Talk Boutique

Talk Boutique is a full service Speaker Representation and Thought Leader Coaching company specializing in helping those who have a message to convey do so with engagement and clarity.  Using methodologies proven with TEDx speakers, Talk Boutique helps to develop content, performance and clarity for any speaking opportunity.

In 2023, we launched our premier membership program through our Thought Leader Academy.  This is where aspiring thought leaders come to establish their message, grow their community and build their brands.  It’a a community where the thought leaders of tomorrow gather today.  Join us and make sure your contact list is filled with those who will be co-creating our future!

CEO & Executive Thought Leader Coach

TEDx Corktown

Chairperson & Curation Lead

SingularityU Canada

Head Of Faculty

Working with the SingularityU Canada Summit Core Team, responsible for identifying and securing all speakers, demos and entertainment that will comprise the 2017 program.  Specifically to identify the right technologists, academics, entrepreneurs and visionaries, and provide the coaching and support necessary to focus on the Singularity grand challenges and the issues affecting Canada.

Co-Director, Programming & Curation

Humber College

Instructing classes in the Advertising and Marketing Communications's program.

Instructor (Part Time)

TEDxToronto

2017:  Advisor - provide background support and/or Speaker Coaching assistance when required to the current organizing team

2016:  TEDxToronto Co-Chair:  Overseeing the core organizing team for the annual TEDxToronto conference, my role is to direct the Programming and Logistics teams to ensure the conference meets all objectives. 

2015:  Director of Programming:    responsibile to curate's speakers and performers for the annual conference and deliver's the spirit of TED.  As a Speaker's Coach, I work directly with select speakers to identify their topic, build their talk and develop strong performance skills to deliver an impactful and meaningful TED talk.  I have directly coached the following TEDxToronto speakers: Brendan Frey, Rodolphe El-Khoury, Mark Bowden, Joel MacCharles, Keith Vanderlinde, Margot Taylor and David Fleet, Andrew Peek and Robert Binet

2013/14:  Speaker's Coach

Curation

Account Planning Group of Canada - APGCan

Board Member and Treasurer

Lightning Rod Marketing

I am the strategic lead, facilitator and planner for Lightning Rod Marketing and provide strategic planning expertise to every project we deliver.  Additionally I have a team of freelance project managers and creative development professionals who are able to work on marketing and advertising assignments as required.

Strategic Leader and President

IMC Brands Applied

IMC Brands Applied helps organizations reexamine the way they present their information through interfaces using the context of their brands and objectives. We develop solutions that empower employees and customers to get the most out of their systems, while ensuring the Brand is resident in every interaction and at every touch point.

SVP Strategy (contract)

Cundari

Responsible for, and directly contribute to the strategic output of the agency, including brand strategy, account planning, digital and social strategy, research and analytics.  Oversee a team of seasoned subject matter experts who each provide their individual expertise in an integrated, collaborative process.

Vice President of Strategy, Insight & Planning

Nexient Learning / Global Knowledge Canada

Oversee the ongoing marketing, branding, and communications for Canada's largest corporate training and skills development company

Vice President Marketing

I looked up and saw blank stares... I knew they didn't understand what I was saying and I really needed them to, this was a pitch afterall.  I was at the front of the room presenting a complex strategy to a boardroom full of executives. and clearly I was failing.  But why... it took me years to understand that I was presenting data, important data, but what I was missing was the story that held it together.  I was talking at them not with them.  

You see, we are each the sum total of every conversation we have ever had, so I made it my goal to create and have intelligent conversations everyday! I learned this through my work on TEDx events and working with TED speakers.  What most people miss is that conversations can be presentations, talks or pitches, even though you may have data you need to get across.  When you present with stories, you create conversations.  

As a Executive Speaker’s Coach, Communication Expert and Business Strategist, I use my well defined listening skills and combining these with my skills in insight identification and human behaviour, I craft stories from facts and help to build and deliver talks that are clear, compelling and deeply engaging.

I have held leadership positions with multi-national advertising agencies, advertisers and major brands.  Using my own unique thought leadership expertise and my training as a TEDx Speakers Coach, I now provide Communication Coaching and Consulting expertise to Leaders, Experts and Changemakers.

I founded Talk Boutique in 2016 to help those with important stories to tell to create impact by helping them to take create TEDx Talks that inspire millions!

When we look at the ordinary and choose to see the hidden possibilities within it, we activate our capacity to create and innovate.

As thought leaders, our next step is just as important: 

👉🏻communicating these possibilities clearly so others can see them too. 

By sharing our vision and inviting collaboration, we invite people to join us in shaping it and creating something bigger than ourselves.  

This is how we move from feeling stuck in a reality that feels challenging to claiming our agency and moving toward, and, building momentum in the direction of our desires.  

This is how we build the careers, the lives, and the future we imagine.

And when we do this together, through shared understanding and collective action, we change everything. 🌍✨

#ThoughtLeadership #Vision #Creativity #FutureThinking

Andrea Sampson

I help Executives & CEOs build executive presence & authority so they can build wealth as business storytellers | Entrepreneur | Speaker | Author | Executive Coach

Have you ever shared a plan then then... 
😖  everyone goes off in different directions to complete the task...
😡 and you are left speechless wondering why.  

It’s not incompetence or resistance... It’s the intention gap 😶‍🌫️ 

Unaddressed... it  slows execution, fuels assumptions, and derails alignment.

The truth is, even our best ideas fall flat if people don’t feel their meaning.

In my latest newsletter, I dig into why this happens far more often than we realize — and what leaders can do to ensure their message actually lands.

If you’ve ever shared a plan, only to watch it get interpreted through five different lenses 🔎 , this one is worth a read and share it with your colleagues who also need to hear this.  

#Leadership #ThoughtLeadership #Storytelling #Communication #TeamAlignment #TheIntentionGap

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