Roger Haskett: Communication
Engagement expert and award-winning keynote speaker Roger Haskett empowers teams to boost performance, communication, and resilience through immersive, high-energy learning experiences that drive lasting transformation.
Quick Facts:
- Highlights:
- President of Engagement Unlimited and award-winning international keynote speaker
- Over 175 appearances in TV shows, films, and commercials
- BA in History, BFA in Acting, and MA in Education
- 25+ years as an entrepreneur
- Formats: Keynote speaker, engagement strategist, communication trainer, interactive facilitator
- Audiences: Corporate teams, leadership groups, educators, conference attendees, HR professionals, event planners, and organizations seeking energized, engaged, and resilient teams.
- Outcomes:
- Tools to improve performance under stress and pressure
- Strategies to strengthen communication, collaboration, and connection
- Game-based engagement techniques that boost participation and learning retention
- Travels from: Vancouver, BC
- **Fee range: $10,001 - $20,000
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Keynote Topics:
The Age of Engage: How to Create Engagement
Works best as a motivational opening keynote, inspiring break out session, or hands-on workshop.
Engagement means active participation in your desired company culture, a greater buy-in to your brand, and improved bottom-line results. It is the secret sauce that makes your work and your life magic.
Roger Haskett utilizes an innovative session format that ties stories, theory, and application together in a team-based game to prime every participant to learn and create engagement in the room for everyone to experience and benefit from.
His unique insight and forward-thinking approach to workplace dynamics and culture at large will challenge participants to re-think their attitudes and discover new and exciting ways to deliver more value to their clients and those around them.
Participants will walk away with tangible tools that will inspire them to be more productive, creative, and successful in their work.
Learning Objectives:
Learn about how shifts in workplace culture, education, media, and cultural values have shaped what engagement means and how we can now effectively measure engagement across all aspects of our lives.
Understand how to create and promote active participation and the neuroscience behind emotional contagion, mindfulness, social pain, and much more.
Discover how to be more engaging and harness this power for improved creativity, productivity, and bottom-line results in your own life.
Talent Short Bio
Roger Haskett is an award-winning international keynote speaker and the President of Engagement Unlimited, known for revolutionizing the way organizations learn, connect, and perform. With more than 25 years as an entrepreneur and decades of experience in acting, teaching, and team development, Roger blends entertainment with research-backed strategies to create unforgettable, high-impact learning experiences. His keynotes consistently earn 10/10 audience ratings, “best of conference” accolades, and long-term partnerships with clients across North America and beyond.
Roger holds a B.A. in History, a B.F.A. in Acting, and an M.A. in Education—an academic and creative combination that uniquely positions him to help audiences understand how humans learn, communicate, and perform under stress. Having appeared in over 175 films, TV shows, and commercials, he uses stagecraft, storytelling, and dynamic facilitation techniques to create presentations that are as engaging as they are transformative.
His signature programs explore performance under pressure, communication mastery, the neuroscience of engagement, and how play fuels innovation and connection.
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Roger Haskett is an award-winning international keynote speaker and President of Engagement Unlimited. With his innovative keynotes and programs, he ignites positive transformational change in teams and individuals across North America and beyond.
Roger’s experience, knowledge and highly contagious positive energy have garnered him countless 10/10 audience rankings “best of conference” survey results and hundreds of return clients.
Roger Haskett has a B.A. in History and a B.F.A. in Acting (he’s been in over 100 TV Shows, films, and commercials), an M.A. in Education. He has lived the last 25 years as an entrepreneur.
He lives in Vancouver, Canada, with his amazing partner, three incredible kids and two persnickety cats. Here he spends part of each day wondering how he is so blessed.
Roger’s topics range from performance under stress, the power of play, effective communication skills and the age of engage within companies and culture at large.
His impressive background in teaching and acting (he has been seen in over 175 TV shows, movies and commercials) allow him to utilize a unique session format that ties stories, theory, and application together in a team-based game.
This structure primes every participant to learn and creates engagement in the room that everyone experiences and benefits from.
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