Corporate executives and business owners, is tumultuous change increasing pressure on you, your team, and your family?

Need to diversify your customer base or build a more resilient supply chain?

I design and facilitate team building & executive retreats to help you:

•  navigate change
•  foster innovation
•  improve collaboration
•  boost your bottom-line

Survive, Thrive & Grow Even in the Midst of Turbulence

Let's hop on a Zoom call to fine-tune your team building strategies.

I offer proven tools and strategies to:

• break down silos
• bounce back from setbacks
• thrive in a fast-paced environment
• improve cross-functional teamwork
• chart your course during economic turbulence

I don't  offer:

• location scouting or venue selection as standalone services

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Team Building • Executive Retreats • Hybrid Team Building • Virtual Team Building • Meeting Facilitation • Keynotes • Writing

Expert team building facilitator with 20+ years of experience with clients from 19+ countries on 4 continents. 

Select Clients:

• Canada: Holt Renfrew, Xerox, Scalar Decisions, Sunlife, Amplifon, Mister Safety Shoes, PowerBar, Mars, Rogers/Fido, Novo Nordisk, Bell Mobility, TELUS, RBC, CIBC
• Caribbean: National Bank of Dominica, Caribbean Development Bank, U.S. Embassy Jamaica 
• Malaysia: OCBC Bank, Permodalan Nasional Berhad, Penang Port
• Dubai: Thomson Reuters, Baxter, McKinsey, Caterpillar
• Africa: Bidvest, DAL Group/CAPO
• Saudi Arabia: GSK, Sidra Capital
• USA: EPICPCS, Sittercity, Sperian, U.S. Embassy Jamaica 
• Bahrain: Batelco, AXA

Virtual Team Building:

Unleash team innovation through custom-crafted business simulations delivered on the platform of your choosing (e.g. MeetinVR, Zoom, Second Life, Bluescape, or your own virtual office).

•   Lemons to Lemonade: Squeezing Opportunities out of Adversity When Business Goes Sour
    - a suite of tools to pivot from the economic impact of  COVID-19

•   Visexecutaries: Seizing Opportunities in our Shifting Corporate Landscape
     Visexecutaries = Visionary Executives
     - spot & react proactively to emerging market trends
     - break free from outdated paradigms

LinkedIn Group: 

• Executive Team Building Network https://lnkd.in/eFDDTPp

About Me

Born in Jamaica, I was raised in Montreal. I'm now based in Stouffville, Ontario. I've had the pleasure of travelling to 24 countries. When I am not running my consulting business, I'm acting and writing.

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Anne Thornley-Brown MBA

✨️ Team Innovation: Mind-Blowing Innovation Takes a Team!

The most powerful innovation is rarely spontaneous. It's generated through intentional collaboration, analysis, and team work.

Whether you’re an executive refining strategy, an IT or pharmaceutical sales professional, or a transportation planner, impact is rarely a solo effort. 

It relies on the teams executives build and support.

Every breakthrough requires brainstorming, rigorous analysis, planning, and flawless execution. It's never chaos dressed up and disguised as “innovation.”

Collaboration by a multidisciplinary team fuels innovation.

"The friction generated by diverse teams can ignite innovative solutions, turning potential conflicts into creative opportunities. When individuals from different backgrounds and with varied perspectives come together, their differing viewpoints can lead to creative abrasion...” 

... and breakthroughs.

SOURCE: Forbes 

I guide executive teams through a structured, approach using a suite of tools to foster innovation.

I have observed that, when teams break out of the firefighting mode and pause to reflect and strategize they create unforgettable results.

◼️What pre-execution work has been missing on your team?

◼️ How do you create an aligned, prepared, and empowered team to facilitate execution?

#innovation #teambuilding #3Dprojectionmapping

This behind the scenes video of the installation team guided by Amar A. captures what every strategic initiative requires. A series of disciplined, coordinated, and interdependent actions that translate concepts into impact. 

The final "wow factor" is only possible because of the invisible teamwork that created it.

