Sherry McMillan Writes

Reviews

Uplift Your Next Event!

Knows How to Lead Children!

"Sherry is such a dynamic speaker, she wows the audience with her humour, personality, and energy. You would be happy to have her at your next event.

She will bring all the inspiration and encouragement to go out there and do what you want to do in life.

She’s living her dream and motivates others to do the same. She’s a dream catcher!

Catch Sherry to uplift your next event."

Adera Angelucci

President, Canadian Association of Professional Speakers

Founder, Spiro Creative

Knows How to Lead Children!

"We had the amazing privilege of having Sherry McMillan visit our school, and share her latest book.

Her presentation was inspiring, interactive, and so personalized. Sherry really knows how to lead a group of young children, and expertly answered questions & added in a fun activity break (that got their bodies moving and resulted in lots of laughs).

Thank you so much Sherry for sharing your time with us!"

Crystal Cahill

Teacher Librarian,

Lions Gate Christian Academy

We Learned So Much!

Knows How to Lead Children!

We Learned So Much!

"Very exciting day in our library yesterday.

We were delighted to host a local author, Sherry McMillan. Students in Grades 1 - 4 enjoyed listening to her read her books, and learned all about the creative process and writing a book from an idea, right through to print .... we learned so much!"

St. Catherine's Elementary School

".... Your visit to our school was amazing! You did so well and we loved you!"

Teacher Librarian

Regent Roads Redwood School

Speaking Services and Experience

Experience

Some of my prior speaking engagements include:

80+ School and Community Engagements
Hundreds of product demos and other corporate presentations including high profile product launches and read-backs to the Board and C-suite.
Canadian Association of Professional Speakers 2024- "Best presentation of the day!" "Extraordinary presentation!" Judges.
The Publishing Journey, A Trilogy. City of White Rock Culture Crawl - 2023
Toastmasters District Competition 2021
Dreamforce 2019 (The world’s largest technology conference.)
International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) Global BA Day – Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Access in Business Analysis - 2023
Project Management Business Analysis World (PMBA) – 2019, 2021. From Chaos to Consensus - Roadmapping in the Real World.
Lean In Canada 2021
Workshop Creation and Facilitation including a 2-day program for a Global Sales Team to set direction for the upcoming year. Other workshops include workflow streamlining sessions, root cause analysis for critical incident resolution, product management, agile methodology, corporate core values, and more.
Hackathon Presenter and Trophy-Winner – 2015. 2016. 2017. 2019.
Hackathon Judge including UBC BizTech - 2018. 2020.

School & Community Events

Preschoolers, K-2 Storytime, Seal/Alphabet Yoga, The Story of How I made a Story.

Grades 3-6 Storytelling, Making Of A Book (with an emphasis on being OK with making mistakes), Diversity acceptance/mentoring, Social Emotional Learning (SEL).

Grades 4+ Storyboard with Me. In this session, we learn the basics of storyboarding and then storyboard together. Students learn that storyboarding isn't just for books. It's a skill that's used in film-making, software development including game design, event planning, and much more!

Older Students Career Prep, Technology, Business Analysis, Product Management, careers as a Creative, Own Your Story – Self Esteem, SEL

Educators My lived experience as a person with speech-sound disorders motivated me to write my award-winning book My S’s Are Messes. The feedback from educators, care-givers, speech-language pathologists, and most importantly, from students, has validated that this is an area of Social Emotional Learning that doesn't get enough attention. More than 40% of children will have a communication challenge at some point. I can speak to your team about strategies and perspectives that will make a huge difference to you and your students.

I am a member of the Children's Writers and Illustrators of British Columbia Society.

CWILL Speaker's Profile.

Conferences & Company Events

Coupling my creative successes with decades of experience leading technology teams, I provide insights to both companies and creatives.

I help business people embrace their creative side, have fun with their inner artist, and finally finish that creative project they’ve been dreaming of for years – all while keeping their day job (and learning new ways to do it even better).

I help creatives market and sell their products with comfort, clarity, and confidence.

I help teams and individuals identify their priorities and build a simple, flexible, and powerful roadmap to meet their goals.

My lived experience as a person with speech-sound disorders motivated me to write my award-winning book My S’s Are Messes. As an IT Leader, I helped design and deliver successful products to global marketplaces utilizing Universal Design principles. I can help your teams identify a customer journey that reaches a wider marketplace, and proves that inclusion isn’t just the right thing to do – it’s the profitable thing to do!

Custom Presentations

Custom Presentations are always an option! I’m happy to work with you on specific learning objectives or organizational goals. I'm particularly interested in universal design and understanding and speaking to your Core Values.

My personal core values are: Truthfulness, Purpose, and Adventure

See Me In Action

Women Leading Change - Living Out Your Creativity with Sherry McMillan
P. English Literature - Author Interview
What The Seal Saw Virtual Book Launch
Speaker - IIBA Global BA Day -Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Business Analysis, 25:05
Speechie Side Up - The One About How Speech-Language Pathologists Shaped an Author's Journey