Choosing Your Heroes

A graduate of Harvard, and Former CEO of Dominion Construction, David helped bring the 2010 Olympics to Vancouver. As a professor, family enterprise advisor, and executive coach, David has written three books: The Company You Keep, Leaving a Legacy, and his most recent book Dear Younger Me: Wisdom for Family Enterprise Successors. In 2021, David was the kick-off speaker at TEDx Bear Creek Park for his talk Change Your Heroes; Change Your Life. In 2013, in his age group, he was ranked the number one male slalom skier in the world. Lynn Kanuka-Williams is a Canadian athlete from Saskatchewan. She competed in 3000m races, as well as a smaller number of 1500m races. She competed for Canada at the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, U.S. in the 3,000 metres where she won the bronze medal. Four years later in South Korea she finished fifth in the 1500 metres. Additionally, she collected a bronze medal at the 1989 World Cross Country championships. Lynn is currently a coach, and has created a special website to let all people have access to simple, tried-and-true running programs so they can #GetBacktoRunning during COVID.