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Tim Magwood

Speaker

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Master Storyteller & Catalyst

Tim is a creative, collaborative and passionate leader. A colleague describes him as a “lightening rod in driving positive change.” Tim has the head of an entrepreneur, the heart of a coach, and the soul of a singer/songwriter. As a seasoned facilitator and presenter, he has brought value to over 10,000 participants.

Keynote Speeches

Leading with Heartfullness - Thrive vs. Survive!

Mindfulness matters. It has never been more important in our uncertain world.

The problem is, we are too mind-full! Busyness has become a disease.

What about the heart?

We need to take much better care of ourselves, our loved ones and our teammates to thrive vs just survive.

In today’s uncertain, disrupted, complex and rapidly changing global business environment, we need to be more courageous to connect, collaborate and pay attention to well-being. We have an opportunity to lead with more “heartfulness.” Heartfulness is a term coined by Tim about tapping into and trusting our innate heart-based intelligence and capabilities.

Tim has the mind of an entrepreneur, the heart of a coach/storyteller and a soul of a performer. He is a rare breed who has been successful both in business and as an artist. He leverages all of his passions and strengths in this interactive tour du force keynote. It can be delivered either virtually, or face to face. He provides insights, a core framework, stories and experiential exercises to inspire and energize the audience.

As one of Canada’s top thought leaders in workplace culture and storytelling, Tim’s interactive keynote demonstrates how to lead with heart, purpose and leaves his audiences with practical tools to become more heartful at home, work and at play.

Leading Complex Culture Change

Most of us are familiar with the famous Peter Drucker saying, “Culture will eat Strategy for breakfast.”  This is truer than ever. But leading complex change is tough!

One of the key problems is, culture is too often top-down vs inclusive.

If we want to instill high levels of commitment, empowerment, accountability with culture transformations, we need to co-create vs dictate.

In this experiential and practical keynote, Tim provides useful frameworks, inspiring stories and exercises to share and unpack critical success factors for complex culture change. Transformational change at its core is identity work and an inside-out discovery process that requires, vision, heart and focused commitment. It’s not for the faint of heart and just doesn’t work with old school, didactic leadership.

Tim Magwood has the mind of an entrepreneur, the heart of a coach/storyteller and a soul of a performer. He is a rare breed who has been successful both in business and as an artist. He leverages all of his passions and strengths to simplify this complex topic. As one of Canada’s top thought leaders in workplace culture and storytelling, Tim’s interactive keynote demonstrates how to lead with heart, purpose and leaves his audiences with inspiration and practical tools to better navigate transformational change. It can be delivered either virtually, or face to face.

Storytelling to Fuel Inspiring Leadership

Business stories are one of a leader’s most powerful tools. Yet very few teams tap into the power of stories.

Too often communication is data-driven, connecting only with the head. Progressive leaders lead with vision & heart and harness the power of storytelling to engage and inspire their people.

Tim is a passionate storyteller and a partner in Canada’s leading business storytelling company, Stories Rule! Leveraging his professional acting training, he creates unforgettable experiences using the inspiring leadership stories from the Stories Rule! library to support key conference outcomes and energize his audiences.

If you have a need to mix it up, be bolder and avoid “same old same old,” connect with Tim and the Stories Rule! team to inject storytelling into your next conference.

Tim Magwood has the mind of an entrepreneur, the heart of a coach/storyteller and a soul of a performer. He is a rare breed who has been successful both in business and as an artist. As one of Canada’s top thought leaders in workplace culture and storytelling, Tim’s interactive keynote demonstrates how to tell stories and leaves his audiences with inspiration and practical tools. It can be delivered either virtually, or face to face.

Burning Out or Burning Bright?

Burnout is an increasingly common phenomenon in today’s fast-paced world.

Delving into the signs and symptoms of burnout, Tim Magwood uncovers the cues and practical strategies to prevent the manifestation of burnout.

This insightful keynote is designed for a diverse audience, providing them with practical tools to pave the way towards sustained success.

Elevating Accountability in Cultures

Platform Plus Presentations

Unique formats and ways to connect with audiences.
Host/MC
As a Host/MC, Tim challenges, teaches, and inspires your audience to do whatever it is you want them to do.

Audience reviews:

  • As a CEO coach and advisor, Tim has been an INSPIRING PROVOCATEUR. He courageously challenges me with the intention of bringing more wholeness and fueling peak performance. He inspires me to be better with every conversation. - Partner, Sklar Wilton & Associates
  • Tim has been my trusted advisor to help transform and reinvigorate our employee engagement and change our behaviors to drive better results for our customers and our shareholders. His fanatical focus on execution is making Medline Canada a better place to work and driving a better experience for our customers hence our 11% revenue growth in 2019. - President, Medline Canada
  • Merck Canada was very pleased to collaborate with Tim from Stories Rule! for the opening dinner at the 2020 Canadian Lung Cancer Conference. Tim’s attention to detail combined with his passion and talent of storytelling enabled him to lead a highly engaging keynote with 200+ health care professionals. He was able to deliver emotional, inspiring and well-chosen stories and relate them to day to day challenges of the audience to trigger reflection and innovation. Thanks for this very successful event! - Product Manager – Oncology, Merck Canada Inc.
  • Tim has been inspiring and supporting our executive team for over ten years in a range of areas including workplace culture, employee engagement and sales effectiveness. He consistently delivers value to me and our team with creative ideas, thoughtful insights and practical recommendations for action. His energy and enthusiasm delivering keynotes and seminars is always high impact. - Chief Client Officer, Crawford Canada
 

Speaker Biography

Tim Magwood’s personal purpose is “inspiring sustainable shifts to fuel well-being & innovation through compassion, clarity & creativity.  His desire is to  serve and to make an impact by leveraging his strengths and passions.

Compassion for Tim is the fuel, the heart. We all need stronger connections with what’s most important.  
Clarity is the lens. We all need more clarity in our complex world. 
Creativity helps us all navigate – our trusty partner to move through problems with people and teams.

Tim Magwood realizes that culture & leadership is THE differentiator in business. As a leader, he runs a culture agency 1-DEGREE,  inspires through storytelling with Stories Rule! and Chairs a Mackay CEO group.

Tim is the Co-founder, Partner of 1-DEGREE/Shift that partners with growing mid-sized organizations to shape their culture & develop targeted leadership capabilities. His 1-DEGREE culture agency business guides culture transformations to help move the dial on the engagement problem at work.  He works to advance humanity through co-creating conscious work cultures.

To fuel his passion for storytelling,  Magwood also joined The Mark of a Leader (re-branded to Stories Rule! in 2019) with Doug Keeley. He loved the idea of inspiring people and leaders through storytelling. Today he’s still active in Stories Rule! as a Partner and Storytelling Coach collaborating with CEO’s, executives, meeting planners on harnessing the power of storytelling.

Prior to his current work, Tim founded Fusion Learning with a vision to create the de facto sales learning leader in Canada within 10 years – a collegial and creative services business that could make a difference.  With a clear vision, great people, amazing clients and a lot of hard work, he did just that!  Magwood later sold Fusion to internal partners.  The business is still going strong and has re-branded to DoubleDigit Sales.

He’s also a creative at heart.  Trained as an actor, he has performed in Les Miserables and plays guitar.