Forbes-featured Team Building Expert 🇨🇦 🇯🇲 My boutique management consulting firm has designed & facilitated strategy sessions, meetings, & executive retreats for clients from 19 countries. | Bespoke. Custom crafted

Vice President, Creative | Branding solutions • AI + digital content • Events & Experiential • Custom Exhibits • Architectural/public art • Retail & Signage

// Those mind blowing WOW ideas that create impact ... creating spaces, not places!

#creative #wow #concepts

Husband, father, SEO getting you consistent, unlimited traffic without ads 👉🏻 FreeSEObook.com, written from 17 years as SEO agency owner

👉🏻 Free digital download of my Amazon best selling SEO book @ www.FreeSEObook.com 👈🏻
Burton's expertise is more important than ever in helping businesses thrive online. Over a decade ago he beat a billion dollar company by outranking them on Google. He knew he was onto something and has gone on to build an international search engine marketing company that's worked with NBA teams, and Inc5000 & Shark Tank featured businesses.

Never before has there been so many people needing something to focus their attention on… AND the time to do it. Your customers on either their phone, tablet, or computer 24/7. Simply having a website isn’t enough, and no one knows this better than search engine marketing expert Damon Burton.

Since founding his company SEO National in 2007, he writes for Forbes, has been featured in publications including Entrepreneur Magazine, BuzzFeed and USA Weekly, and has helped high-profile clients make more in a month than they used to in a year.

TESTIMONIALS

💬 "The best thing about this SEO company is their transparency. They helped our site broaden its reach to the online shopping community."

- Rob Heller, Founder of DealYard, and INC5000 company


💬 "Damon and his team's ability to create an authentic way to represent my company to our clients was not just the fluffy nonsense but the meaningful concepts not just to my clients but to the algorithms."

- Bunny Young, Stuntwoman, Speaker, Coach, Author


💬 "Amazing company to partner with. I have been working with them for over 7 years and their level of commitment and enthusiasm for all they do, has never changed."

- Ivan Ramirez, One of Overstock's first employees


💬 "Damon is at the top of his game. He knows the in's and out's of different platforms, and we used his expert guidance to make important changes to our site quickly so we could get the most out of our investment."

- James Thomson, Former Sr. Manager at Amazon


💬 "I know a lot of SEO companies and Damon's team do cream of the crop work."

- Joseph Hansen, Best selling author, serial entrepreneur 


💬 "Amazing, outstanding wealth of knowledge...the real key to good SEO is having a company that knows its stuff and what it is doing the RIGHT way."

- John Lawson, Best selling author, international speaker


💬 "Attentive, creative and constructive. Damon was a true professional and, unlike most in the SEO industry, is honest and transparent in his approach. No smoke and mirrors. Thoroughly recommend."

- Russell Quirk, Co-Founder at Properganda PR

Damon Burton

Just threw half a dozen notebooks from masterminds in the trash. 🗑️

And put 50+ books in the closet that I kept telling myself I would read one day. But seeing that pile of books constantly just stressed me out.

I have more than enough opportunities available to me that everything else is just a distraction.

And you probably do too…

This is the year of less inspiration, more action.

Husband, father, SEO agency to Tony Robbins & Russell Brunson. 👉🏻 Free traffic @ FreeSEObook.com, written from 18 years as SEO agency owner.

Last year was great. Was going to write a massive post about all the cool things, but there were so many that it would take me, legit, a full day to type it all out.

So here's a bulleted list of some that are top of mind:

✅ Celebrated 19 years married
✅ Spend 3 weeks in Europe and Dubai with my wife and kids (France > Germany > Italy > Spain > Greece > Dubai)
✅ Finished building a lake front vacation home I've been day dreaming and motioning to bring to life for years
✅ Bought a commercial building
✅ Launched an agency training program
✅ Had my biggest business day, selling ~$100,000 on the backend of a day
✅ Added our single biggest contract, over $400,000 annually
✅ Had our biggest year as an agency, with ~14% greater revenue than our previous record
✅ Spoke on SEO in Vietnam
✅ Spoke on SEO at the last Funnel Hacking Live
✅ Finally found an hired a coach I vibed with
✅ Found parts of me I’d been looking for for years
✅ Deepened my marriage in ways I didn't know were possible

Grateful for the delayed gratification decisions I chose to plant long-play seeds with, and trusting myself they would work, and it would be worth it.

