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VIBE CEO Summit 2026

Longevity is the Long Game.
Health. Wealth. Legacy.

A full-day experience for female CEOs and business owners focused on building businesses and lives that last.

Oct 7, 2026
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
One King West Hotel & Residences

1 King St W, Toronto, ON. M5H 1A1

A different kind of CEO conversation

You have built something real.

Now the question becomes: how do you keep growing without losing the energy, clarity, health, relationships, and sense of purpose that got you here in the first place?
The next chapter of leadership requires more than strategy alone.
It requires sharper business thinking, stronger relationships, practical AI-forward insight, whole-person wellbeing, financial confidence, and the inner clarity to make better decisions in a more complex world.

That’s what this day is built around.

VIBE CEO Summit 2026 brings together Canada’s most forward-thinking female CEOs and business owners for honest conversations, expert insight, and meaningful connection, and fresh perspective on what it really takes to build for the long game.

WHAT TO EXPECT
VIBE CEO Summit 2026 - Longevity is the Long Game

Health: Explore what sustainable leadership really requires, including energy, capacity, stress, longevity, and the physical and emotional demands of leading a business.

Wealth: Gain practical insight into financial resilience, business value, wealth creation, succession, optionality, and the decisions beyond revenue.

Leadership
Reflect on how you lead now, what your business needs from you next, and how to make clearer decisions using strategy, peer wisdom, AI-forward thinking, intuition, and experience.

Legacy: Think beyond the next quarter or even the next year. Explore what you are building, why it matters, who it impacts, and what you want your business and leadership to stand for over time.

Connection: Build meaningful relationships with female CEOs and business owners who understand exactly where you are and where you're going

THE EXPERIENCE

A Day Designed With Intention

Every session, conversation, and moment - curated for where you are as a leader right now.

9:30 AM: Arrival & Registration

10:00 AM: Welcome
Kim Chernecki & Geralyn Ochab, Co-Founders, VIBE CEO

10:15 AM: Keynote Conversation

The Measured Mind: Brain Health, Sleep, Stress, and Human Performance

-Ariel Garten -Founder MUSE

11:00 AM: Fireside Chat: Health & Executive Leadership | In partnership with Medcan
What does longevity actually look like for a CEO? The intersection of high performance and sustainable health - from experts who work with leaders like you every day

- Physcian

11:45 AM: The Art of Meaningful Connection| A short, practical session to help you enter lunch with confidence, curiosity, and a mindset for connecting with intention with Canada's number #1 networking expert

- Jennifer Beale, CEO Unlesh PR

12:00 PM: Lunch Buffet + open conversation

12:45 PM: Play Nice, Jennie
A candid talk on culture, accountability, and better business relationships
-Jennie Colman -President Equi-Fruit

1:15 PM: Financial Wellness Plenary + Breakouts | In partnership with Meridian Credit Union

Choose your session:

1. "Money in Motion: Cash Flow That Doesn't Keep You Up"

An interactive session where we will dive into a Bank’s process of evaluating a business loan, what they look for, but more importantly why and what you can do to be best prepared. This will include reviewing financial statements and working through ratios and analysis, bring your calculator

2. "Future-Proof the Business: Succession & Continuity"

Build a business that thrives beyond you. This high-impact workshop equips female business owners with practical strategies for succession planning, long-term resilience, and protecting the legacy you’ve worked so hard to create.

2:15 PM: Integration Break:Movement, hydration, and sponsor touchpoints.

2:40 PM: Diversity of Thought Leadership

-Andrea Sampson, CEO Talk Boutique

3:15 PM: CEO Panel: Longevity, Reinvention & Adaptive Leadership
Powerful perspectives from four female CEOs who've navigated complexity, reinvented themselves, and come out ahead.

Facilitated by Kim Chernecki & Geralyn Ochab, Co-Founders, VIBE CEO

Ira Baptiste, President Evolve Agency Group

Jennie Coleman, President Equi-Fruit

Jessica Stevenson, Co-Founder & CEO Everist

Ariel Garten, Founder MUSE

Karen Adams, President & CEO Kii Health

4:15 PM: Closing Remarks
Kim Chernecki & Geralyn Ochab, Co-Founders, VIBE CEO

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM: Connection Reception

Raise a glass, deepen connections, and meet the partners and sponsors who make this community possible.

