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Ryan Walter

NHL Player & Coach, Stanley Cup Champion, Author

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Ryan Walter is an expert on team synergy, performance and leadership to share a more engaging workplace culture. His keynote speech will leave teams revitalized, inspired, and ready to create a better future.

Ryan became the NHL’s youngest-ever captain as a Washington Capital. He was drafted #2 in the world. He was an NHL All-Star and Stanley Cup Champion with the Montreal Canadians. He went on to become NHLPA vice-president and NHL Man of the Year when playing for the Vancouver Canucks.

His career included broadcasting, writing, coaching, acting and being the president of a professional hockey team.

Ryan’s 17 years in hockey both in playing and coaching qualifies him to speak to these three topics. He has a Master of Arts Degree in Leadership/Business and authored five books. He created the board game Trade Deadline Hockey and is a regular contributor to both online and print magazines and newspapers. Ryan serves on the Hockey Canada Foundation’s Board of Directors and is a member of the Seton Hall Stillman School of Business Leadership Advisory Council.

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Videos

Tomorrow’s CULTURE turn’s on Today’s LANGUAGE

  • Come to work or come to WIN?
  • Inside a losing dressing room
  • Inside a winning dressing room
  • The 5 Mindsets that reveal the 5 Language Types in your Culture
  • All culture runs on rumours
  • What differentiates a professional players from amateur players?
  • Culture turns on Conversations
  • Culture SHIFT or Culture Drift?

The Five Mindsets of Team! – Deeper awareness for Effective Leaders

  • Great leaders lead Metacognition (getting their people to think about their thinking)
  • Discovering 5 thinking types that run Team Culture
  • The 5 Mindsets that reveal the 5 Language Types
  • Culture runs on conversations
  • Activating the SHIFT
  • Preventing the Drift
  • Influencing culture through language

Leading Performance ENERGY! – Workers focus on TIME, Winners focus on ENERGY

  • Ryan’s performance journey
  • The defining moment- blowing a knee at 16.
  • Leading Time or Leading Energy?
  • Learning Resilience
  • The Montreal Canadiens and Mental Toughness
  • Understanding what drives ENERGY
  • The HEART & MIND sides of Performance

Leading the SHIFT – Increasing Resilience, Activating Agility

  • From a Team struggling to winning the Stanley Cup
  • What I learned from Guy Lafluer
  • Understanding the Performance Process
  • SHIFTING mindsets
  • Building Agile Awareness
  • Brainstorming what creates HQL – the highest quality of life
  • Abe Pollin- The story of SHIFTING

Activating HUNGRY – Discovering Personal Purpose and Passion

  • Key Focus- Key Awareness – Key Discovery = Purpose & Passion
  • Why do some kids play in the NHL?
  • Is talent the only reason?
  • INNER GAME – Intrinsic Motivators, The HEART and MIND of Success
  • OUTER GAME – Prioritizing Iterative Action
  • TEAM GAME – Why being a team-player in today’s workforce “ROCKS”
  • Staying HUNGRY is one key factor to an amazing life!

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