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Keynotes and Workshops
SIGNATURE LEADERSHIP: TRANSFORM THE WAY YOU LEAD
It’s too often that leaders carve their path by learning to follow in the steps of their predecessors, turning to the outside to find ways to grow their skills. In order to unlock your true Signature Leadership, you must start by looking inward. This session focuses on what lies beneath the surface in your unique leadership strengths, challenges, and purpose so that you can lead your team through change.
Appearing on CNN, Forbes, and the TEDx stage, Jamie Mason Cohen has unearthed unique and accurate insights into some of the world’s foremost leaders. His Signature Leadership process taps into those distinct aspects of leadership that stem from within. Jamie is also a regularly featured commentator on Global’s, The Morning Show, helping people discover their true strengths and compassionately bringing immediate awareness to the blindspots that hold them back from moving to the next level.
This session will:
- Show you the strengths — and blind spots — that make up your signature leadership
- Teach you how to communicate effectively with your unique signature leadesrhip style
- Grant you a holistic understanding of your team, and how to use your unique leadership strengths to transform your culture into one that supports purpose, process, and progress
Watch the SIGNATURE LEADERSHIP TRAILER:
SATURDAY NIGHT LEADERS: WHAT’S YOUR 11:30?
HOW TO UNLOCK CREATIVE LEADERSHIP ON A DEADLINE
There are two types of leaders today: creative and reactive. Which one are you when it’s decision making time?
Your answer to this question is your 11:30. Lorne Michaels, the Executive Producer of Saturday Night Live, said, “Saturday Night Live was not ready because it was finished, it was ready because it was 11:30 on Saturday Night.”
What do you get when you bring together one of the business world’s top data-informed leadership 360s, and backstage stories of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE? Weaving together invaluable data insights with the fascinating real stories behind the revered creative institution that is SNL, this session will teach leaders and teams how to grow through effective leadership in today’s volatile, complex and ambiguous business world.
What kind of a leader will you be at 11:30? Creative? Reactive? or a SATURDAY NIGHT LEADER?
This session will:
- Develop awareness of creative leadership strengths + Transform reactive blindspots
into growth opportunities - Tangibly infuse your work with deeper meaning and purpose
- Dramatically improve team alignment to solve urgent problems
WATCH THE SATURDAY NIGHT LEADERS TRAILER:
BUSINESS ON THE BRINK
HOW TO NAVIGATE MASSIVE CHANGE AND CONSTANT DISRUPTION
This engaging session will provide businesses with timely, actionable real-time guidance on how to navigate the massive change and constant disruption that comes with growth. In every crisis there lies an opportunity, but sometimes it requires an unconventional — and perhaps ounterintuitive — approach to capitalize on it. This is exactly what Jamie Mason Cohen explores in this keynote or workshop inspired by the lessons learned from his social media business series by the same name that helped a company grow by 30%.
After seeing the need for clear and simple business solutions during times of crisis, Jamie merged his background in media production and his expertise as an executive leadership coach to create a way to help business owners make massive progress on their most pressing issues during times of disruption. As a regular speaker for the largest network of CEO Advisory Board Groups in Canada and the U.S., who formerly worked for Saturday Night Live Executive Producer Lorne Michaels, as well as being a certified Leadership Coach with The Leadership Circle, Jamie has taken his wide scope of experience to equip leaders with deeper insights surrounding:
- Practical, real-time guidance on how to navigate massive change
- How to turn pivotal moments of friction into progress
- How to tap into the collective intelligence of a team to get solutions during times of disruption
- How to use CHAT GPT for your industry to efficiently adapt during transition
This is not business on the brink of failure. This is BUSINESS ON THE BRINK OF A BREAKTHROUGH
WATCH THE BUSINESS ON THE BRINK TRAILER:
*Note: the keynote or workshop is inspired by this series created by Jamie Mason Cohen
BUSINESS STORYTELLING
HOW TO COMMUNICATE PURPOSEFULLY, PERSUASIVELY, AND EMPATHETICALLY IN A BOLD, NEW WORLD
Hybrid business meetings, retreats, pitches, presentations and client engagement are here to stay. It might take a combination of delivery forms in the months ahead but how you and your team communicate is a crucial skill for your team to master both externally and internally.
