Michael Santonato Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Markham, Ontario, Canada

At Omnify we are focused on showcasing brands through light. We oversee the entire spectrum of your illumination projects – with innovative, high-quality products, partnered with on-demand design, concept development, light planning, and timely delivery.Simply put, we are internationally recognized as the market leader for all things lighting aka "The King of Backlighting".In the lighting industry, Omnify is the synonym for quality. We do things differently because your customers deserve better. That’s why we build all of our lighting products to exacting standards. We think you’ll agree that the result is a difference you—and your customers—can experience.The Omnify Advantage:Design Flexibility.Fully customizable options for all your designs, with in-house Technical & Design support.Optimized Production:Just-in-Time manufacturing across our four facilities providing solutions to match any demands.Custom Pricing:Good-Better-Best product options & specifications to meet your fiscal objectives.Reach out to explore ideas around your next project.

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Helping businesses obtain more customers, penetrate more markets and stand out using creative and cutting edge digital marketing and print media methods.

Toronto, Canada Area

Toronto, Canada Area

Our success is attributed to our client solutions being built around our proprietary Expert Financial Analysis software (EFA). It provides our clients with a simple easy to follow Financial Program offered exclusively through Experior Advisors.The EFA provides a clear and accurate analysis of your current financial situation and shows you a step by step plan. This can help you:Get out of debt years faster, potentially saving you thousands of dollars in interest and shaving years off your Mortgage and Debt payments.Set up proper saving plans for retirement, education and future goals.Help you review your insurance needs including establishing proper coverage amounts and potentially lowering your costs significantly.

Toronto, Canada Area

Author of the book "Find 'Em & Keep 'Em: A Guide to Attracting the Right Partner," Michael has developed an easy and fun process for people to find the kind of partner they truly want and deserve. Through Michael's own experience, research and teaching of others, he has been working and teaching people to develop a natural ability to attract! The outcome, clients and attendee's of Michael workshops find themselves in a fulfilling, harmonious, loving relationship in a short amount of time.Michael also enjoys speaking on and educating others in the area of Communication, Leadership and Success.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Responsible for opening new customer accounts both regional and national, up selling and cross selling to existing customers, demonstrations and procuring leads at trade shows, building relationships, as well as warm and cold calls.

Richmond Hill

MoMondays is like a cross between open mic comedy, TED Talks, and a night of motivational speakers. At each monthly event, you'll see six to seven speakers tell a story from their keynote speeches. Some are funny, some are thought-provoking, all are motivating.For speakers, this is a great opportunity to refine established bits or try out new stories. For the everyone else, this is a great opportunity to see some of the incredible speaker talent that you would only otherwise get a chance to experience at major conventions. What's more, you'll be able to network with all kinds of wonderful people in a fun, positive environment. Who knows, maybe you'll be joining us on stage someday.To see the schedule of upcoming events, head to www.MoMondays.com

Toronto, Canada Area

Listen for and reliably delivery that which makes a real difference in what people are dealing with and what they really care about.

Toronto, Canada Area

Landmark Education is a global educational enterprise offering The Landmark Forum and graduate courses that are innovative, effective, and immediately relevant. Landmark’s leading-edge educational methodology enables people to produce extraordinary results and enhance the quality of their lives. Landmark Education’s courses and seminars are offered in more than 120 cities via 53 major offices around the world. More than 180,000 people participate in Landmark's courses each year. A fundamental principle of Landmark Education's work is that people — and the communities, organizations, and institutions with which they are engaged — have the possibility not only of success, but also of fulfillment and greatness. The ideas, insights, and distinctions on which Landmark's programs are based make Landmark a leader and innovator in the field of training and development.SpecialtiesLeadership, Personal Effectiveness, Communication, Empowerment, Collaboration

Ongoing coaching and leading for 150 + sales and service staff. Coach individuals and middle management to meet and exceed retail industry demands. Create goals for sales staff based on budgets and expectations. Search for ways to improve sales, merchandising, and customer retention opportunities. Create and foster an environment of engagement, pride, and fun. Solve customer issues that arise with sound business decision and customer focus. Uphold Lowe's values & expectations and performance manage associates when behaviours/results do not reflect expectations. Manage by walking around in a building of 117,000 sq. feet. Achievements: Successfully coached sales specialists to exceed sales in Lowe's installation, and special order targets in double quarters. A major force in Store 2640 recognized as a top performer in Annual, Independent, Employee Opinion Survey (EOS) in North America. The facilitator and organizer for 'Lowe's Community Rink Reno' project with Hockey Canada. Hired and promoted two Sales Specialists who went on to become top performing Sales Specialists in District.Consistently acknowledge staff that perform above and beyond; increasing confidence and appreciation for company values.

York/Maple

Maintain a safe work environment through audits and inspections while creating as much inventory shrink, and health & safety knowledge and awareness in store as possible. Partner with store associates and management to comply with Ministry of Labour and OHSA regulations. Be an invaluable resource and specialist to management and staff on the Inventory System and all Lowe's policy and procedure. Accountable for inventory integrity and store performance on Inventory Shrink. Conduct training and investigations on Workplace Violence, and Operational/External/Internal theft. Provide excellent Customer Service and professionally add profits to the bottom line. Achievements: Seven consecutive inventories resulted in outstanding results with shrink under plan. Hired and trained several other Loss Prevention Managers and reported progress directly to Regional Loss Prevention Manager. Performed group employee orientations and trainings held at head office and stores.Uncovered many system and process discrepancies that were not connecting to desired outcomes expected by the company. This improved the early on set of Lowe's Canada internal infrastructure. Responsible for store achieving highest Safety Audit score and Shrink Audit score in Canada for 2 years.Motivated store teams to connect to and eventually win 1st 'Race for the Cup' Employee engagement contest.Spanning the 3 years in Loss Prevention, I discovered and resolved over $250,000 in Operational and Internal inventory shrink investigations which were added directly onto store's bottom line profits.Awarded #1 in Canada for 'Recoveries Without Detentions' (Preventable losses without apprehensions.)Fulfilled request from VP of Operations to transfer to Maple location 'Target Store' and improve and surpass inventory shrink budgets. I completed this, interrupting 6 underperforming inventories in a row. Outperformed budget by $110,000

Woodbine Centre, Square One, Eaton Centre

Managing a team of investigators, auditing retail processes & procedures, training staff, interviewing prospective investigative personnel, conducting investigations for policy violation and internal theft. Responsible for controlling inventory shrinkage. Chair of health & safety committee.

Diploma, Law Enforcement

King City Campus

Nlp, Tlt, Hyp, Practitioner Certification, Coaching, Body Language, Human Behaviour, Linguistics