August 29: Guest Speaker Vaden Earle

Vaden Earle - Leader, Entrepreneur, Global Humanitarian Vaden Earle is the Founder and Executive Director of Silhouette Foundation. Previously he co-founded and was CEO of Absolute Leadership Development Inc. (Now Live Different). As a motivator, Vaden has the incredible talent of releasing vision and purpose in others, as his life message is all about making vision a reality, and not giving up until the end result is in your grasp. As an innovative forward thinker, Vaden has a knack to stay ahead of the curve and continually come up with initiatives that are relevant and timely. As a speaker, his dynamic and avant-garde approach is sure to activate his audience, and yet his unaffected manner will keep them at ease, and assure them that change really is possible. As a writer, Vaden has an incredible ability to bring stories to life in such a way that the reader cannot help but be inspired. History In 1999, Vaden began to envision a generation of youth who focused their thoughts and energies on helping others and who were themselves changed in the process. He, along with his team developed the Absolute Motivational Experience and began to visit high schools in 2002. To date, over 1,700,000 young people have attended the assemblies which have developed into outstanding multi-media presentations aimed specifically at the teenage audience. At the same time, Absolute launched a leadership training school, giving postgraduate students the chance to live out this vision, and develop a mandate of their own. 2005 then marked the inaugural year of Hero Holiday (Now Live Different Builds), taking large numbers of students to developing nations to participate in humanitarian efforts. Having grown exponentially, by the end of 2015, Hero Holiday had hosted more than 5000 participants in Haiti, Thailand, Mexico and Dominican Republic. Having received and been nominated for numerous speaking and entrepreneurial awards, Vaden has accumulated vast amounts of experience in a relatively small amount of time. He has spoken and traveled with teams all over Canada and the United States, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean, and is also a leader in his own community. He has consulted for World Vision, been a keynote speaker for Home Depot Canada, CSLC (Canadian Student Leadership Conference), the Millennium Scholarship Foundation as well as numerous other leadership events and social justice conferences including speeches on Parliament Hill. Vaden has also been featured on several television programs and radio interviews, and his materials have been used in numerous books and publications. In 2007, Vaden authored a bestselling social justice book entitled One: A Face behind the Numbers. This book hit number one on Amazon in under four hours solely on sales made from Vaden’s social media contacts. The book later went on to be named as the Social Justice Curriculum in numerous school districts across Canada and The United States. There are many who credit the recent rise in “voluntourism” in Canada to Vaden’s efforts and writing, as no other group has hosted humanitarian trips to the scale that Vaden’s group has. In 2016, Vaden Founded Silhouette Foundation, and is currently in the midst of building a social justice organization created to oversee a new movement of “Social Tourism”.