Josef Azam

Keynote Speaker | Montreal, Quebec

Digital Marketing Expert
Leadership Coach and Motivational Speaker

Josef Azam Expertise Business Growth, Innovation & Creativity, Digital & Social Media Marketing, Sales, Strategic Thinking, Business Leadership, Corporate Responsibility (CSR), Public Relations & Media Training and Future of Work.

Josef Azam

About Josef Azam

Josef Azam is a successful entrepreneur and digital marketing expert at the same time a fitness and health advocate and speaker. Josef Azam is a business owner, teacher, husband, father, and fitness advocate. Josef is also a digital marketing expert who helped clients generate 1.5 billion dollars in sales. At the center of his work lies philanthropy. He leads and motivates the young generation, especially the underserved youth, and it has brought a great deal of meaning to his life. Josef Azam is dedicated to promoting fitness as a source of discipline and motivation to the children that he coaches. As a child and young adult, sports helped guide and motivate Josef, which is a passion he tries to share with the next generation.

Josef Azam Videos

Speaker Bureau Demo Reel

The Importance of Giving Back | the Social

From Struggle Comes Success -- Inspirational Video

Q&a with Joe Azam: Episode 1

Q&a with Joe Azam: Episode 2

Josef Azam Interviews & Podcasts

The Importance of Giving Back | the Social

Should You Be an Entrepreneur?: Podcast #1

How to Start a Business with Zero Money! Podcast #2

The Fight and Fury in Sports (podcast #1)

JOSEF AZAM BIOGRAPHY

Josef Azam is a leadership coach, motivational speaker, successful entrepreneur who is passionate about giving back and a digital marketing guru who has assisted customers in generating 1.5 billion dollars in sales. He guides and encourages the next generation with the expertise he has gathered by building a distinctive approach to business management and breaking down industry obstacles.

Josef has been on a mission to improve and inspire the lives of people who come from similar hardships around the world.

Josef Azam is currently the President of a non-profit organization located on the West Island of Montreal, whose mission is to support lower-income families that have recently immigrated to Canada. He is also a board member of another non-profit community-driven organization that helps Quebecers find employment opportunities and develop their skills as entrepreneurs.

Occasionally, Josef gives entrepreneurship and leadership workshops at John Abbott College. He also dedicates a lot of his time to hosting free conferences and seminars for various organizations, children, students and entrepreneurs. He uses much of his personal experiences and struggles through school and business as a source of inspiration.

In the past year and a half, Josef Azam has given over 50 leadership and keynote speeches to organizations across North America and Europe. He has spoken to over 5000 underserved youth in communities and organizations such as the Boys and Girls Club, YMCA, JA centers, and school boards. As of November 2022, Josef will be speaking in prisons and juvenile detention centers in California and Georgia.

As a young child, he gravitated to combat sports like boxing, MMA fighting, and wrestling because he felt that if he became a strong fighter, people would look up to him as a tough guy and forget that he was a poor kid. In his early 20s, his goal was to be a professional MMA fighter and he started his first business, a martial arts school called Black Hawk MMA. In 2004, Josef Azam was offered a professional MMA contract from the famous Quebec TKO promotion, but he turned it down to focus his attention on business because the income would not allow him to support his parents.

As Josef started to achieve financial success, his physical health took the backburner. He gained over 50 lbs. and started becoming very insecure with his appearance. After his first child was born, he made a commitment to live an extremely healthy and disciplined life in order to set a good example for himself. Josef Azam now trains regularly with his oldest son. His transformation pictures went viral on a couple of fitness blogs in 2016.

Josef graduated from Concordia University with a BA in Sociology in 2007. His main goal was to study at the John Molson School of Business, but he was not accepted in the marketing program because of his low grades. At 24 years old and with very little experience, Josef Azam founded a web and digital marketing agency in Montreal.

He first learnt online marketing through the “Digital Marketing for Dummies” book. Josef is notorious for learning everything on his own and doing whatever it takes to make things work.

Josef Azam Topic Presentations

Josef Azam Montreal, Quebec, 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.

Emotional Intelligence: the Driving Force for Leadership & Success

Recruitment and Retention in the Nonprofit Sector: Engaging the Why

From Struggle to Success: How to Become a First-generation Entrepreneur

Josef Azam Books & Articles

Why Emotional Intelligence is a Key Factor When Kickstarting Your Business
Why Emotional Intelligence is a Key Factor When

The idea of diving into entrepreneurship is daunting for many, but the reality is, it can be attainable and a lucrative path to success...

Charitable Choices: Josef Azam, Motivational Speaker and Coach
Charitable Choices: Josef Azam, Motivational

Josef Azam is the CEO and Co-Founder of Design Shopp, a Montreal-based multinational digital marketing agency. Growing up from humble...

Design Shopp International Inc. Announces Expansion in Asia
Design Shopp International Inc. Announces

Design Shopp, a digital marketing and web agency headquartered in Montreal Canada, has expanded its operations and team in Asia. With this...

This Baggage-handler Refused to Give Up. Now He’s CEO and Has a Powerful Message That Will Inspire You.
This Baggage-handler Refused to Give Up. Now

He started out as a baggage handler and now he's a successful CEO... and it only took him 5 years. Josef Azam's keys to success are things...

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