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Beyond the Traditional Keynote: Canada’s Answer to Alternative Energy
Every corporate event planner faces the same high-stakes challenge: opening an annual conference with a jolt of genuine momentum, or closing it with inspiration that actually sticks. Traditional motivational speeches often fade the moment the audience leaves the room.
Tyler Hayden, CSP, HoF, delivers a completely different class of main stage experience. Affectionately dubbed "Canada’s Answer to Alternative Energy," Tyler combines almost three decades of full-time professional speaking with a high-octane, interactive approach to gamified adult learning. Speaking to audiences ranging from intimate executive groups of 20 to stadium crowds of 8,000, Tyler shatters the passive "sit-and-listen" conference fatigue within his first "hello."
Blending clean corporate humor, unforgettable adventure storytelling (from flying stunt airplanes to diving with Great White Sharks), and research-backed frameworks, Tyler ensures your audience isn't just entertained—they are deeply engaged, connected, and equipped with road-ready behavioural tools.
Motivational Keynotes & Programs
Explore some of the fan favourite motivational keynote presentations that Tyler has to offer. His programs and learning events centre around leadership and team building and work life balance and fun. Don't see what you're looking for reach out we'd love to explore with you.
Sustainable corporate performance requires deep psychological safety and a culture of real appreciation.
Based on Tyler’s foundational workplace consulting methodologies, this keynote teaches managers and teams how to move away from transactional daily tasks and toward a transformational, highly supportive workspace.
Description
Rooted deeply in Tyler's foundational book and 30+ years of deep-dive organizational consulting, this program tackles the silent killer of enterprise growth: disconnected corporate culture. Tyler brings his trademark interactive mechanics directly into the room, turning the audience into a living, breathing laboratory of team dynamics.
Through quick, hilarious peer-to-peer communication challenges and storytelling that unmasks the hidden friction in daily workflows, Tyler cuts through traditional HR theory. He demonstrates exactly how to break down departmental silos, build deep psychological safety, and engineer a workspace where human connection drives bottom-line execution.
Attendees become active users of the very solutions that they will bring back and implement for a better Monday (and beyond).
Core Themes: Workplace Culture Transformation, Employee Appreciation, Hybrid Collaboration, Talent Retention.
Learning Outcomes
🤝 Transition from Transactional to Transformational: Train team members to identify and replace transactional communication loops with high-trust collaboration habits, measurable via internal team-pulse scores within 30 days.
💎 Deploy Targeted Micro-Recognition Habits: Enable managers to implement at least two zero-cost, structured micro-appreciation habits per week, focusing on quantifiable lift in localized employee retention over the next quarter.
🛡️ Establish Explicit Workspace Norms: Lead cross-functional groups to draft and commit to 3 explicit behavioural expectations during the session to support psychological safety or engagement across remote, hybrid, and on-site teams.
🚨 Learning can be this much fun. You'll experience some unexpected activities and engagement activations that drive learning in unprecedented and fun ways.
Delivery Options
Ideal Placement: General Session, HR Conferences, or Leadership Team Alignments.
🎙️ Keynote
🛜 Virtual/Remote
🕹️ Hybrid
🧰 Workshop
This premier content-rich presentation uses edge-of-your-seat adventure narratives to challenge audiences to redefine their personal and professional boundaries.
Tyler gives individuals a practical strategic plan to balance relentless corporate execution with sustainable health, laughter, engagement and personal well-being.
Description
Based on Tyler’s bestselling book Livin' Life Large, this isn't your typical passive keynote—it is a high-octane main-stage experience. Tyler fuses edge-of-your-seat live adventure storytelling (from diving with Great White Sharks to piloting high-performance stunt airplanes) with his signature audience-interaction "secret sauce."
He shatters morning fatigue or mid-day conference slumps within the first 60 seconds, using quick-witted corporate humor and immersive floor challenges.
Attendees don't just sit and listen; they physically participate in a self-reflective exploration of personal and professional boundaries, learning how to shift their mindset from surviving the workplace grind to crushing it, and connecting with their peers in unprecedented ways. Creating connections that last beyond the event.
Core Themes: High-Impact Motivation, Personal Accountability, Work-Life Integration, Overcoming Setbacks, Connection, Networking, Laughter.
Learning Outcomes
🚀 Ignite Immediate Momentum: Shift 100% of conference attendees from passive observers into highly motivated participants by engaging them in an interactive gamified icebreaker within the first 5 minutes of the session.
⚡ Execute Strategic Energy Management: Equip every participant to create and deploy a personalized daily energy-boundary checklist within 48 hours post-event to replace outdated time-blocking habits and prevent burnout.
🔄 Reframe Disruptive Career Setbacks: Provide teams with a 3-step cognitive reframing model that allows them to objectively map a current corporate operational roadblock into an actionable professional opportunity before the closing applause.
🚀 Activations that engage is the core of this keynote. It is jam packed with amazing activity based learning and networking that is fun, learning centric and not fluffy.
🚨 DON'T TELL YOUR BOSS that you laughed till your belly hurts and learned so much while having fun.
