The Voices of Restore
Inspiring voices. Evidence-based education. Meaningful conversations.
Restore is bringing together a carefully selected group of speakers who understand the unique realities of women in dentistry.
Meet our exceptional inaugural speaker lineup.
We're intentionally selecting leaders who combine evidence-based knowledge with practical experience, and a genuine passion for supporting women in dentistry.
Jess Tetu
Friday Night Keynote Speaker
Jess Tetu is an award-winning Canadian entrepreneur, public speaker, philanthropist, and founder whose story is rooted in resilience, reinvention, and impact. After leaving home at 15 and navigating poverty, family addiction, homelessness, grief, and personal hardship, Jess built a life and business career defined by grit, purpose, and service.
Today, Jess is the sole owner of five Just For You Day Spas with five locations across Saskatchewan and Alberta, Founder and CEO of Lia Reese Canada, Founder and CEO of Iconic Betty Jewelry, Founder of Jess Tetu Consulting, and Founder and CEO of 4seventyone Recovery Resources, a not-for-profit organization supporting individuals and families impacted by addiction and hardship.
Her work has earned national recognition, including Canada’s Top 40 Under 40, SK Entrepreneur of the Year, YWCA Women of Distinction, and being named one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women. Her brands and story have also been featured across major media and events, including Good Morning America, CBC, Global News, CTV, the Daytime Emmys, and more.
On stage, Jess brings a rare combination of vulnerability, entrepreneurial credibility, and practical optimism. She helps audiences understand that adversity does not have to define the future - it can become the fuel for clearer choices, stronger leadership, deeper purpose, and meaningful success.
Saturday Speakers:
Dr. Kristin Yont
Dr. Kristin Yont, DMD, is a Calgary based dentist, educator, and leader in mindbody medicine. In addition to co-owning her downtown practice, she has served as the dentist for the Calgary Flames NHL hockey team for 28 years and is currently the lead dentist for their medical team. She also brings extensive experience in forensic dentistry and has contributed to professional regulation through her service on the Complaints Review Committee for the College of Dental Surgeons of Alberta.
Dr. Yont is one of a select group of dentists in North America accredited to teach the SMART Program through the Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Yont shares her work through workshops, retreats, and wellness programs for dental professionals, universities, healthcare associations, and business leaders. Her training includes Compassion Cultivation Training from Stanford, Mindfulness Approaches to Addictions through the Cambridge Health Alliance, and the Inner MBA program in conscious leadership. She has also completed Harvard’s Science of Leadership: The Brain, Resilience, and Mindfulness program, deepening her expertise in the neuroscience of leadership, emotional intelligence, and sustainable performance.
Dr. Nicole Thompson
Dr. Nicole Thompson, MD, FRCSC is an Obstetrician-Gynecologist, sexual medicine physician, and founder of Haven Birth Program and Gynecology in Richmond, BC. She spends her days talking about hormones, menopause, libido, vulvas, and all the topics most people were taught to whisper about.
Dr. Thompson loves turning complicated science into practical, evidence-based advice- with a healthy amount of myth-busting and humour along the way. Her goal is for you to leave understanding your hormones a little better and feeling much more comfortable talking about them.
Outside of medicine, you’ll find her horseback riding, at a heavy metal concert, or reminding people that saying “vulva” out loud won’t make the room explode.
Carmen Christensen
Carmen Christensen is a certified life coach, adult educator, and dental professional who has spent more than 20 years working alongside high performers in the dental industry. She knows what it’s like to be the one everyone counts on, the one who shows up, gives more, and keeps moving forward even when something inside feels off. After years of people-pleasing, blurred boundaries, and putting everyone else’s needs ahead of her own, Carmen’s light began to dim. She hardly recognized who she had become in both her personal and professional life. Through her own journey, Carmen learned she was not alone. Her experience became the foundation of her work today.
Carmen blends neuroscience-based practices, reflective coaching, and practical tools to help women and dental professionals understand themselves more deeply, shift old patterns, and create meaningful change.
Carmen is honoured to be a part of this retreat. She is passionate about helping you reconnect with yourself and discover that success is possible without leaving yourself behind.
When Carmen is not coaching or traveling across Canada with The Extraction Course, you’ll find her road-tripping to the mountains, spending time with her husband, their two adult sons, and their dog, Bauer, or enjoying time with friends. She is a heart-led optimist who practices what she preaches, living a life rooted in alignment, purpose, and connection.
Denise Kokaram
Denise Kokaram, MA, RDH
Registered Dental Hygienist · Health Leadership · Founder, Inner Alchemy
Denise Kokaram brings a rare and deeply personal perspective to this retreat, one shaped by decades of lived experience as a Registered Dental Hygienist and a profound understanding of what a life in service to others both gives and asks in return. The work of Inner Alchemy did not emerge from theory, it emerged from living this profession with passion and purpose. She has felt the same pull between giving to others and tending to herself, and it is from that place of profound shared experience that her work as a wellness practitioner was born. It is that rare combination of professional kinship and hard-won wisdom that makes her work resonate so deeply with the women she guides.
At Restore, Denise will guide participants through a carefully layered experience drawing from her complete practices of breathwork, somatic yin, Yoga Nidra, mindfulness, and energy medicine. It is designed to return you to yourself, rested, resourced, and ready to lead from a full cup. She knows what it costs to show up fully for patients, year after year. She also knows what becomes possible when women in this profession are finally given the space, the tools, and the permission to show up fully for themselves.
Dr. Krista
Maedel
Dr. Krista Maedel is a small town dentist, practice owner at Rosetown Dental, and busy mom of two boys. After working hard to build her career during her first decade in dentistry, she is finding her way back to what matters most: family, friendships, balance, and practising the kind of dentistry she loves.
A proficient Invisalign provider, Krista is passionate about the confidence a smile transformation can bring. At Restore Wellness Collective, she’ll share how Invisalign has also helped transform her career as a dentist and given her more freedom to build a life outside the office.
When she isn’t practising dentistry, Krista loves to travel, cheer on her boys at their hockey and ball games, ski, camp, golf, and spend time with her family and girlfriends.