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Every book, game, and digital asset in this catalog utilizes Tyler Hayden’s proprietary Multiple Intelligences Quotient (MIQ) framework. By balancing active, visual, conversational, and logical exercises, these tools ensure that every team member—whether introverted or extroverted—can participate comfortably and effectively.
Bestselling Books Available on Kindle or Paperback
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Tyler has published more than 25 books, from personal development texts to actionable journaling tools to university textbooks and of course Team Building.
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The Business that Cared - A Leader's Guide to Team Building and Engagement Using Multiple Intelligences
The Business that Cared About People - A Leader's Guide to Team Building and Engagement Using Multiple Intelligences This timely book is a story and tool kit that enables managers to better lead teams. The book contains Tyler's work on Multiple Intelligence Quotient and how to apply it in your work place to help inspire high performing teams. Further, there is a plethora (I like that word) of ice breakers, debriefs, energizers, and more.
Virtually Engaged Team Building Activities - A Manager's Guide to Increasing Remote Engagement with over 101 Team Building Activities
The premier manager's playbook engineered to stop digital screen fatigue and heal cultural drift across hybrid workforces. It supplies over 101 interactive team building activities, energizers, debriefing tools engineered to keep employees engaged on platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams. It is a quick read with lots of tools for your next virtual meet-up.
Coffee Talk: Business Edition
Designed specifically for workplace teams of 2 to 6 employee participants. This playbook requires zero advanced preparation and takes only 5 to 14 minutes to run, making it the perfect tool to spark authentic collaboration right before a standard project huddle or executive planning event. The questions are thought provoking and help lead managers session to have more authentic conversations. It is a workplace icebreaker and energizer.
Catchin' The Carrot: A Personal Strategic Plan
A simple activity that managers can implement for personal and employee performance planning track scaled down into an active personal workbook. This guide requires a focused, two-hour time investment, allowing individuals to map out a clear personal mission, vision, values, personal SWOT analysis, and an actionable 5-year roadmap.
Livin’ Life Large™ - Simple Actions that Create Success
Tyler's most requested keynote presentation.
Perfect for opening and injecting energy into your next event.
Event highlight for groups of 50 to 8000.
Explore ways to create a more balanced lifestyle personally and professionally through good tools like: Energy Flows Where Attention Goes (motivation), Feel a bit Off Kilter (resilience), and Leading Legacies (mentoring) and Rome Wasn't Built in a Day (team engagement).
Coffee Talk: Project Special Day
An interactive parent-and-child activity playbook built to replace screen time with genuine family bonding. Based on the philosophy, "We don't remember days, we remember moments," this book includes fun choice cards, Would You Rather games, and custom Dates on the GO! local challenges (like elevator races, geocaching, or building massive living room pillow forts).
Team Building Activities - Communication, Leadership, Planning, Problem Solving, & Team Building (Lesson Plans)
The definitive field handbook for corporate facilitators. This book provides turnkey, repeatable lesson plans divided across four critical performance pillars: Communication, Leadership, Planning, and Problem Solving. Each simulation features explicit presentation scripts, required resources, safety boundaries, and targeted debrief frameworks.
Core Content Highlight: Includes production-ready modules for classic initiatives like The Mine Field, Nuclear Reactor, Frog Pond, Puzzled Yet?, Bannuka, Knot Fun, Punctured Drum, Blindfold Maze, Maze of Frustration, Mammoth Monument, 20 Questions, and Old Fort Henry.
14 Minute Mentor: The Philosopher and the Professor Business Book Series
An essential text tackling the modern corporate crisis of knowledge drain as senior staff members prepare to retire. The book uses an innovative "split-page" format—the left side tracking a narrative fable by "The Philosopher" (Tyler Hayden) and the right side providing human resource frameworks by "The Professor" (Dr. Bill Howatt). It outlines a reliable plan to transfer valuable, unwritten tacit knowledge safely to your new hires.
The Mentoring Relationship Equation: To guarantee learning partners are well-matched, the authors introduce a holistic mathematical constraint:
(Drive x Distance) Mentee > (Gap x Relevance x Effort) Mentor
Message in a Bottle Book Series
Connecting people is what our inspirational book series titled Message in a Bottle is all about. Our books share messages of love, leadership, and legacy from contributors like you, our readers. We take special care to ensure our books are inspirational gifts that leave an enduring impact for generations to come.
Our contributors provide true stories, wisdom, and insight in letters to the most cherished people in their lives. contributors include: Alvin Law, Shelle Rose Charvet, Naomi Rhode, Mark Sanborn, Tami Evans and more.