Delivery Options
Ideal Placement: Opening Keynote to set an electric tone, or Closing Keynote to send people home inspired.
🎙️ Keynote
🛜 Virtual/Remote
🕹️ Hybrid
Co-authored alongside prominent industrial psychologist Dr. Bill Howatt, this heavily tactical presentation tackles the massive demographic shifts happening across modern organizations.
Tyler guides leadership teams through the process of capturing high-value, unwritten expertise from veterans to incoming talent.
Description
Co-authored with prominent industrial psychologist Dr. Bill Howatt, this masterclass keynote addresses the catastrophic brain drain hitting modern enterprises.
Tyler strips away the slow-moving, over-engineered formats of legacy corporate mentoring and replaces them with a lean, rapid-fire operational system. Infusing the session with dynamic audience-pairing exercises, sharp storytelling, and practical workplace analytics, Tyler reveals how to extract high-value, unwritten expertise from senior veterans and transfer it to emerging talent.
It is fast, funny, and deeply tactical—giving your rising leaders the exact coaching tools they need without derailing daily productivity.
Core Themes: Knowledge Transfer, Talent Management, Intergenerational Teams, Mentorship Strategy.
Learning Outcomes
🧠 Unlock Tacit Organizational Knowledge: Teach senior leaders to isolate, document, and pass down 2 key pieces of unwritten operational expertise using a standardized framework within 14 days of the presentation.
⏱️ Deploy the 14-Minute Mentoring Template: Give managers a turn-key, friction-free weekly mentoring template designed to be executed in exactly 14 minutes, tracking a baseline engagement lift across direct reports within 60 days.
🚀 Equip Next-Gen Emerging Leaders: Arm rising professionals with 3 specific active-listening and behavioural-coaching techniques to reduce intergenerational friction and confidently manage corporate structural changes.
🚨 Participate in activity based learning and have some fun - shhhh don't tell anyone that learning is fun.
Delivery Options
Ideal Placement: Senior Leadership Forums, Franchise AGM Breakouts, or Emerging Leader Seminars.
🎙️ Keynote
🛜 Virtual/Remote
🕹️ Hybrid
🧰 Workshop
Based on Tyler’s popular book Virtually Engaged Team Building Activities, this session addresses the modern epidemic of workplace isolation and disconnected workflows. Tyler cuts through typical flat "webinar fatigue" by injecting his trademark interactive mechanics directly through the screen or into a hybrid venue layout.
By introducing his standard framework—the 3 Fs of Team Building: Fun, Fast Forward, and Fix—Tyler transforms standard online calls into high-energy laboratories of peer-to-peer engagement. Leaders and managers walk away with an immediate, field-tested toolkit of over 101 structured online activities that strip away awkward, forced Zoom interactions and build progressive, authentic connection.
Description
Buckle your seat belts and get ready for a Deep Dive into Team Engagement strategies that will enable the leaders to be effective in their evolving practice. Recently, loneliness was deemed to be an epidemic.
In a pursuit to ensure healthy workplaces and productive employees, leaders need to fill their tool kits with ways to engage both onsite and remote workers efficiently and effectively.
In this session you will quickly realize that the through line to keeping people engaged is though solid team design and building. Trouble is no one has ever shown us how - until now.
You are invited to spend an interactive (and hilarious ) session with Team Design Expert Tyler Hayden CSP. Author of over 25 books. Creator of 100's of engaging team building solutions. And Consultant to major organizations on building better work culture, team cohesion and management performance. And curator of Team Building School (www.teambuildingschool.com). Come explore simple solutions that you can implement immediately to keep your teams engaged and functioning collectively in our remote and hybrid workplaces.
This session is based on several of Tyler's books including: Virtually Engaged Team Building Activities: A Managers Guide to Increasing Remote Engagement, The Business that Cared About People - A Leader's Guide to Team Building and Engagement Using Multiple Intelligences; Coffee Talk Series; and of course Team Building School.
Core Themes: Remote Team Connection, Asynchronous Collaboration, Loneliness Mitigation, Hybrid Workplace Pedagogy, Gamified Team Design.
Learning Outcomes
🌐 Eradicate Screen Fatigue: Train virtual or hybrid managers to deploy at least one fast, non-cringe micro-engagement activity during the opening 5 minutes of recurring weekly online meetings, measurable via an immediate lift in active camera and chat participation.
🎯 Implement the 3 Fs Matrix: Empower team leads to audit and structure their upcoming team-development calendars using the Fun, Fast Forward, and Fix framework to ensure virtual interactions explicitly target business operational gaps rather than "fluffy" socialization.
🔄 Standardize Hybrid Style Guides: Guide remote divisions to co-create and deploy a unified virtual workplace communication guide within 14 days of the session, reducing communication lag and tech friction across geographically dispersed team members.
🚀 Uncover the power of the Team Swell to deliver progressive team engagement opportunities in a busy workplace.