Yet so many remote interactions are a cross between PowerPoint Slide Karaoke, and random ChatGPT prompts, a sleep-inducing data dump and a one-sided poorly lit lecture by wonderful professionals who transform into stiff, unsmiling robots when the computer camera turns on.
This regrettable problem can be resolved with some engaging and practical training from a speaker who not only worked behind-the-scenes at SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, but is a regular guest TV commentator on CNN, Global’s The Morning Show, and The Social and who has given virtual workshops to Fortune 500 executive teams, business owners, physicians, professors and other leaders in twenty-one countries.
Learning Outcomes Include:
- How to build the timeless skill of storytelling for business, regardless of the medium (virtual or F2F) to persuade any audience, to build culture, to sell, to improve relationships, to recruit, or to create community through the 4C Framework
- How to balance analytical/data-driven messages so that you can connect emotionally with the audience and reach their hearts
- How to avoid the data dump and get your audience to remember your key message that you want them to act on
WATCH THE BUSINESS STORYTELLING TRAILER:
THINK LIKE A CUSTOMER, RELATE LIKE A FRIEND, INFORM LIKE A STORYTELLER
In this engaging and hands-on workshop break-out session, award-winning Leadership Speaker and Facilitator, Jamie Mason Cohen will help you and your team highlight three types of buyers your team is challenged with in a useful, different and customized way.
He will then present the audience with highly relevant questions to change the way your team thinks about and approaches conversations with customers.
Each member of your team will identify three actionable takeaways from the session and build them into their individual business plans to track individual growth over the next year.
A company Jamie worked with significantly grew their market share within six months after the session.
Jamie Mason Cohen formerly worked in marketing, sales and production for Lorne Michaels’ companies, including, Saturday Night Live, was recently nominated for Meeting Planners International Speaker of the Year, NY, and is the Host of one of Canada’s most listened-to business podcasts, TEC Canada’s, The Leadership Standard.
Jamie has delivered keynotes and workshops for The Insurance Brokers Association of Nova Scotia (IBANS), The Project Management Institute of Calgary, Baker Tilly Accounting, TEC Canada (Calgary and Edmonton Branches) Sun Life Financial, and Canada Life to help companies better understand their customers’ needs and get transformational results.
Your audience will gain:
- How to think like your 3 ideal customer types
- How to envision success, win and have conversations with confidence with these customers
- Insights into your customers’ needs to grow
“You were so incredible and the message was outstanding. Always thankful for your impact on so many people in attendance at that conference that took us from the bottom to the top levels in the country. I credit your contribution to our successes that year and several other years!”
– Kevin Loucks, VP, SunLife Financial, BC, Organizer, SunLife Sales Conference
Signature Leadership: Make Your Mark on Business Conversations that Matter Most.
Topic: Conflict resolution/management in today’s workplace
Keynote Speech and Experiential Workshop options by Jamie Mason Cohen
Audience: Leadership conferences, associations, C-Suite Leaders, Key Executives, HR, frontline employees in corporations, CEOs and Emerging Leaders of mid-size companies
Title: Signature Leadership: Make Your Mark on Business Conversations that Matter Most.
What is unresolved and unnecessary conflict costing your company?
Leadership Communication Executive Trainer with The Leadership Circle, Jamie Mason Cohen, conducted a three-year study with CEOs and key executive business leaders from 100 companies on the actual cost of unresolved and unnecessary conflict.
The average wasted time per day due to unresolved and unnecessary conflict, according to the business leaders surveyed, is 4 hours.
That’s 4 hours per day of wasted time x 1 year of work (one thousand plus hours) adversely impacting the mental health, productivity, and bottom line of companies from various industries.
