
Dan Comiskey
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Toronto, Ontario
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DAN COMISKEY BIOGRAPHY
Dan Comiskey is a two-time Grey Cup Champion who spent 13 seasons in the Canadian Football League. Throughout his career, he was mentored by over 40 professional coaches—each a specialist in team dynamics, behavior change, and leadership. Their influence helped shape Dan into an expert in habit transformation, high-performance culture, and personal development.
A perennial all-star, Dan retired from professional football in 2010 and seamlessly transitioned into the industrial sector. He has since served as a behavioral safety specialist in the heavy oil industry, applying his deep knowledge of leadership and teamwork to improve safety culture and operational performance.
Dan is also the co-author of The Truth About Success, Enduring Principles of Leadership, and Professional Coaching: Thirty-Eight Stories Learned Through Football. These works reflect his passion for translating elite sports principles into everyday leadership and organizational success.
Beyond the workplace, Dan is committed to improving men’s mental health and community well-being. He is a proud partner in the Breakfast With Champions Movement and an active collaborator with the YOU MATTYR Foundation, both of which focus on empowering men through connection, support, and purpose-driven outreach.
With two decades of elite athletic experience and more than a decade in industrial safety and leadership, Dan delivers a powerful and authentic message that resonates with teams, leaders, and communities across industries.
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Dan Comiskey Topic Presentations
Dan Comiskey Toronto, Ontario, Canada delivers keynote presentations, workshops, fireside chats, moderated Q&A, and other presentation formats on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique, customized and tailored for audiences, industries, conferences and event formats.
One Thing: Mental Resilience
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Drawing on his rich experience Dan Comiskey delivers compelling talks that inspire mental resilience and psychological wellbeing and toughness. These keynotes are specifically tailored to address specific needs of teams and organizations offering practical insights and actionable strategies to help your team cultivate a supportive culture of mental wellness.
With a deep commitment to uniting people and teams, Dan empowers attendees to navigate the high-pressure challenges brought on by modern living and working environments. By championing mental health alongside team unity and safety his keynote addresses reach people where they live and leave them with more power to help themselves as well as their team.
They need to hear this passionate, intelligent, powerful keynote so they too can find that
ONE THING can turn it all around!
You Can Count Me: Everything Matters
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Life is a team game just like football. The margin for error in either game is so small that a step in the wrong direction makes the difference between winning or losing and between living or dying. The other constant in both games is the need for absolute commitment. Everyone must be 100 percent accountable to their team and this commitment is essential for any degree of success.
There are so many distractions affecting your people today. They have access to everything they need at the touch of a button, and that doesn’t even begin to address the distractions coming from every angle.
We know that small choices lead to large consequences over time for ourselves and the world around us. Incremental choices lead to huge outcomes that improve or detract from our lives. Our choices affect more than the person making them. Our choices affect our family and friends, and people we don’t know, in ways we’d never imagine.
If you need your team to fight through all the distractions so they can be present in their tasks…
If you want them to fight through the fog to make the right decisions and follow the procedures that will keep them safe…
If you need a commitment from everyone on your team…
Then you need to remind them that everything matters. At the end of the day, everyone has to count on each other and that’s the point!
The Power of Habit: Habit Creation
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Dan Comiskey poignantly draws you into his world of sports and family to help each of us continue to strive for our passions as we fight through the inevitable challenges that we all face. As we go through these challenges we need to use everything at our disposal to protect ourselves and the ones we love from life altering or ending injuries. One of the biggest weapons that we all have in this journey is the ability to create our own habits.
Dan will explain how small initial changes lead to large unforeseen consequences over time. How? Incremental improvements become habit forming. In fact, they become part of character-building, or they become stumbling blocks.
We can either use the power of habits to help us create a safe work environment and a safe home life or we can choose to ignore the power of these behaviours. If we choose to ignore this power, we could be missing the opportunity for success or life.
If you need your people to grasp the power of their habits…
If you are watching complacency creep into your office or worksite…
Then you need to have Dan Comiskey introduce them to the Power of Habit!
Built to Hold: Habits, Healing, and the Weight We Carry
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Life is a team game—like football, where every small action can shift the outcome. One misstep can cost a game; one intentional choice can change a life. In this powerful and timely keynote, Dan addresses a critical issue: men’s mental health—and how it directly affects not only the men themselves, but the women, children, and families they are called to support, honour, and protect.
