About Gordon Sheppard
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He is a speaker who will inspire your audience and make them laugh – while delivering practical tips and real-world stories to help them level up their leadership skills.
Gord gets many of those stories from the Executive Wins Podcast, a Quill Podcast Award winning show that he hosts – where senior leaders share their biggest wins in business so that other leaders can get inspired and take action.
It’s available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and wherever you listen.
His topics include “How Leaders Can Get More Wins in 2025…And Beyond” and the popular “Effective Meetings For Professionals Workshop”. He has also delivered customized sessions on conflict management, time management and succession planning.
He has spoken at a wide variety of conferences across North America including AICPA San Diego, APC Administrative Professionals Conference; APEGA Nexus, GFOA Conference, PMI Northern Alberta Conference and more.
He is also the author of the Amazon Best Seller titled the Meeting Leadership Solution – a proven 10-step system to help senior leaders have more productive and profitable meetings.
With more than 25 years of experience in business, Gord combines an MBA with a Bachelor’s Degree in Drama, and Prosci Change Management Certification to deliver a unique, people-centred approach that helps leaders to thrive.
He is also the CEO of Executive Wins, which delivers Executive Coaching, Facilitation and Business Advisory services.
He has worked successfully across sectors with leadership teams in all levels of government, non-profit and corporate enterprises.
He’s helped thousands of leaders around the world to grow through keynotes, breakouts, workshops, podcasting, strategy sessions, and executive coaching.
So, if you’re looking for an engaging speaker who delivers high-impact, interactive sessions that take leaders to the next level, then get in touch.
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If you want a dynamic, entertaining speaker who offers the practical insights your audience needs to take action, then hire Gord.
Gordon Sheppard is a an experienced professional speaker who brings more than 25 years of leadership development, strategic management, facilitation and marketing experience to every engagement.
So if you want a high-impact speaker who will help you audience to laugh and learn, then Gord is a great choice.
*NEW* Presentation Topics:
– How To Effectively Manage Your Remote Team
– Performance Reviews – How To Manage Difficult Conversations and Rating Scales
– How To Manage Difficult Conversations
– Time Management
– Communication
– Change Management
– Effective Meetings Professional Development Workshop
The Effective Meetings Professional Development Workshop
This workshop will help you and your team gain the skills and confidence you need to run more productive (and profitable) meetings.
Based on the proven 10-Step System in Gordon Sheppard’s book titled the ‘Meeting Leadership Solution,’ in this workshop you’ll learn:
- How to calculate the actual cost of a meeting
- How to become an outstanding facilitator
- How to build an effective agenda
- How to fight…so you can really get along
- How to connect every meeting to your strategy
- How to follow up FAST and be more accountable
- How to get inspired and take action!
Workshop Details:
- Your instructor is Gordon Sheppard, who has 25+ years of experience, an MBA and Prosci Change Management Certification
- Incudes a 38-page workbook
- Includes certificate of completion
- This workshop is suitable for senior leaders, managers and front line workers
Conflict Management Professional Development Workshop
In this engaging, interactive session, participants will gain the confidence and skills they need to productively manage conflict in the workplace.
The session begins with a discussion about the external and internal factors that can cause conflicts during projects (e.g. inflation, family issues etc.).
Then participants will learn about how they react under stress and how become more self-aware.
Then the practical, hands-on work begins as participants gain new listening skills, learn how to ask effective questions, and set ground rules.
Finally, everyone will participate in a role-play exercise during which each participant will get a chance to apply what they’ve learned to actually facilitate a conflict situation.
Workshop Details:
- Your instructor is Gordon Sheppard, who has 25+ years of experience, an MBA and Prosci Change Management Certification
- Incudes workbook
- Includes certificate of completion
- Suitable for managers and senior leaders including CEOs, Owners, VPs, Project Managers, Senior Managers and more
How To Build A Strategic Plan
In this engaging, interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to build and execute a strategic plan.
The workshop begins with learning how to understand external factors that we must consider when we’re building a plan.
Then you’ll learn how to do a SWOT analysis to help you understand your current strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
Then you’ll learn how to craft a meaningful vision, mission and set of values.