Jamie was awarded Top Business Trainer by Dale Carnegie Training, and has conducted leadership communication and conflict resolution sessions for a decade with corporations (including Sun Life Financial, Novo Nordisk Pharma, Baker Tilly Accounting, Vistage and Meeting Planners International). He is a bestselling author on leadership team building and has been featured in Forbes, TED.com and CNN. Plus, he’s kind of funny, as he worked behind the scenes for Saturday Night Live.
What attendees will gain from this session are useful, experiential strategies, a clear and relevant proven framework, timely case studies and inspiring and relatable stories on how to significantly reduce wasted time per day from unresolved and unnecessary conflict.
As a result, your company will save money, reduce mental health issues and increase productivity.
Outcomes include:
- Reduction in wasted time that can lead to a significant increase in productivity.
- Improvement in mental health, and team well-being that can lead to happier employees, less friction and lower turnover.
- Positive, measurable impact on the bottom line.
THE PURPOSE-DRIVEN, PROFITABLE BUSINESS IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
In a recent survey, 19% of the workforce expressed that they are miserable in their work and feeling burnt out. One proven solution to reverse this mental health crisis is discovering or rediscovering a sense of purpose in what you do. Purpose-driven entrepreneurs and companies are happier and more productive and the teams that they lead are, as well. Purpose-driven companies have 30% higher retention rates.
Jamie Mason Cohen, a certified leadership trainer with The Leadership Circle has helped teams quickly, effectively and inspiringly tap into their individual and collective purpose in a transformational session that you have to experience to believe.
The President of Master Mechanic (60 Franchises and growing across Ontario) said of Jamie’s March ’24 purpose-driven workshop, “I’ve never seen anything like this in my career leading franchisees. I’ve never seen anywhere close to this level of total engagement, openness and sharing amongst franchisee owners that I did today. It was electric.”
Jamie has delivered keynotes and workshops for The Insurance Brokers Association of Nova Scotia (IBANS), The Project Management Institute of Calgary, Baker Tilly Accounting, TEC Canada (Calgary and Edmonton Branches) Sun Life Financial, and Canada Life to help companies better understand their customers’ needs and get transformational results.
The transformation will include teams leaving the session happier in their work, working smarter, not harder, more productive moving forward, hopeful and more profitable, and having a measurable and positive impact on retention and recruitment.
1. SATURDAY NIGHT LEADERS: How to Drive Results on a Deadline
Legendary Executive Producer of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, Lorne Michaels was famous for saying to his team, “the show was not ready because it was finished; the show was ready because it was 11:30 on Saturday night.” What does “11:30” represent to your organization? What pressing deadlines does your team need to meet? When time is running out on a mission-critical project, your team’s productivity can head out the door with it. How do you motivate and inspire your people when tight deadlines and significant dollars are at stake in a constantly changing business landscape? Jamie Mason Cohen, a former member of the SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE production team, has an insider’s perspective to share with your team. He’ll help you apply the sure-proof SNL, behind-the-scenes, business lessons and skills that are inspired by the longest-running show in U.S. media history. Jamie will show your team how they can adjust and thrive in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world.Attendees leave with actionable to help:
- Dramatically increase productivity and efficiency
- Inspire effective teamwork through compassionate accountability
- Focus your team on outcomes over outputs
- Produce creative solutions on a deadline
2. LIVING YOUR VALUES
Participants will create a Values Board in which they identify, clarify, map out and integrate GRATITUDE, ORGANIZATIONAL VALUES, LEADER’S VALUES, PERSONAL VALUES AND ADAPTABILITY into their day-to-day lives. A values board is a powerful tool created by Jamie Mason Cohen to picture what matters most to us in our life, what we’re grateful for along our journey and provides an instant roadmap to help us achieve our most meaningful goals.Learning Outcomes:
- Provides a unique and inclusive method for creating deep understanding of individual and team core values and how they impact team morale, motivation and results
- Gives a practical and inspiring team process for building gratitude and adaptability at work
- Develops organization-wide clarity on your team’s shared values during challenging and uncertain times
3. VIRTUAL STORYTELLING: How to Engage Your Audience Virtually with On-Camera Charisma Coaching
Virtual business meetings, pitches, presentations and client engagement are here to stay. It might take a hybrid form in the months ahead but how you and your team communicate in a virtual setting is a crucial skill for your team to master both externally and internally. Yet so many remote interactions are a cross between PowerPoint Slide Karaoke, a sleep-inducing data dump and a one-sided poorly lit lecture by wonderful professionals who transform into stiff, unsmiling robots when the computer camera turns on. This regrettable problem can be resolved with some engaging and practical training from a speaker who not only worked at SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, but is a regular guest TV commentator on CNN, Global’s The Morning Show, and The Social and who has given virtual workshops to Fortune 500 executive teams, busines owners, physicians, professors and other leaders in fifteen countries.Learning Outcomes Include:
- Know how to capture and become a magnet for your audience’s attention.
