Scott Armstrong

The spirit of disruptive innovation is essential for all successful organizations – large or small. Don’t agree? Just look at how resource companies are struggling to cope with $30 oil, or retailers 3 steps behind Amazon’s expansion to 50% of the market.

Birthing and nurturing an innovative mindset and company culture that dreams of, creates and executes disruptive innovation is no longer the unique calling card of superstar brands like Apple – it is essential to any firm looking to succeed beyond the next calendar year.

Is it passion? A sound business model? A sustainable market? After helping over 2000 businesses launch and grow over the past 15 years Scott has deeply learned that every successful business owner’s success is…well, unique. Ask him – he developed Canada’s largest exotic wildlife refuge and spent his working days playing with wolves and rehabilitating tigers. A published entrepreneurial author, Scott will share his top 20 tips to effectively motivate, inspire and coach entrepreneurs from all walks of life. Transformational, and inspiring are what audiences consistently call Scott’s keynote. Your conference organizers will thank you.

Habitudes – a word not heard very often but one that is the core of every action, success or failure, taken. In short, we become what we think.  The perspective, the framing that you wrap around a circumstance is the key determinant in what happiness, indifference, success or pain you will experience.

Habitudes, the partnering of our attitudes and habits, generate the experiences and results we get in all aspects of our lives. And the incredibly empowering fact is we can choose what we want!  Imagine the differences experienced if our initial thoughts looked for opportunities, not deficits; innovation instead of routine; efficiency not confusion. High-Performance Habitudes provide incredible life-long benefits to your career, finances, health and relationships.

Steve dares you to sink your teeth deep into your true passions. Adventure, writing, travel, entrepreneurship – let’s see what really moves you. In this ½-day workshop, you will develop a personalized vision board.

Getting a connection with and understanding the needs and desires of people you work with is not the sole domain of professional salespeople. Everyone needs these skills whether you are selling to a client, applying for a job or trying to get your boss to say yes to your idea. This presentation is chock-full of need-to-know, how-to-use techniques that will provide you with immediate results.

Having an innovative culture at the heart of your business all distills down to one thing – perceiving innovation as a necessity, not a nuisance. New ideas, whether disruptive or incremental in impact, need to be welcomed in sufficient numbers, assessed for value-added and on-boarded with processes capable of aligning your team talent with technology.

The five key elements to creating and growing a culture of innovation can vary in importance between companies and industries but always include hiring for innovation in attitude, embracing new ideas, strong communication across all business areas, providing resources to bring new ideas to life, and celebrating successes.

In this insightful and entertaining keynote, Scott will share key learnings in his 20 years as a senior business consultant and will embark on key tools to increase innovation within their departments and organizations.

Personal leadership, at its heart, is engaging the captain’s chair in your life. It is dis-guarding the belief that life happens to you and replacing it with your desire and ability to take responsibility for all aspects of your life – leading it in the direction that is best for you.

Universally, a lack of personal leadership has a significant impact on overall company performance and individual fulfillment through a reduction in both employee engagement and organizational innovation, and an increase in employee turnover and conflict, at all levels.  When cultivated, positive personal leadership erases many of these deficits because everyone holds themselves more personally accountable.

In his engaging and energy-filled keynote, Scott shares insights gained from working with over 200 organizations into key areas of personal leadership and resilience such as positive self-talk, health and wellness, purposeful living and his habits to goals process leading to a performance mindset.

Transitioning to retirement, or work-optional life, is arguably one of the most impactful events in one’s life, and yet so little preparation is done by the individual, and by many employers. As a result, good employees become less engaged as their fear about their future grows, and mediocre employees stay longer because they have nothing to go to. Neither of these serves your organization well.

Yes, annual financial workshops are often held to discuss pensions, benefits, etc. All very important topics for sure, but several key foundations are missing to build upon what should be another two or three decades of a vibrant and purposeful life. It is counterintuitive that the work many crave to see only in the rear-view mirror provides essential elements to keep all of us vital, elements such as purpose, structure, mental growth and social connections. Left without these key elements in their daily lives, the mindset of most retirees stalls within a few months of leaving work, and recent UK studies have identified significant mental and physical deterioration in as little as two years.

Scott will lead attendees and participants through an entertaining and actionable keynote, identifying key foundations and will provide actionable steps for participants to craft the next phase of life they will truly find exciting and fulfilling, keeping employees more engaged while with you, providing turnover where desired, and decreasing health benefit claims over the long term.