Neil Pretty

Neil Pretty

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Vancouver, British Columbia

Keynote Speaker, Leadership Expert, Coach, CEO And Entrepreneur

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NEIL PRETTY BIOGRAPHY

Neil Pretty has worked across the world as a speaker, consultant, facilitator, coach and advisor. He is the co-founder of Aristotle Performance which specializes in helping companies create psychological safety and train leaders to develop high-performing teams. He has worked with global companies such as HubSpot, Ogilvy, Finra, Logitech, Lexis/Nexis, Blumont, Elsevier, and WorldCC.

Neil Pretty has also worked with several companies coaching high performers from across North America and as far away as Eastern Europe, the Nordics and SE Asia. As a specialist in the area of psychological safety, team performance and leadership development Neil has helped organizations reduce costs, time to market, and turnover and helped teams create the dynamics that lead to innovation, high performance and belonging.

Instead of the typical resume, Neil Pretty spent a lifetime earning a degree from the school of hard knocks as an adventurer and as an adrenaline seeker. With past businesses in several domains, Aristotle Performance would become his 6th business built off success as an independent coach and consultant. Neil became a Certified Co-Active Coach (CPCC) in 2018 and certified as a Professional SuccessFinder Practitioner at the same time. Soon after he would be a member of the first cohort in the world certified by The Fearless Organization.

As well, Neil Pretty would go on to complete the altMBA through Seth Godin. Not only has Aristotle Performance emerged as a leader in developing psychological safety it has become the Americas’ Partner of The Fearless Organization; As a core member Neil and the Aristotle team train facilitators and collaborate with other global leaders including Dr Amy C. Edmondson of Harvard to build training and development programs around the world.   

Prior to his work and life as a CEO, consultant and speaker, Neil Pretty had several ventures as he pursued a life of curiosity. As a young man, he had been told to be savvy, not realizing this would lead him to the life of an entrepreneur. After operating a landscaping business to pay for horticulture school he would eventually work as a tree-faller and arborist, cabinet maker and ski boot fitter.

Neil Pretty would find himself on the road in the live production industry as a specialist who travelled across the United States for work. Often working with 2-4 teams a day after several years Neil would work with several hundred teams. It was over this time that his early leadership training listening to his father speak about leadership at the dinner table and his early leadership experiences as a 13-year-old Army Cadet leader and platoon commander would solidify.

As a result, he would see that understanding the human condition was central to high-performance leadership; that emotional intelligence and self-awareness were paramount for the development of others and that, more than anything, management was a job and leadership was a relationship.

Neil Pretty helps his clients increase psychological safety, increase their capacity to lead and realize what is possible when we create environments that contain both psychological safety and accountability. He helps organizations understand how the organization itself in fact may be the lever to help create those conditions. But he also helps his clients build team relationships and leadership skills to accelerate learning, belonging and innovation.

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Neil Pretty Topic Presentations

Psychological Safety: Creating the Conditions To Navigate Complex Times.

  • Virtual PresentationKeynote PresentationWorkshop SessionHalf Day TrainingFull Day Training
  • In the wake of the global pandemic, people remain the greatest opportunity for organizational stability. Leaders and teams need to remain effective, innovate and meet the demands of their clients. Meanwhile, the workforce is becoming increasingly discerning and top talent is on the lookout for organizations and leaders who foster innovation, well-being, diversity and growth opportunities.

    By focusing on Psychological Safety as a core element of success, you are creating the conditions to successfully navigate these otherwise competing priorities. With the right approach, psychological safety is about more than being nice – it’s about learning and performance.

    It is possible to build a culture of psychological safety, and teams who maximize their potential to work effectively through change. It is possible to foster innovation, and growth, and ultimately drive better performance outcomes while lowering burn-out, stress and turnover.

    As a result, your organization can increase value while becoming a destination for top talent.

