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In today's fast-shifting corporate landscape, event professionals face a common challenge: finding a keynote speaker who delivers deep, measurable substance without losing the room to a "sit-and-listen" lecture.
Tyler Hayden, CSP, HoF, bridges that gap. For over 30 years, Tyler has delivered 40–50 custom keynote presentations per year for Fortune 500 companies, major national associations, and healthcare organizations across North America. Blending intense audience interaction, adventure-driven storytelling, and clean corporate humour, Tyler converts passive conference attendees into active, connected learners.
Every speaking topic below is engineered around clear learning objectives and anchored by Tyler’s proprietary business frameworks—including the Multiple Intelligence Quotient (MIQ) and Rubber Chicken AI—ensuring behavioural change that extends long after the closing applause.
Motivational Speaker
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⚡️ High-Impact Motivation & Peak Performance
When an organization faces rapid industry changes, economic headwinds, or internal reorganization, keeping teams focused and productive requires more than basic management—it demands deep personal motivation. Tyler's signature motivational keynote uses edge-of-your-seat storytelling to shatter complacency, spark creative problem-solving, and build immediate momentum.
Featured Keynote:
🎙️Livin' Life Large: Sparking Passion and Peak Performance
🎙️Target Audience: Opening Keynote to set an electric tone, Closing Keynote to send people home inspired, Sales Kickoffs, Safety Events, Franchise Conventions, and Annual Conferences.
🎙️Core Themes: Unleashing Motivation, Overcoming Operational Setbacks, Shifting Mindsets, Embracing Organizational Change.
Key Learning Outcomes:
🚀 Ignite Immediate Momentum: Break through the "sit-and-listen" conference fatigue with an intensely interactive experience that shifts attendees from passive observers to highly motivated, active participants.
🏆 Cultivate a Peak-Performance Mindset: Use memorable adventure-based storytelling hooks (from skydiving to shark encounters) to install a lasting stress-management framework.
🔥 Drive Absolute Self-Accountability: Empower individuals to shatter complacency, own their professional growth, and align their daily efforts directly with the broader corporate vision.
Workplace Culture Speaker
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⚡️ Workplace Culture & Employee Retention
Building a committed, caring, and psychologically safe workplace culture is the single most effective lever for slowing down employee turnover and maximizing retention. Tyler’s culture programs give leaders and teams a practical system to design daily workflows around human connection.
Featured Keynote:
🎙️The Business That Cared About People: Aligning Management Practices with High-Trust Collaboration
🎙️Target Audience: Executives, HR Leaders, Managers, and Cross-Functional Corporate Teams.
🎙️Core Themes: Culture Transformation, Employee Appreciation, Hybrid Team Norms, Psychological Safety.
Key Learning Outcomes:
🤝 Shift from Transactional to Transformational: Discover how to transition daily team dynamics from basic task compliance to deep, high-trust collaboration that natively values the human element.
💎 Deploy Micro-Recognition Strategies: Learn how to design and execute tactical appreciation habits that combat workplace burnout and drastically reduce employee turnover.
🛡️ Establish Explicit Hybrid Norms: Create a clear, shared framework of behavioral expectations that protects psychological safety and maintains high accountability across remote and on-site teams.
Team Building Speaker
🎙️ Featured Keynote
⚡️ Team Building & Cross-Functional Skills
True team building is not a one-off social event; it is a learnable, systemic process. Drawing from decades of experience as an international team design expert, Tyler delivers highly interactive, gamified keynotes that break down departmental silos and forge progressive trust.
Featured Keynote:
🎙️In It to Win It: Hilarious Team Skills & Healthy Competition
🎙️Target Audience: Corporate Sales Teams, Project Management Groups, New Product Launch Conferences.
🎙️Core Themes: Healthy Competition, Creative Problem-Solving, Team Synergy, Adaptability.
Key Learning Outcomes:
🎯 Reveal Hidden Team Dynamics: Engage in low-organized, high-impact interactive challenges that immediately expose operational gaps, highlight individual strengths, and break down departmental silos.
