The
Level Up
Conference
Thursday, October 8, 2026
The Speakers
The 10th Annual Level Up Conference: Take Your Work and Life to the Next Level
Do you ever feel like you’re running a marathon on a treadmill with no end in site? Constantly working hard, but not seeing the results or not able to enjoy them?
You’re putting in the effort and the hours but when you feel like you’ve hit a plateau? You know you could be building and making more forward progress, but the daily grind has you just surviving?
You don’t need more generic advice; you need a practical reset button. You need strategies and ideas to help you close that gap, and a community around you who will support you while you do it. That’s what Level Up is all about.
On Thursday, October 8, 2026, right here in Dieppe NB, we are hosting the 10th anniversary edition of the Level Up Conference.
Founded by resilience expert Mark Black , this single-day, high-impact event is engineered to help you stop reacting to your business and start leading it.
We are bringing together top-tier minds from across Canada to give you the exact systems, psychology, and tactical tools required to scale sustainably.
The Power of the Room
The magic of Level Up doesn’t just happen on the stage; it happens in the aisles. We strictly cap our seats to keep the environment intimate, collaborative, and highly valuable. You will be spending the day masterminding alongside 100+ entrepreneurs, business owners, and community leaders from your community. The breakthrough your business needs is often just one hallway conversation away.
Close the Gap. Claim Your Seat.
You can keep doing what you’ve always done and hope for a different result. Or, you can invest one day to completely re-engineer your operations, sharpen your strategy, and buy back your time. [ 
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Meet our Speakers
Michelle Cederberg
Speaker
For over 20 years, Health and Productivity Expert Michelle Cederberg has captivated audiences across North America with her empowering and humorous messages that educate busy, driven professionals about how to set chase worthy goals, revive energy, and ignite high performance.
As a certified and in-demand speaker, author, coach and consultant, she believes that personal and professional success is directly influenced by how well we harness the physical, mental and emotional capacity we each have within us. She truly combines mind, body, and practicality to inspire change.
She enthusiastically calls on science to help people boost that capacity, so they can work and lead with confidence, and create the life and career they want.
Michelle holds a Masters in Kinesiology, a BA in Psychology, a specialization in Health and Exercise Psychology, is a Certified Speaking Professional, Certified Exercise Physiologist and a High-Performance Coach. In 2023 she was inducted into the prestigious Canadian Speaking Hall of Fame.
Mark Black
Speaker
Mark Black is the Founder of The Level Up Confernce. He is also the only man in history to have run a marathon with someone else's heart and lungs (Heart and Double-Lung Transplant in 2002).
A resilience expert, coach, and author, Mark helps people break through limitations and develop resilience so they can thrive through challenge and change.
Mark is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), a designation held by less than 800 speakers in the world. He has inspired more than 180,000 people in more than 850 presentations, and has worked with global brands including ExxonMobil, and Mercedes-Benz, as well as many national and regional associations.
For more information about how Mark can help you, go to: www.markblack.ca
Julien LeBlanc
Speaker
Julien is a dynamic speaker, relentless optimist, portfolio entrepreneur and business coach who has played a role in founding and fostering over 10 companies to commercial viability. His enthusiasm for entrepreneurism is rivaled only by his passion for learning and teaching. Julien has been reading at least one book a week for over 10 years to continue to bring the newest ideas and disciplines to his clients.
Believing that the ‘science of success’ transcends industries, Julien has over 25 years of experience as a sales professional and business leader, having commercialized goods and services in the Food & Beverage, HVAC, Sports Equipment and Medical Device sectors.
Julien is the President and co-founder of blueprint North America, a boutique firm specializing in helping individuals, teams and organizations from start ups to Fortune 500 companies transform their business confidence. He has delivered over 1500 workshops and keynotes in 47 countries around the world.For more info on blueprint North America workshop offerings, visit their website.
Carol Shulte
Speaker
Carol Schulte is a global speaker, executive coach, and founder of The Brave Initiative.
For over a decade, she’s helped leaders, teams, and organizations get their brave on — working with Fortune 500 companies and international associations to inspire bold action, courageous communication, and lasting change.
A passionate mental health advocate, Carol is the author of The Brave Healing Journal and creator of the Find Your Brave experience. With a BFA in Theatre Performance, an MA in Communication, and certifications in coaching and mentoring, she brings a unique blend of stage presence, practical insight, and lived experience to every room.
Having lived in 11 countries — including an ashram in India and a van in New Zealand — and shaved her head for cancer research, Carol certainly practices what she preaches!
When she’s not on stage, you’ll find her teaching fitness, volunteering at local women’s shelters, or unapologetically crushing carpool karaoke.
Andre LeBlanc
Speaker
Andre LeBlanc is the Founder and CEO of AiDevX, where he helps organizations leverage artificial intelligence to reduce operational friction, improve decision-making, and prepare for the future of work.
With nearly two decades of experience in AI, software development, and digital transformation, Andre has worked at the forefront of emerging technologies long before AI became mainstream.
A recognized thought leader, Andre's 2015 TEDx talk, Artificial Intelligence and the Future, explored the opportunities and challenges AI would bring to business and society, predictions that have proven remarkably accurate over the past decade.
Today, Andre speaks to leaders about one of the most significant shifts of our generation: how AI is changing the way we work, lead, and create value. Rather than replacing people, he believes AI gives leaders leverage, freeing them from repetitive work so they can focus on strategy, creativity, relationships, and the decisions that matter most.
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