Maurice O'Callaghan

Maurice O'Callaghan is one of Canada's finest and most popular professional speakers. He is a change master who understands how people learn and what motivates individuals and organizations to make important, significant improvements.

A senior manager for three decades with one of Canada's most successful corporations, Maurice O'Callaghan has extensive experience in the fields of customer service, marketing, communications, public relations and human development. He provides practical, unforgettable approaches to managing change, being the best we can be and building teams. Maurice is listed in Who's Who in Professional Speaking, and has been featured in various media. He also played professional football with the Toronto Argonauts Football Club.

Timeless values, unforgettable experiences and humour are skillfully integrated into every presentation. Through his exceptional delivery and powerful insights, audiences learn practical and proven approaches to enriching their lives as individuals and as critical members of the organizations that depend on them. Audiences across North America have discovered that hearing Maurice O'Callaghan is a unique, inspiring and life-changing experience.

• The Treasure of Your Company

  In the cold grey dawn of Easter Monday 1917, one hundred thousand Canadian soldiers attacked the impregnable fifty story fortress known as Vimy Ridge. In six hours they did what two great British and French armies had tried unsuccessfully to do for over two years. They captured Vimy Ridge. An army of civilians from a country with no military tradition changed the course of history. The principles they used are not about war and they are still valid a generation later.
  
  The Treasure of Your Company is an inspiring insight into one of history's greatest military victories and the leadership principles, which made it possible. The lessons learned at Vimy Ridge are about people and process and being the best that we can be. They are about attitudes and teamwork and how ordinary people can do extraordinary things under the most difficult circumstances. This program is about success and succeeding in the face of incredible odds.
  
  The Treasure of Your Company provides the concepts necessary to survive and grow in a global village, concepts that are essential to the life of every organization. It is a moving, unforgettable experience that presents a different sense of what is possible and how to make it happen. The Treasure of Your Company will broaden your horizons and raise the expectations of both you and your organization.
  
  We all have our Vimy Ridges. They can be conquered by people working together with a shared vision and a genuine belief in and concern for each other. The Treasure of Your Company is a remarkable seminar on leadership and teamwork.

• Speaking Professionally

  Speaking Professionally is a seminar which teaches you how to make professional presentations every time. You will learn the techniques used by the world's most successful professional speakers.This program includes dozens of powerful tips to help you deliver effective speeches and presentations. Among the topics covered are:

  ... building a talk from the ground up
  ... how to create a great opening and close
  ... getting your audience involved
  ... using personal stories to make your talk unique
  ... when to use notes and how to do it effectively
  ... why and how to write a professional introduction
  ... handouts, when and how to use them
  ... controlling questions
  ... the use and misuse of humour
  ... visual aids, when, where and how to use them
  ... making physical arrangements work for you
  ... turning a microphone into a partner
  ... how to cope with nervousness.

  There are few skills more valuable than the ability to speak with confidence. Studies prove that speaking in public ranks as our number one fear ahead of death. Attending this seminar will change your fear of speaking into a platform of opportunity.

• One in a Billion

  Every day in North America there are billions of transactions. But there is only one that is really important. It's the one that your customer is currently involved in.
  
  One in a Billion provides a unique way of seeing and understanding what great service looks like and how to make each customer feel important. It reveals how to treat customers so they come back for more and bring others with them.
  
  One in a Billion is designed to change the way service is provided. It's based on the concept that all of us are in the service business and the service which any group or organization provides is an accumulation of the quality of the entire service chain. Within that chain, each of us makes a critical difference.
  
  One in a Billion is filled with humour and wonderful examples of how the "wow" factor can make the difference between ordinary transactions and extraordinary service. It provides easy to use ideas and practical examples of how to ensure that each customer experience is truly "One in a Billion." In the most competitive time in history, this is a seminar no one can afford to miss.
  

• It Helps If You're Crazy

  It Helps If You're Crazy is a laugh filled hour which will help you find the humour in almost any situation. It will improve your heart rate, lower your blood pressure, eat up a few calories and introduce you to a new and positive way of dealing with a world that changes faster than anyone could possibly know. It Helps If You're Crazy will introduce you to the power of humour and how developing a comic vision can improve your Iife, your work, your creativity and your health. It's a look at what makes us laugh, how tragedy becomes humorous and the powerful effect humour has on human relationships both personal and professional. It will help you find the humour in challenging situations and give you a new perspective on the most difficult problems.
  
  It Helps If You're Crazy is a program filled with hilarious antidotes from sports, politics and daily life. Just being there will make you feel better. Or as Anonymous once said, "Laughter is God's hand upon the shoulder of a troubled world."
  

• On the Shoulders of Giants

  Sir Isaac Newton said, "If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." He attributed much of his remarkable success to work done by others. On The Shoulders of Giants is about how to create environments where people feel valued and where they are encouraged to become partners in growth and success. On The Shoulders of Giants is about how to ensure survival and success in the most competitive time in the history of Western civilization. It is about trust, enriching the work place, building employee loyalty and freeing the giants in your organization.
  
