what people are saying
Dr. Miriam’s Testimonials
From in-person keynotes to virtual workshops, Dr. Miriam Kirmayer inspires connection with research-backed strategies and a healthy dose of humor and humanity. Don’t just take our word for it— see what others are saying.
Attendee, 2024
“Beyond connecting with us as service providers in the Cultural care community, I have a son struggling to make new friends. Your speech very much connected with me in trying to help him bridge this very difficult time… Thank you for your insights!”
Attendee
Cultural Care
Attendee, 2024
“Truly an inspiration and valuable insight of information to take in. A great session to create better and deeper knowledge of yourself and others.”
Eye opening to how to connect in all aspects. I love it. It was worth it”
Attendee,
Maritime Conference on Developmental Disabilities and Autism
Laurel Myers, 2024
“Energizing and meaningful opening keynote– a great way to start our event. It warmed people up for the day and got them excited about making connections throughout the conference! Dr. Miriam doesn’t just talk about connections – she makes connections with those she encounters!”
Laurel Myers
Women’s Leadership Conference Co-Chair
Liza Rogers, 2024
"I'm truly inspired by Dr. Miriam Kirmayer. Her enthusiasm for mental health and her ability to connect with people on a deep level are truly remarkable. As a business owner and social networker, I value her clinical insights. Her presentation at the Pacific West Conference was a highlight. I highly recommend her to anyone seeking inspiration and practical advice."
Liza Rogers
Founder, Women's Real Estate Network
Elizabeth Weiner, 2023
“You would be hard pressed to find a speaker who delivers her subject matter with more warmth and authenticity than Miriam. She is truly an expert on friendship who engages her audience with fascinating insights about maintaining the connections that nourish us and making the often difficult decision to sever the ones that no longer serve us. It’s been two weeks since we had the privilege of having her speak at our event, and we are still getting feedback about how incredible and impactful Miriam’s talk was. We are so looking forward to having her back for a “part two”!”
Elizabeth Weiner
Co-Chair, Jewish General Hospital - The Auxiliary Fundraiser
Sidra Rubin, 2023
“I came across Miriam online and was instantly captivated by her subject matter, content and information. We hired her for a women’s fundraising event recently and she gave the most incredible talk. She was warm, relatable and most importantly, full of snippets of key points about friendship that we have all thought about at one point or another. Read her material, listen to her podcasts and go listen to her speak if you can, you won’t regret it!”
Sidra Rubin
Co-Chair, Jewish General Hospital - The Auxiliary Fundraiser
Iva Kubickova, 2023
“Miriam's appearance attracted an impressive sign-up to the event, which was sold out almost immediately after it was released. Thanks to Miriam, the evening was a resounding triumph with fantastic feedback from all participants that laid the foundation for many great relationships. Thank you for a truly remarkable and impactful event! We are grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with someone who brings a creative flair that adds that extra touch of magic."
Iva Kubickova
Global Director, Membership & Marketing | WNORTH
Meredith Sedgwick, 2023
“Dr. Miriam gave a wonderful speaking session and Q&A at a brand event for one of our clients. She did an excellent job and made sure to engage the group throughout her time with us, even as far as staying after her session to continue conversations. She was receptive to feedback, open to collaboration, and was communicative throughout the entire process. We received nothing but positive notes from those in attendance and from our client.”
Meredith Sedgwick
Senior Account Manager, Citizen Relations
Setareh Ziai, 2023
“We were so thrilled to have Dr. Miriam Kirmayer as a closing keynote speaker at our annual conference. Her presentation left our audience with many takeaways both personally and professionally. Dr. Miriam Kirmayer did an excellent job of getting us thinking about the many benefits of meaningful support, how we should think about the importance of reception and not just delivery, the various support roles we naturally take on, and much, much more. She also tailored many examples, questions, and stories to our audience of women physicians specifically, which made it that much more impactful.”