🔄 Navigate High-Stress Disruptions: Strengthen cross-functional communication loops so teams can adapt to market shifts and collaborative friction with collective speed and agility.
🧩 Align Diverse Workspace Personalities: Master the art of gamified problem-solving to connect multi-generational workforces behind a single, clear corporate mission.
Leadership Speaker
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⚡️ Leadership & Structured Mentoring
As critical talent demands increase, business leaders face sleepless nights over knowledge transfer and employee development. Collaboratively written with industrial psychologist Dr. Bill Howatt, Tyler's leadership tracks teach managers how to design deliberate growth paths for tomorrow's workforce.
Featured Keynote:
🎙️14-Minute Mentor Building Structured Retention Solutions
🎙️Target Audience: Senior Leadership Teams, Emerging Leaders, Human Resources Professionals, Association Members.
🎙️Core Themes: Talent Management, Talent Retention, Knowledge Transfer, Intergenerational Leadership.
Key Learning Outcomes:
🧠 Unlock Tacit Organizational Knowledge: Master the operational frameworks required to capture and transfer unwritten, high-value expertise from senior veterans to incoming talent.
⏱️ Implement the 14-Minute Template: Deploy a streamlined, actionable mentoring system that fits into busy corporate schedules while immediately boosting baseline employee engagement.
🚀 Equip Next-Gen Emerging Leaders: Give rising managers the precise communication and coaching skills needed to navigate structural corporate changes and lead complex teams confidently.
Employee Engagement Speaker
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⚡️ Personal Resilience & Work-Life Balance
Sustainable business growth requires sustainable human performance. Based on Tyler’s bestselling book, this legendary keynote uses high-stakes adventure storytelling (from shark diving to trick airplane piloting) to give individuals actionable tools for energy management and self-growth.
Featured Keynote:
🎙️Livin' Life Large: Simple Actions that Create Success
🎙️Target Audience: Opening or Closing Conference Keynotes (50 to 8,000 attendees), Sales Kickoffs, Annual General Meetings.
🎙️Core Themes: Mental Toughness, Personal Accountability, Overcoming Setbacks, Energy Management.
Key Learning Outcomes:
⚡ Shift from Time to Energy Management: Move past outdated scheduling theory and learn practical boundary-setting tactics to maintain peak human performance under heavy pressure.
🔄 Reframe Disruptive Career Setbacks: Utilize edge-of-your-seat adventure storytelling frameworks to transform corporate change and personal roadblocks into direct avenues for growth.
🗺️ Build a Concrete Personal Mission: Leave the room with an actionable life blueprint designed to balance professional accountability with long-term personal well-being and resilience.
FAQ for Speaking Events
🎙️ Building the Keynote
⚡️ Tyler takes a Learning Design approach to all his speaking engagements.
Unlike generic motivational speakers, Tyler's presentations are directly backed by an advanced digital and pedagogical learning ecosystem that event planners can leverage for long-term impact:
Game Changers:
🧠 Multiple Intelligence Quotient (MIQ): Tyler’s innovative team application of Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences theory. By addressing linguistic, mathematical, kinesthetic, and interpersonal preferences on stage, Tyler ensures that the keynote hits every single learning preference in the room through multimodal design.
🤖 Rubber Chicken AI: A state-of-the-art corporate training platform built exclusively on 30 years of Tyler’s consulting data. Leaders gain ongoing post-event access to targeted AI modules including Sol (Icebreakers), Lune (Team Building), Trophy (Recognition), and Sage (Leadership Development).
🎓Team Building School: An online resource library and learning tracking hub containing thousands of downloadable activity plans and training courses to extend learning far beyond the main stage.
🎙️ Fees and Booking
⚡️ Speaking Fees & Booking Information
💰Keynote Fee Range: $7,000 – $14,500 CAD per speech (varies by event scope, travel, and custom program requirements).
❤️ Community Support: A standard ~20% “Caring for the Caregiver” discount is available for qualifying non-profit and healthcare organizations based on operational need.
🧬 Custom Content Options: Every session includes a deep-dive intake call with Tyler to weave your custom corporate outcomes, product data, or organizational milestones directly into the live keynote architecture.
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