  On The Shoulders of Giants is rich with examples of how to build a future with the people who have a stake in it, your employees. Maurice O'Callaghan brings to the speaking platform, thirty years of managerial experience to deliver an exceptional presentation on one of the most critical elements of managing the present and creating the future. If you have the responsibility of managing or supervising people, this is a program you will not want to miss.

• Giants and Champions

  Winston Churchill said of Winnipeg's William Stevenson, the man called "Intrepid," and his team of intelligence agents, "We may feel sure that nothing of which we have any knowledge, ever done by mortal men, surpasses their daring and feat of arms. "
  
  William Stevenson is typical of the Canadians you will meet in Maurice O'Callaghan's marvellous story, Giants and Champions - a story that takes you through 100 years of Canadian history and celebrates the exceptional talents and accomplishments of the people who built the largest nation on earth. It is an incredible story of sacrifice, bravery and excellence that will make you laugh, cry and feel proud to be Canadian.
  
  Giants and Champions chronicles the achievements of an amazing nation whose people have, in every field of endeavour, changed the course of history. It is the story of Canadians who perform the impossible with scarcely a sound.
  
  Giants and Champions will give you an entirely new perspective on Canada and the unlimited potential of your tomorrows. Hearing Maurice O'Callaghan talk about Canada is a unique and moving experience that you will cherish for the rest of your life.

• Discovering Fire

  Like the ballet dancer who spends her life before the mirror, we each require mirrors to help us to grow, mature and remain young at heart.
  
  Discovering Fire is about how people do that. It is about relationships and what we can do when we understand the need for others in our lives. It chronicles the stories of ordinary people who saw life differently, accomplished remarkable things and changed the lives of others in the process.
  
  Discovering Fire presents four principles to provide direction and focus to our personal and professional lives and shows us how to use the reflectors in the world around us. It is rich with stories that captivate and encourage audiences to make significant and lasting changes in their lives.
  
  Designed especially for caregivers, educators and people who care for and about other people, Discovering Fire provides perspectives to rekindle and reenergize the spirit.

• The Art of Being Professional

  The Art of Being Professional is a seminar on managing professionally which teaches managers the important lessons first, lessons that are usually learned only through painful experience. It is about core values and leading in ways that produce positive results, excellent relationships and great places to work. Management is an art, not a science, a skill in performance acquired by study, observation, reflection and experience. The Art of Being Professional is about how ordinary people can lead, manage and motivate others to do exceptional things.
  
  Developed and delivered by Maurice O'Callaghan, this seminar provides over one hundred great ideas learned during a thirty year career as a senior manager with one of Canada's most successful corporations. It is a masters' course on managing which every new manager or supervisor must attend. And it's a great refresher for experienced managers who need to manage increasing spans of control and work loads in a fast changing environment. It provides direct, simple and easy to apply ideas that will save countless hours of unproductive time.
  
  The Art of Being Professional will help everyone with management responsibility find more time, create better working experiences, build stronger teams and increase their professional effectiveness.

• A Magic Way of Going - Managing Change

  A Magic Way of Going is a seminar about managing change positively and the remarkable opportunities that await us in a world which no longer fits geographic or economic boundaries. It is delivered by one of Canada's finest and most popular professional speakers, Maurice O'Callaghan, who brings something special to every audience. He changes the way we see ourselves.
  
  A Magic Way of Going is a journey that will change your life and the lives you touch each day. This is a seminar that will show you how to balance your personal and professional life, how to turn problems into opportunities and how to use creative thought to energize yourself and your organization. It will introduce you to your own limitless possibilities.
  No matter what your goals or accomplishments, A Magic Way of Going will give you a new perspective on what is possible. It is about how ordinary people can do extraordinary things. It is a journey you will be glad you began because it will last forever.

• A brief note to thank you for your amazing presentation Wednesday. You touched our hearts and helped us put our careers and personal lives into proper perspective.
  Siemens Canada Limited
• I'm sure the standing ovation told the tale, but our office staff are still talking about how dynamic you were and what an impact you made.... I look forward to working with you again...and again...and again!
  Shoppers Drug Mart
• You made us think. You made us laugh. You touched everyone.
  Esso Petroleum
• You gave us one of the most powerful and user-friendly tools available to a sales person today – knowledge. You have made an immediate impact on the learning curves of our team.
  Bell Canada
• Your presentation was amazing!
  Douglas Marketing Group
• You are an inspiration to the world for your positive attitude.
  Financial Institute of Canada
• Thanks for the uplifting presentation you gave our employees. You are a terrific communication with a life-changing message.
  Kolene Corporation
• Your words inspired us. You gave the greatest gift of hope to us all.
  United Way of Windsor
• Absolutely awesome with fantastic ideas.
  CIBC Technology
• Thank you for such a wonderful morning. I will never forget what I learned today and only hope I can pass those qualities on to others.
  Government of Canada

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  January 2007

  A Magic Way of Going

  A Magic Way of Going is a journey that will change your life and the lives you touch each day. The “Magic Way” seminars will show you how to balance your personal and professional life, enrich your leadership skills, turn your problems into opportunities and use creative thought to energize yourself and your organization. They will inspire and help you achieve your own wonderful possibilities.