Keynotes and Workshops
Whether you need a keynote that opens a conference with energy or a workshop your team will reference months later, Nicholas delivers it with the same spontaneity and presence he brings to every event — in English, French, or both.
Keynote Speaker
Nicholas speaks on the themes at the heart of modern professional life: communication, innovation, and the human side of technology. His talks are high-energy, practical, and built for audiences who want ideas they can use the next day. Topics are tailored to your event, audience, and industry. Past engagements have brought him to fintech summits, engineering conferences, neuroscience forums, and startup ecosystems across Canada.
Workshops
COMMUNICATE TO CAPTIVATE
Engaging and Persuading a Room
#Presence #Persuasion
You can have the right message and still lose the room.
This session is about how you show up. We cover making a strong first impression, speaking with clarity and energy, holding attention all the way through, managing nerves before and during, and handling the question period without losing your footing.
Live practice and coaching rather than a lecture. It scales from a conference audience to a single team.
For anyone who presents, pitches, or speaks publicly, whatever their level of experience.
Participants leave with a personal toolkit for their next presentation.
LESS EMAIL, MORE CLARITY
A Standard for Internal Communication
#Writing #Organization
Most organisations have an email problem they stopped noticing years ago. Volume keeps climbing, messages get longer and vaguer, and everyone copies everyone else to be safe.
This session tackles that at the team level rather than the individual one. We cover when something should be an email, a message, or a five minute conversation, who actually needs to be on it, how to put the ask where the reader will see it, and how to write something short without losing what matters.
For teams and organisations where internal communication has quietly become a tax on everyone's day.
Groups leave with a shared standard they have agreed in the room, rather than a set of personal tips that fade by Thursday.
EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATOR
Clear Recommendations, Faster Decisions
#Clarity #Structure
Your recommendation is sound. The challenge is getting a busy executive or client to act on it, whether it arrives as an email, a deck, or a meeting.
This workshop teaches teams to structure a recommendation so decision makers get the point immediately. We work through SCQA and the Minto Pyramid Principle, the structures consultants use to put the answer up front and organize the supporting case beneath it. Then we practise delivering it, including how to hold your footing through the questions that follow.
We build the session around one of your own live projects instead of a case study. Participants restructure something real, present it, and get feedback in the room. They leave with frameworks they can use the next morning.
For teams who brief upward: analysts, investment and strategy teams, finance, consultants, and anyone presenting recommendations to senior stakeholders or clients.
PRESENCE ON CAMERA
Showing Up Well on Video
#Virtual #Hybrid
A large share of your meetings now happen through a lens, and almost nobody has been shown how to use one.
We cover the setup that takes ten minutes and changes everything, camera framing and lighting, where to look and why eye contact works differently on video, how to project energy through a screen, and how to hold attention in a room where everyone can quietly multitask.
For teams working remotely or in hybrid, and anyone who presents, sells, or leads over video.
Participants leave able to fix their own setup immediately and run a virtual room better than they did that morning.
STRATEGIC QUESTIONING
Better Questions, Better Decisions
#Curiosity #Leadership
Answers have never been easier to get. Knowing what to ask, and how to ask it, is now the harder and more valuable skill.
It also gets harder the more senior you become. Your questions stop being neutral, people answer what they think you want to hear, and the quality of what reaches you quietly declines.
This session introduces the Question Quadrant, a model mapping questioning across internal and external, professional and personal, then focuses on the professional half: the questions you ask yourself about your work, and the questions you ask the people around you.
We cover leading through inquiry rather than direction, how to ask so that people tell you the truth, why the same question lands differently in a meeting than in a one to one, and where most of the value actually sits, which is in the follow up. We look at what changes when you question upward, downward and across, and how the same discipline applies when your counterpart is a machine.
For leaders and senior teams. Participants bring a real challenge and we work on it in the room. They leave with a bank of questions built for their own role.
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Communicate to Captivate
“Communication was top-notch and the final outcome was even better than we imagined. A great experience all around.”
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