From there you’ll learn how to identify 3 to 5 key goals. You’ll also learn how to determine the key objectives that will support each goal.
Finally, you’ll be able to craft an action plan that identifies who does what, and when they have to do it, so you can bring your strategic plan to life.
Workshop Details:
- Your instructor is Gordon Sheppard, who has 25+ years of experience, an MBA and Prosci Change Management Certification
- Incudes workbook
- Includes certificate of completion
- Suitable for managers and senior leaders including CEOs, Owners, VPs, Project Managers, Senior Managers and more
Online Course Creation: A Strategic Guide For Organizations
If you want to learn how to produce highly engaging online courses for your team, then this workshop is for you.
During this practical workshop you’ll gain the practical knowledge you need to successfully produce and promote online courses.
Based on the Online Course Creation 5-Step System, in this workshop you’ll learn how to:
- Build a practical plan that will make you successful
- Find out if people actually want the course
- Promote your course so more people complete it
- Produce and maintain an engaging online course
- Measure the outcome to know if it was worthwhile
How To Hire A Business Expert
If you want to learn how to hire the right expert to help your business grow, then this presentation is for you.
During this presentation you’ll get honest information and suggestions about how to hire your next accountant, bookkeeper, marketing firm, web designer and more.
In this workshop you’ll learn how to:
- Select the right expert for the job
- Ask honest questions
- Draft a proper agreement
- Follow up on references
- Work with the expert to get the best results
Why Hire Gord To Speak At Your Event?
Gord is passionate about helping leaders to succeed. His work is dedicated to providing them with insights and information that they can put into action.
Gord has presented across Canada and the United States for organizations including:
- AICPA
- APEGA
- PMI Northern Alberta
- Economic Developers Association of Alberta
- Calgary and Area Medical Staff Society
- CPHR Alberta
- MARCOM
- University of Alberta
- King’s University
- Concordia University
- Burman University
- Rotary District 5360
- Alberta Girl Guides
- ATB Financial
- APC – Administrative Professionals Conference and more
Gord is the CEO of Business Expert Solutions Inc., a company that helps business leaders improve themselves while they grow their businesses.
He offers Leadership Coaching, Facilitation and Business Consulting services.
He also has a MBA from the University of Alberta, a Bachelor’s Degree in Drama and Prosci Change Management Certification.
Gord has worked successfully with CEOs, Executives, Managers, Employees, Students and Volunteers across all sectors.
You can hire Gord to facilitate difficult conversations, help you build your organization strategy, teach you how to produce and market online courses, do leadership development, coach your team, speak at your event, do a customized meeting improvement workshop and more.
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I have also done a variety of meeting facilitation engagements to help leadership teams go through 1 day or 2 day sessions in the areas of innovation, strategic planning and negotiation.
For example, I recently facilitated a two-day innovation session for a group of 19 Executives for Blue Diamond Resorts in Cancun, Mexico!
TESTIMONIALS
“Having worked with Gordon over a number of years on numerous television projects with the Motion Picture Arts Program at RDC, I can attest to the positive and well organized attributes of Gordon Sheppard. I am a big fan of this man and his talents. It’s typical of my experience with Gord reading about how to organize productive meetings and celebrating positive outcomes. Gord is a man of action and encouragement and supported me when I’d go out on a limb. But he wasn’t just another “rah-rah/group hug” guy. I trusted Gord to be insightful and to critique my efforts in a constructive manner and I must say he never let me down.”
“Having gathered a group of smart and powerful people to consult on a potential new project, I was nervous; these were not people with time to waste. I put my trust in Gord to create a meeting that would make good use of the time they were spending in the room that day, and he did not disappoint. Somehow, he simultaneously fostered a relaxed and casual atmosphere while keeping us on topic and on schedule. He ushered us through an extremely productive and rewarding conversation but never gave us any feeling of being controlled or overly formal. Not only did we accomplish our objectives, several of my attendees commented to me afterwards on the quality of the meeting and the facilitation. I’m grateful to have had Gord in my corner that day.
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