Doug Smith

A High-Performance expert, elite professional athlete, best-selling author and business owner, Doug Smith teaches his clients how to overcome the odds and achieve phenomenal performance. He achieves these gains by demonstrating the impact of emotional TRAUMA on the achievement of high performance. His dynamic presentation opens the mind, is backed by science and is a Catalyst for Change.

What happens to the audience during the presentation is like magic.

Doug not only inspires and educates everyone that hears his story, but he also delivers  a simple system each audience member can take, use and s

“For 20 years, I would get 2 minutes in the penalty box for doing something to someone that you would get 15 years in jail for. To be treated this way psychologically is a form of human conditioning or emotional trauma.” Doug Smith

It was not his physical ability. Doug Smith was unaware of what was happening to him emotionally as a teenager in the NHL. Cumulative emotional trauma would slowly take over his life and his ability to perform as a professional athlete.

Today, Doug presents his scientifically supported model which anyone can use to manage trauma more effectively.

What Doug has learned from his experience and what he teaches can significantly benefit your employees, your leadership, and your bottom line.

Doug is a spinal cord injury survivor and former NHL first-round draft pick. As an award-winning author of ‘The Trauma Code and Thriving in Transition’, Doug has been telling his story of emotional trauma and performance and wowing audiences around the world for over a decade.

Doug makes life better for others by turning the confusing and misunderstood topic of “trauma” into a simple and easy-to-understand model and system that anyone can manage with little effort.

Being able to accept feedback is critical to the success of every team member and ultimately the team itself. So many coaches, teachers and leaders struggle to figure out how to provide feedback so their stars will accept it and use it. Let me take this off your plate and kick the door wide open. When I am done this presentation your teams and coaches will be more open to each other, supportive of each other and will use feedback as a competitive advantage.

Doug’s keynote is an awakening journey from childhood leg braces, to the unlikely rise to the National Hockey League by age 18, to career ending spinal cord injury and rebuilding a new life. The presentation includes the latest tools and techniques in neurofeedback technology and demonstrates the future of brain recovery and brain enhancement.

The presentation provides the awareness and the tools anyone can use to mount a comeback. Audience takeaways include empowerment, improved self awareness, focus, higher performance levels of faster recovery.

An eye-opening presentation focusing on Doug’s story of Emotional Control, the damage losing control can do and the techniques he has developed to cope. Teachers, students and leaders become more aware and learn the process quickly. Significant change in the school, classroom or organization can be seen immediately. When we become aware, behaviour changes and so does performance and results.

Twenty minutes is spent on each of the 8 principles of Doug’s life and work. Belief, Motivation, Awareness, Trust, Focus, Emotional Control, Asking for Help & Purpose. This is an interactive workshop that internalizes higher performance and includes a workbook/field guide for each participant. It is an excellent and fun program for all ages and professions.

A full day workshop for leaders on turning high performers into high performance teams. It is one thing to be surrounded by high performing individuals; it is another thing entirely to lead them effectively and efficiently. We will show you how to lead leaders! These workshops extend the reach of performance into every corner of your organization. The work is based on Doug Smith’s books on transition, self-image, trauma and performance along with Ron Wiens’ new guide for building high performance work cultures in the era of a knowledge worker society.

Ron is the founder of Totem Hill and expert in high performance work cultures, competitive advantage and building organizations that can leap tall buildings in a single bound. If you are looking for the savvy and economic drivers that will give your company a distinct competitive advantage then make no mistake, this workshop is for you.

After suffering a catastrophic, life-altering, injury while playing professional hockey, former NHLer Doug Smith decided right then and there, that if he survived the impact and physical injuries, he would do better emotionally as a human being. It was at that moment, laying on the ice, that the humble beginnings of “System 438” sprang into action.

Doug’s incredible story will leave you, inspired, empowered and more aware. He will explain why and how the impact of emotional trauma combined with the “rate of change” is our ticking time bomb in the workplace today. He will show you how to disarm it. Why and how System 438 can enhance human performance through awareness. Trauma can hurt our performance without us being aware it is happening to us.

The human species suffers from only 4 types of trauma. 3 types of trauma can be easily seen and felt. One type
of trauma we are not well-equipped to see and feel. Doug will show you how to see and feel cumulative emotional trauma, so you can lead with confidence, support using empathy, and achieve phenomenal outcomes.

3 – Assessment: What controls us? The subconscious brain controls more than 95% of human functioning. The subconscious brain has only 3 priorities. You will learn what these priorities are.

8 – Performance: Revealed through Doug’s story, you will learn the 8 behaviours and performance-fueling actions that he used to feed the 3 priorities of his subconscious brain. Playing the lottery with your emotional performance and the performance of others is not a requirement. There is a systematic approach to better manage emotional states.

Let Doug be your guide to System 438.