The Comeback Room - Resiliency Speaker Series - October 20th 2026, Tuesday, 8:30 AM

LOCATION: NATIONAL BANK LOUNGE

Timeline:
- 8:30am-9:00am: Arrival of Guests and light refreshments
- 9:00am: Introduction
- 9:15am-11:30am: Speaker
- 11:30am-12:00pm: Q&A
*A book signing will occur after the Q&A.
*Times are subject to change

What to Expect

This isn't a session about enduring more. It's about leading ourselves first. It's about becoming stronger leaders, building stronger teams and establishing better boundaries. This session is for people who lead, in business, their family, their work or just want to learn to lead themselves better. Resiliency is intertwined with great leaders, and this session will tell you how and why YOU too can become a great leader by learning resiliency through your experiences.

Join us as Chelsey shares her own story of resiliency through heartbreak, job loss, mental health struggles, leaving an abusive relationship to single parenting, and everything in between to discover what our toughest times can teach us when we choose to define our experiences rather than letting them define us.

Why Chelsey

Across more than two decades in justice, human services, corrections, child welfare, Housing First initiatives, problem-solving courts, Indigenous partnerships, and organizational development, Chelsey De Groot, MAL, BAAJS, has built a career advancing how organizations lead, respond, and create safer communities. Today, she spearheads Roots & Rise as Founder and Director and serves as Co-founder and Vice President of the National Survivors Coalition of Canada, bridging professional expertise with lived experience.

Chelsey holds a Master of Arts in Leadership from Royal Roads University, a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Justice Studies, and a Diploma in Child and Youth Care from Lethbridge College. She is a 2018 Community Leader Award recipient and former President of Lethbridge and Area Search and Rescue. Her professional development includes Negotiation Mastery through Harvard Business School, A New Direction through Hazelton Betty Ford Graduate School of Addiction Studies, Risk-Need-Responsivity (LS/CMI), Core Correctional Practice, Leadership Academy through OrgCode Consulting, Trauma-Informed Care, The Working Mind First Responder, Indigenous Awareness, SafeTalk Suicide Intervention, MANDT, and First Aid.