Gair Maxwell

Gair Maxwell

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Calgary, Alberta

TEC Canada "Speaker of the Year" - Reinvention, Innovation, Business Growth and Branding Expert

Gair Maxwell is a former broadcaster who racked up over 10,000 interviews and more than 30,000 broadcasts in an award-winning radio and television career. Gair Maxwell is recognized as a global authority for helping organizations create iconic brands that attract legions of customers and top talent.
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  • Leadership
  • Peak Performance
  • Personal Growth
  • Resilience & Adversity
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  • Business Management
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GAIR MAXWELL BIOGRAPHY

Gair Maxwell didn’t follow a safe or conventional path to get where he is today. He comes from humble roots.  Once unemployed, Gair re-invented himself to become an internationally-recognized author, speaker and entrepreneur. Gair’s story is one of going from flat broke to flat out successful. Gair has earned many national awards for his work and presentations. He has shared conference stages with business superstars such as Richard Branson and Gene Simmons.

Gair Maxwell has worked with some of the world’s most dynamic companies, such as Mitsubishi and the Apple Specialist Marketing Group and was named the 2012 “Canadian Speaker of the Year” by TEC Canada, the country’s largest CEO organization. Gair was part of the adjunct faculty at The world famous Wizard Academy out of Austin, Texas. Maxwell is also affiliated with several marketing firms in different parts of North America. Gair plays a strong role with many companies to work on helping them sharpen their message and anchor their story.

Gair Maxwell’s counter-intuitive theories on “Branding With Distinction” for some independent business owners applied his formulas and grew their enterprises 10-fold over a 5-year period. He is also the bestselling author of the critically acclaimed book, Nuts, Bolts And A Few Loose Screws. Gair Maxwell was a former broadcaster. He interviewed more than 10,000 people in 30,000 broadcasts in his two-decade radio and television career.

Maxwell has delivered over 1,000 keynotes, seminars and workshops all over North America. His audiences range from associations, governments, businesses, and nonprofits. He can tailor his strategies to equally apply individuals, leaders, teams, large corporations or small businesses to experience growth and profitability while keeping costs low. An obsessive and curious researcher, Gair Maxwell customizes all of his programs for each individual audience. He is constantly updating his material by staying on top of industry trends. Through a detailed pre-program interview, Gair Maxwell aligns your organization’s values, challenges and needs with his content and philosophy.

Videos

Podcasts

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Gair Maxwell Topic Presentations

staging the customer experience

  • Virtual PresentationKeynote PresentationWorkshop SessionHalf Day TrainingFull Day Training
  • The real service mission of any business is NOT just to get the customer in the door, but to make sure they come back again and again. Even a 5% increase in customer retention can boost profitability by 25-100%. Staging the Customer Experience helps owners, managers and troops in the trenches ‘land on the same page to sell bigger orders, attract new customers, and most
    importantly generate consistent repeat business.

    Gair Maxwell identifies inconsistencies between what you have been promising in your marketing to what is actually delivered on the front line. If work is theatre and every business is a stage, Gair helps you develop standing ovation strategies to create customers for life. Expect to challenge the norms of your own industry with an explosive mix of newfound energy and
    creativity that translates into specific, doable action steps ready to be implemented Monday morning. Discover how you and your team can manufacture memorable and meaningful brand experiences (even if you’re on a $10 ad budget) with Staging the Customer Experience!

the branding highway: accelerate and differentiate your marketing

the reinvention code

the knowing-doing g.a.p. - how to cross the intention bridge between talk & action

the "i" in team

dreamday 7: our most important dreams are often buried within us

Testimonials

Just wanted to thank you again for your amazing presentation at the IBAO convention. I enjoyed your book but hearing you speak brought you information to entirely new level. I must say my mind has been stretched to an entirely new level and it will never go back. I have new mission now from your seminar to slay the dragons of Conformity in the insurance business.

JEFF ROY

President and CEO
Excalibur Insurance Group

Loved your material and how you presented it! Vancouver executives got a really great dollop of what to do well on the way to the designers to help shape their message. I think I scribbled notes faster and in larger volumes than anyone in that room. Such an exciting topic for me. And, you delivered in terms of content, style, timing and voice tone plus personality the way it works best for me and I hope it was absorbed by the group. Oh, I have to say my fave part was hands on. At the table. LOVED working on bringing out their stories. Gair, thank you so much for what you shared with the group at the Burnaby Arts Centre that day in April.

HELENA KAUFMAN

I just want to take this opportunity to give you a sincere thank you for a great presentation yesterday. The reaction from my members and their evaluation results were outstanding. As one member said, “the best presentation on branding and marketing I have attended”. Everyone also valued your input to the issue we processed. Thanks for your contributions in that regard as well. I wish you continued success and hope that we will be able to do a return engagement at some point.

ROB VAN WELY

Chair TEC 322 Niagara Falls, ON

I want to thank you for your excellent, uplifting, positive and original presentation. I know there were many useful and practical ideas that will set us apart from our competitors. It will be up to us to follow up on it . As you said, it takes 6 times to remember and form a habit. We should probably do a follow up session in the New Year and see how well we implemented these great ideas.

ANDRE CORMIER

La Mine D’Or Jewellers

First of all, it was a real pleasure to meet you last week!  All of us in TEC really enjoyed the morning and it has us really thinking about next steps. Something a Chair always wants to see and hear from their members.

JOYCE GROOTE

President & CEO TEC Chair
HOLEYS CANADA INC

Gair’s strength is that he is both engaging and empathetic in a way that draws the audience into the message being delivered. The presentation was not only timely from a business perspective but of enormous value on a personal level. Gair provided us with just the perfect dose of clarity of thought that we all needed to hear and act on. Gair’s presentation was the all the talk the next morning; he has won a ton of raving fans here at Graybar Canada.

RICK FAIR

Manager of Training
Graybar Canada

Articles & Media

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Books

Nuts, Bolts and a Few Loose Screws
Nuts, Bolts and a Few Loose Screws
Nuts, Bolts and a Few Loose Screws

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