A journalist who spent a career authoring other people's stories — and built Qualped to help you author your own.
"I'm a writer who designs innovative ideas and writes original stories to generate conversations that create solutions to common human problems."
Born in Guyana and now based in Oshawa, Ontario, Shaun Michael Samaroo has spent more than three decades turning ideas into stories and stories into change. He began in the newsrooms of the 1990s and went on to work as a newspaper and television journalist, co-found a national newspaper in Guyana and two community papers in Canada, pioneer documentary-style programming for Guyanese national television, and appear as an invited current-affairs guest on Canadian national TV.
Along the way he interviewed government ministers, business leaders, and hundreds of ordinary people whose lives became his real subject. A literary novelist, motivational author, public speaker, and lifelong student — pursuing a Master of Divinity at Tyndale University — he founded Qualped to answer one question: what if every person could author the future they aspire to live? From that question came the simsbook, a new multimedia form of the book built for the human being in the age of intelligence.