WHY ATTEND

Think bigger about the next chapter of your business...Step out of day-to-day execution and reconnect with the bigger questions: what are you building now, what do you want your business to make possible, and what needs to shift for the next stage?

Strengthen the whole person behind the business
Explore health, wealth, longevity, leadership, energy, and legacy as part of one integrated CEO conversation.
Access more useful peer intelligence

Meet women who understand what it means to carry real responsibility, make decisions, build teams, serve clients, manage growth, and think beyond short-term success.

Bring whole-brain thinking into leadership
This is not just about data, tactics, and strategy. It is also about intuition, creativity, pattern recognition, possibility, grounded decision-making, and the inner clarity required to lead well.

Leave with insight you can actually use
Hear from CEOs, founders, experts, and advisors who will share practical ideas, real stories, and grounded tools you can apply to your business, leadership, health, wealth, and next chapter.

YOUR PASS INCLUDES

Full-day access to all sessions, panels, and keynote
Financial wellness plenary + your choice of breakout workshop
Curated networking opportunities throughout the day
Buffet lunch
Breakout sessions focused on wealth, longevity, and business growth
Cocktail reception and exhibitor showcase
A day that leaves you energized, connected, and ready for what's next

Meet our Key Note Speaker

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Ariel Garten

Founder of MUSE

The Measured Mind: Brain Health, Sleep, Stress, and Human Performance

The future of wellness is moving from guesswork to real-time insight — and Ariel Garten has been helping lead that shift for years. As the founder of Muse, a brain-sensing technology used by individuals and researchers around the world, Ariel understands how stress, sleep, focus, and recovery shape the way people perform at work and in life. In this keynote, she translates neuroscience into clear, practical strategies teams can use to improve mental well-being, reduce stress, sleep better, and build healthier habits. Drawing from her background as a neuroscientist, former psychotherapist, entrepreneur, and innovator in wearable technology, Ariel helps audiences understand what is really happening in the brain — and how small, evidence-informed interventions can create meaningful improvements in focus, resilience, and overall performance.

Fireside Chat: Executive Health & Leadership

Announcing Soon

In Partnership with Medcan

Physican Executive Health

The CEO Advantage – Why Executive Health Is a Leadership Strategy

Behind every successful business is a leader making hundreds of decisions each week. Yet many CEOs invest more time managing their organizations than managing the one asset that drives every decision—themselves.

Join a leading physician from Medcan for an engaging fireside conversation exploring the connection between executive health, cognitive performance, resilience, and long-term leadership. Together, we'll examine how proactive healthcare, early prevention, and personalized wellness strategies help leaders sustain energy, sharpen decision-making, reduce burnout, and build the capacity to lead through complexity.

This conversation will challenge the belief that personal health is something to prioritize "when there's time" and instead position it as one of the most important investments a CEO can make—in themselves, their leadership, and the future of their business.

Key Takeaways:

Why executive health is a strategic business advantage—not a personal luxury.
The science behind cognitive performance, resilience, and decision-making under pressure.
How prevention and early detection contribute to long-term vitality and leadership longevity.
Practical strategies to help

Meet our highly acclaimed Speaker

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Jennie Colman

President, Equifruit

Play Nice, Jennie

Jennie Coleman brings together lived business experience and practical insight to explore what it really means to lead with integrity. Through candid stories from her career, she takes audiences inside the messy, funny, uncomfortable and defining moments that shape a leader’s voice. This presentation is both inspiring and practical, offering a grounded look at how values are tested in real business situations and clear lessons audiences can apply to their own leadership, communication and decision-making. It shows how one person’s example can influence a team, a company, and an industry.

