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Charmaine Hammond, professional speaker, 11x best selling author, content creator and executive producer is also co-founder of Raise a Dream Training & Consulting Inc. She is passionate about helping content creators, mission driven entrepreneurs, and writers raise their dreams through collaboration and sponsorship.

Charmaine is Executive Producer of the award-winning animated movie, Back Home Again by screenwriter/director Michael Mankowski. Back Home Again features an all-star voice cast including Michael J. Fox, Ed Asner, Catherine O’Hara, Tantoo Cardinal, Norm Macdonald, Kim Basinger, Eugene
Levy, Lorne Cardinal to name a few. She successfully secured corporate partners and sponsorship for the film’s production, marketing, release, translation to several languages and creation of educational resources.

Charmaine has served as an advisor for a number of global movements, and impact. Her books include: On Toby’s Terms, Toby the Pet Therapy Dog and His Hospital Friends, Toby the Pet Therapy Dog Says Be a Buddy Not A Bully to name a few.

Charmaine is a member of Women in Film & TV Vancouver, Evolutionary Business Council, Female Wave of Change Canada, Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, SheEO and Women Speakers Association. Both of Charmaine’s businesses, have successfully met the eligibility criteria for certification as a Women Business Enterprise (WBE) as required by corporate and government supplier diversity programs. She is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), the only earned designation for professional speakers. Only 63 Canadians currently hold this designation for speaking excellence.