HOW TO UNLOCK CREATIVE LEADERSHIP ON A DEADLINE

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 blindspots
• into growth opportunities
• Tangibly infuse your work with deeper meaning and purpose
• Dramatically improve team alignment to solve urgent problems

HOW TO NAVIGATE MASSIVE CHANGE AND CONSTANT DISRUPTION

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  ounterintuitive — 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%.

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

This is not business on the brink of failure. This is BUSINESS ON THE BRINK OF A BREAKTHROUGH

HOW TO COMMUNICATE PURPOSEFULLY, PERSUASIVELY, AND EMPATHETICALLY IN A BOLD, NEW WORLD

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.

Jamie was awarded Top Business Trainer by Dale Carnegie Training, and has conducted leadership communication and conflict resolution sessions for a decade with corporations (including Sun Life Financial, Novo Nordisk Pharma, Baker Tilly Accounting, Vistage and Meeting Planners International). He is a bestselling author on leadership team building and has been featured in Forbes, TED.com and CNN. Plus, he’s kind of funny, as he worked behind the scenes for Saturday Night Live.

What 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.

In a recent survey, 19% of the workforce expressed that they are miserable in their work and feeling burnt out. One proven solution to reverse this mental health crisis is discovering or rediscovering a sense of purpose in what you do. 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 Mason Cohen, a certified leadership trainer with The Leadership Circle has helped teams quickly, effectively and inspiringly tap into their individual and collective purpose in a transformational session that you have to experience to believe.

The President of Master Mechanic (60 Franchises and growing across Ontario) said of Jamie’s March ’24 purpose-driven workshop, “I’ve never seen anything like this in my career leading franchisees. I’ve never seen anywhere close to this level of total engagement, openness and sharing amongst franchisee owners that I did today. It was electric.”

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.

The transformation 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.

One-on-One Handwriting Analysis

Jamie will instantly show you your strengths and weaknesses through your handwriting so that you know what to build on, and what to stop doing. Then he shows you the path to the best you through a combination of prescriptive real-world insights.

To grow as a person, getting the right kind of help and support is crucial. But what if you’ve already tried this and found many experts just ask a lot of questions on the surface but don’t offer real solutions.

That’s where Jamie is so different in his approach and it’s why audiences will consistently line-up for hours (no exaggeration) after his world-wide speaking events to spend just a few minutes hearing his insights that have been called, “better than therapy” by Margaret Trudeau.

Work with world renowned certified handwriting analyst and graphotherapist, Jamie Mason Cohen whose TEDx talk on how to spot a leader in their handwriting has been viewed over 1.7 million times and whose handwriting analysis commentary is regularly featured on CNN, Forbes, CTV, Global, The Morning Show, Daily Express and The Social, to reveal your strengths beneath the surface and blind spots you need to be aware of.

You will walk away from a session with Jamie feeling like a different, inspired person. You’ll have to experience this for yourself to believe it. If you feel that your life is not quite where you want it to be and are searching for some non-judgmental, encouraging and useful analysis into what is holding you back, working with Jamie may be part of the answer.

Here’s what happens when people experience a 1-1 analysis with me:

• You’ll instantly get a clear picture of what you need to work on with clear and implementable actions and steps to improve your life
• You’ll feel acknowledged and seen for your gifts
• You’ll learn what personality traits and beliefs are holding you back
• You’ll experience trust that usually takes months with a therapist resulting in a new level of self-awareness
• Fathers have re-established positive communication re-united with their adult children who they were estranged from
• A mother-daughter relationship improved instantly through a better understand of each other
• Get additional insights into an employee’s writing who may be demonstrating actions counter-productive to the company’s vision
• What kind of person is a good match for and who to avoid in relationships
• What future profession suits your strengths
• How to better understand why your children are behaving a certain way with detailed, implementable and immediate ways to support them

The Leadership Circle Profile (LCP): The Leadership Assessment that Illuminates Leadership Effectiveness

The LCP is a true breakthrough among 360-degree profiles. It is the first to connect a well-researched battery of competencies with the underlying motivating habits of thought. LCP goes to the source of behaviour to get greater leverage on change. Unlike most profiles that take hours to interpret, LCP integrates all this information in a way that brings the key issues to the surface instantly.

The data in the LCP reveals itself in seconds. At a glance, it puts leaders in touch with what is working, what is not, and why! In most organizations, this treasure trove of information remains buried.  The LCP makes it easily accessible while it creates a foundation on which ground breaking change can occur at a higher level and sustainable pace.

The LCP is the only instrument that measures the two primary leadership domains – Creative Competencies and Reactive Tendencies – and integrates this information so that key opportunities for development immediately rise to the surface.

The LCP is unique in that it allows the leader to see how his/her inner world of thought translates into a productive or unproductive style of leadership.  Ultimately, the LCP increases the inner awareness that affects outward behavior.

Jamie Mason Cohen is a certified executive leadership trainer with The Leadership Circle and is certified to give The Leadership Circle Profile. He has given one-on-one assessments and debriefs using The Leadership Circle Profile for a wide range of leaders including: CEOs, SVPs, General Managers, entire Senior Management Teams of Fortune 500 companies, award-winning educators, department heads, law enforcement, and more!

ONE-ON-ONE GRAPHOTHERAPY SESSION: CHANGE YOUR WRITING, CHANGE YOUR BEHAVIOURS AND HABITS

Jamie uses graphotherapy, to give people insights into themselves and show them the path to improvement.

Graphotherapy is a revelation. You will get some truly eye-opening insights about yourself, and that puts you into a questioning, receptive frame of mind so that you’re ready to learn and change.

Maybe you see handwriting analysis as just entertainment, without enough substance for a business conference, meeting, or retreat. Or perhaps you feel it’s a novelty or a gimmick. Some of Jamie’s clients once felt that way too. But the reality they found was very different.

Graphotherapy is a powerful and practical tool for change, and it can work for you. Put Jamie in a room with your toughest, most cynical leaders, managers, sales forces, and dysfunctional teams, and he’ll show you a new way to think about themselves and their performance. He guarantees it.

SATURDAY NIGHT COUPLES: THE ART OF AUTHENTIC COMMUNICATION IN RELATIONSHIPS

Saturdays represent a time of being with family, a time of building relationships with friends, and a time of balance.  We all need great Saturdays to connect with ourselves and our significant others.

Structuring the relevant, content-rich, engaging, clear-in-application yet simultaneously captivating and humorous workshop into seven parts, Jamie will get  partners thinking on their feet about how to connect in an inspiring and moving way.

Each part of the workshop represents a day of the week in the preparation process of the TV show, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE.  The format provides a supportive, inclusive, and psychologically safe environment for couples to celebrate what they’re grateful for in their relationship.  You will also learn how to close the gap between where they are as a couple today and where they want to be in their relationship moving forward.

Jamie Mason Cohen once worked for Saturday Night Live, and is a renowned handwriting analyst/certified graphotherapist, appearing on Global’s, The Morning Show, CNN and Forbes.

He will guide partners in applying authentic communication skills inspired by his experiences working for Saturday Night Live and in his graphotherapy counselling practice so that couples can thrive no matter the stage in their relationship.

Jamie has been happily married to his wife, Karen, for eight years, and they have a son and a daughter.  He has facilitated couples’ retreats for executives from a wide range of businesses and their partners and provided relationship compatibility sessions for celebrities and business executives. On the TV show, The Social, he is a couples’ relationship expert and commentator.

This is an ideal workshop for company or mastermind retreats in which employees or members bring their partners.