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Randy Taylor

Top Mental Health & Motivational Speaker;
Productivity, The Human Potential & Leadership

Fee Range

Fee Range for Randy Taylor

$7,501 - $10,000

About Randy Taylor

Randy Taylor is Canada's leading behavioural performance expert and the founder of TaylormadeLeadership.

He is the creator of the TaylormadeShift method, a science-based behavioural coaching system built on more than 35 years studying human behaviour and neuroplasticity. Before founding TaylormadeLeadership, Randy spent 20 years as a national broadcaster, hosting Summit of Life on Global Television and serving as a leading voice at CFRB 1010, where he interviewed some of the world's top performers.

Randy is a trusted advisor to organizations including Manulife, IG Wealth, and the Government of Canada, and is the author of Elevate and The Lost Journals. He speaks and coaches on behavioural change, mental health, sales performance, leadership, and high-net-worth client relationships.

Randy Taylor's Expertise

  • Behavioural Performance & Habit Change — creator of the TaylormadeShift method, training measurable behaviour change rather than relying on motivation
  • Sales Performance & Revenue Growth — helping financial professionals and business owners build consistent production instead of unpredictable peaks and valleys
  • Leadership & Team Execution — building high-performing teams that execute daily through behavioural systems and accountability
  • High Net Worth Client Relationships — practical strategies for advisors and professionals serving high-net-worth clientele
  • Resilience & Personal Transformation — drawing on his own journey from homelessness at 14 to national broadcaster and behavioural performance expert

Randy Taylor's Bio

At 14, Randy Taylor was homeless — having escaped a childhood marked by poverty, parental alcoholism, and violence. That experience taught him a lesson that would shape the rest of his life: where you start has nothing to do with how far you can go.

Rather than learning success theory from a textbook, Randy learned it through survival. The discipline and habits he was forced to build in his hardest moments became the foundation of everything that came after.

At 28, Randy began a career in broadcasting that would carry him to the top of Canadian media. Over the next 20 years, he hosted Summit of Life on Global Television and became a leading voice at CFRB 1010, interviewing some of the world's top performers and studying what set them apart.

That research became a lifelong pursuit. Drawing on more than 35 years studying human behaviour and neuroplasticity, Randy founded TaylormadeLeadership and developed the TaylormadeShift method — a science-based behavioural coaching system that trains actions so deeply that high performance becomes automatic, even under pressure.

Today, Randy is Canada's leading behavioural performance expert, working with business owners, financial professionals, and leaders at organizations including Manulife, Accenture, Celestica, IG Wealth, Motorola, and the Government of Canada. He is the author of Elevate and The Lost Journals, and blends behavioural science with storytelling and humour to help audiences replace hype and motivation with lasting, measurable results.

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Randy Taylor's Presentation Topics

Randy Taylor travels from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He offers a range of presentation formats — including keynote presentations, workshops, fireside chats, and moderated Q&A — on a variety of important topics. Each presentation is unique, customized and tailored for audiences, industries, conferences and event formats. All of Randy’s programs can be delivered as a keynote (45–75 minutes) or as a workshop (1.5–3 hours).

KEYNOTE FOR BUSINESS OWNERS, EXECUTIVES & SALES LEADERS

The Clarity Advantage

Why the most successful leaders in the country aren't working harder. They're thinking clearer. +

You've built something real. You know your business inside and out. But somewhere between the meetings, the targets, the decisions, and the weight of leading it all — you lost the clarity that got you here.

This keynote gives it back.

Randy Taylor has spent 25 years working shoulder-to-shoulder with business owners, executives, and high-performing sales teams across Canada. He doesn't teach theory. He delivers a proven, trainable system for the one skill that separates good performers from elite ones: sustained, focused clarity under pressure.

What Your Team Will Walk Away With:

The Math of Distraction
Why 85–90% of their waking day is spent with the mental switch turned OFF — and what that costs in revenue, decisions, and results.

The Light Switch Framework
A simple, unforgettable model for understanding why they lose focus and how to get it back in seconds.

The 3 Shifts: Awareness, Interruption, Replacement
A trainable system for sustained high performance without burnout. Not willpower. Not motivation. A method.

Relaxed High Performance
How to achieve more by being present — not by grinding harder. The clarity that built your business is the same clarity that scales it.

WHERE CLARITY EMPOWERS YOU TO LEAD

Randy works with business owners, executives, and sales leaders to sharpen and elevate every area of
performance — applying 25 years of hands-on expertise to drive measurable results.

