Tod Maffin

It’s clear now — the new war for market domination is being fought 140 characters at a time.

In his new fast-paced, entertaining keynote presentation, Maffin will let your attendees in on the micro-marketing secrets previously used only by “the digerati” on sites like Facebook, Twitter, and corporate blogs. The latest, most measurably-effective branding tools that organizations can use online — demonstrated step-by-step and illustrated for startling effect.

Realizing that warfare defense is as critical as strategy, content includes deploying counter-measures against online attacks of your brand — whether from comment flames, hashtag attacks on your Twitter feed, blog trolls, or more.

They’re fickle, media-savvy, highly-connected and living on the cutting-edge of technology.

And if your organization still tries to find your future leadership through old-school recruiting techniques like stale ads in papers, there’s a nasty shock in store. Leading-edge firms are harnessing and exploiting the powerful networking forces in social media Web sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to find and recruit the future workforce.

In this fast-paced, entertaining presentation, Tod Maffin walks audiences through the minefield of challenges involved in this new world of talent management and delivers invaluable insights into the future generation of workers: where to find them, how to attract them, and, perhaps most importantly, how to keep them engaged, motivated and fully productive.

With depression rates soaring in the workplace, do we need a radical new way of providing mental health services to our employees?

Tod Maffin thinks so. Once the founder and CEO of a multi-million dollar technology firm, Tod’s workload and always-on personality finally caught up with him and over the following years, he was crippled by a devastating depression — all the while struggling to appear to be productive to employers and colleagues, and happy and healthy to his friends and family.

In this provocative keynote speech, Tod will reveal to your delegates how this always-connected landscape has seduced all of us into endless multitasking and infinite email, — all the while pretending that this increasing workload is the best thing for “productivity.” And he will outline his own bold strategy for bringing mental health discussion out of the shadows in a way that will challenge your attendees for years to come.

In a world where two thirds of kids spend more time in front of a computer than a television set, are we unknowingly re-shaping the learning patterns of children?

In this thought-provoking, fast-paced 45-minute presentation, Tod will dive into the latest neurological research around cognitive development — and, using dozens of short videos and custom images, make it simple to understand. You’ll fly through the brain’s learning centres and discover how media multitasking is changing our kids’ actual brain structures at the cellular level, and how teaching needs to change to adapt.

The “system” means well, but it’s slowly asphyxiating the future of education. In this provocative keynote address, Tod Maffin identifies the primary ways the education system is taking the “rough stones” of learners and tries to grind and polish their way to education — while actually scraping away the culture and uniqueness the learners bring. Maffin’s five steps to repairing this damage will get your conference delegates talking days after the address.