- How to build the timeless skill of storytelling for business, regardless of the medium (virtual or F2F) to persuade any audience, to build culture, to sell, to improve relationships, to recruit, or to create community
- How to balance analytical/data driven messages so that you can connect emotionally with the audience and reach their hearts.
- How to avoid the data dump and get your audience to remember your key message that you want them to act on.
- How to create on-camera confidence and charisma to lower your own stress and increase audience motivation by up to 50%
His goal: to find out what their #1 problem is, and to bring together leading business experts and trailblazing CEOs from across North America (virtually and some in-person locally) to help come up with counter-intuitive, unconventional yet potentially successful strategies to turn crisis into an opportunity.
The business owners who participated, left with viable advice, hope and an action plan.
This session will dive into Jamie’s findings in these interviews for this TV pilot zeroing in on how businesses can effectively adapt to constant disruption.
It will be followed by an in-depth 2021 real-time ONE BIG THING goal-setting session by YOU.
Your team will be equipped with focused, concrete actions they can put into motion.
They will be guided on how to build a mindset that incorporates resilience, optimism and realistic expectations. They will walk away with renewed and reinvigorated confidence to tackle what is in their control to make the year ahead their most meaningful and purposeful one yet.
Jamie Mason Cohen
Was nominated for Speaker of the Year 2020 by Meeting Planning International New York. He is the Creator of the upcoming business reality TV Pilot, BUSINESS ON THE BRINK, a Resilience + Leadership Virtual Keynote Speaker and Graphotherapist.
He gives regular virtual business & leadership workshops to Fortune 500 and mid-size companies. His work has been featured in Forbes, Business Insider and TED. His TEDx talk on disruptive leadership and resilience has been viewed over 2.2 million times.
It keeps personal and professional goals and steps in the process front and center in your thoughts
Heightens your perceptive abilities to notice opportunities that you may have overlooked.
- When a reporter asked Gandhi, “What is your message.” Gandhi thought for a moment and said, “My life is my message.
I believe that all of our lives are our message.” That’s what a values board reminds you of every day.
MY RECENT GLOBAL’S, THE MORNING SHOW EPISODE:
Jamie explaining How to Create a Values Board on Global's, The Morning Show.
Testimonials
I believe everyone should work with Jamie – from HR professionals evaluating candidates, C-level execs understanding a team’s personality to business profs pinpointing their own strengths.
Raluca Tarcea,
Marketing Manager
FOR ANY READER OF THE KINDLE OR PAPER-BACK VERSION OR LISTENER OF THE LIVE FROM YOUR CLASS AUDIO-BOOK, WHO WANTS TO BOUNCE IDEAS FROM THE BOOK AND HOW IT RELATES TO HELPING CREATE AN INCLUSIVE AND ENGAGING VIRTUAL WORKING ENVIRONMENT, WE EXTEND THE COURTESY OF A 20-MINUTE DISCOVERY SESSION.
It’s a simple, no-strings way to brainstorm ideas and get clarity on any number of the topics Jamie covered in LIVE FROM YOUR CLASS with specific questions related to using practical, engaging and modern tools to teach in virtual or in-person classrooms, help your staff lead through change, and to build strong relationships between school staff, students and parents.
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"Personal development is leadership development "
Jamie Mason Cohen on Co-Created Leadership