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Toronto, ON, CA
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Tanya Kelen is Founder & CEO of Kelencontent (KCI) a high impact production & distribution company.Ms. Kelen leads KCI and manages the roll out of transformational products, programs & strategies with SMEs, CEOs, C-Suite, Academia and Government Agencies across media, XR tech & AI innovation sectors.Tanya is adept at nurturing emerging and established BIPOC and high performing neurodiverse teams who perform 30% better than average. A shift disturber who delivers greater value, ROX/ROI metrics for all with more ❤️ to meet or exceed KPIs.Accomplishments:🔹Supervised 8000+ hours of premium content (Films, TV Series, Digital Platforms) sold in over 180+ territories 🔹$ 100 M+ sales in career to date 🔹Clients include: A&E, Discovery, Disney, Nickelodeon, CBC, Rogers, Bell Media, Amazon, Corus, NBC & others🔹 Award-Winning Grant Writer | ResearcherDistribution Alliances:🔹Networks, Studios, Streamers🔹Publishers, Museums, Corporations🔹Government Funding Agencies🔹Innovation & Economic Development🔹Foundations, Family Offices, VCsOther Services:🔹High Impact Production 🔹Bona Fide Distribution Company 🔹Strategic Advisor | Consulting Services🔹Co-Productions, Joint Ventures | Strategic Alliances🔹Business Plans 🔹Pitch Decks | Demo Reels🔹Comprehensive Audience Development Plans 🔹Social impact campaigns🔹Talent Packaging🔹Auditing IP (TM/Patents/Copyright)🔹R&D Market Research🔹Spin-off audits 🔹Product-Market Fit + Go-to-Market 🔹Competitive Analysis🔹PR & Marketing 🔹IP & Tech Transfers🔹Tax Credits 🔹Grant Research & WritingNews🔹Kelencontent North coming soon!🔹Signed global distribution and spin-off rights for 250+ half-hours of animation with First Nations Studio www.jerryco.tv🔹Chai Tech Cohort 2 2024🔹Co-Founder inaugural Indigenous-led gatherings @Ottawa INTL Animation Festival 2024🔹2025 XR Game Pilot Incubator | XR Mobile Lab Industry Partner for NSERC Community College Social Innovation Funded Grant. 🔹ACAN Award-Winning Bid for SaaS DLX platform in stealth mode Designer of Industry Training Programs:🔹Distribution 101 for TV, Film, YouTube & XR Games 🔹Story World Building 🔹Pitching your project 101🔹The future of AI & Creativity 🔹Co-Production 101 for scripted, unscripted, animation, comedy genres, games🔹XR-VR-AR-AI unleashing creativity & the abundance economy🔹R&D CoLabs for media & creativity🔹Incubator competitions mashing up media, entertainment, AI, XR, gaming & medicinal media 🔹Scale up success powering AI to boost impact, creativity & imaginationBook a 25-min consultation

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Founder and CEO, Kelencontent and Creative Pitch Lab™ Masterclasses and 8-Week Executive Training
Toronto, ON, CA
Tanya Kelen 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Work Experience Details
  • Kelencontent
    Founder And Ceo, Kelencontent And Creative Pitch Lab™ Masterclasses And 8-Week Executive Training
    Kelencontent
    Toronto, On, Ca
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  • Kelencontent
    Ceo | High Impact Strategic Partnerships | Ecosystem Builder For Emerging High Growth Companies
    Kelencontent
    Toronto, On, Ca
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  • Kelencontent
    Founder & Ceo | Product Leader | Impact Producer | Distributor | Partnerships | Investor | Advisor
    Kelencontent Aug 2008 - Present
    Ca
    Tanya Kelen is founder & CEO of Kelencontent, a content production, product design studio with a global distribution division.🔹Acclerating local ➕ global content partnerships for premium productions, acquisitions & co-productions. 🔹 Innovative partnerships, communications & negotiations between government agencies, public/private companies, sponsors & media networks🔹15+ years Founder, CEO for media production & global distribution company, advising other CEOs & C-Suite high-growth teams & start-ups🔹 Originals, Co-developing & Co-producing broadcast media content with branded content partnerships. Media is the most effective way to achieve high growth. Ask me how.🔹Product Design of high-growth creative partnerships in developing & producing original premium branded content & licensing for Film, TV, VR-XR-AR, Games, AI🔹Unique CoLabs: Media & M(EdTech)🔹In North America, 90% of new start-ups fail due to a lack of leadership according to a recent Forbes Article🔹Reduce odds of start-up or spin-off failure with Advisor | Coaching Services as Fractional CEO | CCO | CRO or Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR)🔹Creative partnership expertise: Canada, USA, UK, France, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, India: producing & licensing premium branded content, broadcast media + OTT, YouTube platform integration for hyper-growth 🔹Clients include: Corporations, Producers, CMOs, broadcasters, networks, streaming platforms, Government Trade Agencies etc🔹Value-add services to track KPI’s, grow market share, raise brand awareness and customer loyalty to increase revenue, ROI & ROX🔹Tailored services of matching ideal clients to produce premium content & edutainment that accelerate go-to-market strategies for high growth with greater creativity and imagination. 🔹Results oriented, working in a collaborative manner to develop strategic partnerships in media, technology, education & innovation sectors🔹To book a 30-minute consult, please send a private message.