Grateful for those that support me.

Grateful for those that trust me to support them. Grateful for my wife being my lifelong cheerleader.

Grateful for the intimate relationship that we have as a couple.

Grateful for my kids being well-mannered, confident, energetic, respectful, and all completely different personalities that cause me to reflect on myself and always look to be a better person.

Man, there's so much, and I know I'm missing a ton more, but what an amazing life this is.

Here is a video I've shown only twice before, both times in million dollar masterminds.

It's how to show up at the top of ChatGPT and other AI platforms... and a plot twist that will flip everything you “knew” upside down.

I get excited when I see someone bet on themselves.

Any time there's a shop I go to that I found out is a new business, I send go back after buying and bring them a copy of my SEO book and a little "thank you" package to support them.

I've done this with a new:

✅ chiropractor, who I now go to regularly
✅ autoimmune clinics, that I now visit
✅ new coffee shops in town

Latest was where I took our new ATV to be serviced for our cabin to be serviced, at Hansen Powersports in Kaysville, UT. Found out they had been open only about a month.

Late 20's, early 30's guy and his wife. Both smiles, positive attitude.

He wanted to bet on himself, and build something he could be proud to sponsor his 2 year old as he grows into motorsports, and pass on a legacy to him at some point.

My people.

When I picked up our ATV I brought him a signed copy of my book with a personal note. A week later I sent him cookies wishing him continued success with his new (and first) business.

Recently received a thank you note from them.

Sad, yet amazing day. My longest client ever just canceled at over 18 years.

August 12, 2007 was their first invoice for $4.95.

$2,368/month for the last half dozen years.

We watched them grow from a small ~5,000 sq ft facility to multiple ~50,000 sq ft facilities over the years.

Clients almost never cancel because of performance. In the rare case we can't get a win, I comp some time and concede before the client ever has to.

Most clients cancel because:

❌ they run into growing pains after growing too much
❌ they blow up and get acquired, and the new owners kick us to the curb
❌ a new sheriff comes in and "fixes" everything that isn't broken

The later is this client. 🫤

However, this new sheriff at least the nicer of any over the years. He's just not a business guy and doesn't "get it," what we're doing, despite SEO driving over 50% of their traffic.

But what an amazing story and relationship.

So grateful to serve at this level for this long.

Anyone got a connection at Guinness so I can claim my "World's Longest Agency Retainer?"

🔥 8,000 word, 60+ pics, and six hours of writing later... adventures from taking my wife and kids to Europe and Dubai for 3 weeks.

🔥 8,000 word, 60+ pics, and six hours of writing later... adventures from taking my wife and kids to Europe and Dubai for 3 weeks. Here is everything

Open article: 3 Weeks of Adventures in Europe and Dubai by Damon Burton • 35 min read

3 Weeks of Adventures in Europe and Dubai

Client left, then came back.

This client canceled about a year ago.

This one wasn't a new sheriff, or random cancel. The client just wanted a change of pace. He decided to "retire" from his landscaping business. Wanted to try a 9-5 job.

After working for someone else for about 6 months, he realized he was meant to stay an entrepreneur.

However, he had shut down his site, canceled his hosting, and deleted everything.

After he asked if we'd take him back, we pulled backups, reclaimed his domain, submitted a Change of Address from his old domain to his new one (he wanted to expand services, so a new domain made sense more than the previous domain limiting it to landscaping).

You can see within just a few months, he's back at #1, with ~100 more across the rest of page 1 of Google.

Love a good client redemption story.

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