Evan Weselake

In a world where we book our time in five-minute blocks, measure money in tenths of a per cent, and athletes win or lose by hundredths of a second, it is truly the little decisions that count. Our habits, our integrity, and our unexpected joys do not come from the larger and more obvious decisions. On a daily basis, people make hundreds of conscious and unconscious minor decisions.

Change, growth, and achievement are outcomes of the 100’s Of Little Decisions we make every day. Evan Weselake will share stories from his years as a sponsored ultra-endurance athlete and his insights from his career designing multi-million dollar recognition programs to illustrate this truth. He will outline the key factors in performance psychology and in learning and development that show the immense powers of little decisions. This is a session that will move you to change not only your direction but the habits which inhibit you from achieving excellence.

High amounts of stress, repetitive workload burnouts, and lack of the ability to focus are often symptoms of mental exhaustion. Evan Weselake’s years as an elite sponsored ultra-endurance athlete and mental performance consultant have taught him resilience, focus, and motivation techniques. Evan has developed methods for greater mental concentration, strong-willed mental recovery, and sufficiency. Evan’s methods for maintaining complete focus, uplifting self-motivation abilities, and demonstrating the importance of a resilient attitude increase individual productivity and team efficiency.

This presentation will inspire audience members and provide them with practical insights on how to change their life and work habits to succeed. This session is about how those techniques can be equally applied to any performance situation. It will teach you how to build your mental energy, become resilient, adapt to change, manage your time effectively and achieve a home/work balance.  Evan will accentuate his arguments with real-life stories of performance and survival with critical insights into building your performance mind.

True engagement is when people regularly bring their full selves to work. It happens when staff members look for even more ways to contribute because they have a deep desire for improvement. The results are employees that bring high levels of energy and focus to work. “Being engaged” is a choice that every person seeks and wants. The level of staff member engagement is the primary driver of workplace culture.

As a leader, manager, supervisor, and/or worker you have a huge influence over the levels of engagement and environment at work. Evan will teach audience members the levers you can use to improve employee commitment, the work atmosphere, and then the larger culture. Some methods are dramatic; they all require consistency. This session will help you to move your culture in a positive direction and to become a far more productive team.

Using stories of frontline staff and management styles of interaction, Creating a Culture of Engagement will explain the key components of an engaging environment. What people are secretly looking for, and what you can do to draw out that elusive magic ingredient, full engagement!

This presentation focuses on the business community in response to the economic realities of today. A time of prolonged economic financial restraint presents an excellent opportunity to Survive and Thrive in Today’s Business Reality. It is time to work smarter by making the right moves, NOW, to build your business and increase business productivity and sales. Evan Weselake’s presentation, Survive and Thrive in Today’s Business Reality, will focus on getting higher performances from existing staff, through a combination of motivation, accountability, and measurement. It will concentrate on “getting the best out of the best” by working smarter with current staff levels and financial conditions.

Evan Weselake’s presentations are warm, humorous, and impact. In an industry almost always looking for the next guru – Evan is frequently “back by popular demand.”  Evan is one of the best workshop presenters in Canada. His practical business style has helped transform many of Canada’s top companies in diverse fields: travel, retail, manufacturing, energy, hospitality, public service, and finance.

Evan Weselake works with people one-on-one at all levels of business and life, to align human energy with the goals of the individual. Evan’s ability to connect with his audience is unique among speaking professionals. This presentation is about processing imposed change and installing that change into your life to ensure future success.

Change is occurring with increased speed in people’s lives. Many changes are external and imposed changes. Changes we may have little influence over or power over. This keynote or workshop will be client directed to: include an overall change process, roles within the process for individuals as well as teams and families, the steps to install the change over time, as well as tips and tools for each step. Evan will study your plans and your organization extensively before presenting.

Times are changing and so are the employees! New generations entering the workforce are forcing employers to come up with new strategies. All employee turnover costs more than just time, it costs morale and it costs money! Evan Weselake is an employee engagement expert. He understands how companies can Attract, Retain and Motivate their best performers for growth. In these current economic times, it means people are aggressively competing for good, great, and loyal employees now more than ever before.

If you could find one more great performer, would you hire them? If you could keep one great performer just a little longer, would it change your workplace? You will leave with strategies you can begin implementing immediately. The primary goal of this workshop is to reduce your expense and struggle with employee turnover. Find them, keep them, and get them all working! 

Evan Weselake has built and sold three businesses. In building these he was able to identify that time management and productivity had a direct result in business success. He has first-hand experience in owning businesses in the hospitality and retail sector, and the challenges employees, managers, and owners face. He firmly believes: “Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal.”

This presentation explains that “it is not the time you put in but rather what you put in your time that counts.”  His message takes you beyond efficient and into effective. And that’s a bigger challenge in the new world of urgent, 24/7 technology.

Evan has delivered over 1400 keynotes, workshops and seminars, and continues to deliver two or three days per month. Evan can customize a presentation based on the following topics to help businesses and organizations become more effective.

• Creating a Culture of Engagement
• 5 Choices for Extraordinary Productivity (FranklinCovey)©
• Making Mentorship Work
• Innovative Leaders
• Assertive Communication Skills
• Presenting your Best: Talk like TED
• Role Clarity and Productivity
• Being Proactive