June 2017 - Shawn Casemore Keynote Speaker

Empowerment is todays leadership strategy

Empowerment is a key strategy of today’s leaders. Why? Because today’s employees have the highest levels of education to ever enter the workforce. More importantly they are trained through their education to expect to be empowered. Are you evolving your working environment to accommodate this expectation? If not then you may be missing out on […]

How to respond to “This will never work.”

Periodically in my work with teams across North America, I come across a team member who is emphatically against any improvements or changes we try to make; even when those changes are the direct result of their ideas or input. This is often a long-term employee who is, in his or her own words, “sick […]

Build On Your Success

I am fierce about setting goals and achieving them, almost to a fault. When I decided to quit my corporate career to start my consulting business 10 years ago I set some key goals and followed them to a tee. For example, I launched my business exactly when I planned to launch. Since this time, I’ve […]

How Meetings Can Kill Productivity

In my most recent book “The Unstoppable Organization: Engage Employees, Empower Customers and Grow Revenue”, I wrote about the value of collaboration in driving better communication. I also discuss more robust decision-making and heightened levels of creativity amongst employees. In the book you will find a strong warning from a CEO I once interviewed. This […]

6 Characteristics of a Great Leader

Are you a great leader? Leadership has been studied and analyzed for years through various theories, models and and assessments. As time progresses however we seem to make the concept of being a great leader an unattainable objective. Based on my experience working with leaders of various Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies, here is […]

Dealing with a Negative Employee

A client recently shared with me that one of his senior employees, a leader in the organization, always had a way of looking at the negative side of a situation rather than searching for the positive. They were in effect highly pessimistic despite being very knowledgeable, skilled and dedicated to their team and employer. In […]

Success is not a Solitary Journey

Success is not a solitary journey. The most successful CEOs, Presidents and Entrepreneurs that I’ve encountered have built a powerful network to assist them along their journey. They surround themselves with peers, trusted advisers, coaches, financial advisers, accountants, lawyers and even personal trainers. There is no end to the network one can build if open […]

Millennials are not the Issue

Recently, I spoke with a group of executives about increasing collaboration amongst their leadership teams. The discussion tilted toward the challenges they were experiencing in attracting and keeping younger talent. As the discussion progressed I took a moment to point out some not so obvious considerations and my point was simple; millenials are not the […]