Dan’s core message is simple: small, consistent habits shape identity. For men carrying quiet burdens—stress, emotional fatigue, and internal conflict—these habits can be the difference between merely coping and truly thriving. Mental strength is not about stoicism; it’s about intentional growth, emotional awareness, and leading with clarity.
With tools developed through a partnership with Parrish Taylor of Taylor Made Concepts, this keynote introduces science-backed mental training systems designed to regulate self-talk, rebuild focus, and deepen self-awareness. The Chatter-Regulation Training System empowers men to take back control of their internal narrative—one of the most overlooked yet transformative aspects of personal development.
Dan presents an enhanced Self-Concept Model, built on four essential elements:
- Self-Image – how you see yourself
- Self-Ideal – who you strive to become
- Self-Esteem – how you value yourself
- Self-Talk – the daily dialogue that shapes all the above
This model spans six core life areas: Spiritual, Health, Family, Career, Finance, and Social/Serenity, forming a comprehensive map for balanced, purpose-driven living.
Why this matters to wives, mothers, and families:
When men are mentally well, they show up more present, patient, and grounded. The ripple effects are profound: children feel safer, partners feel supported, and families grow stronger. Men who learn to care for their inner world can better hold space for those they love—emotionally, relationally, and spiritually.Key takeaways include:
- How small habits lead to life-changing transformation
- Tools to quiet negative self-talk and sharpen mental clarity
- A framework to align identity with purpose and action
- Strategies to build emotional resilience and work-life balance
- How investing in men’s mental wellness uplifts entire families and communities
Whether you’re a leader, father, partner, or friend—this keynote is a call to reclaim strength from the inside out. Because when men rise, everyone they love rises with them.
Dan Comiskey Speaking Testimonials
Best speech I’ve ever heard, anywhere, any topic.
Charles Dauphinee
Dan Comiskey, I would like to thank you for the very moving presentation you put on at Taurus Site Services Inc at Northwest Redwater Partnership Site. Watching you engage all of our construction workers and have them waiting for your next sentence was amazing. I am so happy to see you have such a passion in our industry and profession and I think you hit home to a lot of people. My crews continue to speak of your visit and your openness to them and allowing the pictures with you and your ring were a huge success. Keep up the good work. Stay safe and keep in touch.
Floyd House
Believe me when I say it was all my pleasure!!! I do truly hope we can work together again sometime soon, somewhere. You are an articulate, passionate orator. I am still overhearing conversations about your visit in the Tim Horton’s morning line and in the smoke shacks as well. You really touched some of these guys and me too!!!
Dan, I would like to thank you for the very moving presentation you put on at Shell Albian Sands. It was very hard to hold back tears in a room full of big tough construction workers. Your passion is needed in our profession and I think you hit home to many people. My crews were very thankful to sit in on your session also. Keep up the good work. I tried to shake your hand but the line and the crowd was too big. Stay safe bro.
Kerry Hansen
Dan Comiskey was a team leader with our organization for years. He never had any trouble speaking from the front of the room when the need presented itself. He was also a terrific speaker at our corporate breakfasts. I highly recommend Dan as a speaker.
Dan Macioca
Best speech I’ve ever heard, anywhere, any topic.
Charles Dauphinee
Dan Comiskey, I would like to thank you for the very moving presentation you put on at Taurus Site Services Inc at Northwest Redwater Partnership Site. Watching you engage all of our construction workers and have them waiting for your next sentence was amazing. I am so happy to see you have such a passion in our industry and profession and I think you hit home to a lot of people. My crews continue to speak of your visit and your openness to them and allowing the pictures with you and your ring were a huge success. Keep up the good work. Stay safe and keep in touch.
Floyd House
Believe me when I say it was all my pleasure!!! I do truly hope we can work together again sometime soon, somewhere. You are an articulate, passionate orator. I am still overhearing conversations about your visit in the Tim Horton’s morning line and in the smoke shacks as well. You really touched some of these guys and me too!!!
Dan, I would like to thank you for the very moving presentation you put on at Shell Albian Sands. It was very hard to hold back tears in a room full of big tough construction workers. Your passion is needed in our profession and I think you hit home to many people. My crews were very thankful to sit in on your session also. Keep up the good work. I tried to shake your hand but the line and the crowd was too big. Stay safe bro.
Kerry Hansen
Dan Comiskey was a team leader with our organization for years. He never had any trouble speaking from the front of the room when the need presented itself. He was also a terrific speaker at our corporate breakfasts. I highly recommend Dan as a speaker.
Dan Macioca
Best speech I’ve ever heard, anywhere, any topic.
Charles Dauphinee
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