Jamie Mason Cohen

Speaking topics

Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

• Signature Leadership: Transform the Way You Lead

  Too often, leaders carve their path by following in the steps of their predecessors; turning to the outside to grow their skills. But unlocking your true “signature leadership”, starts by looking inward. This session focuses on what lies beneath the surface in your unique leadership strengths, challenges, and purpose so that you can lead your team through change.

  As featured on CNN, Forbes, and the TEDx stage, Jamie Mason Cohen has unearthed unique and accurate insights into some of the world’s foremost leaders. His signature leadership process taps into those distinct aspects of leadership that stem from within. Cohen is also a regularly featured commentator on Global’s The Morning Show, helping people discover their true strengths and compassionately bringing immediate awareness to the blindspots that may be holding them back.

  Audiences will learn:

  • How to identify your weaknesses and strengths on the spot to help you gain a new level of self-awareness through your handwriting traits.
  • Real business world strategies to deploy your strengths wisely so that they grow and don’t become liabilities.
  • Prescriptive, one-on-one speed handwriting analysis after the talk that can lead to breakthrough “aha” moments in your life.

• Saturday Night Leaders: What’s Your 11:30?

  How to unlock creative leadership in a deadline.

  Creative leadership effectiveness is directly correlated with business performance. It has been shown to raise overall business performance by 30%.

  Weaving together invaluable data-based leadership insights with fascinating behind-the-scenes stories from his time at Saturday Night Live (SNL), Jamie Mason Cohen will show leaders and teams how to thrive in today’s volatile, complex and ambiguous business world through effective creative leadership.

  Cohen’s former boss, Lorne Michaels, the executive producer of SNL, used to say, “Saturday Night Live was not ready because it was finished; it was ready because it was 11:30 on Saturday night.” What kind of a leader will you be at 11:30? Creative? Reactive? or a Saturday night leader? Your answer to this question is your 11:30.

  This session will:

  • Guide your team on how to apply the four key areas of creative leadership to boost business performance.
  • Help you identify the top creative competency (strength) that makes you a great leader and the reactive tendency (blindspot) holding you back as a leader.
  • Show you how to implement a framework to bring a team together to tap into the collective wisdom in the room to solve problems.

  Through Cohen’s dynamic keynote, your audience will learn how to take their organizations to the next level!

• Business on the Brink: How to Navigate Massive Change and Constant Disruption

  This engaging session will provide businesses with timely, actionable real-time guidance on how to navigate the massive change and constant disruption that comes with growth. In every crisis there lies an opportunity, but sometimes it requires an unconventional — and perhaps counterintuitive — approach to capitalize on it. This is exactly what Jamie Mason Cohen explores in this presentation inspired by lessons learned from his digital series, Business on the Brink, which helped a company grow by 30%.

  After seeing the need for clear and simple business solutions during times of crisis, Cohen merged his background in media production and leadership expertise to help business owners learn how to thrive in times of disruption. As a regular speaker for the largest network of CEO Advisory Board Groups in Canada and the US, a certified leadership coach with The Leadership Circle, and as as someone who formerly worked for Saturday Night Live Executive Producer Lorne Michaels, Cohen has taken his wide scope of experience to equip leaders with deeper insights surrounding:

  • Practical, real-time guidance on how to navigate massive change.
  • How to turn pivotal moments of friction into progress.
  • How to tap into the collective intelligence of a team to get solutions during times of disruption.
  • How to use CHAT GPT for your industry to efficiently adapt during transition.

  This presentation is not about businesses on the brink of failure; it’s about businesses on the brink of breakthrough.

• Business Storytelling: How to Communicate Purposefully, Persuasively, and Empathetically in a Bold, New World

  Hybrid business meetings, retreats, pitches, presentations, and client engagement are here to stay. Now more than ever, how you and your team communicate, both externally and internally, is a crucial skill. Yet so many remote interactions are a cross between PowerPoint Slide karaoke and random ChatGPT prompts — a sleep-inducing data dump and a one-sided poorly lit lecture by wonderful professionals who transform into stiff, unsmiling robots when the computer camera turns on.

  This regrettable problem can be resolved with some engaging and practical training from a speaker who not only worked behind the scenes at Saturday Night Live, but is a regular guest TV commentator on CNN, Global’s The Morning Show, and The Social, and who has given virtual workshops to Fortune 500 executive teams, business owners, physicians, professors, and other leaders in 21 countries.

  Learning outcomes include:

  • How to build the timeless skill of storytelling for business, regardless of the medium (virtual or F2F) to persuade any audience, to build culture, to sell, to improve relationships, to recruit, or to create community through the 4C framework.
  • How to balance analytical/data-driven messages so that you can connect emotionally with the audience and reach their hearts.
  • How to avoid the data dump and get your audience to remember your key message that you want them to act on.

• Think Like a Customer, Relate Like a Friend, Inform Like a Storyteller

  In this engaging and hands-on session, Jamie Mason Cohen will help you and your team identify three types of buyers that challenge your team in a creative and customized way. He will then present your team with highly relevant questions to change the way they think about and approach conversations with customers.

  Each member of your team will leave with three actionable takeaways from the session and build them into their unique business plans to track individual growth over the next year.

  Cohen has previously worked with leading sales teams at Sun Life Financial, Novo Nordisk Pharma, and KMAC to better understand their customers’ needs and get transformational results. One company significantly grew their market share within six months after attending this session.

  Audiences will learn:

  • How to think like your three ideal customer types.
  • How to envision success, win, and have conversations with confidence with these customers.
  • Insights into your customers’ needs in order to grow.

• The Future of Leadership

  How do you enable a team, community, or organization to come alive? To be at its very best more naturally, effectively, and faster than ever before?

  We have never known as much as we do today in our collective quest to answer this question. The world is called for a new style of leadership built around the ability to:

  • Design and facilitate new conversations.
  • Craft questions that draw upon and engage collective strengths.
  • Allow groups to quickly co-create and enroll in shared purpose, vision, and action.
  • Enable complex and strategic change, not only in individuals but also at the scale of the whole system (team, division, organization, community).

  And do all this rapidly, naturally, and effectively!