Downloadable Team Building Tools Available - Kindle or Paperback and at Team Building School
As an industry thought leader in the gamification of team development and learning, Tyler has had the opportunity to build some amazingly impactful tools, from card games to apps for you and your teams. Now, with a simple click of the button you can download and use them almost instantly with your team.
Team Building 20: A Team Building Card Game
What is this? 20 Questions - Team Building Edition is a great team builder that drives home a specific learning outcome (i.e. Leadership, Customer Service, etc.) It can be done both in a virtual community or with your tribe live and in person. You can even edit and add cards that with custom questions for your group. This event is great for exploring content specific knowledge about a topic area in a fun and informal way.
Customer Experience 20: A Team Building Card Game
What is this? 20 Questions - Customer Experience 20 Edition is a great team builder that drives home a specific learning outcome (i.e. Leadership, Customer Service, etc.) This is the more edition because our customers loved the first version so much they wanted new questions -- so here it is! It can be done both in a virtual community or with your tribe live and in person. You can even edit and add cards that with custom questions for your group. This event is great for exploring content specific knowledge about a topic area in a fun and informal way.
Leadership 20: A Team Building Card Game
What is this? 20 Questions - Leadership 20 Edition is a great team builder that drives home a specific learning outcome (i.e. Leadership, Customer Service, etc.) This is the more edition because our customers loved the first version so much they wanted new questions -- so here it is! It can be done both in a virtual community or with your tribe live and in person. You can even edit and add cards that with custom questions for your group. This event is great for exploring content specific knowledge about a topic area in a fun and informal way.
More Team Building 20: A Team Bulding Card Game
What is this? 20 Questions - More Team Building Edition is a great team builder that drives home a specific learning outcome (i.e. Leadership, Customer Service, etc.) This is the more edition because our customers loved the first version so much they wanted new questions -- so here it is! It can be done both in a virtual community or with your tribe live and in person. You can even edit and add cards that with custom questions for your group. This event is great for exploring content specific knowledge about a topic area in a fun and informal way.
Flash Back: A Team Building Game: Team Building Activities
Flash Back: A Team Building Game is an interactive and fun team building activity that helps teams to develop interpersonal relationships. This great team building activity is a fantastic ice breaker game that promotes communication and dialogue between team members. The activity is a series of open ended card questions that have learners share "flash backs" to years gone past. It's a great way to get to know the history of those you work and play with.
Which One? & Why?: A Team Building Game: A Team Building Activity
A fast-paced choice playbook built on fun, split-second dilemmas (such as choosing between fancy restaurants vs fast food or airplane vs train travel). This game lets managers analyze how their team processes choices under tight project timeframes while naturally prompting lighthearted, energetic conversations. And it is a perfect icebreaker for huddles, project launches, and meetings or retreats.
If I Were in Charge of the World: A Team Building Game
This card game is a great team building activity that helps open your group to some creative ideas, laughs and great icebreaker fun. Team members will take turns finishing open ended statements about what they would do related to that topic if they were in charge of the world (i.e. If I were in charge of the world, I would abolish...) The statements range from policy setting to super fun.
Coffee Talk: A Nano Sized Team Building Game: A Team Building Activity
This intimate and interactive team-building game will have you and your team getting to know one another with the flip of a page. This is the premiere way to get your groups talking and a real hit at your next meeting, retreat or road trip! The book is bilingual in French and English.
Coffee Talk Two: Another Nano Sized Team Building Game
The resounding success of "Coffee Talk" was answered with "Coffee Talk 2!" The same intimate and interactive team-building game you have come to love with all new questions! Same stellar impact you expect and a great team building activity for your next retreat!
Downloadable Team Building Activity Templates, How to Videos & More
As an industry thought leader in the gamification of team development and learning, Tyler has had the opportunity to build some amazingly impactful tools, and now with a simple click of the button you can download and use them almost instantly with your team.
Commonalities: A Team Building Activity
Commonalities is a great game for events where you have multiple groups sitting in pods (aka at separate tables or breakout rooms). It helps to identify and create common bonds & connections between your team. You can lead it yourself or use the included explainer video featuring Tyler Hayden.
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If I Were in Charge of the World: A Team Building Activity
If I Were in Charge of the World is a great get to know you activity and ice breaker that is no sweat, fun and a bit out of the box. Teams will discover new things about people they have known "forever" and get a great introduction to people they're meeting for the very "first time". You can lead it yourself or use the included explainer video featuring Tyler Hayden.
