Next Public Virtual Keynote: Understanding Management Excellence in a Virtual Economy - Friday, May 27, 2022. See details below.
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.
Currently (Q2 2022) my keynotes are available as online streaming events, with in-person presentations hopefully returning soon.
Recent past clients (2019-2021) 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
I offer these keynotes as one-hour or two-hour presentations to corporate clients, as well as 90 minute public keynote events. See "Public Keynotes" below.
- 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.
Public Keynotes
I deliver my public keynotes online on a virtual space called toucan.events. Without hyperbole, this event will benefit you in three ways:
- First, my one-hour keynote will give you a summary of a vital topic of business and work in this new highly mobile era. This is knowledge that you can use .
- Second, you will experience the toucan.events environment, which is one of the many virtual work environments that will move us past Zoom-style video chat meetings into something more immersive, casual and comfortable.
- Third, we reserve a small amount of the session time for networking. I encourage every attendee to meet somebody at their Toucan table and make a new contact. Every time you meet someone new, your life changes.
The events are 90 minutes long including 15 minutes for networking. We hold them every second Friday. I charge $20 just to cover the cost of preparation and production. To register, use my contact form and I will send you the login details and a PayPal invoice.
Friday, May 27, 2022: Management Excellence in a Virtual Economy. How has "excellence" changed in the era of the "audience of one?" This keynote, drawn from a class I teach at Ontario Tech University, delivers an understanding of the mindset and metrics required to stay "excellent" to internal customers (employees) as well as external customers. Contact me to register.
Friday, June 10, 2022: Have you been pwned? What does it mean to have been pwned? It means your email address and phone nuber are already out there, being bought and sold on the dark market.Come and learn what you can do to protect yourself, your data and your money. This keynote is drawn from my work as a journalist and producer for a group of cybersecurity podcasts. Contact me to register.