 I'm T.A. Laughler and I'm a professor here in the School of Human Kinetics and Recreation at Memorial University of Newfoundland and I'm also the mountain climber. No matter where I go in St. John's people will come up and say, oh you're the one that climbs mountains. But along with climbing mountains I love to tell stories about climbing mountains and that's what I do in my keynotes is I bring the lessons from the mountain back here to sea level and share them to inspire people to find their own Everest. My keynote will use the metaphor of the mountain to inspire you to reach your heights both personally and professionally. There will be lots of amazing photographs, some funny stories and I know that my audience often moves from tears to laughter and back to tears again and usually leaves the keynote thinking, thinking and thinking. One thing I know from having done a lot of speaking at conferences in St. John's is calm. St. John's is an awesome environment to have a conference. The culture that goes along with conferences is unbelievable and I've never seen an unhappy conference attendee here.