Andrew Welch comes from a business and community leadership background himself.  He has held management positions and sat on boards (profit and non-profit), and his employment CV ranges from small medical labs through to Canadian General Electric.  Most of his career has been as a self-employed management consultant, specializing in healthcare, IT matters, facilitation, and experiential education.

In contrast to that, he also has an impressive professional theatre resumé as an actor and director, and he continues to serve as the official Town Crier for the Towns of Caledon and Erin, Ontario.

As a result of his unique background, his presentations are always engaging, informative, and entertaining.

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Sample Topics:

Audience:  Industry and business leaders

You want your business to be successful.  Then what's next?  Do you want to stay successful?  If so, that means you have to choose a definition of success that is sustainable.  This talk begins by looking at what it means to be successful, and how it might not mean what we think it does.  Economic models are changing as our world changes.  How are sharing economies, access economies, gig economies, and gift economies going to affect you?

Welch suggests that there is a different way of looking at the big picture of industry and local commerce.  Part of that eye-opening experience comes from an examination of what every commercial operation needs.  Leaders will be introduced to a "Corporate Hierarchy of Needs" - a new way of thinking about the life cycle of any business.  Going beyond things like simple "Shop Local" mantras, he explores how we can redefine business value in qualitative terms (while keeping the quantitative!)  The global pandemic has caused us all (businesses and consumers alike) to rethink what is important.  As community leaders, we have to be absolutely on top of that effort.

This is not a sermon from an self-proclaimed expert with all the answers.  Author and speaker Andrew Welch is a facilitator first, so his primary objective is to inspire discussions around visionary ideas.  His presentations to business focus on leading explorations into new ways of looking at old challenges, and sharing ideas from other profound thinkers.

Audience:  Business and community leaders

Generally speaking, most job descriptions can be distilled down to a request to create value – value for customers, value for shareholders, value for partners and stakeholders.  However, there are many different kinds of values.  Since the industrial revolution, most businesses have been accused of only measuring one value: money.  This singular definition of success became an all-pervasive obsession that soon reached out into every other branch of society, and is arguably responsible for some of the greatest challenges facing our planet today.

Author and speaker Andrew Welch has spent more than a decade exploring our value systems and relationship with numbers.  In this unique, powerful, and sometimes life-altering talk, he reveals the unrecognized characteristics of number-based values and explains how they have led us to the brink economically, environmentally, and socially.

Prepare yourself for new and valuable ways of thinking about how we define success, how to lead members of your organization to discover real value, and how to become part of global solutions instead of contributing to our value crisis, while still creating value.  You may never look at your job or personal aspirations the same way again.