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  • Kelencontent
    Next Creative Stars In Production | Distribution Via Creative Management Talent Lab & Licensing
    Kelencontent Aug 2008 - Present
    Ca
    Kelencontent (KCI) nurtures next creative stars, XR product designers, content creators, directors, writers, producers, talent, academia & science communicators and matches them with buyers. 🔹KCI’s Creative Management Group represents creative talent offering back office services & partnerships with Premium Content Broadcast Partners, Studios, Networks & Government Funds. 🔹2017 - Launched social impact VR-XR R&D lab + incubator with ltransdisciplinary team of UX/UI designers, PhDs, cognitive scientists, psychologists, futurists & engineers.🔹All our media content & XR education products that KCI produces or licenses are tested and designed to scale globally to support high growth teams aligned with UN SDGs🔹KCI’s Next Creative Stars create new jobs and industry training for unlimited learning & higher earnings for all.Selected Achievements:🔹2022 - Present: Secured, $700 K + $400K In-Kind XR EdTech Platform (stealth) 🔹2022 - Present: Co-Writer / Co-Developed Grant of $360k for CCSIF /NSERC XR Mobile Lab Pilot🔹Kelencontent North Launching in Q4 2024 - Q4 2025 in Northern Ontario. 🔹DEERSKINS (26 x 30') Season 3 in development # 1 rated primetime animation series on APTN (Canada) Season 2 launched + sold to SBS-NITV Australia🔹Acquired (50 x 30') hidden camera prank series RANDOM ACTS from BYUtv + Format🔹Development of Preschool Series FUN2BE (30 x 7') in development with TFO in Ontario🔹VRTO XR 2023 Edtech talk, speaker 🔹VRTO XR healthcare + wellbeing speaker 2017/2018🔹#REALMX2018 - VR Abstrat for Social Anxiety. Event hosted by Sick Kids/Sunnybrooke Hospitals🔹VRTO - XR Moderator for 1st VR health & storytelling panel (Toronto, 2017)🔹Season 8 to A&E UK for MANTRACKER (68 x 60') Sold to A&E UK and in 140+ territories (Chellozone)🔹HERO DOGS of 9/11 (1 x 45') Series Creator/ Producer top breaking news docudrama special Discovery/ Animal Planet USA, Canada, Latin America, UK, Sky Italia, AB Groupe, Multicanal, Tele-Quebec, Nippon (Japan).
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  • Impact Indigenous Media
    Co-Founder, Programming & Partnerships. Curating Creative, Kind Colabs & Hybrid Media Training
    Impact Indigenous Media Aug 2024 - Present
    Impact Indigenous Media is a social enterprise that builds trusted relationships with Indigenous communities and allied stakeholders. Co-designing industry-led job creation programs, the team is committed to hosting creative gatherings and mentorship to inspire Indigenous entrepreneurs & intrapreneurs in creative careers.Co-Founders Tera McDonald, CEO of Kalawikk Diversity Inc. & Tanya Kelen, CEO of Kelencontent Inc., launched Impact Indigenous Media inspired by Indigenous animation series creator & producer Jerry Thevenet (www.jerryco.tv) who founded North America’s first 100% Indigenous-owned animation studio.Tera McDonald, a two-spirit Mi'kmaw (St. George’s Indian Band/Qalipu First Nation), leads Kalawikk Diversity Inc. drawing on 20 years of experience in adult education informing their role as a facilitator in Reconciliation-first diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practice. Now expanding their expertise, Tera is exploring storytelling as a producer, writer, and host across scripted, documentary, and animation sectors, all through the lens of two-eyed seeing.Tanya Kelen, CEO of Kelencontent (KCI), Produces & Distributes Film, Television, Animation, XR Projects & Co-Productions. Ms. Kelen leads KCI and designs CoLabs with 20+ years of experience in financing, marketing, production, distribution & education across animation, scripted, unscripted and comedy genres. Ms. Kelen supports Call to Action 92 by working in allyship with Indigenous-led talent & communities to expand job creation programs for greater equity & wellbeing outcomes for all.Impact Indigenous Media was launched at U of Ottawa, and the Ottawa International Animation Festival (September 2024) with the inaugural Inspire 7 award sponsored by APTN to honour Jerry Thevenet’s lifetime of achievement in Indigenous animation, creativity & innovation, ensuring that future generations of Indigenous storytellers continue to thrive while revitalizing Indigenous languages, and cultures.
