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I'm Bailey

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Founder & CEO, SkillsCamp Soft Skills Training
Founder & Researcher, #SafeSocial
Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women
TED & Int'l Keynote Speaker with over 3M+ Views
Social Media & Mental Health Ambassador
12+ High-Value Awards & Accolades
Featured in popular international media...
Where It All Began

Biography

Bailey Parnell is the Founder & CEO of SkillsCamp, a soft skills training company, and was named one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women. Bailey is a 2x TED speaker with over 4 million views, an award-winning and internationally-recognized entrepreneur, an active humanitarian, and one with a talent for helping people develop the skills they need for success. Her work and expertise have been featured in Forbes, Good Morning America, Fox, and more.  

Bailey’s company SkillsCamp is a soft skills training company that works with businesses and educational institutions to help their staff and students develop the essential skills needed for personal and professional success - skills like stress-management, emotional intelligence, and you guessed, it, public speaking! Before this, she built up her career bringing digital student engagement to Canadian higher education through her work at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) - models that she had travelled the world speaking and sharing about. Bailey is currently working on her EdD in Learning and Organizational Change at Baylor University.
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Previously, she has worked in social media marketing at CBC and Bell Media; assisted instructors in Seneca College’s Social Media: Graduate Certificate Program; taught English abroad, and has worked as a local news reporter on Rogers TV. Though the rest of her family is from Nova Scotia, Bailey was born and raised in Brampton, Ontario, lived in Toronto most of her life, and recently moved to New York City.

Through her skillful storytelling, confidence, research, and humour, Bailey has audiences laughing, engaged, and walking away with skills that shape their life. Bailey frequently speaks about social media and mental health, soft skills, intergenerational understanding, and being a woman in business. She guest lectured her first MBA class at 21 and has since spoken to over 100K people across the world.
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TV
digital marketing
education
entrepreneurship
Career So Far
Founder & Researcher
#SafeSocial
Social Media's Impact on Mental Health
Visit: safesocialmedia.co
Founder & CEO
SkillsCamp
Soft Skills Training
Visit: skillscamp.co
Digital Marketing Specialist
Ryerson University
Student Affairs Creative
Account Manager & Digital Marketing Specialist
Splash Effect
Creative Marketing Agency
Assistant Digital Producer
CBC Sports
Pan Am Games
Social Media Marketing Assistant
Bell Media Music & Entertainment
Much, MTV, E! & M3
Social Media Specialist
Ryerson University
RU Student Life
Teaching Assistant
Seneca College
Social Media Graduate Certificate Program
Staff Writer
CanCulture Magazine

ESL Teacher
TEFL Academy
Shaoxing, China
Reporter
Rogers TV Peel
"Access Peel"
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2020 - Present
April 2015 - Present
September 2013 - April 2016
July 2015 - August 2015
January 2015 - April 2015
September 2012 - April 2015
September 2014 - April 2015
October 2013 - August 2014
July 2013 - August 2013
September 2011 - January 2013
A Spirit of Lifelong Learning
Academics So Far
Certificate, Entrepreneurship Accelerator Program
Wharton School of Business
University of Pennsylvania
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2021
Bailey did her Masters in Communications and Culture at Ryerson University with research focused on social media’s impact on mental health, the results of which have been shared at the World Youth Forum in Egypt and created the basis for her signature 5 Steps Towards #SafeSocial. She also recently launched this into its own organization called #SafeSocial. She is an honors graduate of the RTA School of Media majoring in Media Production and double-minoring in News Studies and English.
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I'm the CEO of SkillsCamp, a soft skills training company, the Founder and Researcher at #SafeSocial, a TEDx speaker, and one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women.
Fun facts
I enjoy wine (and most things that pair well
with it)! Cheese is my favourite food.
I have 5 sisters and we're very close
I went to a performing arts high school
and majored in vocal music.
I fought competitively in judo for most
of my  childhood
I taught English abroad in China
for a summer.
I love good TV! Critical discussions
about film and television are a pastime.
I thoroughly enjoy “thought experiments.”
Contact

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