebook as a business tool. Jordan is a guru on the subject, and shares some terrific facebook business building tips. 

Leaders Series: Guy Kawasaki talks about his new book 'Enchantment - The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions. Guy is a prolific author, investor, creator and tech-luminary. As Apple's second software evangelist he learned the art of 'enchantment' early in his career. We even talk a little hockey. 

Leaders Series: Vanessa Rementilla, Creative Director and Strategist, reveals the profitable opportunities within an enterprise when a creative director is engaged to manage and mentor a creative team. And when creative directors are involved in client-facing business development opportunities the return is greater still.

Leaders Series: Erin Green, founder of Pairachute talks about the true value of relationship marketing. Erin grew her venture by leveraging the relationships she developed during her seven years at Lululemon.

Leaders Series: Simon Jennings, president of Olive Media talks about finding opportunities in a crowded space. From DoubleClick to Yahoo to Olive, Simon has worked in very crowded circles. The secret sauce: Service to death.

Leaders Series: Ben Baldwin, co-founder of ClearFit, addresses the fact that 50% of all hires do not work out, and what it takes to hire successfully.  

Leaders Series: Kathleen McGinn, Operations Partner at beerbistro in Toronto, talks about the importance corporate culture and smart HR policies play in a successful niche business. Toronto has its own 'Restaurant Wars' and this is a winning story. 

Leaders Series: Aaron Patzer talks about the hyper-growth of Mint.com and what corporate life is like after selling his company to Intuit for $170 million. 

Leaders Series: Asif Khan, the founder of the soon-to-be-global 'Location Based Marketing Association' explains why 'horizontal integration of location' is a powerful new buzzword.

Leaders Series: We're joined by communications guru Carmine Gallo, author of the new book 'The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs'. Carmine gets inside the creative and business mind of Steve Jobs and shares Steve's innovation secrets - original thinking at its best.

Leaders Series: Jeff Pontes, Director, Digital Strategy at FUSE Marketing Group talks about leveraging customer input to achieve exponential business growth. 

Leaders Series: Sarah Prevette, startup guru and founder of Sprouter.com, talks about startup success and why Sprouter is the centre of the entrepreneur's social networking universe.

Leaders Series: Hadley Archer, VP Strategic Partnerships, WWF Canada, talks about forging groundbreaking strategic alliances that are greater than the sum of their parts.

Leaders Series: Steve Schussler, the creative genius behind Rainforest Cafe, talks about inspiration, gumption, and why he wrote the new book, runaway bestseller 'It's A Jungle In There'.

Leaders Series: Our guest is Barb Anderson, Product Marketing Leader at Intuit's Global Business Division. Barb discusses the results of a recent survey that reveals optimism among Canadian entrepreneurs, but these same business owners have serious concerns about finance.

Leaders Series: Dianne Buckner, host of CBC's Dragons' Den, gives us the lowdown on pitching the media, and pitching investors. 

Leaders Series: We're joined by Joe Milstone, co-founder of Cognition LLP. Joe warns us about the legal bear traps that face entrepreneurs as they grow their companies.