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  • Creative Leadership, Innovation & Imagination Centre | Cliic
    Cliic - A Social Purpose Group, Offering Training Programs, Innovative Colabs & Incubators
    Creative Leadership, Innovation & Imagination Centre | Cliic Sep 2024 - Present
    CLIIC is a Social Purpose Group of Companies in stealth mode developed as a consortium model.CLIIC’s community-led social purpose consortium is getting ready to launch training programs to build resilient leaders & sustainable business models. CLIIC’s entrepreneurship training programs harness the power of creativity and imagination to launch new creative ventures and jobs of the future. Working with the support of government agencies & economic development teams,we build community CoLabs, Conferences and Festivals that kick start new creative-led enterprises for underserved BIPOC and neurodiverse communities. CLIIC unleashes unlimited learning for greater equity & belonging for all with tech4good & content4good solutions for workforce up-skilling and new industry-led skills coaching. CLIIC programs are coming soon to hybrid locations using the power of media and creative XR-AI technologies. All programs offer decentralize access to and training to scale up using the power of AI-XR.All teams & subject matter experts believe that the current extractive economy model can not build a sustainable & resilient abundant economy.CLIIC aims to build abundant digital and physical circular economy ecosystem models. CLIIC researches, tests and validates new leadership models offering access to our national & global clients via industry-led training solutions and upskilling programs. Message us to inquire how CLIIC can work with you to develop programs with local and national partnerships that scale across Canada, North America and internationally with our community consortium, social enterprise and ROI models powered by private sector and government agencies across Canada, the USA and worldwide. Contact us to join our steering committee and think tank to make a difference in your city by supporting high wage sustainable jobs and businesses for underserved BIPOC youth and adults in your area today.
  • Kelencontent Reps Features, Tv Series, Digital Content (Xr Vr-Ar) To Global Studios & Corporations
    Agency & Management Services For Studios, Creators, Producers, Writers Of Transformational Stories
    Kelencontent Reps Features, Tv Series, Digital Content (Xr Vr-Ar) To Global Studios & Corporations Aug 2008 - Present
    Kelencontent offers development, production, distribution and content format solutions to Studios, Networks, Corporations and Producers. Services include development, packaging, production and financing to deliver product market fit. Clients include broadcasters, indie studios, corporations, individuals, colleges and academia. We build relations with our wide-ranging roster of global and domestic clients. Services include leveraging relationships and expertise to optimize development, sales, product design, and spearheading content production, marketing and branding, product design for optimal go-to-market product positioning. Consulting executive producer services include packaging concepts with creative and business development teams, supervising all sales and marketing materials and acting as key liaison with major studios, networks, museums and 3rd party creators /producers/writers including major feature film/tv series /animation studios. We build original IP, co-productions and service production opportunities across feature film and TV series content, including 2D + 3D animation, motion capture, Spatial WebXR (VR-AR-MR). Focus testing services to build ideal client-product market fit. We secure long term relationships to develop and produce engaging and life enhancing media and educational content that delivers optimal ROI & ROX (return on experience). Kelencontent’s management agency represents a roster of companies, creative producers, writers, directors, and technical talent. INFO: tanya@kelencontent.com
  • Tonic Dna
    Consulting Executive Producer, Creative Producer, Film | Tv | Digital | Branded | Ed-Tech Content
    Tonic Dna May 2015 - Dec 2020
    Montréal, Québec, Ca