    Key takeaways for audience members: 

    • Learn how the Psychological Safety they create, and co-create with others is critical to performance – not just feeling good.
    • Learn the nature of psychological safety and how they can continuously nurture and improve their team environment

The Opposite of Bad Isn’t Good: It’s Not Bad. How Leaders Can Become Worthy of Being Remembered

The Leaders Toolkit Workshop

Testimonials

Neil Pretty is a uniquely talented orator that takes his audience on a learning journey that engages you on so many levels. I heard Neil Prettyspeak at an event and was so impressed that I just knew I wanted to bring him in to train our software engineers. He did not disappoint, he was amazing!! I’ve already recommended him to several of my L&D colleagues. And a huge shout-out to his flexibility since we’re based in Israel. He accommodated us with a pre-dawn start in his time zone

Yoni Novick

Cross River Director of Technical Learning 

It was a great pleasure to work with the wonderful Neil Pretty at our Americas Summit, he had the audience truly captivated and engaged at the end of a long conference day. Not an easy task! We see the topic of Psychological Safety, what it means to an organisation and individuals, continues to grow in importance. Neil Pretty brings a phenomenal wealth of knowledge and experience in this area.

Nikki Mackay

Chief Development Officer
World Commerce & Contracting

Neil Pretty helped me look at things in a completely new way. I’ve been able to use what I learned from Neil Pretty to make a positive impact in my company and at home – Very Actionable. He is clear and inspiring on a complex subject. He covered a lot of information in a short period of time. He also gave me really useful material to take and use. Neil Pretty earns my highest recommendation as a speaker and for coaching, consulting and leadership development.

Roxanne Reeves

Neil Pretty is an absolute pleasure to work with. He was quickly able to build trust and a strong rapport which enabled us to really dig into my strengths and weaknesses and consider strategies to further my success. If you’re really looking to access your full potential as a leader I highly recommend connecting with Neil.

Jonathan Mosley

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Please contact Speakers Bureau of Canada and provide us with your event details so that we can contact Neil Pretty to check availability or confirm the pricing and associated costs to hire a great speaker like Neil Pretty for your event. As Neil Pretty's agent and as a Canadian top speaker bureau and talent agency for speakers, we are able to propose each event opportunity from each host organization's behalf to try to help you get in touch with Neil Pretty and confirm them for your in person or online meeting/event. We can also provide and advise on the booking process and potentially negotiate their fee. Speakers Canada is a client focused speaker agency, and we work for you in finding good speakers for your team meetings and booking processes.

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Speakers Bureau Canada assists companies and event planning teams seeking to hire talent like Neil Pretty for speaking engagements, virtual meetings, conference appearances, training sessions and workshops facilitations. Our Canadian speakers bureau does not claim to exclusively represent Neil Pretty, however they are represented by Speakers Canada, and we work with them closely for their Canadian speaking opportunities and bookings. As Canada's top speaker bureau, we represent Canadian motivational keynote speakers and professional guest speakers that will be available on your upcoming events date and location that are withing the budget. Our talented bureau speaker booking agency can help find business speakers or celebrity speakers that aligns with each organization, audience, event theme and the topic themes you hope for the speaker to address in their presentation. 

When SBC receives a request to book Neil Pretty we provide you with their speaker fees, travel costs and check their schedules. We work closely with the host organization's event planning team and the speaker to handle the logistics and to relay or negotiate associated costs. Our talented team members then will work with our talent directly or their agent/manager/assistant to confirm the Canadian speaker fee and travel expenses, so that event planning teams can receive an official quote for the speaker appearing at the event. Speaker fees and travel costs vary per speaker and our role is to contact Neil Pretty about your event, after we have connected with the event organizers to learn all the event details and/or conference program. Each booking request is unique since session durations and audience sizes can vary which may affect the speaker's fees. If you are looking to hire Neil Pretty, we recommend filling out the booking request form so a booking agent from Speakers Bureau Canada can get in touch with our talent to help you coordinate with your team to engage the speaker for a successful event.

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