Meet our highly acclaimed Speaker

Andrea Sampson

CEO, Talk Boutique

“Diversity of Thought Leadership"

We are living in a moment of extraordinary access—to ideas, tools, and opportunity—yet many leaders still feel the pressure to conform, to align, and to think within familiar patterns. In this
talk, Andrea Sampson challenges one of the most deeply held assumptions in leadership: that success comes from consistency and sameness. Through a powerful blend of personal story and leadership insight, she reveals how her own journey—from operating behind the scenes to stepping fully into her voice—unlocked a fundamentally different way of understanding value, innovation, and influence.

At the heart of this talk is a critical reframe: diversity is not a cultural initiative—it is a strategic advantage. As the pace of change accelerates and complexity increases, leaders who rely on uniform thinking will struggle to adapt. Andrea shows how diverse perspectives, when actively valued and integrated, become the foundation for resilience, better decision-making, and meaningful innovation.

Key Takeaways
1. Reframe diversity as a leadership advantage: Learn how to move beyond seeing diversity as inclusion—and start using it as a practical tool to strengthen decision-making, spark innovation, and build resilience within your team.
2. Identify and activate your unique perspective: Understand how your own way of thinking—shaped by your experiences, patterns, and perspective—is a source of value,
and how to use it more intentionally in high-stakes conversations and leadership moments.
3. Create environments where different thinking drives results: Gain a simple, actionable approach to encouraging diverse perspectives within your team and turning those differences into clearer ideas, stronger alignment, and more effective action.

Meet our Esteemed CEO Panelists

Dedication. Expertise. Passion.

Karen Adams

Founder

MUSE

Ariel Garten is the Founder of InteraXon, creator of Muse®, the award-winning brain-sensing headband that has helped millions develop mindfulness through real-time neurofeedback. A neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and former psychotherapist, Ariel studied neuroscience at the University of Toronto and helped pioneer brain-computer interface technology before co-founding InteraXon in 2009.

Known for blending neuroscience, technology, design, and human potential, Ariel has been featured by CNN, Forbes, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, and many others. Today, she is an internationally sought-after keynote speaker on neuroscience, mindfulness, innovation, and entrepreneurship, while continuing to advise emerging technology companies.

Industry:

Wellness, Neuro Health, Startup

Jennie Coleman

President

Equifruit

Jennie Coleman has been the owner and president of Equifruit since 2013. Jennie has been widely recognized as an outstanding leader in the produce industry. She serves on the boards of the Canadian Produce Marketing Association (CPMA) and Banana Link. Her accolades include receiving the Global Women Fresh – EmpowerHer Award (2023), and being recognized as one of Canadian Grocer’s Star Women in Grocery (2025).

In 2024, Jennie was honored with the prestigious RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Award. That same year, she was named one of Canada’s Most Admired CEOs by Waterstone Human Capital. In 2025, Jennie was named one of Canada’s 100 Most Powerful Women by the Women’s Executive Network. Under Jennie's leadership, Equifruit has been recognized as one of Canada’s Top Growing Companies for four consecutive years, showcasing its remarkable growth and dedication to ethical business practices.

Industry:

Retail, Food & Sustainability

Ira Baptiste

President

Evolve Agency Group

With 35 years of experience as a successful marketing and advertising executive, Ira has a wealth of knowledge and experience under her belt. She has had the pleasure of working with multi-national advertising companies and small independently owned agencies across Canada and Europe. She has been instrumental in their success and continues to do so as President at Evolve Agency Group.

Ira’s tenure in marketing has had her working with clients such as Molson Breweries, Labatt’s, Kellogg’s, Mars Incorporated – Effem Inc., Toyota, Egg Farmers of Ontario, Canadian Cancer Foundation amongst many others. The breadth of experience across these clients have included strategic positioning to consumer execution in the areas of TV, print, radio, digital, social, shopper marketing, consumer activations etc.

During her free time, Ira enjoys nothing better than getting on the tennis court to try and reach the Serena Williams that she is convinced lives somewhere inside of her.

