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Pressure Cooker Confidence

Confident Leadership & Beyond

I've spent my life walking into stressful rooms where I wanted to do magnificent things — but I found it hard to do normal things. Like breathe. Have you had that experience?

This keynote demonstrates how to go from "I can't breathe" to "I'm regularly doing magnificent things." Using techniques honed from decades of acting, combined with new science about how to best be human & a dash of current engagement strategies, Pressure Cooker Confidence explores how to create internal power in moments where humans typically feel powerless.

What Your Audience Will Walk Away With:

• Roger's Rules turned into THEIR rules — personal guidelines that drive real behaviour change
• The science behind how your brain works under extreme stress — & practical tricks to overcome fear, anxiety & nervousness
• The ability to be a bigger, better, more powerful version of themselves while under pressure
• A personal action plan for creating confidence that lasts long after the event

Best For: Leadership conferences, high-pressure industries, teams navigating change or uncertainty, professional development days, & any audience that needs to find calm strength when it matters most.

100% of attendees rated the Roger as 'Presenter kept me ACTIVELY ENGAGED in the learning'" — Canada Innovation Conference

How to Create Engagement - The Age of Engage

Engagement & Workplace Culture

This isn't a talk about engagement — it's a demonstration of it. This session walks the talk: it doesn't just discuss engagement, it shows your audience how to CREATE it at work & in life.

Data from Gallup, Harvard & Global Trends in Engagement show that a little focus on engagement can turbocharge bottom-line results — increased productivity, better communication, stronger team bonds, deeper learning & higher retention. Engagement is the secret sauce that makes your work & life magic.

The twist? Your audience won't just hear about it. They'll experience it. Roger's innovative session format ties stories, theory & application together in an active team-based game that primes every participant to learn deeper, connect stronger & create more engagement in the room.

What Your Audience Will Walk Away With:

• A clear understanding of WHY engagement is so powerful — & why it's their job to create it
• Practical strategies for creating active participation in their teams, organizations & lives
• The confidence to harness engagement for improved creativity, productivity & bottom-line results
• The lived experience of what an engaged room feels like — so they know exactly what they're aiming for

Best For: Corporate culture-building, professional development days, conferences that need real connection (not just networking), teams ready to stop being passive & start being participants.

"100% Excellent Rating for 'Overall Session Rating, Speaker Knowledge, & Quality of Content'" 
— The Special Event Conference, Los Angeles

The Power of Play

Unlocking the Power of Purposeful Play

I'm on a mission to take play out of the gutter & put it into the spotlight where it belongs.

While we say that we honour play, the proof is in our actions. When important things need to be discussed & decided, play is sent outside to the playground while the adults stay inside to do the important work. That attitude needs to be turned on its head — & this session does exactly that.

This is a surprisingly profound experience. People often come up to Roger afterward with tears in their eyes as they talk about their conflicted relationship to play & how they now will act differently with their children, their spouse &/or their colleagues. Play is transformative. Play is revolutionary. And this revolutionary, transformative power is waiting for you, your teams & your organization.

What Your Audience Will Walk Away With:

• A completely reframed relationship with play — from guilty pleasure to strategic advantage
• Tangible strategies for incorporating a playful mindset into the most important aspects of work & life
• The ability to design meetings, training sessions & environments that increase knowledge retention, creativity & wellness
• Real case studies where play made all the difference

Best For: Innovation-focused organizations, teams craving connection & creativity, conferences that want joy + meaning, leaders who are ready to stop apologizing for fun & start leveraging it.

"100% Will Use the Presented Information" — Incentive Works Conference, Toronto
"100% Highly Likely to Recommend" — International Association Executives Conference, Vancouver

Magnetic Communicationfor Networking & Beyond

Networking can fill our hearts with dread. Roger invents new ways of sweating when it comes to networking situations — & he doesn't think he's the only one.

Wouldn't it be better if you could magnetize people to you? So that when you walk into a room without any colleagues or friends present, you're still able to have the best time & thus attract others to you?

This session draws from 33 years of being paid to create engagement within groups of strangers — & summarizes it all to help your audience become magnetic communicators. Creating magnetic communication usually means changing the way you think about these situations & then creating rules or guidelines to help you stay on track. The result? Networking & communication become far more valuable for your people & your organization.

What Your Audience Will Walk Away With:

• Personal rules that guide them toward magnetic communication in any setting
• The confidence that "the more fun YOU have, the more fun THEY have" — driven into their bones
• Tips & techniques that turn networking & connecting with strangers from fearful to fun
• A new relationship with the rooms they used to dread

Best For: Networking-heavy industries, leadership development, sales & client-facing teams, conferences where connection matters most, anyone who's ever wanted to disappear at a cocktail reception.

"Roger changed how we show up in conversations — we actually listen now!”
— Team Leader, Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC)

Being Human in the Virtual WorldConnection, Engagement & Presence Through Screens

The way we interact has changed. Engagement has become more important than ever — but it's harder than ever to engage in a virtual & hybrid world.

This session explores how to be better humans through screens. It's upbeat, fun, funny & engaging. It leaves participants full of ideas & the positive energy to turn those ideas into reality in their lives. Because here's the truth: virtual doesn't have to mean disconnected. When you know how to create engagement, a screen is just another room — & every room can come alive.

What Your Audience Will Walk Away With:

• How to be BETTER HUMANS in a virtual & hybrid world — for themselves & others
• How to CREATE ENGAGEMENT POWER & why this is one of the most valuable skills they can focus on!
• Strategies to FIGHT TO BE POSITIVE when screens make negativity easy
• The principle that when all else fails, HELP YOURSELF BY HELPING OTHERS

Best For: 

• Remote & hybrid organizations, 
• virtual conferences & online leadership events,
• teams experiencing disconnection or fatigue,
• companies prioritizing culture across distance,
• anyone who's ever felt like a floating head in a Zoom box.

Virtual Keynote Feedback:

"You truly are the Greatest Showman!" — S. J. Barnes, Principal, Sir Alexander Mackenzie Secondary School, Professional Development Day for teachers & staff
"You CRUSHED it! Such awesome content!!" — Will Curran, Endless Events