Dan MacQueen

Keynote Speaker | Vancouver , British Columbia

Change Leadership Strategist
Change Management, Team Performance & Workplace Change Expert

Dan MacQueen's Expertise: Leadership and Change, Change Management, Leadership, Resilience & Change, Adaptability & Agility, Future of Work, Organizational Change, Burnout Prevention, Resilience & Adversity, Personal Leadership, Motivation and Virtual Presenters.

Dan MacQueen

About Speaker Dan MacQueen

Dan MacQueen is an international keynote speaker on change leadership who helps leaders and teams think clearly, make better decisions and keep moving when nothing is certain. His perspective combines more than a decade at Hootsuite in Customer Success and Implementation with an extraordinary personal experience of change: surviving two emergency brain surgeries and rebuilding his ability to walk, talk and smile. Today, Dan translates those experiences into practical tools that help organizations build change-confident people: people equipped to restore agency, make better decisions and maintain momentum through uncertainty. He has delivered 1,000+ professional learning sessions, with his work supported by 500+ verified participant evaluations.

Dan MacQueen | When You Change The Way You Look At The World | Speaker

Dan MacQueen | When You Change The Way You Look At The World | Speaker

Dan Macqueen | Keynote Speaker | Speakers Bureau of Canada

Dan Macqueen | Keynote Speaker | Speakers Bureau of Canada

Dan Macqueen Biography

Dan MacQueen is an international keynote speaker and change leadership expert who helps leaders and teams think clearly, make better decisions, and maintain performance when conditions are uncertain. His work addresses the realities of workplaces where artificial intelligence is reshaping jobs, organizations are restructuring, priorities are changing, and people are making decisions without complete information. Dan MacQueen focuses on building change confidence, defined as evidence based trust in the ability to respond, learn, adapt, and keep moving when outcomes remain uncertain. His approach connects change leadership, adaptability, workplace resilience, decision making, and organizational performance.

Dan MacQueen developed his professional perspective through more than a decade at Hootsuite in Customer Success and Implementation. He helped organizations across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and North America adopt technology and realize value from new ways of working. During this period, Dan MacQueen delivered more than 1,000 professional learning sessions and worked directly with people managing technology adoption, implementation, shifting expectations, and changing workplace practices. This experience provides the organizational foundation for his work on navigating uncertainty and maintaining momentum through change.

At age 28, Dan MacQueen experienced a brain hemorrhage that resulted in two emergency brain surgeries, a coma, and months of rehabilitation. Recovery required Dan MacQueen to relearn how to walk, talk, and smile while facing significant uncertainty about his health, abilities, and future. The experience developed his understanding of how major change can affect identity, confidence, decision making, and a person’s sense of control. He later applied these lessons to the practical challenges people face during professional and organizational change.

Today, Dan MacQueen brings his professional experience and personal recovery together through The MacQueen Method™, a structured approach to navigating uncertainty. Dan MacQueen helps participants separate reality from reaction, identify what they can control or influence, and take meaningful action when certainty is unavailable. His public framework connects Identity, Agency, and Momentum to explain how people can restore direction and continue progressing through change. He also uses the ratchet principle to demonstrate how deliberate action, learning, and accumulated evidence can strengthen change confidence over time.

Dan MacQueen has presented across government, healthcare, technology, manufacturing, workplace safety, and professional associations. His work is supported by more than 500 verified participant evaluations and a 4.7 out of 5 overall inspiration score. At Employment and Social Development Canada, 99 percent of participants rated Dan MacQueen’s session valuable and 97 percent rated it inspiring. These results provide measurable feedback on the relevance and practical application of his change leadership presentations.

Dan MacQueen’s flagship keynote, Performing When Nothing Is Certain, examines how leaders and employees can continue performing while the conditions around them change. The presentation addresses professional identity, agency, decision making, adaptability, and momentum while providing practical methods for responding without waiting for complete certainty. Dan MacQueen equips audiences to focus attention on areas they can influence, take deliberate action, learn from results, and build confidence through evidence. His central framework provides a clear direction for navigating change: Think Clearly. Make Better Decisions. Keep Moving.

Dan MacQueen Topic Presentations

Dan MacQueen From Vancouver , British Columbia, 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.

Performing When Nothing is Certain: How to Think Clearly, Make Better Decisions and Keep Moving Through Change

Stronger, Safer, Supported: Powerful Personal Journey Shows How Employer Support Transforms Recovery

Resilient Dude Who Speaks About How Mindset and Perspective Shifts Can Overcome Business and Personal Crises

Moonshot Goal Setting—how to Set Audacious Goals and Reach Them

Resilient Mindset. “it Was Not Easy, but It Was Simple.”

Mental Health: How You Can Overcome Your Obstacles by Reframing Them

Perspective

Interviews
Dan MacQueen
  • Advocate Q&a Episode 2: Dan Macqueen | in Our 2nd Sameyou Advocate Q&a Video Series, We are
Podcasts
Dan MacQueen
  • Life is Fragile the Dan Macqueen Story
  • Recovery and Resilience Interview with Dan Macqueen
  • Resilience, Gratitude and Overcoming Obstacles with Daniel Macqueen

Dan MacQueen Speaking Testimonials

"Working with Dan was smooth, professional, and genuinely enjoyable. He was well-prepared, collaborative, and responsive throughout the planning process, and he delivered his session with clarity, authenticity, and flexibility. Overall, an excellent partner and someone we’d be happy to work with again."

Event Organizer
Employment and Social Development Canada / Service Canada

"Dan shared his personal story about overcoming huge life changes. He provided insight and perspective that was relatable to many parts of life. He also provided small, actionable, things we can all do to face changes in our lives. It was enjoyable and excellent!"

Participant
Employment and Social Development Canada / Service Canada

"It wasn’t just a story about survival, it was a roadmap for resilience. Dan’s ability to blend humour, honesty, and practical advice made the talk not only moving, but incredibly useful."

CyberQP
WIN the Unexpected, July 23, 2025

"If you are looking to motivate your team, I highly recommend contacting Dan MacQueen. Through his powerful story and authentic vulnerability, Dan inspires people to embrace their own struggles and find the courage to overcome life’s many challenges, big and small. After Dan shared his story on our podcast, we were contacted by listeners, thanking us for having Dan on. His message of hope and perseverance had struck a nerve."

Joe Perkin

News Director
CHEK-TV, Victoria, B.C.

"I could not recommend Dan MacQueen highly enough for any revenue team. It’s funny how much we spend on coaching skillsets for Sales teams and disregard mindset and perspective. An average skill set with a great mindset will get you twice the results of a great skillset with a poor mindset. Dan was able to both share perspective as well as giving our team tips to hold a positive mindset when times get tough! As you’re designing your L&D and enablement strategies for next year – get in touch with Dan!!"

Paddy O'Neill

Country Manager
United Kingdom, Spendesk

"Dan MacQueen is a gifted and authentic speaker, who is able to translate the exceptional challenges he has experienced into life lessons we can all benefit from. Dan is able to connect with his audience in a way that is rare. Recommend everyone take any opportunity to witness his story and hear his perspective."

Sherry McRae

Director, Professional Services
Hootsuite

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