How do you keep your thinking fresh when the world around you changes faster than ever?
Running an organization today means navigating constant change. Markets shift, technology advances, and customer expectations evolve, sometimes overnight. It can be difficult to find the time to step back, learn, and see what’s coming next.
That’s why the TEC experience is built on four powerful pillars: peer advisory groups, individual coaching, expert speakers, and a global network of business leaders. Each pillar provides a different kind of insight that helps leaders stay sharp and ahead of the curve.
This article focuses on the third pillar, expert speakers, and how they bring cutting-edge thinking, practical strategies, and powerful tools directly into the room.
The Speaker Advantage
TEC Canada draws from an exceptional network of speakers across North America and beyond. These are experts who have dedicated their careers to understanding specific areas of leadership, strategy, culture, innovation, and personal performance.
Each speaker session is designed to spark new ideas and challenge established thinking. Whether the topic is business growth, communication, employee engagement, or emerging technology, these sessions bring the latest insights to life.
Speakers join TEC peer groups at selected meetings throughout the year to share their expertise and challenge our thinking. These sessions are dedicated to learning, reflection, and practical application. Members aren’t passive listeners; they engage fully, asking questions, connecting ideas, and exploring how each insight might apply inside their own organizations.
And because TEC members come from diverse industries and backgrounds, the discussion that follows often becomes just as valuable as the presentation itself. Each person brings their own experience, and the combination creates a level of learning that is hard to find anywhere else.
A Real-World Example
(The following is a fictional case created for demonstration purposes.)
Let’s call her Maria. She leads a rapidly growing distribution company that has been struggling with employee engagement and communication across multiple locations. When her group hosted a TEC speaker on “Leading with Story,” Maria arrived curious but skeptical. She thought storytelling sounded more like marketing than management.
But the session changed her perspective. The speaker helped the group explore how leaders can use storytelling to build culture, communicate purpose, and inspire performance. As Maria listened, she realized that her company’s values and mission were clear to her, but not to her front-line teams.
After the session, her group discussed practical ways to apply what they had learned. Maria decided to create a series of short, authentic videos where she shared the company’s story in her own words. Within weeks, the feedback from staff was remarkable. Employees were quoting the company’s vision back to her, something that had never happened before.
The presentation gave her the idea. The group discussion turned it into a plan. Together, they turned insight into action.
Staying Ahead of the Curve
TEC’s speaker program ensures that members are continually exposed to the most current thinking in business and leadership. It’s not about adding more to-do lists; it’s about expanding how leaders think, so they can make better decisions and lead more effectively.
Each speaker experience adds a new layer of understanding that keeps members informed, inspired, and equipped to leverage their success in an ever-changing world.
Learn More
As a TEC Chair, I would be delighted to explore your fit with TEC and help you find the peer group that’s right for you, whether that’s my group or another across the TEC Canada network. Please feel free to reach out.
Learn more about TEC Canada and all the options for peer groups. If you are the head of the organization, a key executive, or an advancing leader, there is an option for you.