Industry:

Marketing, Professional Services,

Jessica Stevenson

Co-founder &CEO

Everist

Jessica Stevenson is the Founder and CEO of Everist, a purpose-driven personal care brand redefining how products are made, packaged, and experienced. Built on innovation and sustainability,

Everist has quickly gained recognition for challenging industry norms and creating a new standard for performance and environmental responsibility.

As a founder operating in a highly competitive consumer market, Jessica has led Everist through the realities of scaling a brand—navigating growth, capital, and evolving market expectations while staying anchored in a clear vision.

Her leadership reflects a willingness to rethink conventional paths, make bold decisions under pressure, and adapt as the business evolves.

Industry:

Beauty & Retail

Karen Adams

President & CEO

Kii Health

Karen Adams is President and CEO of Kii Health, where she leads the company's strategy, growth and operational transformation across workforce health services. She has played a central role in repositioning Kii Health following a major divestiture, helping sharpen the company's focus on higher-value, outcomes-driven services including disability and absence management, occupational health, assessments and clinical navigation.

Karen is highly regarded industry leader with extensive experience across the healthcare and workforce health sectors. She has received numerous awards recognizing her leadership, innovation, and impact, and is known for her ability to bring strategic vision, operational discipline, and market insight together to deliver meaningful results.

Industry:

Health, Startup

Meet your Hosts & Co-Founders

Kim Chernecki

Success strategist for CEO’s and Community Builder

Co-Founder VIBE CEO

As a sales effectiveness advisor and coach, Kim consulted with leaders and teams of Fortune 1000 organizations, developing partnerships across all lines of business at organizations like BMO, Manulife, and Sunlife as well as 40 other organizations across multiple industries.

As a business strategist and business development advisor, Kim shifted to working with CEOs and executives who decided to leave the corporate world to build thriving independent consulting/advisory practices. This was her focus in her private coaching practice, as well as a senior consultant with LHH Knightsbridge and The Talent Company human capital firms.

Kim has advised and coached over 2000 CEOs and executives and has built a deep and powerful network including ‘top of their game’ A-list Advisors with deep corporate experience.

As Founder and Chief Advisor at CEO Performance Advisors, Kim partners with mid-market CEOs to identify and solve key challenges and connects them her vetted roster of vetted A-list advisors to deliver hard business results.

Kim is a Peer Group Chair with MacKay CEO Forums and ROOM Women’s Network.
As Co-Founder of VIBE CEO, Kim brings together all her expertise, deep business network and passion around building communities. Her mission is to ensure that every female leader has access to the resources, insights and strategic connections to be top of their game professionally and personally.

Geralyn Ochab

Success Navigator & Solutions Coach for CEOs

Co-Founder VIBE CEO

As a CEO & Board member operating at the intersection of technology, healthcare, and business strategy, Geralyn has built a reputation for turning complexity into clarity and vision into execution. With experience spanning startups to Fortune 500 companies, she has tackled the very challenges that CEOs face every day—whether it’s securing first commercial contracts, restructuring teams for peak performance, or integrating innovative technologies to create markets. She has led multi-million-dollar turnarounds, guided businesses through acquisitions, and helped executive teams make bold, strategic decisions with confidence. She’s a force that creates results—fast.

As CEO of Augmentr, she serves as an accountability partner for CEO's working alongside leadership teams to simplify complexity and craft strategies that ensure businesses don’t just adapt but thrive in an ever-changing landscape. Whether optimizing business models, securing investments, or transforming leadership teams, her goal is simple: to drive measurable, scalable, and lasting impact..

Co-founding VIBE CEO is a deeply personal mission. Having witnessed firsthand the unique hurdles women in leadership encounter, she understands the immense potential they possess. VIBE CEO was created to provide female executives with the resources, networks, and strategies they need to build thriving businesses—and lives.

EVENT DETAILS

Date: October 7, 2026

Time: Registration & Arrival 9:30 AM | Full Day through 6:00 PM

Location:

One King West Hotel & Residences,

1 King St W, Toronto, ON M5H 1A1

Pricing

$750

Questions?

geralyn@vibe-ceo.com kim@vibe-ceo.com