Cara Taylor

Oaks Mental Health

Cara Taylor (she/her) is the founder of Oaks Mental Health and a passionate mental health educator with over a decade of social work experience in mobile crisis, inpatient psychiatry, and private practice. Alongside her professional background, Cara lives with mental illness and is a survivor of suicide loss—experiences that deeply inform her compassionate, person-centered approach. In her trainings, she creates spaces for meaningful conversations that reduce stigma, foster empathy, and encourage collective care. Her work blends clinical insight with lived experience, inviting others to approach mental health with curiosity, courage, and kindness.

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Other speakers & attendees

Jenna Walsh

Elevated Escapes

Owner of Elevated Escapes, Social Business Coordinator with Be Local YYC, and Co-founder of GOT Foundation

Randy Poon

Purpose and Performance Project

Chief Story Officer and Founder of the Purpose and Performance Project, a consulting and coaching collaborative that helps leaders and organizations align purpose with impact.

Jeff Loomis

Momentum

Jeff works as the Executive Director of Momentum - a change-making organization that combines social and economic strategies to reduce poverty in Calgary. Momentum partners with people living on lower-incomes to get good jobs, create their own job through self-employment and save money to build their assets.

Barb Rallison

StartWork

Barb serves as the Associate Director at the Institute for Community Prosperity. Her work, both locally and nationally, focuses on applying economic approaches to advance community benefit and address complex social challenges.