  • Time Management — Take control of your day and double your productivity
  • Managing Stress — Perform under pressure without burning out
  • Revenue Growth — Build and close a stronger pipeline with focus
  • Leadership — Lead with presence, clarity, and confidence
  • Marketing Vision — See the bigger picture and position for growth
  • Client Service — Every interaction reinforces trust and loyalty
  • Staff Development — Build a team that thinks clearly and performs consistently --

MENTAL HEALTH KEYNOTE

Beyond Diagnosis

The Science of Mental Health and Human Potential +

A Direct Line to The Bottom Line

"There is a direct correlation between mental health and productivity. Addressing it is paramount. Previous belief was that mental health was something you fixed only when it was broken — a condition the individual needed to be treated for. But decades of studying human behavior, observing people in real-world environments, and implementing science-backed solutions shone a light on a new path: mental health is not an illness. It reflects how our brains create stress, anxiety and fear caused by past trauma and struggle. Using the science of human behavior, Randy Taylor will show how we can address the root cause by unlocking potential, increase resilience, and transform both individual lives and entire organizations."

Keynote Overview

This keynote transforms how organizations approach mental health by framing it as an understanding of the science of human behavior rather than a disease. Randy provides actionable strategies that empower employees and leaders to thrive, directly improving engagement, productivity, and resilience across the organization. Designed for executives, managers, and HR professionals, the session equips teams with practical tools to reduce stress, prevent burnout, and enhance collaboration. Companies that bring Randy in will see measurable benefits: improved productivity, higher employee satisfaction, stronger retention, and a workforce better equipped to drive results—positively impacting the organization’s culture and bottom line.

Main Points & Solutions

1. Mental Health as Behavior, Not Illness

  • Challenge the traditional illness-based view of mental health.
  • Explain how stress, anxiety, and emotional patterns are behaviors shaped by experiences and environment.
  • Solution: Introduce a framework for identifying behavioral patterns in the workplace and offering real world solutions.

2. Understanding the Science Behind Thoughts & Emotions

  • Explore neuroplasticity, mindset, and behavioral triggers.
  • Prove the impact of thought on symptomatic challenges like anxiety, stress, fear and low confidence
  • Show how small cognitive shifts create measurable changes in performance and resilience.
  • Solution: Simple mental “rewiring” exercises employees can apply immediately.

3. Building Resilience Through Awareness & Skill Development

  • How to recognize stress and anxiety before they impact performance.
  • Practical methods for strengthening emotional agility.
  • Solution: Step-by-step strategies to increase individual and team resilience.

4. Optimizing Team Dynamics and Organizational Culture

  • Connection between individual mental patterns and overall team performance.
  • Encouraging behaviors that improve collaboration, engagement, and motivation. 
  • Solution: Tools for leaders to foster psychological safety and high-performance culture.

5. Applying Science to Real-World Challenges

  • Translate research into actionable practices for employees at all levels.
    Solution: Customizable workplace approach to enhance focus, well-being, and productivity.

Key Takeaways for the Audience

  • Mental health is a skill and a science, not a disorder.
  • Leaders can directly influence the mental well-being and performance of their teams.
  • Ending the stigma to emotional challenges
  • Practical strategies exist to rewire stress responses, increase resilience, and unlock potential
  • Organizations benefit when individuals thrive, resulting in higher engagement, retention, and performance. --

The Growth Multiplier: How Developing the Individual Unlocks Extraordinary Company Results

“Today’s most successful organizations don’t grow because they hire more people— they grow because their people grow” +

Drawing on decades of research, professional training, coaching, and personal experience, Randy shows audiences how to ignite personal evolution inside every employee —and how that internal shift becomes the multiplier that drives culture, performance, innovation, and growth.

Today’s most successful organizations don’t scale by adding headcount — they scale by expanding human capacity.

In this high-impact keynote, behavioural expert Randy Taylor reveals a simple but radical truth: the greatest untapped asset in any company is the unrealized potential sitting inside its people. When individuals evolve, performance stops being a management problem and becomes a natural by-product of who they are becoming. 

Drawing on decades of front-line executive training, neuroscience-based coaching, and real-world client results, Randy shows leaders and teams how to deliberately upgrade the one variable that changes everything: mindset and behaviour in the moment of choice. Audiences don’t just get inspired — they leave with a clear, usable framework for turning personal growth into measurable business outcomes.

Randy’s message is built for organizations that want to win in a volatile, uncertain marketplace where skill alone is no longer enough. When people learn how to think, focus, and act from a personal drive of a higher level of potential, culture shifts, execution accelerates, and results compound.

What this keynote delivers & what your audience will discover:

  • Why most people operate far below their true capacity. The hidden mental habits, narratives, and environmental cues that quietly cap performance, even in high achievers — and how to remove those internal ceilings so potential can finally translate into results.

  • How individual mindset drives organizational performance. A clear line of sight between personal beliefs, daily behaviour, and hard business metrics like revenue, retention, and innovation — so leaders can stop “pushing” performance and start unlocking it.

