Meet Our Awesome Team of Experts, Teachers, and Creators
FliP U’s Co-founders: Marc Hurwitz & Samantha Hurwitz
Marc and Samantha are co-authors of the best-seller Leadership Is Half The Story, co-founders of the Global Followership Conference, FliPskills Consulting, and FliP University (or FliP U which we think is hilarious).
Marc is FliP U's Chief Insight Officer. He has a PhD in cognitive neuroscience and masters degrees in math, physics, and business, and many years corporate and entrepreneurial experience in marketing, HR, actuarial and IT. Though he dreamed of being a theoretical physicist or one of the Beatles, his path in life keeps pulling him back to his love of learning and teaching. Marc also teaches entrepreneurship and leadership at the University of Waterloo, acts and directs community theatre, is a poet, and an avid pinball player.
Samantha is FliP U's Chief Encouragement Officer. She has heaps of corporate, executive and entrepreneurial experience including being Controller of a $7 billion organization, an IT Executive with a $50 million project portfolio, Chair of a global talent management program, and loads of other projects. Now she enjoys creating and delivering professional development that helps people have those “aha” and “ahhh” moments, and nourishing her family and friends with creative and moreish plant-based recipes.
FliP U’s Adjunct Professors: BK, Tim, Tzabia & Sharna
BK Chan
BK has taught emotional literacy, diversity, and sex education for 20+ years. She is dedicated to education that is plainly spoken, emotionally honest and grounded in justice.
Beloved for her accessible style and easy sense of humour, BK speaks internationally at conferences, retreats, as part of speaker series, and lectures to medical and legal professionals. She integrates curriculum content into stories, theory into practice.
We are thrilled to co-create and host her very special, top-rated courses, Emotional Intelligence: Make Deeper Connections and Creating An Inclusive Culture & Positive Workspace.
Tim Hurson
Tim has taught his Productive Thinking innovation model in business schools throughout the US, Canada, Denmark, Chile, and Australia. He is a TEDx speaker and has keynoted in 40 countries. He is also the founder of Mindcamp, which holds annual educational events in Canada, Chile, and the US that feature the best creativity leaders world-wide.
His book, Think Better, is available in ten languages and was recently included in McGraw-Hill’s “Business Classics” series. In 2015 his book, Never Be Closing, was selected by the Oprah Winfrey Network as one the year’s 15 best self-improvement books.
We are honoured to co-create and host Tim’s exceptional course, The Accidental Salesperson based on that book.
Tzabia Siegel
Tzabia is the founder of The Food Coach® and author of the book Jump Off the Diet Treadmill. She is a certified nutritionist and life coach. Tzabia has coached and taught thousands of people from all walks of life - lawyers, accountants, doctors, mental health professionals, artists and other creatives. She was the in-house nutritionist at The Sport Medicine Clinic at the Toronto Athletic Club, running programs for major banks, law firms and corporations, and has lead hundreds of seminars over the years on nutrition, wellness, and performance. Her passion for science, neuroscience, creativity, the outdoors and nourishing food come together in fresh, practical bite-sized advice that will have you eating better, feeling better, and working better.
Check out Food Coaching for higher performance & wellbeing.
Sharna Fabiano
Sharna Fabiano is an internationally recognized tango artist and the author of Lead & Follow: The Dance of Inspired Teamwork.
Over the course of her twenty-year dance career, she toured over a dozen countries, designed partner-based movement courses for universities, and founded a non-profit tango school. An original voice in organizational development, she has translated her improvisational movement training into a system of relational techniques that enable professionals in any field to connect at lightning speed in order to collaborate and co-create more successfully. Sharna is a certified coach and completed her MFA in Dance at the University of California Los Angeles.
Co-creating with Sharna is a rhythmic and beautiful experience, resulting in this course: Connect! Build relationships swiftly & authentically.
FliP U’s Art Team: Kym & Monica
Kym Burchell
Kym is FliP U’s Art Director. Kym is a highly expressive visual designer who loves to solve creative problems, has a wicked sense of humour, and is a beautiful singer songwriter to boot! Kym brings life and personality to our stories through graphic design, animation, sound editing, and brand interpretation. With her creative flare and distinct touches. Kym makes FliP U look and sound really, really, really good!
Monica Baran
Monica’s “can-do” attitude has her creating whatever needs to be created to step up the “wow!!!” factor that makes FliP U courses really stand out! She manifests whatever is in our Experts imagination and brings it to fruitful life - from illustration, editorial, and motion graphics to bringing 2D imagery. With her bubbly nature, Monica strives to befriend all fellow cats and people alike.