Keynotes deliver enormous value by condensing decades of knowledge into a short period of time. My sessions are dynamic, engaging, and motivational. Guaranteed to provide solid takeaways, new skills, a brighter outlook and up-to-date ideas for you and your team.
I am often hired as the kickoff or closer for a conference, retreat, or corporate event, to give all attendees a positive outlook along with really useful knowledge.
I deliver speeches in person and in virtual worlds like Virbela.
Recent past clients include: The Human Resources Professional Association (HRPAO),The Supply Chain Management Association, The Ontario Public Buyers Association, Ontario Power Generation, RBC Royal Bank, National Speakers Association Premium Speaker (multi-years/multiple US conventions). For a full list, click here.
Topics
- The Post-Pandemic Workplace: looks at best practices for working from home as well as working in a workplace, in terms of the new post-outbreak reality. This is more than just Zoom. We discuss issues of trust, leadership, team dynamics, socialization, time management as work-life integration as well as issues dealing with security, privacy, and data management. We also have modules that focus on safety and new best practices for the traditional office workspace.
- Thinking, Feeling and Connecting at Work: McKinsey and others have identified soft skills such as critical thinking, empathy, and networking as essential to all levels of jobs in the new economy - this includes IT and trades as well as desk-based professional careers. Learn what you and your team need to know to reintroduce human connection, emotional intelligence, credibility, and personal credit ratings back into work relationships.
- Managing Time and Balancing Life: My book on time management is still winning people over with its unique approach to managing expectations, balancing tasks, and integrating work and life. My sessions deliver practical, proven time management, prioritization, and productivity skills and well as the latest techniques for the post-Covid "new normal." Field-tested and proven successful all over the world.
- Understanding Cyberhygiene: The future of any company rests on its employees knowing how to stay safe amid a perpetual onslaught of hackers and thieves. I have worked extensively with IT security firms around the world and am quite well-known in the cybersecurity business. My ability to explain complex technologies and use stories (case studies) to explain cybersecurity to non-IT audiences is always well-received. Learn what you need to know: technologies, terminologies, and best practices to help ensure your company stays safe.
- The Future of Workplace Fear: When people talk about digital transformation, the "new normal," and the future of work, the focus is very much on the technologies that are coming in to change our world once again. But what about people and their instinctive fear of change. This presentation, based on my new book of the same name, adresses the types of fears people experience in times of change, and what can be done to ease the process.
- Where has all the kindness gone? Have you noticed in recent years that people seem to have become angrier and less social? This presentation looks at the sociological and technological reasons for the polarized and short-tempered world that seems to have become more intense with every passing year, along with ideas on how to fix it.