    Hired as a freelance executive to manage and expand creative & business development as Executive Producer & Creative Producer | Development Executive for world renowned Oscar-Award-winning animation studio.Tonic DNA rebranded in 2018 after 30 years (formerly known as Studio Pascal Blais). Spearheaded branded content partnership with Bardel for Wonder Woman 2D hand-drawn animation shorts service work. This extended the company's work into new strategic partnerships in production & branded content with major global studio work in North America and worldwide. Accomplishments include: - Developing Warner Brothers relationship for studio with short form videos and training team on complex budgets and pipeline roll outs to secure bid for Green Eggs and Ham with Warner Brothers as Consulting Executive Producer. - Co-Development and Executive Producer | Global Distributor for Cordell Barker's first series WINTERBOTTOM and development exec for THE ANTA CLAUS. The series has been co-developed between renowned animation director Cordell Barker, creator/writer/director, Howard Huxham, Executive Producer, Tonic DNA and Tanya Kelen, Executive Producer, Kelencontent in association with Tonic DNA. - Brokered deal for Encore+ YouTube Channel to digitize IMAX film of the Academy-Award winning short film Old Man & the Sea that reached over 1.3M + views on YouTube. This was the first Tonic DNA Studio collaboration with Encore+, the Canadian Media Funded public service YouTube channel. Encore+ was taken off YouTube after five years. The Channel was dedicated to promoting iconic and classic Canadian content excellence to the world while creating alternate revenue streams and awareness for content producers and creators/artists. - Kelencontent was also hired by the Encore+ channel to produce Tonic DNA’s original behind-the-scenes 20 min. Original Retrospective of Old Man & the Sea for Encore+ original promotions as part of the channel's programming efforts.
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  • Toronto Film School
    The Business Of Emerging Media - Course Instructor
    Toronto Film School Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
    Toronto, On, Ca
    Emerging Media for Filmmakers is designed to focus on all new business aspects and creative forms that relate to demystifying emerging technologies, evolving communications tools, and business /marketing processes that enhance the visual storytelling medium. Emerging media themes covered include navigating new business models, technology, laws and tracking new distribution models. Students will gain a perspective historically and learn the skills required to project trends so that they can successfully navigate relevant media to enhance their craft. This course relies heavily on the use of industry professional guest speakers and case studies to bring the latest developments to our students.
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  • Promena Vr
    Xr Digital Business Development Consultant & Consulting Coo (Usa & Canada)
    Promena Vr Jun 2017 - Jun 2018
    Business development consulting to CEO. Spearheaded all new business and product market fit activities and designed go-to-market strategies as COO. Services also included UX/UI transformational design oversight and supervision of all VR creative, DEVops, and engineering plans. Maximized marketing and sales operations to expand US client base & software capacities while exploring JV between USA + Canada. Kelencontent was retained to consult directly with CEO in USA and managed a team software developers to develop MVP's in VR therapy for B2B and B2C markets. Secured optimal brand positioning and academic speaking opportunities at conferences such as - VRTO (June 2017, June 2018, June 2019)- Start Up Health Festival (San Francisco January 2018)- REALMX2018 (Realities in Medicine April 2018) Canada's first medical VR /XR conference hosted and programmed by STANFORD's Dr. Walter Greenleaf, HOSPITAL FOR SICK KIDS, Baycrest Hospital, SUNNYBROOKE Hospital.- Designed and delivered business presentations in collaboration with CEO and entire team that resulted in highest level funding meetings at the C-Suite with world's leading experts and innovators. Kelencontent was instrumental in securing conference speaking event at Canada's first VR medical conference. Presented the first digital therapeutic VR software to combat social anxiety in an abstract at REALMX2018. - Fostered and secured relations and plans to develop access to strategic, long-term customer partnership & JV opportunities between USA and Canada according to NAFTA terms of trade agreements.
  • Ryerson University
    Course Instructor - Media And Omnichannel Distribution
    Ryerson University 2007 - 2011
    Toronto, Ontario, Ca
    Designed and delivered the first University 12-week course in television & media distribution within the Radio, Television & Arts Undergrad Program.The course explored the essential responsibilities of television / media distributors and their relationship to the producer and the broadcasters who invest in producing programming. Students learned how and where programs are sold, revenue expectations from various genres and territories, and how to successfully market and promote original programming. International markets, contracting, selling, merchandising and administrative demands were also reviewed as case studies and with invited guest speakers.
