Femi Ayanbadejo: Build Your Toolbox
Change and uncertainty are the words being used to describe the post-pandemic future. A technique great athletes and sports teams use to handle uncertainty is to over-prepare for possible future scenarios. They practice and build the right skill sets ahead…
Anna Foli: Define Your Business Olympics
Feedback is what allows us to evaluate whether or not we’re on the right track. In sports, feedback is instant. If you shoot the ball, you either miss or it goes in the net. If you’re sprinting in a 100-metre…
Pat Woodcock: A Small Fish in a Big Pond
Underdog. It means someone who’s not expected to win. Someone who the others are not betting on. The underdog mentality is a weapon. If you can leverage the lack of confidence that people put in you as the fuel for…
Chris Janzen: Maximizing Effectiveness of Your Greatest Asset – Time
We’re all busy. Post pandemic, our already busy lives have become even more packed. The biggest culprit responsible for adding extra hours to our workweek is meetings. How often have you had a day where you were running from meeting…
Dan Hannigan-Daley – Taking a Leap of Faith
Committing yourself to something you’re not sure will pan out is scary. It’s tough to book a one-way ticket to a new city in hopes of success. It’s even tougher to take that leap of faith and fail. When things…
Marques Ogden: Hitting Rock Bottom and Building Back Up
What is culture? How do we build a good culture? And how do we build a culture that enables and empowers people to make big plays? We often hear about companies that have a great culture. It’s something that helps…
Seth Anderson: Beyond the Rink | From Hockey to Corporate
Do you ever wonder just how much control a leader has in the success of his or her team? Better yet, do you think a leader has the ability to turn around a mediocre team into a world-class, elite, high-performing…
Drew Taylor: Keys to Pursuing Multiple Priorities, Simultaneously
How do we handle competing priorities that are both important, must be given 110% attention, and require our best effort day in and day out? Generally its always a good thing to pick a few priorities and commit to them,…
Lauren Lee: Tech Is All About People | VP at JPMorgan Asset Management and NCAA Field Hockey
Most of us have been in a position where we were not front and centre. Whether it was on a sports team where you were a backup because you just started learning the game, or it was at your first…
Alan Stein, Jr. : Detaching Yourself From The Outcome | Speaker, Coach & Former NBA Performance Coach
We always hear about setting goals and objectives. It’s something we’re all taught since grade school – write out your goals and objectives for the year. A habit and practice that many of us know is essential to finding success.…
Kyle Blaney: Getting Back Up and Battling Adversity | Award Winning Pro Hockey Player
What do you do when someone tells you you’re not good enough? Everyone has failed, and everyone has, at one point or another, been rejected. Cut from a sports team, didn’t get the promotion or lost in the final round…
Jessica Kuepfer: Chaos Theory from Sports to Business | Director of Comm. and Endurance Athlete
We’ve all heard about celebrating big wins. We see it all the time in sports, in movies, or we ourselves remember celebrating certain accomplishments and milestones. But what about celebrating the failures and efforts vs. the results? When things get…
Mike Weaver: From NHL to Tech Entrepreneur | Co-Founder/CEO CoachThem, Former NHL Player
Get comfortable being uncomfortable. We hear this often whenever we discuss achieving something great. Many successful executives, athletes, and entrepreneurs that I’ve had the privilege to interview, all say that they did the hard things and got out of their…
Alexandra Orlando: 5 time Canadian Champion and Olympian on The Drive to Win | Commonwealth Games Record Holder
Chaotic, fire fighting, fast-paced, high pressure, uncertain. These are all words used to describe work environments that have a lot on the go. At a first glance, these may seem unfavorable, negative, and unsustainable. But these are also the exact…