  • The behavioural formula for confidence, focus, and resilience. A practical model that helps every employee stay centered under pressure, recover faster from setbacks, and show up at their best when it matters most.

  • How to create leaders at every level. A repeatable approach to turning “doers” into owners — people who think like leaders, act like leaders, and influence culture regardless of title or role

  • How personal growth transforms first the individual and then culture and collaboration. Why inner expansion naturally leads to more accountability, trust, and psychological safety — and how to hardwire those shifts into the everyday rhythms of work.

This keynote connects human transformation directly to business performance. When your people grow, your company grows. When your people thrive, your culture stabilizes and strengthens. When individuals expand what they believe is possible, the entire organization lifts to meet that new standard.

This is the keynote for organizations that want to future-proof their teams, elevate performance without burnout, and unlock the extraordinary potential already sitting inside their workforce. --

Additional Sample Topics

On Your Mark……Grow! Managing Disruptive Change +

In this keynote Randy shares how to understand human behaviour to positively lead change.

Many organizations experience explosive growth through change while others struggle to keep up with the disruption of change. Randy knows that having a fundamental understanding of Leadership and Employee behaviour through any transition is the most important aspect to managing change. He helps organizations understand why there is resistance to change and how to move from the paralysis of thinking about it to taking the important step of doing something about it.

This keynote is a mix of science, strategies, humour and proven examples using easy-to-follow methods that empower organizations to move beyond resisting change to leveraging the opportunities change can bring.

Attendees will learn:

  • The science of turning doubt into belief
  • Defining the true potential of every individual
  • The Power of Inclusion-tapping into the brain trust of everyone
  • Implementing the self-directed success solution of productivity
  • Creating a corporate mindset of growth --

Elevate Your Habits +

Through a process called “Conscious Intention” behavioural results expert Randy Taylor shares how to develop sustainable and healthy habits that remove unconscious barriers to success.

Positive habits are the direct link to results and success, yet our negative habits often get in the way of results, our potential and often, they are unconscious. In this keynote presentation Randy Taylor will unveil his process called “Conscious Intention” that will empower your audience to understand what unconscious habits may be holding them back from reaching higher goals. He will share how to detach from self-limiting behaviour with tools to change negative behaviours, habits and learn how to take action with intention.

Attendees will learn:

  • To understand the science of how habits are created and how they can be changed
  • How the brain and neurochemicals keep us a prisoner of past experiences
  • How to develop the skill of Conscious Intention and use it to achieve more every day
  • How to move forward to a new vision
  • How to overcome fear and stress and low self-esteem and live with courage and passion and purpose --

Selling to High-Net-Worth Clients: Discover the 5 keys to effectively compete and sell to the high-net-worth market +

Selling to the HNW client requires a unique approach to finding, securing, providing service and growing this client sector. Randy Taylor works with top corporations and seasoned sales professionals who use his sales approach that is based on the science of human behaviour and a structured model that benefits everyone. He shares the 5 keys in his model including:

  • The behavioural science of mastering the high-net-worth market
  • Best practices to prospect and secure HNW clients
  • A+ service model -THE market edge for HNW clients and prospects
  • Growth multiplier- COI’s, referrals and connectors
  • Mastering Time- The Self-Directed Success Solution

*This keynote can be combined with a 5-module intensive training program --

Sales Mastery: Learning the behaviour of top producers +

In this keynote Randy shares how to understand human behaviour to empower any sales professional to become a top producer.

A question long at the forefront of sales teams is “What are the top 2% doing that the other 98% are not”? The reality is it is far less than most people know it to be, and in this keynote, Randy will lay out the entire process of how.

The number one behavioural trait in sales that Randy will teach is the science behind confidence, outlining how top performers are able to develop it and maintain it through the ups and downs in any business cycle.

Attendees will learn:

  • The science of how top performers create winning behaviours
  • How to create a best practices model both structurally and mentally
  • How to re-wire the mind to overcome past doubt
  • How to get off the roller coaster and consistently stay focused on business development --

Virtual Leadership: Mentoring and the Power of Inclusion +

Randy Taylor’s keynote on Mentoring and the Power of Inclusion helps leaders create a culture of inclusion that builds an environment of loyalty, creativity, a competitive spirit in a virtual or in person environment. It drives your organization forward through with higher employee engagement and resilience. Using his own examples of how mentoring helped him move past a childhood of abuse, Randy inspires Leaders to understand the influence of their role as mentors

Learning Objectives:

  • The science of impacting the human behaviour of your team
  • The business model of sustainable growth
  • Unlocking the creative potential of your people
  • Mentoring and the transfer of knowledge
  • Creating a winning environment of inclusion --

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Frequently Asked Questions About Randy Taylor

