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The Lavin Agency Speakers Bureau

A speakers bureau that represents the best original thinkers,
writers, and doers for speaking engagements.

Canadian Speakers

Always proud of our country, Canadians have come together in a renewed way recently to support local businesses, celebrate our country, and commit to seeing Canada thrive. Lavin is proud to represent many top Canadian speakers: leading voices like Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Rick Mercer (The Rick Mercer Report), who bring uniquely Canadian perspectives to the biggest questions of today and remind us of everything that makes this country worth celebrating.

11 Canadian
Speakers

Margaret Atwood

Two-time Booker Prize-Winning Author of over 50 Books, Including The Handmaid’s Tale and Its Recordbreaking Sequel,The Testaments

Literature can show us our future—if we look.

Rick Mercer | Host of The Rick Mercer Report for 15 years | Author of Talking to Canadians and Rick Mercer Final Report | Winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour

Rick Mercer

Host of The Rick Mercer Report for 15 years | Bestselling Author of Talking to Canadians and Rick Mercer Final Report | Winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour

Canada is a nation worth loving—and ranting about.

Ajay Agrawal

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Expert | Founder of the Creative Destruction Lab | Bestselling Co-Author of Prediction Machines and Power and Prediction

Being second in the AI race isn’t good enough. You have to get ahead now to gain a sustained edge over the competition.

Steven Pinker

One of the world's top public intellectuals | Author of Rationality, Enlightenment Now, and When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . . | Harvard Professor

Common knowledge—what we assume everyone knows—can help us make sense of life's biggest social, political, and economic questions.

Waneek Horn-Miller | Olympian, Activist, and Speaker on Indigenous Health and Reconciliation

Waneek Horn-Miller

Olympian, Activist, and Speaker on Indigenous Health and Reconciliation

Your struggle is your motivation in disguise.

Naomi Klein

Internationally Bestselling Author of Doppelganger, This Changes Everything, The Shock Doctrine, and No Logo

AI, misinformation, and polarization have made everything familiar feel slightly off. But we can still reclaim our democracy—and ourselves.

Stephen Marche

Author of The Next Civil War and the First Ever AI-Generated Novella, Death of an Author | Writer for The New Yorker, The Atlantic

We're on the brink of a political crisis. But there's a way back.

Alexandra Samuel

Digital Workplace Expert | Author of Remote, Inc. | Author of JSTOR Daily's "Unfolding AI" Column

The real potential of AI isn't getting faster answers from our tools. It's getting better thinking from ourselves.

Jeremy Gutsche

CEO of Trend Hunter | New York Times bestselling author of Create the Future

This is the year AI changes you. You can let the disruption derail you—or you can find the opportunity in chaos and gain an AI edge.

David Sax | Author of The Future is Analog, The Soul of an Entrepreneur and The Revenge of Analog

David Sax

Author of The Future is Analog, The Soul of an Entrepreneur and The Revenge of Analog

Technology has made our lives better in many ways—but embracing our analog experiences is the key to building a truly human world.

Britt Wray | Human and Planetary Health Fellow at Stanford | Author of Generation Dread

Britt Wray

Author of Generation Dread | Director of Stanford's CIRCLE Initiative (Community-minded Interventions for Resilience, Climate Leadership and Emotional wellbeing)

Wrestling through our climate change anxiety is the first step towards finding purpose, building resilience, and saving ourselves.