Setareh Ziai MD, FRCSC
Co-Founder & Past-President, Canadian Women in Medicine
Meg Wallace, 2023
“Dr. Miriam Kirmayer moderated an innovations-focused panel exploring burgeoning solutions to the crisis of social isolation and loneliness at our organization’s annual conference in 2022. Miriam was the perfect moderator for this session as she was thoughtful, prepared, intentional, and respectful throughout the lively discussion, and guided the session and the panelists with ease. As such, it was one of the most highly attended sessions of our 3-day event. We are so grateful to have had her expertise and look forward to opportunities to work with her again in the future!”
Meg Wallace
Manager, Foundation for Social Connection & Coalition to End Social Isolation and Loneliness
Attendee, 2023
“Excellent, thought-provoking and engaging, high caliber. Practical wisdom that can be applied at work or in personal life.”
Attendee
Canadian Innovation Centre for Mental Health in the Workplace, Government of Canada
Attendee, 2023
“Absolutely outstanding! I already mentioned how useful and refreshing this session was to my team. I adored Dr. Kirmayer's approach, she has so much knowledge and tips and tricks that she shared with us that are genuinely applicable (such as the rituals you can bring to team meetings to build connection). This is going to be the first presentation that I am going to re-watch. Thank you so much for bringing such an expert to our workplace, I would love for her to come back, and even better, do workshops with her.”
Attendee
Canadian Innovation Centre for Mental Health in the Workplace, Government of Canada
Madeline Caldwell, 2022
“I truly think Dr. Miriam Kirmayer is doing for friendships what Brené Brown has done for shame”.
Madeline Caldwell
Managing Partner, 212 Communications, Co-Creator of Working Mom Hour
Donn Tice, 2022
“Miriam was a fantastic resource for our large group of CEOs and their partners. She immediately held the audience’s attention and interest, and shared her knowledge of the topic and deep expertise in ways that were simultaneously informative, provocative and unexpected, and persuasive… super engaging, highly interactive and conversational, great topic expert, gave the participants a ton of ‘take home value.’
Donn Tice
YPO BAY AREA
Kristine Gloria, 2022
"Dr. Kirmayer's research and work on adult friendships provided the group with a fresh lens to unpack the challenges and opportunities of virtual connections. Her presentation was thought provoking and filled with interesting facts about adult friendships. At the end, many of the members felt motivated to continue this line of inquiry, calling for another meeting to brainstorm on a specific collaborative research project."
Kristine Gloria, Ph.D.
Director, Artificial Intelligence, Aspen Digital
Amanda Gutmanis, 2022
“Interesting and practical with helpful perspectives & tools to improve the quality of both personal and workplace friendships as well as ways to maintain strong connections in a virtual/hybrid world. Dr. Kirmayer provided content grounded in science about topics close to audience members’ hearts, and her ability to invite self-reflection while maintaining an engaging pacing was appreciated by participants, who described the information provided as comforting & settling during these recently uncertain times.”
Amanda Gutmanis
A/Manager, Engagement & Change Management, Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada
Emily Trieste, 2022
“Dr. Miriam made the conversation relatable and realistic so that everyone could feel connected or understood. The audience loved her and provided wonderful feedback. Needless to say, the event was a huge success and we hope to work with Miriam again in the future!”
Emily Trieste
Marketing Events Coordinator, Meetup
Samantha Daoust, 2021
“Dr. Kirmayer made the conversation easy and open from the get go, and was truly collaborative. Her knowledge, humanity and warmth made it easy to build an event that ended up being an overwhelming success both on the brand and guest sides. I highly suggest working with Dr. Kirmayer. She is a great speaker and facilitates conversation amongst guests. It was our first virtual event and I don’t think it would’ve gotten so many great comments if it wasn’t for her.”
Samantha Daoust
Social Media Specialist, Ardene
Setareh Ziai, 2021
"Dr. Miriam Kirmayer gave the opening keynote to a virtual crowd of over 1600 women physicians, and she proved to be a wonderful, inspiring and uplifting speaker – the perfect way to kick off our biggest conference yet. She held everyone's full attention for an entire virtual hour! We were watching the comments and concurrent chats live on screen during her talk, and it was evident that she touched the audience in a very special way, despite the fact that we were all physically apart.
Not only did she deliver an incredibly captivating talk, but she was also an absolute pleasure to work with! We are so happy to have had her on board for our conference and were only sad not to have been able to meet her in person."