Joe Roberts

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From Skidrow to CEO – How to build resiliency one step at a time

Every one of us is confronted by adversity, challenge and change. We face it with our families, work, health, and finances.

Success in the face of adversity and change depends on our level of resiliency.

In this keynote, Joe teaches how to build the resiliency needed to overcome life’s challenges and embrace change.

Using a research based behavioral change model, participants will evaluate their current state of resiliency and learn how to crush unproductive habits while developing a high-performance mindset. Participants leave with tools they can use immediately to create their own inspired results. Joe’s is a treasured Canadian whose life story embodies the resiliency of the human spirit. His message is inspiring, energetic, humorous, honest, raw and unforgettable.

In the keynote you will learn:

How to build resiliency despite the world around you
Applying the A.I.R. Model for behavioral change
Why failure is predictable and normal
Seeing possibility – how to re-frame a limiting mindset
How to convert failures into assets
The 3 most important things to know about engaging people

Seeing Possibility not Probability – Mental Health and Addiction

Mental Health and Addiction impacts every one of us.

We all face adversity, challenge and change. But not everyone has the resiliency needed to survive life’s toughest days.

How do we talk openly about addiction and mental health?
How do we collapse judgement through transparency?
How do we help others face their problems head on?

In this keynote, Joe shares his story of redemption from a life long struggle with addiction and mental illness.

Joe’s is a treasured Canadian whose life story embodies the resiliency of the human spirit. His message is inspiring, energetic, humorous, honest, raw and unforgettable.

In the keynote you will learn:

How to Support the Person – Challenge the Behavior
Empathy Centered Leadership Tools”
How to Conduct “Tough Stuff” Conversations
Vulnerability – Strength from Weakness
How To Meet People Where They Are

A Push for Change – How to lead, inspire, and engage on purpose

Apathy. Disengagement. Under performance. How do we inspire and engage people with purpose driven leadership to embrace change?

Joe Roberts is a social change champion! In 1989 he was homeless living under a bridge, 12 years later he was a celebrated CEO. Joe made a promise when he was on the street to “pay it forward” and in 2017 he finished a 9064 km charity walk across Canada. Joe teaches resiliency and inspires difference makers to lead with their “why”.

In this keynote Joe takes you on an epic adventure from the planning stages, the aggressive pre-trek training schedule, and the campaign logistics up to the launch day. On May 1st 2016 Joe and Team Push for Change hit the road traversing the entire Trans Canada Highway from St John’s, NL to Vancouver, BC. Joe will share the extraordinary experiences of walking 24 km every day, rain, snow or shine. Meeting icons like Walter Gretzky and Michael “Pinball” Clemons, inspiring over 100,000 students during 457 community events ending with a private meeting with the Prime Minster of Canada.

In the keynote you will learn:

Resiliency Tools needed for the long game
How to re-frame setbacks while staying committed
How to inspire Employee and Community Engagement
How to harness purpose driven leadership
How to lead teams towards Social Change

Staying Alive – Street Smart Safety
“It’s about the little things”

Understanding WHY human beings make mistakes and unsafe decisions is one step closer to building safer work environments and communities.

What role does mental health and addiction play in safety?

How do we connect personal purpose to safer behaviour?

Why do we think the rules “are for everyone else but me”?

In this keynote, Joe teaches why we do dumb things and the consequence we pay. Walk with Joe as he takes you back to his first poor choice and how that lead to a journey filled with degradation and despair. Dangerous step after poor choice landed him on the streets of East Vancouver in the 1980’s homeless and broken.

The story does not end there, fortunately. Choosing in 1991 to walk a different way, Joe shares how right decisions and safe, healthy actions lead to success and leadership. Joe’s is a treasured Canadian whose life story embodies the resiliency of the human spirit. His deeply inspiring and masterful delivery combined with high energy and self deprecating humor will have you shed a tear while making you laugh ‘til it hurts.

In this session you will learn:

• Why the little things matter so much
• Mental health and safety
• How mentorship and leadership changes lives
• The importance of paying it forward
• The importance of advocating for prevention
• How the right example is our greatest weapon