Speaking Topics:
Presentations Titles include ( available as Keynote, break-out, full or multi-day events)

• The Power of You – Tapping the Power Within
• Wake Up We’re There – Business Creativity for a Better Bottom Line
• Creating Leadership Presence- Managing Groups & Presentations
• Who’s Driving the Bus? – Managing Your Mind in the 21 st Century
• The Magic of Rapport – Skills that Earn Attention, Acceptance & Trust
• Play it Again Sam – Communicating With Integrity & Credibility
• Bees Do It – Aligning Team Power & Purpose
• The Spiral of Change – Spiral Dynamics (SDi) for Dummies

Influencing with Integrity For Business

Topics covered in this key-note:

• Creating trust quickly in any communication
• Having more success in planning and achieving business objectives
• Quickly and accurately reading others non-verbal behaviour
• Being more creative in your thinking and better able to solve problems
• Asking the 'super questions' that provide high quality information
• Learning to use the four skills that earn attention and trust
• How information is 'lost' in language and how it can be retrieved

Cutting edge communication skills, when combined with personal congruence, are the foundation of strong leadership, superior negotiating, and smooth management.

This Key-Note will be of interest to:

Leaders
Those who are responsible for others in a supervisory, coaching or mentoring role. People who must be able to motivate and inspire others. Those who wish to develop strong communication skills. Those for whom high levels of business creativity are required.

Professional Communicators
Such as sales professionals, lawyers, counsellors, and life coaches. People who require advanced communication skills to persuade and influence. Those people who have to master many different types of tasks and who must be able to 'switch gears' to manage their professional and personal lives.

This Key-Note will introduce the audience to a set of practical tools that everyone can learn

It's Not What You Say - It's How You Say It!

How important is good communication to people working in your profession? After breathing, drinking and eating, communication is probably next. Everyone knows how important body language is with respect to the impression we create with our communication. The most fundamental of all types of body language is breathing (everyone has to do that and there is little point in attempting communication with someone who is not breathing!).

Breathing sets the stage for our voice tone. Our breathing and voice tone are crucial elements in the communication process. Together they enable us to switch between the patterns that are central to all successful professional exchanges. The two patterns are credibility and approachability. A good analogy is the patterns an airline stewardess would speak and the pattern a pilot would use. One pattern conveys a desire to collect information ("Are you comfortable?"); the other provides information that can be trusted ("We are flying at 35 thousand feet"). Neither pattern is better - they have their uses and used well will distinguish you from less sophisticated communicators.

In a professional setting the person who knows how and when to switch patterns is the person who has greatest control over where the communication (or meeting) goes. The skill of switching patterns is most evident when someone has to move between consultant role (rich in approachability) and presenter role (rich in credibility).

At this keynote presentation participants will learn how to identify the patterns and use their own voices to practice this most useful set of skills.

Resiliency In A Changing Workplace

Resiliency is based on the realization that some people are more able to sustain themselves in adverse conditions and situations than others. When the workplace changes that requires us to change. The strategies used by those who are more resilient than the majority of the population can be isolated and learned. This presentation explores those attributes and some of the ways in which we can replicate those strategies.

Tools For Innovative Business

From the development of language, to the use of tools, all of the great human achievements have depended on the expression of human creativity. As the speed of change continues to increase, the need for creativity increases proportionally. Strategies that worked 10 years ago no longer generate the same result. Strategies, which work today, may not work in five years time.

To deal with the rapid changes occurring in the market place, teams and organizations are required to reinvent themselves continually. Access to information used to play a large part in determining success in business. The advent of the information-age, and more notably the Internet revolution, has changed all that. It is not access to the information that drives success; it is what we do with the information. This depends largely on our creative capacity.

Vision: Beginning With The End In Mind

'Everything needs a strong beginning. Whether you're sending a youngster off to his first day at school, hiring a new employee, or launching a major new product, you should be aware that everything is most vulnerable at its beginning. That's obvious. What's not so obvious are the ways you can create successful beginning.'

