DHI Canada Conference and Expo 2026

Since Tareq Hadhad’s arrival on Canada’s East Coast in 2015 as a Syrian – Canadian newcomer, he has been invited to speak to countless audiences across Canada and internationally. He has had the privilege to meet former President of the United States, Barack Obama, Canadian Prime Ministers, and has had conversations with many World Leaders. In January 2020, Tareq received his official Canadian Citizenship which garnered international attention and he can’t wait to collect more stamps in his passport. His family’s journey has been detailed in a book called Peace by Chocolate as well as a feature film which is now streaming online worldwide after it premiered in movie theatres across Canada and the US on in the spring of 2022.

After completing his MBA at the University of Southern California and Ph.D. at the Schulich School, York University, Karl worked for eleven years in sales and marketing management positions in the high technology industry with IBM and Hitachi. He has taught extensively in executive education programs including at Oxford, Cambridge, Duke, LBS, RSM, Queens, McGill, IIM Bangalore, Renmin (Beijing), and Darden. An active consultant Dr. Moore has worked with Air Canada, BA, Nokia, IBM, Volvo, HP, Motorola, Accenture, Morgan Stanley and other firms. He has taught courses on Leadership, Strategy, Being a New Manager, Being a Change Leader and New Approaches to Product Management. He is recognized as a world expert on strategy and leadership. For over two years he has blogged for Forbes and for six years he had done a weekly interview for the Globe and Mail where he interviews leading CEOs one week and the other week the top business professors in leadership and strategy and the world’s best universities.