Speaking
If you haven’t seen Tod Maffin give a keynote presentation, then you haven’t seen a presentation done the right way.
His presentation slides are on steroids. Images fly by at breathtaking speed, punctuating nearly every other sentence. Part speech, part live rock performance, there’s not a single bullet point in sight. Tod’s timing is sharp and his energy is simply infectious.
Maybe that’s part of why Tod is a highly sought-after keynote speaker around North America and the world, including Berlin, Melbourne, Stockholm, London, Bucharest, and more.
Most importantly, the content is packed with “use-it-tomorrow” information — always customized to each specific group, using new research, live web links, industry-specific relevant examples and case studies, and done in close partnership with the meeting planner to ensure the presentation meets the exact goals needed.
Human Resources
Leading the Facebook Generation:
How to Manage, Inspire, and Manage Generation Y/Millennials
They think differently. They work differently. And they’re demanding a leadership style that is flexible and moves at their speed. Among the things you’ll learn in this fast-paced, information-rich presentation are how to:
- Integrate the Generations
- Live a New Leadership and Management Style
- Rethink Benefits and Evaluations
- Develop On-Demand Workplace Education
- Create a Safe Space Where Innovation ‘Just Happens’
- Structure a Team by Removing Its Structure
- Foster Loyalty by Training Them to Leave
- Learn the Six Reasons Millennials/Generation Y Leave Their Employer
Recruiting the Facebook Generation:
Winning the New War for Talent
They’re fickle, media-savvy, highly-connected and living on the cutting-edge of technology. Employers worldwide are scrambling to understand what makes this unique generation tick and how they can more effectively recruit and retain them. In this presentation, Tod Maffin walks audiences through the minefield of challenges involved in this new world of talent management and delivers invaluable insights into the future generation of workers: where to find them, how to attract them, and, perhaps most importantly, how to keep them engaged, motivated and fully productive. [View video]
Labor Relations in the YouTube Era:
Respond to Online Attacks and Improve Relationships with Your Workers
It starts as a striking worker starting an anti-management blog. Or a locked-out staffer uploading videos to YouTube of managers crossing the line. You don’t need to be online to discover that labour relations in today’s digital era is an entirely new animal. Tod Maffin should know. When the CBC locked out him at 5,500 other employees in 2005, Tod started a blog. In time, it grew to be the hub of communications for both labor and management, garnering 10,000 unique visits daily, and some say the blog helped end the dispute earlier. In this presentaiton, Tod will walk you through how the CBC story unfolded, introduce you to his SWARM methodology for responding online, and how to speak in a new voice that engages, not offends, those on the line.
Worklife Balance / Mental Health and Addictions
Taking ‘Crazy’ Back:
A New Roadmap for Mental Health in the Workplace
With depression rates soaring in the workplace, do we need a radical new way of providing mental health services to our employees? Tod Maffin [bio] thinks so. In this provocative keynote speech, Tod will reveal how this hyper-connected economy may be both destroying the productivity of workplaces and eroding the mental health of companies’ most valuable asset — their people. Tod will outline his own bold strategy for bringing mental health discussion out of the shadows in a way that will challenge your attendees for years to come.
The Myth of Multitasking:
Working and Living in the Hyperspeed Economy Without Losing Your Mind
Learn how to be more productive, profitable, and satisfied with life by using a new set of skills designed to reduce your email, wrangle your voicemails better, and prioritze your day.
- Exploit proven streamlined email model that will save you at least an hour a day
- Learn how you are literally damaging your brain when you multitask
- Use more effective management strategies like Smart Delegation
- Learn why you feel sore all the time and the secret world of stress-induced sub-muscular contractions
- Gain a little space and “just be” without taking up yoga
- Use web services to priorize your day
- Learn how your brain simply can’t do more than one thing at a time (fun demonstration)
When Too Fast Became Too Much:
A Tale of Living Through Depression and Addiction
A moving, inspiring personal story. Once the founder and CEO of a multi-million dollar technology firm, Tod’s workload and always-on personality finally caught up with him and over the following years, he was crippled by a devastating depression — all the while struggling to appear to be productive to employers and colleagues, and happy and healthy to his friends and family. Here’s how he survived and lives a happy and (nearly) stress-free life today without sacrificing productivity.
