Dale Curd

Host, CBC’s Hello Goodbye | Author, Living Lightly

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About This Speaker

Have you ever met someone who can instantly make you feel so comfortable you feel like they are your best friend and trusted confidante? Meet Dale Curd. Genuine, intuitive, approachable, wise and articulate, Dale is the host of the acclaimed CBC documentary television series, Hello Goodbye. The series follows Dale as he engages strangers in conversations as they prepare to greet or see off loved ones at Toronto’s Pearson Airport.

“The show is so deeply rooted in common experience that it is truly, persuasively poignant, but immensely uplifting, too,” says Globe and Mail television critic John Doyle. “Much of that has to do with Curd’s natural ability to draw closely-held stories and unexpressed feelings out of people.”

A compelling, compassionate and dynamic host and public speaker, Dale Curd boasts in a number of other media pursuits. Dale began presenting his keynote, The Mastery and Science of Empathetic Listening, to healthcare organizations across North America in 2017. Since 2008, Dale is retained as an expert catalyst helping global corporations speak to and market services and products to men. Dale has a private counselling practice.

In December 2019, Dale and his wife, Kimberly Alexander, released their book, Living Lightly.

Dale lives on a farm in Hollywood North, Muskoka Canada, with his wife and daughter (and son when he’s home from university).

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Speaking Topics: Dale Curd

Around The Dinner Table - Dissolving Differences and Shifting Mindsets To Create Strong Connections

Family-run businesses and enterprises face all of the same challenges that regular companies and corporations experience, with one notable exception: the challenge of communicating effectively with each other - having the ‘big’ conversations without being hijacked by intergenerational history, roles, and beliefs. In this keynote, Dale Curd reveals why being a family is hurting these businesses, the invisible traps families fall into that block or sabotage their progress and the skills and pathway toward effective communication and alignment.

Lonely - The Entrepreneur Experience No One Successful Wants To Talk About

I’ve executive coached many of the top leaders in our business environment and the one characteristic they all share is the experience of being or feeling separate from the people around them. Once a badge of honour, being alone was seen as a necessary part of the individualism valued in being an entrepreneur or C-level executive along with survivalism and resiliency. This keynote is based on the thousands of hours of my work with entrepreneurs and C-level executives in helping them come out of the lone wolf mindset to see the value and performance benefits of creating strong social connections

Living Lightly

A complimentary keynote to the book of the same name (released December 2019). This talk focuses on how developing a deeper relationship with ourselves can lead to stronger relationships personally and professionally, as well as more balance and success. This talk contains meditations and strategies for a lighter and more fulfilling life. For all groups.

The Soft Skills Renaissance

We have a more educated workforce than ever before, yet in many instances, our interpersonal or ‘soft’ skills have suffered. As artificial intelligence continues to affect and displace quantitative jobs, Dale argues that soft-skills are experiencing a renaissance. First, Dale offers recent research and innovations in soft-skills and the humanities. From there, he presents a framework where organizations can evaluate talent on more than just the letters on their resume. Lastly, he discusses how hiring and training for soft skills can improve hard metrics and financial results. For: HR, customer service/experience, health care.

Why Aren’t We Connecting? The Keys To Collaborative and Effective Teams

Dale Curd has spent his life listening deeply and empathetically. In this talk, he outlines key steps to ensure we are connecting better as teams – from active listening, stronger questions to different body language, he has the tips, tricks and research to lead to immediate outcomes. For all groups.

Meaningful Moments

How To Make an Impact in a Short Time. For groups of salespeople or sales organizations, this talk is a must-hear. We are living in increasingly fragmented and distracted times – when approaching new clients, we are lucky to get even 30 seconds of their time sometimes. Dale can advise on how to make the most of short windows for people to connect, make an impact, and convert the relationship to a fruitful one. For sales organizations.