Evan Weselake

Evan Weselake

Calgary, Alberta
Change, Workplace Culture, Teamwork, Performance and Business Expert
Evan Weselake is a Certified Executive Coach and a member of Forbes' Coaches Council who has more than 14,000 hours of group facilitation and training experience. Evan Weselake works with leaders across industries and disciplines and is known for their unique and valuable insight into what it takes to focus, grow, and change.
  • Change Management
  • Communications
  • Employee Management
  • Health & Wellness
  • Leadership
  • Peak Performance
  • Personal Growth
  • Resilience & Adversity
  • Business Growth
  • Business Management
  • Conference
  • Education & Teachers
  • Finance & Insurance
  • Guest Panelist & Guided Q&A
  • Healthcare
  • TED & TEDx
  • Youth Leadership & Students

EVAN WESELAKE BIOGRAPHY

Evan Weselake is an eloquent speaker and facilitator. Evan has conducted more than 1200 workshops and keynotes in the past decade. As a coach and consultant, he has worked with clients in retail, oil and gas, healthcare, the financial sector, service sectors, academics, and the hospitality industry. Evan has also presented for TEDx in Canmore, AB. His casual yet high-energy speaking delivery creates an environment where people feel included and are eager to learn new skills. He creates an instant rapport with audience members. This has endeared him to many groups, from executive keynotes to front-line skills training.

Evan Weselake’s presentations offer practical insights and educative techniques from his training and management background in the retail industry. He will relate real-life experiences from workplace environments to exemplify his points. He also incorporates relevant and current best practices that he addresses through his business consulting practice. Evan Weselake will help you get the very best from your team by improving the human environment in which they work. Evan is an expert in leadership development, change management, staff retention, employee engagement, and productivity.  With graduate degrees in both performance psychology and human resources, he has a deep understanding of motivation and peak performance in any team environment. His true passion is inspiring and teaching others about the lessons he has learned from his experience.

Evan Weselake understands the power of workplace culture firsthand. He has built and sold three successful businesses and has developed a business curriculum for corporate training and produced video and audio corporate training programs. His energetic and humourous presentation style instantly establishes a positive connection with the audience. His easy-to-use and relevant strategies are customized after assessing each organization and understanding its organizational and industry challenges.

Evan Weselake clearly explains the correlation between culture and individuals and teams. He also enlightens audience members on how this directly affects performance levels. Evan is also an ultra-endurance athlete. He is an avid adventurer, a member of the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides, and a past member of the Canadian Ski Patrol System, accredited with Wilderness Emergency Response and Avalanche Rescue. He models and advocates a balanced approach to health, life, and fitness. Evan Weselake brings a fresh perspective to team skills training, coaching and motivation. His experience has created a bridge between the worlds of academia, business, and survival.

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Evan Weselake Topic Presentations

100's of little decisions - motivation, inspiration and change

  • Virtual PresentationKeynote PresentationWorkshop SessionHalf Day TrainingFull Day Training
  • 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.

reduce burnouts and increase mental performance

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  • 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.

creating a culture of engagement - leadership, culture, management

  • Virtual PresentationKeynote PresentationWorkshop SessionHalf Day TrainingFull Day Training
  • 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!

survive and thrive in today’s business reality

  • Virtual PresentationKeynote PresentationWorkshop SessionHalf Day TrainingFull Day Training
  • 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.

change mystery or mastery - affecting lasting change

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  • 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.

a.r.m – attract, retain, and motivate staff

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  • 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! 

     

time - our only real currency

  • Virtual PresentationKeynote PresentationWorkshop SessionHalf Day TrainingFull Day Training
  • 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 weselake's customized presentation topics

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  • 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

Testimonials

Your presentation and the tie to teamwork and corporate performance really struck a chord ~ I heard some incredible feedback from the participants. You were able to do what many speakers are unable to do which is make a memorable connection between a meaningful life situation and valuable learning. Everyone had their favourite story but the key point in my mind is that people REMEMBERED the stories and will APPLY the learnings!

Gary Tanner

COO
EnerPlus Resources Fund

The group REALLY CONNECTED with your presentation, and the key quotes you had; “Training your weakness, Race your strengths”, “PLAN to COPE”, and others. They used these throughout the day three exercises when they were planning for next year’s key initiatives.

Jennifer Buhl

Annual Retreat Planner

This is the most important content we’ve covered all day!

David Anderson

Unicity Logistics

Little decisions are the most important ~ because you are constantly met with things that take you one-way or to the integrity way. The big ones [decisions] are obvious.

Nick

Owner
Metro Media

Many years of outdoor adventuring and coaching has given him [Evan] a truly special perspective on everyday life and how that perspective can help the average person’s daily struggle. It’s how we choose to make the hundreds of little decisions that face us every day. To say that Evan delivered on the day of his presentation is an understatement. He left us wanting more. I distinctly remember thinking… I could use another half hour of this.

Renee DeSimone

Promotional Products Association of Canada

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Evan Weselake keynote speaker is an expert presenter and has a wide range of experience speaking to a wide variety of audiences and organizations. Evan Weselake delivers keynotes, workshops & training sessions. They may also host or emcee events. Hire Evan Weselake from Calgary, Alberta for your event to inspire the audience to take action and make change in their work and their lives. Your workplace will benefit from our keynote speaker and their keynote talks and speeches will shift the mindsets or behaviours for the audience members in Canada. 

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Are you looking to hire Evan Weselake for your event? Evan Weselake Calgary, Alberta is a dynamic and engaging speaker that offers audiences researched content paired with expertise and a dynamic speaking ability. Evan Weselake is also a Canadian corporate consultant and coach and facilitates workshops and training sessions for a corporate audience. Evan Weselake is an expert keynote presenter and speaks on wide variety of topics. Hiring a great speaker for your event is important and working with a thought leader like Evan Weselake from Speakers Canada’s roster will engage audiences into the content of the presentation to bring awareness and a fresh perspective for their approach to their work and their lives. Book Evan Weselake to educate, motivate and activate the audience through an interactive and entertaining presentation at corporate meetings and gatherings.

Known as a popular key note speaker in Canada, Evan Weselake creates life changing experiences for the participants with practical insights and strategic advice they can implement right after the session. Working with a one our leading expert speaker like Evan Weselake from Calgary, Alberta offers organizations a fresh perspective to assist the people of the organization. No matter if it is a government, association, or business crowd, Evan Weselake is a perfect speaker for your event. Through unique practical insights for trending topics and years experience speaking to different organizations, Evan Weselake focuses on changing individuals to make better decisions at work and their lives. No matter if you are holding an in person or virtual event, having an influential speaker such as Evan Weselake will engage, motivate, and activate the audience to make a change in their lives and inspire action for results to meet organizational goals. Your workforce will benefit from Evan Weselake’s presentations and speeches, with measurable results set to shift the people of the organization and core direction of the company. Book Evan Weselake speaker for your annual general meeting, conference, summit, or convention in Canada.

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