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  • Breakthrough Entertainment
    Head Of Distribution & Marketing
    Breakthrough Entertainment Sep 2003 - Aug 2008
    Managed worldwide sales and marketing operations. Expanded division across all major markets to become one of Canada's most prolific distribution companies - Ranked a top 10 company in Canada according to Playback rankings as of 2007- Ran sales department and instrumental in increasing revenues 25% every year from 2003 - 2008- Entered company into top 100 Factual Companies and was awarded distinction at Realscreen 2007- Headed sales and marketing activities for the company at all major markets including MIPCOM, NATPE, REALSCREEN, KIDSCREEN, MIPTV, BANFF and others - Secured third party acquisitions, co-productions and executive producing opportunities and library expanded from 600 half hours to 2400 half-hours- Secured acquisitions, pre-sales and/or co-productions with DISNEY, CARTOON NETWORK, NICKELODEON, DISCOVERY, HISTORY, NAT GEO, PBS, BBC, ITV, RAI, BSkyB, CANAL+, MBC, SBS, RTL, ABC Australia, PBS Kids, GLOBO, Discovery Kids, TELEVISA and many more- One of the key executives to secure the first two animation series between Brazil & Canada. "My Big, Big Friend" between 2-D Lab & Breakthrough, a Treehouse (Canada)/Discovery Kids Latin America production along with "Fishtronaut" which went on to rate # 1 on Discovery Kids Latin America.- In August 2008, made the transition to freelance executive producer after having brokered MINI MONSTERS of AMAZONIA for CBC's Nature of Things with David Suzuki as a co-production with ARTE France/Discovery Science with Zodiak. Aired October 2009 and was one of the highest rated docs for the channel.
  • Multimedia Group Of Canada
    Senior Sales & Development Executive
    Multimedia Group Of Canada Mar 1998 - Mar 2003
    - Hired to replace SVP International Sales & Development on maternity leave- Licensed & acquired content. Grew catalogue to over 2500 hours of programming across animation, comedy, documentary and iconic titles Just Kidding that launched the JUST FOR LAUGHS gags and also distributed the original CIRQUE DE SOLEIL Specials- Acquired over 200 hours of programming and licensed titles worldwide in over 180 territories.- Managed sales staff and spearheaded all marketing strategies- Worked with notable broadcasters such as BRAVO, DISCOVERY, NAT GEO, BBC and many others.- Story edited Just Kidding Gags that launched the Just For Laugh Gags as part of founding distribution team to launch what has become the world's # 1 brand of comedy gags in the world.
  • Wift Montreal (Fctnm)
    Vp Programming / Board Member (Volunteer Position)
    Wift Montreal (Fctnm) Feb 1996 - Mar 2002
    - Board Member and volunteer VP Programming responsible for programming numerous industry events that successfully increased membership, professional development through community training engagement with sponsors and high profile industry leaders- Also member of fundraising committee and was instrumental in securing sponsorships around planning the first three annual galas and related silent auctions
  • Cinar (Previously Cookie Jar / Dhx Media Now Wildbrain)
    Legal & Business Affairs Department
    Cinar (Previously Cookie Jar / Dhx Media Now Wildbrain) 1996 - 1998
    - Coordinated corporate and business affairs for two entertainment lawyers. - Drafted deal memos for producers, writers, directors, co-production agreements and assisted with researching and compiling information for Annual Reports.

Tanya Kelen 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Skills

Television Broadcast Entertainment Video Production Digital Media Producing New Media Film Production Screenwriting Video Storytelling Content Strategy Social Media Media Production Documentaries Broadcast Television Creative Direction Animation Content Development Writing Advertising Production Licensing Comedy Web Video Production Management Broadcasting Documentary Content Creation Tv Production Production Managment Television Production Creative Development Mobile Mobile Devices Digital Video Ux Artificial Intelligence Artificial Neural Networks Ui Immersive Environments Blockchain

Tanya Kelen 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Education Details

  • Concordia University
    Concordia University
    2 Years Of Interactive & Immersive Space Design & Communications Studies
  • Founder Institute
    Founder Institute
    And Related Support Services
  • The Ivey Academy At Ivey Business School
    The Ivey Academy At Ivey Business School
  • Harvard Law School
    Harvard Law School
    The Business Of Complex Negotiation & Mediation Skills
  • Afp
    Afp
    Fundraising / Philanthropy
  • Centennial College
    Centennial College
    Canadian Independent Television Producers Program Business Certificate
  • Dawson College
    Dawson College
    Investigative Journalism Program

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