Gair Maxwell

Gair Maxwell

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Calgary, Alberta

TEC Canada "Speaker of The Year" | Innovation | Business Growth & Branding Expert

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  • Expertise
  • Business & Corporate
  • Business Growth
  • Digital Marketing
  • Innovation & Creativity
  • Business Management
  • Alliances & Partnerships
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Leadership
  • Organizational Leadership

GAIR MAXWELL BIOGRAPHY

Gair Maxwell is an internationally recognized, best-selling Author, Keynote Speaker and Brand Strategist. His original, market-tested ideas have inspired some companies to grow 15–30 TIMES while creating an irresistible “Category of One.”

Recognized as a 4-time Vistage Top Performer and “Speaker of the Year” by TEC Canada, he is also a fully accredited Tennessee Squire, lifelong fan of the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers and 6-Time Runner-up on the prestigious M.G.A. Golf Tour.

Gair’s riveting keynote presentations and hands-on workshops are packed with real-life stories supported by decades of in-the-trenches business experience. Event planners rave about his innate gift for simplifying complex ideas into easily digestible bites that any audience member can implement right away.

Described as an “idealist who is under no illusions,” Gair has worked with some of the world’s most dynamic organizations, including Apple Specialist Marketing Group, Caterpillar, NAPA, Leo Burnett (Taiwan), Virginia Tech and others, while sharing conference stages with business icons such as Sir Richard Branson and Gene Simmons.

Delivering upwards of 90+ presentations annually, his professional accomplishments include: Awarded “Speaker of the Year” by TEC Canada in 2012. Named Vistage “Top Performer” 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. Upwards of 950+ appearances with TEC Canada, TEC Australia, Vistage UK and Vistage International. Best-selling author of BIG LITTLE LEGENDS – How Everyday Leaders Build Irresistible Brands (Amazon.com / Audible). Podcast Host: “The Leadership Standard” w/ TEC Canada (2019 – 2023).

A recovering broadcast journalist, Gair racked up 10,000+ interviews and 30,000+ broadcasts in an award-winning radio and television career in his native Canada. The son of a former pro golfer from Scotland, Gair is an amateur historian with a specialty in campaigns of WW II.

A classic rock aficionado from AC/DC to Led Zeppelin, he also enjoys country-flavored offerings that range from Waylon and Willie to Morgan Wallen. A native of Moncton, NB, he resides in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies in Cochrane, Alberta with Dana and their brood of two cocker spaniels (Theodore and Sophie) along with a precocious beagle-mix rescue named Maggie.

Featured in Forbes, BIG LITTLE LEGENDS is his second book.

 

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Book

Big Little Legends: How Everyday Leaders Build Irresistible Brands
Big Little Legends: How Everyday Leaders Build Irresistible Brands
Ever wonder why among 35,000 masterworks in the Louvre, just one comparatively unremarkable, 30-by-21-inch painting is perpetually surrounded by tourists, all jostling to take a selfie and share their experience? In Big Little Legends, you’ll discover timeless secrets such as the Mona Lisa...

Book

Nuts, Bolts and a Few Loose Screws
Nuts, Bolts and a Few Loose Screws
Nuts, Bolts and a Few Loose Screws

Gair Maxwell Topic Presentations

Gair Maxwell Calgary, Alberta, 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.

Staging the Customer Experience

The Branding Highway: Accelerate and Differentiate Your Marketing

The Reinvention Code

The Knowing-doing G.a.p.: How to Cross the Intention Bridge Between Talk & Action

The "i" in Team

Dreamday 7: Our Most Important Dreams are Often Buried Within Us

Big Little Legends: : How Everyday Leaders Build Irresistible Brands

Gair Maxwell Speaking Testimonials

Just wanted to thank you again for your amazing presentation at the IBAO convention. I enjoyed your book but hearing you speak brought you information to entirely new level. I must say my mind has been stretched to an entirely new level and it will never go back. I have new mission now from your seminar to slay the dragons of Conformity in the insurance business.

JEFF ROY

President and CEO
Excalibur Insurance Group

Loved your material and how you presented it! Vancouver executives got a really great dollop of what to do well on the way to the designers to help shape their message. I think I scribbled notes faster and in larger volumes than anyone in that room. Such an exciting topic for me. And, you delivered in terms of content, style, timing and voice tone plus personality the way it works best for me and I hope it was absorbed by the group. Oh, I have to say my fave part was hands on. At the table. LOVED working on bringing out their stories. Gair, thank you so much for what you shared with the group at the Burnaby Arts Centre that day in April.

HELENA KAUFMAN

I just want to take this opportunity to give you a sincere thank you for a great presentation yesterday. The reaction from my members and their evaluation results were outstanding. As one member said, “the best presentation on branding and marketing I have attended”. Everyone also valued your input to the issue we processed. Thanks for your contributions in that regard as well. I wish you continued success and hope that we will be able to do a return engagement at some point.

ROB VAN WELY

Chair TEC 322 Niagara Falls, ON

I want to thank you for your excellent, uplifting, positive and original presentation. I know there were many useful and practical ideas that will set us apart from our competitors. It will be up to us to follow up on it . As you said, it takes 6 times to remember and form a habit. We should probably do a follow up session in the New Year and see how well we implemented these great ideas.

ANDRE CORMIER

La Mine D’Or Jewellers

First of all, it was a real pleasure to meet you last week!  All of us in TEC really enjoyed the morning and it has us really thinking about next steps. Something a Chair always wants to see and hear from their members.

JOYCE GROOTE

President & CEO TEC Chair
HOLEYS CANADA INC

Gair’s strength is that he is both engaging and empathetic in a way that draws the audience into the message being delivered. The presentation was not only timely from a business perspective but of enormous value on a personal level. Gair provided us with just the perfect dose of clarity of thought that we all needed to hear and act on. Gair’s presentation was the all the talk the next morning; he has won a ton of raving fans here at Graybar Canada.

RICK FAIR

Manager of Training
Graybar Canada

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