Professional Speaking
Gordon Sheppard will inspire your audience to take action (while he helps them laugh and learn)!
Professional Speaker
Make Your Event Memorable!
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.
Presentation Topics
Online Course Creation
How To Hire A Contractor
Custom Workshops Available
Want To Hire Gord To Speak At Your Event?
Get in touch. We’d be happy to talk with you about your event needs and how to design a custom presentation that will inspire your audience.
Gord's Presentations
Gord’s presentations help leaders gain the skills and confidence they need to grow their businesses.
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
Available Online
Our Online Workshops are highly interactive, and a great way to help you and your team build your skills
In-Person
Our In-Person Workshops are hands-on, practical and a great way to improve overall team communication.
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.
Our Clients
Get Started Today!
Book a call with Gord to learn more about he can help you make your next event more memorable.
Want A Custom Presentation?
Gordon Sheppard has successfully presented on a wide variety of business topics.
So if there is a business topic that you would like to cover at your next event, then get in touch with Gord to see how he can help.
Hire Gord Today!
Get in touch. We’d be happy to talk with you about your event needs and how to design a custom presentation that will inspire your audience.
