Michelle Ker
Michelle is excited to share her more than 3 decades of experience in both fitness and recreation with new and veteran Fit Pros. She has extensive knowledge in recreation programming, corporate wellness, fitness and education leadership within her roles at the City of Mississauga, City of London, Acadia University, Nova Scotia Community College and TJX Corporate wellness.
She is a certified canfitpro Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor, and Barre Above Master trainer. Over the years, Michelle has also completed many specialty certifications; including Indoor Cycling, Les Mills (Body Pump, Body Step, CX , Body Balance), Boxing, Step, Yoga Fit, Ageless Training Academy, and Aquafit.
Throughout her fitness journey she has supervised group fitness programs, created diverse fitness formats and coached countless aspiring trainers and instructors. From training to teaching, she is passionate about enhancing the participant experience. She has presented at the national fitness conferences FOR canfitpro and ICAA, AND the provincial Recreation Ontario Educational Forum. Michelle is best known for her energy both on and off stage.
Her goal is to share her expertise so that instructors and trainers can bring back innovative ideas to their participants and continue to make a difference through movement and help them understand the importance of building connection and community.
Janice Hutton
Janice has a deep and diverse background in the health, fitness, wellness, sport and coaching industries. She has an honors Bachelor of Physical Education (McMaster U), a Master of Arts in Coaching (Western U) and a Bachelor of Education (Ottawa U) along with experience as a professor at the University Level (U of Manitoba, Western U) and the College Level (Humber and Mohawk College).
She grew up as a nationally ranked swimmer and has experience coaching elite athletes and developing international sport performance programming used by coaches and athletes worldwide through her work with Twist Sport Performance.
As the first certification director with canfitpro, Janice collaborated with multiple industry leaders to create 11 of Canada’s premium fitness industry certifications including the highly recognized Fitness Instructor Specialist and Personal Trainer Specialist foundational programs. She is a regular contributor to the canfitpro magazine.
As a certified Life and Executive Coach, Janice is the owner of Vibrant Life Empowerment Coaching and has enjoyed many years of mentoring industry leaders in business and personal development. Working as a co-founder of the Active Recovery Management (ARM) system she had success integrating a high-performance recovery strategy for executives and leaders to develop resilience in high risk occupations.
Recently, Janice joined forces with Leslee Bender and Blanche Hold of the Ageless Training Academy to co-author the innovative Essentials and Pilates Essentials programs that blend a myofascial release practice with integrated movement and an ageless mindset to support the development of resilience for individuals of all ages and abilities.
As a member of Your Fitness Sisters, Janice is very excited to collaborate with these outstanding leaders and presenters to share fresh and creative new ways to develop health, wellness and fitness for all.
Her long-term vision is to live in a world where laundry folds itself, the sun never stops shining and the next generation never has to deal with the health issues the world is currently facing. When not out there trying to make a difference, Sherry can be found researching new recipes, listening to the latest true crime podcast or enjoying a lake day in mid-summer.