Drew Dudley
Founder & Chief Catalyst of Nuance Leadership Inc.

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Drew Dudley thinks we've made leadership into something bigger than us, something unattainable. An upbeat speaker, Dudley shares his "lollipop moments" - when something you've done has made someone else's life fundamentally better. Leadership, he explains, should be about how many lollipop moments you can acknowledge and share every day.

Drew Dudley helps us understand leadership in a more nuanced, practical, and entirely hopeful way. We've made leadership into something bigger than us, Dudley says, something beyond us. We've shrouded it in arrogance - turned it into something few of us will publicly admit to possessing. Leadership, he says, is now about changing the world and nothing less. But Dudley, who has spoken at TEDxToronto and other high profile venues, has other ideas. As the founder and director of one of the largest leadership development programs in North America, he embraces the idea that leadership can't really be taught, only learned-an idea that has resonate with thousands of people over the years.

Dudley had helped raise millions of dollars as the Founder or Chair of several organizations dedicated supporting scholarship funds, social entrepreneurship and charitable initiatives. During his term as the National Chair of Canada's largest fundraiser for post-secondary students, Shinerama: Students Fighting Cystic Fibrosis,, Dudley and his team broke numerous fundraising records. Now the Founder and Chief Catalyst of Nuance Leadership Inc., he works with dozens of corporations, charities, non-profits, universities, colleges, and other organizations around the world to empower people to increase their leadership capacity.

Redefining Leadership and the Power of 'Lollipop Moments' (Keynote)
An affable and captivating speaker, Drew Dudley recasts our notion of leadership. By making leadership into something bigger than ourselves, Dudley says, we fail to acknowledge the everyday leadership that effects us in innumerable ways. When it becomes outsized, we are given an excuse to not expect it from ourselves and from those around us. Instead, we need to redefine leadership as being a series of "lollipop moments"- those moments when something you've done has made someone else's life fundamentally better. How many lollipop moments occur every day? Dudley asks. And how many go unacknowledged? How many lollipop moments we create, how many we acknowledge, and how many we pay forward - this comes closer to a true measure of leadership. a born storyteller with infectious energy, Dudley tells us that leadership is, at core. about striving to act in a way that has a positive effect on your life, and the lives of others.

"Plan to Matter" - Creating a Personal Culture of Leadership (Breakout Session)
Most of us hope to matter. We hope to be leaders. We hope to have a positive impact on the world.

Hope is an incredibly important and valuable force.  We should work hard to foster it in our own lives and in the lives of those around us.  However, hope is a lousy strategy.  What’s crucial is that we plan to matter, that we plan to be leaders, and that we plan to have a positive impact on the world.  This highly interactive workshop will help begin to provide a roadmap to that planning.

Building on Drew Dudley’s keynote presentation, this highly interactive session will give participants the opportunity to better identify, define, and create plans to “operationalize” their personal leadership values each day, and provide a step-by-step process to creating a more powerful personal culture of leadership.