TEC Canada Speaker of the Year 2012 Gair Maxwell

MEDIA RELEASE           

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 27, 2013

Maxwell Captures National Award!          New Brunswick Author Recognized By Canada’s Largest CEO Group

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Calgary, AB, Canada:

TEC Canada (The Executive Committee) has awarded Gair Maxwell, co-founder and CEO of The Seamless Brand out of Moncton, New Brunswick the 2012 “Canadian Speaker of the Year”. For nearly 30 years, TEC Canada has been the preeminent leadership development program for Canadian CEO’s and business leaders. In winning the award, Maxwell becomes the first Atlantic Canadian author/speaker to be honored in such a way by this organization.

In making the announcement, TEC Canada Vice-President Karen Chown indicated that Maxwell and his “American Speaker of the Year” counterpart Jim Alampi of Michigan were chosen based on the value each brings to the TEC membership experience. As Chown explains, “Gair and Jim were selected based not only on high presentation scores from our members, but also on their ·         contributions to the TEC community, their ability to exceed performance benchmarks and their          demonstration of commitment to TEC Canada.  Both Gair and Jim are great ambassadors to our mission in helping accelerate the growth and global development of Canadian business leaders through professional development and executive mentoring”.   

Maxwell, a highly regarded brand catalyst, workshop leader and critically-acclaimed author of “NUTS, BOLTS AND A FEW LOOSE SCREWS” (Amazon.com) presented at over 22 TEC meetings during 2012 and received consistently high ratings and endorsements from members across Canada for his niche insights on branding. Alampi, an expert on leadership alignment and plan execution was also recognized as the 2011 Impact Speaker of the Year for Vistage International, TEC Canada’s parent organization, based in San Diego, California.

          "Gair Maxwell TEC Speaker of Year & Karen Chown TEC Canada Vice President"

Maxwell has been breaking more international ground recently, and collecting accolades with his expertise on branding that translates into actual business results. In addition to the national award from TEC Canada, he has also been chosen as the first Canadian speaker ever to present at the prestigious PSA Financial Services’ partnership program in Baltimore, Maryland. PSA Financial established their monthly, customer-focused educational series in 2008 and with his upcoming engagement April 30^th, Maxwell joins an impressive list of best-selling authors and former NFL and MLB athletes to have addressed this exclusive group.

TEC Canada is part of a global network of more than 16,000 business leaders and CEO’s in 15 countries, generating nearly $300 billion in annual revenue and employing over two million people. In Canada, there are over 1,000 members in more than 90 TEC chapters located in major centres across the country accelerating the growth of Canadian business.

FOR MORE INFORMATION & INTERVIEW REQUESTS CONTACT:

Lisa Stutt                                                                                                                              Director of National Sales                                                                                                                506-850-5472 / lisa@gairmaxwell.com                                                                               www.gairmaxwell.com

Gair Maxwell                                                                                                                               Co-founder, The Seamless Brand                                                                                                                506-387-4147 / gmaxwell@seamlessbrand.com                                                                                www.gairmaxwell.com   www.seamlessbrand.com

Karen Chown                                                                                                                              National VP, TEC Canada                                                                                                             800-661-9209 (ext 107)                                                                                                            KChown@tec-canada.com                                                                                          http://www.tec-canada.com                                                                         

Gair Maxwell – Recent Speaking Engagements

Brand Source - North America’s largest home electronics conference (Orlando - Feb 2013)

PropertyGuys.com National Conference (Dominican Republic - Jan 2013)

Apple Specialist Marketing Conference (Minneapolis - May 2012) 

Apple Specialist Marketing Conference (Chicago - August 2012)

Canadian Transportation Equipment Association (Montreal - Sept 2012)

Saskatchewan Heavy Construction Association (Regina - Nov 2012)

Wheels and Deals Fredericton (Fredericton-March 2011) Canada’s Huggable Car Dealer #1                                              

Gene Simmons Brand Confabulation (Moncton - January 2011)

Atlantic Dream Festival w/ Richard Branson & Kevin O’Leary (October 2010)

Mitsubishi National Conference (Caribbean - November 2010)

Close to 50 TEC conference workshops in 2011/12/13; one of the highest ranked speakers in the country; voted “2012 Canadian Speaker of the Year”

Voted “Speaker of the Year” in Quebec City 2011 by TEC   http://www.tec-canada.com

                            "Chelsea Gilbert TEC 391, Mike Mallory TEC 390-391 Chair,                       Karen Chown TEC Canada VP, Gair Maxwell, Jim Gilbert Founding Member TEC 390,   http://www.wheelsanddeals.ca