Todd Leader

Todd Leader

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Inspirational Speaker | Psychology | Leadership Consultant And Mental Health Expert

  • Videos
  • Expertise
  • Leadership
  • Collaboration
  • Addictions & Substance Abuse
  • Mental Health
  • Stigma
  • Changing the world
  • Client-centered service
  • Discovering your power
  • Psychology

TODD LEADER BIOGRAPHY

Todd Leader doesn’t just talk the talk. He has achieved real outcomes, demonstrated his ability as a leader and change-maker time and time again, and has developed an engaging and motivating presentation style that can help you benefit from that real-world experience and knowledge.

Todd is an author, social worker, and community psychologist, with a decades-long career as a multiple-award-winning transformational leader and a multiple-award-winning university educator.

Todd Leader has been appointed to Ministerial working groups and has led many professional associations and community organizations. His contribution to his community has also been recognized by a declaration in the Nova Scotia Legislature.

Todd Leader has built innovative, cutting-edge organizations and services from the ground up and has transformed even more. He has led an unprecedented transformation of a mental health and addiction program to achieve the best wait times in Nova Scotia (from 8 months down to 1 month for adults, and from 5 months down to 1–7 days for adolescents) without relying on new money. Based on that work, his 2016 book It’s Not About Us; The Secret to Transforming the Mental Health and Addiction System in Canada, and his engaging style, continue to influence leadership and client-centered system change across Canada.

Todd Leader’s work has always been about real change, not just holding leadership positions. He has taught and inspired tens of thousands and has coached and nurtured many to become effective leaders of organizations, of social change, of mental health in the workplace, of outstanding teams, and of synergistic collaborative relationships. He has even developed courses and messages that empower the volunteer networks of non-profits to be effective change agents for the organizations’ social-change missions.

Todd Leader is currently writing his second book about a life-threatening medication-induced mental illness and the lessons he was fortunate enough to learn about stigma, discrimination, suicidality, human rights, and medication side effects. That experience has made him especially valuable to organizations looking to address mental health or stigma in the workplace (or community). It has given him the unique benefit of understanding workplace mental health from the three main perspectives of academic research, leadership experience, and being the guy in the workplace that became ill. This unique combined insight goes far beyond the oversimplified “let’s talk” mantra, and has made him even more effective as a leader.

If you want to move your team, organization, or community to the next level of real leadership, effectiveness of collaborative partnerships, managing mental health in the workplace, building the most client-centered services on the planet, or even inspiring people to change the world through effective advocacy and leadership skills, Todd Leader can help. His training and public addresses are always inspiring, engaging, free-flowing, adaptive to the audience, thought-provoking, and impactful.

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Todd Leader Related Content

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It’s Not About Us
It’s Not About Us
It's Not About Us: The Secret to Transforming the Mental Health and Addiction System in Canada

Todd Leader Topic Presentations

Todd Leader Halifax, Nova Scotia, 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.

Leading With Mental Health: Strategies for Cultivating Resilience and Peak Performance in Yourself for Your Team

Fostering A Resilient Workplace: Mental Health As A Strategy

Creating A Culture of Care and Compassion: Using Empathy and Human-centered Design to Build Stronger Human Connections

Overcoming Moral Injury: An Integrative Approach With Todd Leader

Managing Mental Health: Strategies for Thriving in Challenging Times With Todd Leader

Developing Team Effectiveness

Leadership Is More Than A Skill Set, It’s A Way of Being

Solving the Addiction and Mental Health Care Problem

Preventing Moral Injury or Compassion Fatigue

Becoming A Recruitment and Retention Magnet in Health, Community, and Human Service Industries

Interdepartmental and Interagency Collaboration: 7 Ways to Make It Work

Managing Mental Health in the Workplace

Stigma: Beyond Jargon and Clichés

Changing the World

Moving Beyond Client-centered Care

Todd Leader Speaking Testimonials

Todd is an excellent teacher and mentor. He lectures on real-world leadership skills and instructs how to facilitate change. As a professor, Todd takes the time to address individual students and coach them on how to grow as a leader.

Collette Robert

Vice President Equity & Wellness
Saint Mary's University Students' Association

Todd is one of the most humble people I know and is a leader in every way. Not only does he lead others, but he also promotes leadership in those who want to become one and in those he sees potential in.

Meghan Symonds

Student
Saint Mary's University

Mr. Todd Leader is a pioneer in effectively empowering employee and student leadership abilities…he consults all of his students, individually empowering them to explore and actively engage in creating change beyond the classroom. Mr. Leader is a powerful, changing force in the community, a leader, and an inspiring individual.

Sylvia Gawad

Account Manager
Royal Bank of Canada

Todd Leader’s strengths lie in his ability to develop self-agency and spark inspiration in every one of his students he teaches…shifting students thinking to systems-focused, using evidence-based practice, and fostering leadership skills, his students are not only inspired to change the communities they live in, but they have the tools to make an effective impact.

Nicole Hart

Todd is compassionate and client-focused in such a unique way that embraces the determinants of health both from a micro as well as macro perspective, dissolving barriers that may restrict access. Todd is extremely insightful and knows how to motivate and lead staff, who may be part of his team. For any program interested in having a direct impact on improving the health of those requiring services, I highly recommend Todd Leader.

Gary Goodwin

Nicotine Addiction Treatment Specialist
South Shore Health-Addictions and Mental Health Services

Todd is a strong and influential leader with an exceptional ability to motivate. He is insightful, pragmatic and connected to the needs of the community. Todd is a champion of health promotion and of finding practical, long-term solutions to the challenges in the health care system.

Kate Johnston

Prevention & Health Promotion Specialist
IWK Health Centre

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