Events

Speaker - Gloria Staudt

Topic - Rotary Peace Fellowship-Rotarians participation

Gloria’s Bio for Introduction

Gloria Staudt is a Business & Life Strategist, providing consulting, mentoring, training and coaching solutions for leadership development to improve communications, relationships, teamwork, performance and productivity through proprietary processes. 

She has worked with clients in person ( pre pandemic ) and via phone conversations both locally and internationally.  She is author of the book, Live Your Vacation: The Ultimate Guide to Live Your Dream Life... Every Day! and contributing author of Conscious Entrepreneurs and Love Like God: Embracing Unconditional Love.

Gloria’s rotary contribution include 12 years of leadership roles at the board level, 17 years at the committee level and 12 years at the district level. She was a 3 term Past President, District 5040's 2014-2015 Rotarian of The Year and Marketing Director of the 2016 District Conference  She is an active member of the Royal City Rotary club and is District 5040, Chair of Rotary Peace Fellowship since 2008 selecting 10 out of the 11 successful recipients of Rotary Peace Scholars in our district, is a member of the District Peace Committee and mentored the rebuilding of the New West Rotaract club. Through her leadership in establishing a well functioning Rotary Peace Centers Committee, the Rotary Foundation had acknowledged this and invited our district 5040 to be a Rotary Peace Centers At-Large District to accept applicants from countries where there are no Rotary clubs or districts that have not established a well functioning Rotary Peace Centers committee like ours.  In 2019, she was awarded Citation of Meritorious Service award by The Rotary Foundation Trustees for Outstanding Service Doing Good in the World 

Gloria was born in Trinidad, educated, married and worked in New York City before relocating to Canada to be closer to family members.  Three years after the birth of their daughter Alison, Gloria and Richard became Canadian citizens and together with her mom and cousin they live in Burnaby.

• Family came to Canada in 1999, Established L&L Maritime Corporation which provides Drug and Alcohol Testing for the marine industry and is an offshore distributor of instrument. 
• Joined Rotary club of West Vancouver in 2001, Centennial President 04-05
• Two three-year stints as District Interact Chair 
• ShelterBox Canada Ambassador 2009 to date
• ShelterBox Canada Board Member 2010 -2014
• Member of the District Peace Fellowship committee since 2005
• Transferred to the Rotary Club of West Vancouver Sunrise 2011
• Presently Community Service Chair/Board Member

Allen is President & CEO of Return-it Encorp Pacific Ltd.

Start Me Up BC -  is the latest action in our commitment to place 1,000 publicly accessible AED's (Automated External Defibrillators) stands, with a lifesaving companion App, across BC and the Yukon.

Bio's

Leanne - Experienced Strategic Partnerships & Business Development Executive with two times International Sales Awards. 30 + years in Sales Leadership, Business Development, and Marketing. An active volunteer & member of the “Future is Mine Program” for Adult Burn Survivors — British Columbia Professional Firefighters Association. Interests — art + the arts, reading, open ocean water swimming, running, hiking, camping, snowshoeing

Anna - Manager of Sponsorship and Fund Development and has filled various roles at SJA over the past two and a half years. A part time student completing a Bachelor of Business Administration and Marketing Management at Langara College. Interest - running, hiking and film. 
 

Thank you all for participating in last week's Rotary Club of Whistler Spirits Night in partnership with Montis Distilling. Not only was it a lot of fun, we also raised about $1,700 for the WCSS delivery truck refrigeration program. We are very close to our goal of $10,000