Education / Learning / K-12
Teaching the Facebook Generation:
Connect with Your Gen-Y/Millennial Students Better and Teach More Effectively
How do you help Generation Y learn when they have nearly zero attention span, expect that you’ll be at least as tech-savvy as they are, and have high demands for heavy curriculum customization? There are ways — incredibly effective ways — once you understand and master next-generation teaching techniques for these Millennials. Among the things you’ll learn in this fast-paced and entertaining 90 minute keynote presentation:
- Engage your students’ curiosity by using Curriculum Mashups
- What do to when a student “friends” you on a social networking site
- Navigate the subtleties of being a respected authority figure without “talking down”
- Discover the unique balance Gen Y students use when multitasking — Could having music blaring actually help their cognitive development? (Answer: Yes!)
- The case for permitting encouraging the use of Facebook and Twitter in the classroom
What you learn in this provocative presentation will change the way you teach for years to come.
Learning in a Digital World
How Technology is Changing the Way Students Learn
In a world where two thirds of kids spend more time in front of a computer than a television set, are we unknowingly re-shaping the learning patterns of children? Is living in a remote control world helping or hindering education? What key things has our networked world already taught young people behind our back, and how kids are coping with learning in the hypermedia environment we’ve handed them. In this thought-provoking, presentation, Tod will dive into the latest neurological research around cognitive development — and, using dozens of short videos and custom images, make it simple to understand. You’ll fly through the brain’s learning centres and discover how media multitasking is changing actual cognitive brain structures at the cellular level.
The Problem with Rock Tumblers
Why Our K-12 Education System is in Urgent Crisis (and How to Fix It)
The “system” means well, but it’s slowly asphyxiating the future of education. In this provocative keynote address, Tod Maffin identifies the primary ways the education system is taking the “rough stones” of learners and tries to grind and polish their way to education — while actually scraping away the culture and uniqueness the learners bring. Maffin’s five steps to repairing this damage will get your conference delegates talking days after the address. [Download printable brochure]
Communications
Tweet Warfare
When Good “Buzz” Goes Bad: Protecting Your Brand from Online Attacks
It’s clear now — the new war for market domination is being fought 140 characters at a time. Your company may already be a sitting duck in the crosshairs of an online brand attack — do you know how to respond to convert attackers into friends? Tod will show your meeting attendees how to:
- Automatically monitor social networking sites to uncover attacks in development
- Respond to a #hashtag attack on Twitter
- Protect your brand on hundreds of social networking sites in less than five minutes
- Convert attackers into friends that will help you instead
- Achieve a Win-Win: Let the attacker have their say without it affecting your brand
- Deal with blog trolls and comment flames before they spawn offshoot attacks
- Pinpoint-measure the effectiveness of your response
- Learn the perfect tweet character length and why using it is so important
And you’ll learn Tod’s proven SWARM Response model for responding to an online attack — what you learn here might save you a whole world of trouble.
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Don’t see what you’re looking for?
With enough notice, Tod can work with you and your team to craft an exciting presentation for a small internal group or thousands of your employees.
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Seminars and Workshops
Tod can also host smaller or concurrent seminars based on the topics above or getting the most out of day-to-day technology. See also Tod’s seminars and workshops.
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Fortune 500 Clients
For more than a decade, Tod has been consulting with and speaking to some of the largest organizations throughout the world. Here is just a sampling of his clients:
- British Airways
- ABC Radio and Television (Australia)
- Honeywell
- TQ3 Travel (Berlin)
- HSBC
- Assn of Corporate Travel Execs (Stockholm)
- Cisco
- Readers’ Digest
- Manulife
- Cellco (Romania)
- Bell Canada
- IBM Credit Union
- E-Learning Consortium (Florida)
- Future Shop / Best Buy
And many more…
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What They Say
Remarkable — He Had The Audience Engaged
“Tod’s refreshing presentation on Recruiting the Facebook Generation was relevant, timely, and witty — a rare combination. A remarkable presenter, he had the audience engaged and chuckling first thing in the morning! The feedback received from our attendees was very positive; many agreed that Tod was the highlight of the day — a 9.5 out of 10!”
– Darcy Rezac, Vancouver Board of Trade
Thought-Provoking
“Maffin’s address was liberally spotted with light-hearted stories, but it was also thought-provoking. More than a few of the association’s membership were making notes for future reference.”
– Calgary Herald
Incredible Engaging and Inspiring
“Tod packed the house in both sessions and he delivered! He has an enormous wealth of expertise on the whole gamut related to social media and the Web 2.0. But content aside, he was also so incredibly engaging and inspiring as a presenter that you couldn’t help but have a fabulous time along the way. What was clear to me was that this guy is authentic. He’s passionate about what he does….and does a terrific job in engaging his audiences.”
– TGIM Work Life