Who is Randy Taylor? +

Randy Taylor is Canada's leading behavioural performance expert, keynote speaker, and executive coach, and the founder of TaylormadeLeadership. He is the creator of the TaylormadeShift method, a science-based behavioural coaching system built on more than 35 years studying human behaviour and neuroplasticity. A former national broadcaster and host of Summit of Life on Global Television, Randy draws on his own journey from homelessness at 14 to help business owners, financial professionals, and leaders build consistent, measurable performance. --

What is Randy Taylor's most requested keynote? +

Randy's most requested presentations include The Clarity Advantage, built for business owners, executives, and sales leaders around sustained focus under pressure, and Beyond Diagnosis, a mental health keynote that reframes mental health as a science of human behaviour rather than an illness. He also delivers The Growth Multiplier, on unlocking individual potential to drive company-wide performance. --

What is the TaylormadeShift method? +

The TaylormadeShift method is Randy Taylor's science-based behavioural coaching system, developed from more than 35 years studying human behaviour and neuroplasticity. Rather than relying on motivation, the method trains actions and habits so deeply that high performance becomes automatic, even under pressure, helping individuals and organizations build clarity, resilience, and consistent execution. --

Does Randy Taylor speak about mental health in the workplace? +

Yes. Randy's keynote Beyond Diagnosis addresses mental health as a science of human behaviour, showing organizations how stress, anxiety, and emotional patterns are shaped by experience and environment rather than framing mental health purely as illness. The presentation is designed for executives, managers, and HR professionals and provides practical strategies to reduce stress, prevent burnout, and improve engagement and retention. --

Has Randy Taylor written a book? +

Yes. Randy Taylor is the author of Elevate and The Lost Journals, both drawing on his work in behavioural performance and his own journey from homelessness at 14 to national broadcaster and behavioural performance expert. --

Is Randy Taylor available for events outside Canada? +

Yes. While based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Randy Taylor speaks for conferences, corporate events, and financial industry gatherings across Canada and internationally, and is available for both in-person and virtual keynotes. Contact K&M Productions to confirm availability for your event's location. --

How much does it cost to book Randy Taylor as a keynote speaker? +

Randy Taylor's current fee range is $7,501 - $10,000, with final pricing confirmed through K&M Productions Speakers & Shows based on event format, location, audience size, and customization. Contact K&M Productions to check date availability and arrange a pre-event call. --

Is Randy Taylor represented by a speakers bureau in Canada? +

Yes. Randy Taylor is represented by K&M Productions Speakers & Shows Canada for booking coordination and contract management. Working through a bureau gives event planners a single point of contact for logistics, billing, and payments, plus a safeguard should a replacement speaker ever be needed. --

How do I contact Randy Taylor to check availability and begin the booking process for events in Canada? +

Randy Taylor is directly contacted and booked through K&M Productions. They have Randy's schedule and are able to quickly check his availability for your Canadian or USA event. Their team will confirm open dates, discuss your event details, and guide you through the booking process. Event planners and meeting planners are encouraged to schedule a pre-event consultation call to clarify format, audience, objectives, and speaker expectations. Once your event requirements are confirmed, written booking confirmation follows upon contract execution — ensuring a clear, professional agreement for all parties. --

This speaker profile was last updated by K&M Productions on August 14, 2026.

What Clients are Saying About Randy Taylor

Randy Taylor is truly a very motivational speaker. From the heart he delivered a powerful “winner within” presentation at our National Sales meeting which set the stage for thought, motivation and finding the winner within each one of us to make the change to be the best we can be in our personal and professional lives.

–Nancy Kent, Director, Individual Sales and Distribution Equitable Life of Canada

I cannot begin to thank you enough for the amazing lecture you presented to my club members on Monday night. Your genuine enthusiasm for living life to the fullest shone through your entire presentation. People in the audience were moved, motivated and inspired. Every aspect of the topic applied to all areas of our lives.

–Kyra Waters, Health Director-White Oaks Conference Centre & Resort

Your message was both encouraging and thought provoking. It prompted a high degree of self-reflection, pushing us to seek out our own “Winners Within”, and was taken not just a a business or professional context, but personal as well.

–Sid Kerrigan President, Brookfield Homes Canada

In a business where many of our financial advisors hear “no” every single day, Randy’s message of perseverance connected to a deeper understanding of the nobility of the profession of helping people brought energy to the room. But, this was not the fleeting energy of motivation; it came from an appreciation of life’s purpose, and service to others. A true professional.

–Sean Karrow, Desjardins Financial

Many thanks for the motivating and inspiring seminar “Life Before Can’t.” The response was overwhelming. I especially appreciated the way in which you took the time to get to know AIM Trimark’s principles and integrated them within your talk. Feedback included comments such as “Randy beautifully articulated a powerful message. His talk was captivating” I would definitely recommend Randy Taylor and look forward to working together again.

–Gurpreet Singh AIM Trimark, Toronto Head Office

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