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"I am passionate about helping people and organizations seize their full potential. As a top innovation keynote speaker to many classrooms over the past seven years, I bring the perfect balance of an energizing performance, blended with real-world experience and credibility. I aim to inspire and move audiences to action by offering practical and effective approaches to driving better career outcomes."
- Jeff Chan
- Jeff Chan
Jeff's strengths include: Acquiring new business, managing complex sales cycles, field sales, business development, account management, deal negotiating, Instructing and training, thus enabling growth and success across the team.
Biography
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At age nineteen, I won an international competition based in Vaughn with a choreographed dance choice. This attracted a great deal of attention and many rewards, including an opportunity which enabled me to attend studio sessions and ultimately work with Cedar Fair at Canada's Wonderland. I graduated from high school in Eastern Ontario, and from Post-Secondary (Centennial) in Toronto, Ontario, with distinction. Since then I have held a variety of jobs but have always considered my real work to be public speaking and inspiring young minds.
"All of my work is, in one way or another, about power. Who has it and why? Who doesn't have it and why? What happens to people and societies when power relationships become seriously unequal? How are power structures and power relationships created, how are they maintained, how are they changed? What ideas and myths form their foundations? What are the connections between power and religion? Power and sexuality? Power and ethics? Power and the use of violence?"
My first opportunity to develop this was back in College when my "Psychology Professor" explored what happens when the inhabitants of a small colony planet develop extraordinary psychic powers along with their severe, mind-centered religion. It was incredible.
As a result I'm very disciplined when I have a work in progress. Get up early (sixish) and maybe an early morning walk. I almost always sit down with a pot or cup of hot-tea and some appropriate music (jazz, down-tempo or music videos from you-tube whatever in hand) and spend the first thirty or forty minutes just listening, letting the music create a mindspace and focus my concentration.
Once a project is well underway, most of my available time goes toward it-daytime to developing plans, ideas, evenings to related reading and research. I still see my friends, but most everything else suffers.
When time allows, I am addicted to music, good ethnic food, challenging conversations, and yes, believe it or not, dancing.
"All of my work is, in one way or another, about power. Who has it and why? Who doesn't have it and why? What happens to people and societies when power relationships become seriously unequal? How are power structures and power relationships created, how are they maintained, how are they changed? What ideas and myths form their foundations? What are the connections between power and religion? Power and sexuality? Power and ethics? Power and the use of violence?"
My first opportunity to develop this was back in College when my "Psychology Professor" explored what happens when the inhabitants of a small colony planet develop extraordinary psychic powers along with their severe, mind-centered religion. It was incredible.
As a result I'm very disciplined when I have a work in progress. Get up early (sixish) and maybe an early morning walk. I almost always sit down with a pot or cup of hot-tea and some appropriate music (jazz, down-tempo or music videos from you-tube whatever in hand) and spend the first thirty or forty minutes just listening, letting the music create a mindspace and focus my concentration.
Once a project is well underway, most of my available time goes toward it-daytime to developing plans, ideas, evenings to related reading and research. I still see my friends, but most everything else suffers.
When time allows, I am addicted to music, good ethnic food, challenging conversations, and yes, believe it or not, dancing.
Currently, I am actively engaging and seeking the world of education to indulge in the activity of books, travel & debauchery. Since 2008, I had been an associate member with Education Management as a Representative for the High School Division for the Art Institutes, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I traveled nationally and internationally for pleasure, production and industry.
For the last eight years, my main field of work has been as a community liaison and public relations specialist for guidance counselors, teachers and students. I focused on understanding the use of higher education and student development throughout their academic years in a secondary school environment via personal interactive communication. In the past I have worked nationally and provincially in recruiting and screening qualified persons for post-secondary education for the Art Institutes College in Vancouver and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology.
During my study of the Arts at Centennial College in Toronto, Ontario, Canada I focused on topics like Origins of Art History, Market Research, Visual Communication in literature and humanities in Liberal Arts.
Besides my love for the arts, I am an active vlogger, an avid photographer, traveler and exercise enthusiast. Feel free to connect with me at anytime!
By the way, below is my new favourite video/song. Enjoy.
― Jeff Chan
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