Hugh Lawson | SpeakerHub

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Bio

Now embarked on an exciting and fulfilling entrepreneurial journey helping purpose-driven leaders and social-impact organizations thrive in challenging times through highly effective emotional intelligence methodologies and revenue growth strategies. This includes leadership training & coaching, cultural change-management, sales organization design and fractional senior leadership.

This purposeful and intentional life chapter is being fuelled by 25+ years of leadership experience helping B2B clients achieve business results through the design, execution and management of highly effective brand merchandise solutions; working with and for the worlds biggest brands.

Current position (1)

Principal

Lawson Leadership Advisory Ltd.

Degrees (1)

Communication Studies

Wilfrid Laurier University

1988 to 1992

Presentations

Presentations (7)

Amplifying Your Leadership Emotional Intelligence To Unlock The Power Of Artificial Intelligence!

While AI is transforming industries and our ways of doing business, the essence of leadership remains deeply human. Leveraging the Five Core Components Of Emotional Intelligence, embracing and developing emotional intelligence is key to leading effectively in the AI era.

Motivating For Change: Effective Leadership during rapid change - As told with 8 African proverbs

During times of great transformation, agility, and immense workloads, we must create toolboxes of wellness, social support and cultural affirmations to sustain our work, and most importantly our mental and physical wellbeing.

In this presentation, Hugh weaves these lessons together with his recent leadership journey and 8 very powerful African proverbs.

Peak Performance “Startup Mentality” - Time-tested Fundamentals To Boost Sales & Drive Growth

In this keynote, Hugh shares his 2024/25 entrepreneurial journey learnings that scaled his social impact advisory practice by 1,100% in 12 months. Fueled by 20+ years working with and for the world’s biggest brands in the B2B space, he will provide insightful ideas gained from the startup space, as well as time-tested execution fundamentals and strategies to optimize your sales channels’ strategic focus!

My 2023 Leadership Journey: How My Blackness Got Me Out Of The Darkness

Hugh recounts his year in a very difficult leadership role, how he leveraged powerful mental wellness strategies and personal affirmations through cultural pride to overcome intense bouts of anxiety and “Imposter Syndrome” within a challenging, workplace environment.

Sustaining Your WHY During Transformational Times!

Hugh presents the life-hacks on how to find and sustain your Why to maintain sustainable work-rate levels while working in spaces of high social impact and fatigue.

Team Engagement, Alignment and Prioritization During Challenging Times

Hugh discusses what he learned from building a team from scratch within the throws of a global pandemic, and leading them to record breaking results.

The Power And Importance of Building Diverse And Inclusive Sales Teams

Hugh shares his outlook, the financial/cultural benefits and the techniques he utilized to building diverse, inclusive and successful teams.

Past talks (5)

Leadership Advice for Chief Development Officers in Rapidly Changing Times

Association for Healthcare Philanthropy - Leading Forward Executive Summit at the 2023 AHP Convene Canada Conference

Toronto, Canada

May 24, 2023

Elevate Your Negotiation Game by Harnessing Facts and Trends

2023 SponsorshipX Academy

Hamilton, Canada