Delivery Options
Ideal Placement: Virtual All-Hands Meetings, Hybrid Corporate Conferences, Multi-Site Leadership Seminars, or Remote Workforce Retreats.
🎙️ Keynote
🛜 Virtual/Remote
🕹️ Hybrid
🧰 Workshop
Anchored by Tyler’s disruptive Flip Me the Bird framework, this cutting-edge presentation bridges the gap between advanced technology and raw human connection. Tyler introduces leadership teams to Rubber Chicken AI—his exclusive corporate training ecosystem engineered from 30 years of primary consulting metadata.
Tyler guides organizations through the precise process of deploying automated, micro-learning assets at scale. Leaders learn how to leverage hyper-customized digital modules—Sol (Energizers), Lune (Team Building), Trophy (Recognition), and Sage (Mentorship)—to maintain high-impact culture building every day without over-allocating human resources.
Description
Welcome to the future of workplace engagement. Built around Tyler's disruptive framework Flip Me the Bird, this presentation demonstrates how to supercharge human connection by pairing raw human psychology (MIQ) with state-of-the-art technology.
Tyler takes the stage to demystify artificial intelligence, showcasing his exclusive Rubber Chicken AI platform—a digital training ecosystem fed by 30 years of his proprietary consulting data. Through hilarious live tech interactions, onstage automation experiments, and storytelling that connects software directly to human emotion, Tyler shows leaders how to automate culture-building.
This session shows you exactly how to use AI to deliver hyper-customized team icebreakers, recognition scripts, and leadership mentoring frameworks at scale.
Core Themes: AI Culture Integration, Scalable Workplace Engagement, Human-Tech Synergy, Automated Recognition, Continuous Learning.
Learning Outcomes
🤖 Adopt Automated Culture-Building Tools: Train managers to access and launch targeted AI training modules—including Sol (Energizers), Lune (Team Building), Trophy (Recognition), and Sage (Mentorship)—within 48 hours post-event.
📈 Scale Hyper-Customized Team Activities: Enable team leads to generate and execute 1 customized, MIQ-aligned team-activation plan per week using Rubber Chicken AI, requiring less than 5 minutes of preparation time.
🏆 Automate High-Impact Employee Recognition: Teach HR professionals to leverage AI data inputs to build automated, highly personalized peer-to-peer recognition frameworks that increase quarterly internal culture metric scores.
Delivery Options
Ideal Placement: Annual General Meetings (AGMs), Tech-Forward Corporate Conferences, Sales Kickoffs, or Innovation Keynotes.
🎙️ Keynote
🛜 Virtual/Remote
🕹️ Hybrid
🧰 Workshop
Based on Tyler's premier Leader's Pack methodology, this program is a deep, gamified exploration of how your workforce actually processes information. Moving far beyond flat personality tests, Tyler takes Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences theory and converts it into a high-trust operational weapon.
Through interactive stage demonstrations that test linguistic, logical, kinesthetic, and interpersonal preferences in real time, leaders discover why communication breaks down and where hidden productivity is being lost. It is a eye-opening, high-energy session that gives executive teams the ultimate playbook for aligning job roles with natural human strengths.
Description
Based on Tyler’s elite Leader's Pack framework, this deep-dive organizational program transforms abstract behavioural theory into a concrete management weapon.
Tyler guides management and leadership teams through a practical translation of Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences theory, demonstrating how different brains process corporate directives. By mapping linguistic, logical-mathematical, kinesthetic, and interpersonal profiles across your workforce, Tyler gives managers a structured system to eliminate communication friction, align tasks with natural human strengths, and build highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary teams.
This session is based on several of Tyler's books including: Virtually Engaged Team Building Activities: A Managers Guide to Increasing Remote Engagement, The Business that Cared About People - A Leader's Guide to Team Building and Engagement Using Multiple Intelligences; Coffee Talk Series; and of course Team Building School and Rubber Chicken AI.
Core Themes: Cognitive Diversity, Cognitive Alignment, Cross-Functional Communication, Team Optimization, Human-Centred Management, & Tailored Leadership.
Learning Outcomes
📊 Audit Team Learning Preferences: Enable leaders to accurately map the dominant cognitive and communicative learning preferences of their teams within 14 days using the Leader's Pack assessment diagnostic.
🎯 Optimize Task-to-Talent Alignment: Empower managers to restructure at least two major cross-functional projects based on MIQ data, directly matching tasks to individual linguistic, logical, or kinesthetic profiles.
🔄 Minimize Operational Miscommunication: Give teams a shared vocabulary to identify communication bottlenecks instantly, reducing project rework driven by misaligned instruction delivery within the first month.
🧠 Learn New Development Tools: Learn three tools that you can easily implement for an upcoming team building session with staff.
🚀 Uncover the power of the Team Swell: Discover ho to deliver progressive team engagement opportunities in a busy workplace.
Delivery Options
Ideal Placement: Corporate Executive Retreats, Management Alignment Sessions, or High-Potential Emerging Leader Cohorts.
🎙️ Keynote
🛜 Virtual/Remote
🕹️ Hybrid
🧰 Workshop
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