4 Corners : A Team Building Activity
4 Corners is a great game for events where you want to have a mixer and ice breaker that gets people moving and meeting each other. Teams will discover new things about people they have known "forever" and get a great introduction to people they're meeting for the very "first time". You can lead it yourself or use the included explainer video featuring Tyler Hayden.
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Scavenger Hunter: A Team Bulding Activity
Scavenger Hunter is a great game for events where you have multiple groups sitting in pods (aka at separate tables or breakout rooms). It is a fun way to get people working together, solving a problem & getting focused on a common goal. You can lead it yourself or use the included explainer video featuring Tyler Hayden.
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If I Were in Charge of the World: A Team Building Activity
Coffee Talk is a great way to get teams talking and sharing one-on-one or is small cohorts. It is built so that you can easily update the information and program the questions to reflect your custom learning needs. It helps to create opportunities for connection, laughter and team bonding. You can lead it yourself or use the included explainer video featuring Tyler Hayden.
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People Poker : A Team Building Activity
People Poker has multiple editions that help you connect your people together by winning for getting the very best poker hand - but the only way you can win is by strategically finding people who help make your cards have increased value... its a great way to connect people and find unique things out about them, gamifiy and strategize the efforts of the individual player and have a ton of fun as a team. You can lead it yourself or use the included explainer video featuring Tyler Hayden.
Smarty Party: A Team Building Game
Smarty Party is a question and answer tool that takes your team through multiple rounds and allows you to add points for correct answers (and subtract too for incorrect ones).
The slide deck is fully customizable so you can add in your questions as they relate to multiple topic areas.
It is s fun tool that you can easily update your information into - and the fresh and vibrant colours make the for a lively splash at your next event!
There are two different "sizes" of slide decks so you can plan a longer or shorter version based on the time you have to invest.
TP Confessions: A Team Building Game
TP Confessions originated with a real life roll of toilet paper. It was a go to for so many years in trainers tool kits for organizing debriefs and a great get-to-know-you activity. Now you can have an electronic version that you can use in remote, hybrid and in person events. Learners choose a square on the play board and they get delivered their "number" of TP squares. For each square they get to perform a task (i.e. tell us one thing we don't know about you for every "square" you received, or one idea for rebranding for each square, etc.) It's a fun and simple way to generate great dialogue.
Tic Tac Toe: A Learning Tool
Tic Tac Toe was a game that you likely played on long car rides ... in addition to that you can apply it to help gamify your next training or team event. This event was built so that you can easily add a fun tool to your remote or hybrid events. The tool allows you to incentivize teams for making correct answers, sharing ideas, etc - the sky is the limit. This tool takes very little explanation on how to play - because it's a classic.
So You Want to be a Hundredaire: A Team Building Activity
Hundredaire is a great customizable tool that allows you to update the slide deck to represent information that is important to your team. You can then gamify the data by facilitating a game show like experience for your team. We show you how to customize the slide deck and give you the tools that you need to score the points and share the questions. Included is a short and long version so you can use it at a quick scrum or longer team event. This tool also has strategy, collaboration and risk as a core component to the game play.
All In: A Team Building Activity
All in is a great customizable tool that allows you to update the slide deck to represent survey data that is important to you. You can then gamify the data by facilitating a game show like experience for your team. We show you how to customize the slide deck and give you the tools that you need to score the points and share the questions. Included is a short and long version so you can use it at a quick scrum or longer team event.
House of Cards: A Team Building Activity
House of Cards is a great tool for quizzing your team. It blends a game show feel with the acquisition of points for knowledge. It can be used to add a bit of gamification to your course or training evaluations and outcomes. Or you can custom design it to deliver a great game that quizzes your team on trivia about the team (aka "The Game of Us")
Magic Two Ball: A Team Building Activity
Magic 2 Ball is a great game for events that fit nicely for teams from remote to in person - it's a fabulous tool that allows the team builder the opportunity to create a randomized and unique experience in breaking the ice 🏒 and connecting on a deeper level with your team. It helps to identify and create common bonds & connections between your team & its a metric ton of fun
Two Thumbs Up: A Team Building Activity
Two Thumbs Up is a great game for teams who are looking to get to know each other and desensitize communicating differing opinions. It helps to identify and create common bonds & connections between your team when played for fun, all the while normalizing/developing opportunity for debriefing differing opinions. You can lead it yourself or use the included explainer video featuring Tyler Hayden.
20 Questions Series of Team Building Activities
20 Questions Series of Games are a great tool for events and retreats where you have multiple groups sitting in pods (aka at separate tables or
breakout rooms) or a group of 10 to 12.
The random questions help to keep the responses interesting and often create tangents as teams share similar experience stories. It helps to identify and create common bonds & connections as well as expands your teams knowledge of one another.
