Meet The 2025 Speakers

Jane Helbrecht, CPHR
Leadership Development and People and Culture Expert | Certified Leadership Coach | TEDx Speaker | Co-Host, Podcast – Doing Less to Do More

Jane helps leaders and HR professionals thrive by providing practical tools and strategies that inspire long-term change. With over 15 years of experience across tech, finance, manufacturing, and consulting, she brings real-world insight to leadership, engagement, and organizational culture. Jane is also a TEDx speaker, sharing her expertise with audiences on a global platform.

Her sessions focus on helping leaders build habits for lasting impact, navigate evolving workplace dynamics, and foster inclusive, high-performing teams. Jane’s practical strategies and engaging approach ensure attendees leave with actionable tools they can implement immediately.

Watch Jane in her TEDx Talk: Your team doesn’t suck, you do

Jean-Guy Talbot, FCPA, FCGA
Founder and CEO, RêveNew Practice Management | Founder, Talbot & Associates Chartered Professional Accountants | Speaker

Jean-Guy believes that happiness is a choice you make every morning. With over 30 years of experience in public accounting, he helps firm owners work less, increase profits, and build more fulfilling businesses.

He founded Talbot & Associates in 1991, growing it from a one-person basement operation into a firm with nearly 90 team members and offices across Manitoba and Ontario. After stepping down as CEO, he now leads RêveNew Practice Management, mentoring accounting firms, drawing from his own experience, leadership lessons, and proven strategies for running a profitable and balanced business.

Check out Jean-Guy’s YouTube channel and discover actionable ideas to help improve the way you think and manage your practice.

Tamara Kroeker, IEA Cert., B.Ed/Mus
Coach, Educator, and Speaker | Enneagram Specialist

Tamara helps professionals and teams uncover the “why” behind their behaviours, improve interpersonal dynamics, and develop stronger leadership. With a background as an elementary music teacher, she spent over a decade motivating students, parents, and colleagues, discovering that self-awareness is the foundation of every successful leader.

Now specializing in the Enneagram, Tamara equips individuals and teams with practical tools to understand what drives behaviour, foster healthier relationships, and unlock their full potential.

Howard Wirch, FCGA, FCPA
Managing Partner, Accent Chartered Professional Accountants

As Managing Partner at Accent, Howard is a firm believer in taking care of not just your own mind and body, but also giving back to your community. Awarded his FCPA in 2017, he served on the CGA Manitoba and CPA Manitoba Boards, participating in National and Provincial committees. This involvement continues by instructing seminars for the profession, delivering presentations for the CPA Financial Literacy Program, and is an active part of his local Dauphin Rotary Club for over 20 years.

After completing the Ironman Canada triathlon in 2008, he went on to participate in various triathlon, half-marathons and marathons and enjoys cycling, swimming, and running in his spare time.

Donavan Robinson
Entrepreneur, Community Builder, and Speaker | Advocate for Creativity and Neurodiversity

Donavan helps entrepreneurs and teams unlock creativity, foster inclusive cultures, and build vibrant communities. A proud Red River Métis citizen and ADHD advocate, he has dedicated his career to designing spaces and experiences that foster playful innovation, genuine connections, and meaningful storytelling.

As co-founder of ventures such as Pop CoLAB, Made Here, The Good Will Social Club, A Little Pizza Heaven, and Vantage Studios & Print Shop by Vantage, Donavan champions wellness, inclusivity, and joyful engagement in both entrepreneurship and corporate culture.

Mike McLenehan, CPA, CGA
Founder and Owner, McLenehan and Associates Chartered Professional Accountants | Speaker

Mike helps accounting firm owners balance practice management with strategic growth. With firsthand experience growing his own firm from a one-person startup into a multi-seven-figure business with two Winnipeg locations, he provides practical guidance that combines business strategy, technology, and content marketing to drive client engagement.

Jordan Labelle
Founder, Evergreen Growth Collective | Co-Host, Podcast – Doing Less to Do More

Jordan works with accounting and bookkeeping practice owners who are stuck between wanting to grow and not wanting to burn themselves out in the process. My background is in strategy and systems, but my primary focus is on helping you build a practice that aligns with your energy, values, and life, rather than against them. I’m not here to sell you a cookie-cutter scaling plan or tell you to hustle harder. Instead, we look at what’s actually creating results, what’s draining you for no reason, and how to design around the things that matter most.

 The “Doing Less to Do More” podcast flips the script on entrepreneurship, offering strategies to simplify, focus, and help you get “out” of your business, allowing you to enjoy what truly matters. Hosted by two experts with over 15 years of experience in tech, business development, and local growth, this is your one-stop shop for advice you can apply to your daily life with a healthy dose of humour along the way. 

Eric Robert, CPA, CGA
Partner, Rawluk & Robert Chartered Professional Accountants Inc. | Speaker

Eric helps clients and organizations achieve financial clarity and confidence. With 20 years of experience in public practice, he has served clients throughout Western Canada and specializes in working with not-for-profits and charities in Winnipeg and Manitoba, providing auditing services and guidance on bookkeeping and software systems to make operations more streamlined and effective.

With a talent for explaining complex concepts clearly, Eric combines his accounting expertise and passion for education to help individuals and businesses make informed decisions and achieve financial success. At Practice Connection, he’ll be leading discussions on the technology challenges practitioners face and how to leverage tools effectively.

Tracey Maconachie
Founder and Principal of 321 Tipping Point | Speaker

Tracey helps entrepreneurs, executives, and advisors unlock growth by aligning strategy with funding opportunities. With over 25 years of leadership experience across government, non-profits, and industry, including as Deputy Minister of Economic Development & Jobs for Manitoba, she provides insight into what funders are looking for and how to position organizations for success.

Kristine Tubiera
Event Strategist, Producer, Speaker, and Community Builder

Kristine helps accountants, bookkeepers, and the people who support them feel connected, supported, and inspired. With over 20 years of experience working with CPA Manitoba and CGA Manitoba, she designs and supports professional development programs and initiatives for practitioners. Through RêveNew Practice Management, she has created events like Rev Up Your Practice that build practitioner communities and foster meaningful connections.

As founder of LMVA Consulting and co-founder of Keynote Connect, Kristine also helps speakers refine their message, strengthen promotion, secure stage opportunities, and connect with event hosts.