Jamie Mason Cohen

It’s too often that leaders carve their path by learning to follow in the steps of their predecessors, turning to the outside to find ways to grow their skills. In order to unlock your true Signature Leadership, you must start by looking inward. This session focuses on what lies beneath the surface in your unique leadership strengths, challenges, and purpose so that you can lead your team through change.

Appearing on CNN, Forbes, and the TEDx stage, Jamie Mason Cohen has unearthed unique and accurate insights into some of the world’s foremost leaders. His Signature Leadership process taps into those distinct aspects of leadership that stem from within. Jamie is also a regularly featured commentator on Global’s, The Morning Show, helping people discover their true strengths and compassionately bringing immediate awareness to the blind spots that hold them back from moving to the next level.

This session will:

• Show you the strengths — and blind spots — that make up your signature leadership
• Teach you how to communicate effectively with your unique signature leadership style
• Grant you a holistic understanding of your team, and how to use your unique leadership strengths to transform your culture into one that supports purpose, process, and progress

There are two types of leaders today: creative and reactive. Which one are you when it’s decision-making time? Your answer to this question is your 11:30. Lorne Michaels, the Executive Producer of Saturday Night Live, said, “Saturday Night Live was not ready because it was finished, it was ready because it was 11:30 on Saturday Night.”

What do you get when you bring together one of the business world’s top data-informed leadership 360s, and backstage stories of Saturday Night Live? Weaving together invaluable data insights with the fascinating real stories behind the revered creative institution that is SNL, this session will teach leaders and teams how to grow through effective leadership in today’s volatile, complex and ambiguous business world.

What kind of a leader will you be at 11:30? Creative? Reactive? or a Saturday Night Leader?

This session will:

• Develop awareness of creative leadership strengths + Transform reactive blind spots
• into growth opportunities
• Tangibly infuse your work with deeper meaning and purpose
• Dramatically improve team alignment to solve urgent problems

This engaging session will provide businesses with timely, actionable real-time guidance on how to navigate the massive change and constant disruption that comes with growth. In every crisis there lies an opportunity, but sometimes it requires an unconventional — and perhaps counterintuitive — approach to capitalize on it. This is exactly what Jamie Mason Cohen explores in this keynote or workshop inspired by the lessons learned from his social media business series by the same name that helped a company grow by 30%. This is not business on the brink of failure.

After seeing the need for clear and simple business solutions during times of crisis, Jamie merged his background in media production and his expertise as an executive leadership coach to create a way to help business owners make massive progress on their most pressing issues during times of disruption. As a regular speaker for the largest network of CEO Advisory Board Groups in Canada and the U.S., who formerly worked for Saturday Night Live Executive Producer Lorne Michaels, as well as being a certified Leadership Coach with The Leadership Circle, Jamie has taken his wide scope of experience to equip leaders with deeper insights surrounding:

• Practical, real-time guidance on how to navigate massive change
• How to turn pivotal moments of friction into progress
• How to tap into the collective intelligence of a team to get solutions during times of disruption
• How to use CHAT GPT for your industry to efficiently adapt during transition

Hybrid business meetings, retreats, pitches, presentations and client engagement are here to stay. It might take a combination of delivery forms in the months ahead but how you and your team communicate is a crucial skill for your team to master both externally and internally. Yet so many remote interactions are a cross between PowerPoint Slide Karaoke, and random ChatGPT prompts, a sleep-inducing data dump and a one-sided poorly lit lecture by wonderful professionals who transform into stiff, unsmiling robots when the computer camera turns on.

This regrettable problem can be resolved with some engaging and practical training from a speaker who not only worked behind-the-scenes at SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, but is a regular guest TV commentator on CNN, Global’s The Morning Show, and The Social and who has given virtual workshops to Fortune 500 executive teams, business owners, physicians, professors and other leaders in twenty-one countries.

Learning Outcomes Include:

• How to build the timeless skill of storytelling for business, regardless of the medium (virtual or F2F) to persuade any audience, to build culture, to sell, to improve relationships, to recruit, or to create community through the 4C Framework
• How to balance analytical/data-driven messages so that you can connect emotionally with the audience and reach their hearts
• How to avoid the data dump and get your audience to remember your key message that you want them to act on

In this engaging and hands-on workshop break-out session, award-winning Leadership Speaker and Facilitator, Jamie Mason Cohen will help you and your team highlight three types of buyers your team is challenged with in a useful, different and customized way. He will then present the audience with highly relevant questions to change the way your team thinks about and approaches conversations with customers.

Each member of your team will identify three actionable takeaways from the session and build them into their individual business plans to track individual growth over the next year. A company Jamie worked with significantly grew their market share within six months after the session.

Jamie Mason Cohen formerly worked in marketing, sales and production for Lorne Michaels’ companies, including, Saturday Night Live, was recently nominated for Meeting Planners International Speaker of the Year, NY, and is the Host of one of Canada’s most listened-to business podcasts, TEC Canada’s, The Leadership Standard. Jamie has delivered keynotes and workshops for The Insurance Brokers Association of Nova Scotia (IBANS), The Project Management Institute of Calgary, Baker Tilly Accounting, TEC-Canada (Calgary and Edmonton Branches) Sun Life Financial, and Canada Life to help companies better understand their customers’ needs and get transformational results.

Your audience will gain:

• How to think like your 3 ideal customer types
• How to envision success, win and have conversations with confidence with these customers
• Insights into your customers’ needs to grow

What is unresolved and unnecessary conflict costing your company? Leadership Communication Executive Trainer with The Leadership Circle, Jamie Mason Cohen, conducted a three-year study with CEOs and key executive business leaders from 100 companies on the actual cost of unresolved and unnecessary conflict. The average wasted time per day due to unresolved and unnecessary conflict, according to the business leaders surveyed, is 4 hours.

That’s 4 hours per day of wasted time x 1 year of work (one thousand plus hours) adversely impacting the mental health, productivity, and bottom line of companies from various industries. Attendees will gain from this session are useful, experiential strategies, a clear and relevant proven framework, timely case studies and inspiring and relatable stories on how to significantly reduce wasted time per day from unresolved and unnecessary conflict.

As a result, your company will save money, reduce mental health issues and increase productivity.

Outcomes include:

• Reduction in wasted time that can lead to a significant increase in productivity.
• Improvement in mental health, and team well-being that can lead to happier employees, less friction and lower turnover.
• Positive, measurable impact on the bottom line.

Drawing on proven strategies, Jamie Cohen demonstrates how aligning business objectives with purpose strengthens competitiveness, increases profitability, and opens access to new customers. Participants will leave with actionable approaches to foster engagement, boost productivity, and create workplaces that improve retention, recruitment, and long-term growth. Purpose-driven entrepreneurs and companies are happier and more productive and the teams that they lead are, as well. Purpose-driven companies have 30% higher retention rates. Jamie Cohen provides solutions on how to stay competitive, increase profits and gain access to new customers. It will include teams leaving the session happier in their work, working smarter, not harder, more productive moving forward, hopeful and more profitable, and having a measurable and positive impact on retention and recruitment.