You can lead it yourself or use the included explainer video featuring Tyler Hayden.
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Flash Back: A Team Building Activity
Flash Back is a great game for teams who are existing and want to delve a bit deeper into their team relationship by learning more about the history of their team mates. This informal inquiry based activity helps learners share thoughts and stories by prompting them with topical question cards. It helps to identify and create team bonding & reduces barriers between your team as they continue to bond. You can lead it yourself or use the included explainer video featuring Tyler Hayden.
Buzz Games: A Team Building Activity
Buzz Games are a collection of drawing or charades questions that you can easily apply to your next team event. It is a no sweat way of having a bit of physical fun while working together to solve a puzzle. It offers opportunity to hone your non-verbal communication and ideation skills. Also, this tool is easily customized to gamify your specific team learning outcomes. You can lead it yourself or use the included explainer video featuring Tyler Hayden.
I Like You Because ... : A Team Building Activity
I Like You Because ... is a fantastic team bonding activity that helps develop deeper connections through appreciation within a seasoned team. It can be done in person, remotely or hybrid. It helps to facilitate team members creating deeper bonds & connections all the while motivating and appreciating the individual (now and even later when they might need a boost). You can lead it yourself or use the included explainer video featuring Tyler Hayden.
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Which One and Why: A Team Building Activity
Which one and Why? is a great activity for events where you have teams that know each other a bit - but would like to deepen their connections. Its an event that uncovers attitudes, values, and opinions. It can help to identify and create common bonds & connections between your team (and even expose blindspots). You can lead it yourself or use the included explainer video featuring Tyler Hayden.
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How do I Find the Right Keynote Speaker for my Event?
You've got the venue locked in. The agenda is taking shape. Now comes the part that makes or breaks the whole thing — finding a keynote speaker who actually delivers.
Not just someone who fills the time slot. Someone who changes the room.
As a Canadian Hall of Fame Motivational Speaker who's been doing this for three decades, I've seen the booking process from both sides of the stage. Here's what I'd tell a trusted colleague trying to find the right professional speaker in Canada.
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The Mistake Almost Everyone Makes First
Google. I get it — it's fast, it's easy, and it gives you a list in seconds. The problem is that Google is easy to game. High rankings online don't equal professional credibility on stage. Someone can be brilliant at SEO and mediocre at speaking. Those two things have nothing to do with each other.
Instead, go to sources that actually vet speakers. Qualified speaker bureaus have watched speakers perform live and can match message to audience need — that's their whole job. Professional associations like the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS), the National Speakers Association (NSA), or the Global Speaking Federation exist specifically to hold members to professional standards. While you're there, look for credentials: Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), Hall of Fame (HoF), or CPAE. These aren't participation trophies — they represent speakers who are in the business of building real results for real audiences.
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5 Things to Look For Beyond the Bio and the Fee
Price and credentials are just the starting point. Once you've got a shortlist, dig deeper with these five questions.
First, have they spoken at similar associations or industries as yours? A speaker who's worked your room before — your sector, your audience, your context — is already one step ahead. Second, do they have testimonials from recognizable names or organizations in your industry? Anyone can collect a glowing quote; look for names your colleagues would recognize.
Third — and this one matters more than people realize — get on the phone. Make sure their content genuinely aligns with your learning outcomes and that they have real depth of knowledge for your specific audience. A polished reel and a real conversation are two very different things.
Fourth, do they understand adult learning across small, medium, and large group sizes? This is where a lot of professional speakers fall flat. Delivering content to 40 people in a breakout session is completely different from transferring that same learning to 800 people in a ballroom. Ask them directly how they adapt.
Fifth, be honest with yourself about whether you need celebrity draw. Hiring a well-known athlete or entertainer to fill seats is a completely legitimate strategy — but their message may not match your learning goals. Know which outcome you're actually buying.
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What to Ask Before You Sign Anything
Any good Canadian keynote speaker worth booking will spend 30 minutes or more with you before a contract gets signed. That conversation isn't a formality — it's where the real alignment happens.
It should cover what the learning outcomes are, who specifically is in the room (not just "HR professionals" but what they're dealing with right now, what keeps them up at night), what's happening around the event (who speaks before and after, what comes next in the conference arc), and what success looks like when everyone walks out the door. Those outcomes should be written down and measurable so there's no ambiguity when the event is over.
If a speaker isn't asking these questions, that tells you something.
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Finding the right keynote speaker for your Canadian event doesn't have to be a gamble. Go to trusted sources, ask the questions that actually matter, and insist on a real conversation before you commit. The right speaker will welcome all of it.
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