[Taken from 'Real Power Business lessons From the Tao Te Ching' - James A.Autry & Stephen Mitchel]

The questions of when to act and what form the action should take are a constant challenge to every leader / businessperson.

'Vision: Beginning With The End In Mind' - is a keynote built around the issue of how important vision is to our everyday life: both professional and personal. The talk also provides some suggestions on how each of us can explore our own lives and discover an empowering vision for our own place in the world. Having a vision provides perspective and helps us to stay in touch with the 'why'. Vision enables us to allow our 'lives to speak our truth'.

Without a sense of vision we can lose sight of what is important to being human. Under stress, we can switch to micro-management of our own professional lives, our diets, our décor, our possessions and our physical appearance. In doing so, it becomes easy to abandon any visions we might have for our family, community, society, country, and world we live in.

This keynote also introduces a specific process that addresses the challenge of how to turn a sense of vision into action.

The presentation provides tools on how to link vision to action. Each of us deserves the opportunity to explore our own lives and discover an empowering vision for our own place in the world. This presentation addresses this important issue.

The Power Of You

The 7 Powers That Lie Within Everyone

You are using the most complex 'information processing system' in the known universe - to read this sentence. It is a pity the brain didn't come with an owner's manual.

A keynote presentation, which emphasizes the awesome potential, which lies within every person. Each of the following topics are illustrated with real life stories and the latest research in the area of psychology and the social sciences.

Beliefs: Beliefs make good servants but bad masters. It is so easy to for us to allow our beliefs to dictate to us what we are and are not able to achieve in life. This presentation will challenge participants to re-evaluate the beliefs, which they have about themselves and their ability for positive change.

Attention: what are we attending to in life? If we become what we attend to, are we attending to what we do want to have - or what we don't want to have? There is a difference.

Intention: when we set an intention for ourselves, we are organizing our attention in the direction into which we want to move. Setting intention is sometimes so fundamental to success that it is often overlooked.

Perspective: an important aspect of perspective is how we think of events in the past -and future - how we run these thoughts has a big impact on how we feel.

Action: Without action all the other powers become useless. Finding the motivation to take action is sometimes difficult. This presentation will enable participants to discover motivation in areas of their life that they may never have considered before.

Forgiveness: Our ability to forgive is also our ability to let go of things that are holding us back. This is a very important power and one which many people underestimate. Participants will be encouraged to explore their own 'power to forgive.'

Service: Apart from service being good for our community, or whoever we 'serve', service is also really good for us. Participants will be shown how service is 'good for your health' and the part it plays in living a fulfilling life.

Each 'power' is explored with mini-exercises that help participants explore their own 'powers'.

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Clients Have Said:

Comments From Previous Presentations

"Stephen is adept at making an effective psychological connection with his audiences."
Neil W. Stalport
Program Developer - Conference Board of Canada

"Steve is a passionate and motivational speaker who connects deeply with his audience. He has a real gift and his blend of humour and expertise is inspiring. Participants connect quickly, he is someone you just can't forget. He certainly walks his talk!"
Colleen Kawalilak
Instructional Designer - Communications Technology (SAIT)

[Stephens presentation]… "opens doors, allows you to glimpse into the possibilities there are within you. Stephen has a fun and interactive manner -worthy of your precious time."
J Hambly - Rocky View Education District

"Everything he (Stephen) said makes so much sense and will be easy to incorporate in all aspects of my life"
Stephen Clark - Program Analyst

"My brain is full, you have opened up some avenues I didn't know existed - many, many thanks."
Wanda Somerfield - Calgary Business Owner

"I would highly recommend (Stephen's presentations) to anyone who wishes to improve their ability to communicate and optimize their quality of life."
Jackie Seymour - Teacher

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Sample Client List:

Conference Board of Calgary

Projecy Management Institute (PMI)

Canadian Institute of Mortgage Brokers & Lenders

Calgary Health Region

City of Calgary

Calgary Real Estate Board (CREB)

Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)

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