Speaking.

Your best people carry the most.

Tyson names what your people carry, and what it takes to own it.

A short form about your room. Tyson reads it and replies himself, usually within a day.

01 The cost

Someone on your team is carrying it now.

Your strongest people take on the most and say the least. Sleep thins. Patience shortens. Focus scatters. By the time anyone says the word burnout, it has usually already cost something: missed work, short tempers, people who leave.

In one session, Tyson names what your people carry and what it costs to keep carrying it. They hear what taking ownership of it looks like, from someone who did.

Tyson DesMarais mid-sentence in front of a room, hands out, his own slide on the screen behind him.

Your people carry it. The organization pays for it.

  • Leadership teams that want more than a wellness hour.

  • Organizations losing good people to exhaustion.

  • Teams coming through a restructure, a loss, or a hard year.

  • HR leaders who want a session people remember.

02 The keynote

What your people leave with.

One keynote, defined and ready. Two further formats, shaped with you around the room you have.

The keynote

The Cost of Care. Five Struggles Every Leader Carries.

For leadership teams, all-hands rooms, and any group where the people who hold it together have carried too much for too long.

Tyson tells his own story: losing everything, and rebuilding on discipline and ownership. Human and direct, with none of the corporate language your people tune out.

What the room leaves with

  • The five struggles named plainly, so people recognize their own.
  • Self-care treated as a responsibility, not a reward.
  • Acceptance and ownership as the way through, told from his own life.
  • Words for what they carry, and a way to talk about it at work.

The workshop

Scoped with you. Built from the keynote's five struggles.

A working session for a smaller room.

The agenda, the length, and who sits in the room are set with you on the first call.

Tyson DesMarais alone in a heritage hall, head lowered, before he speaks.

Ongoing

Coaching for the people carrying the most. Scoped with you.

For organizations that want more than one session.

Coaching for the individuals carrying the heaviest load, shaped around your people and set with you on the first call.

The first call

  • You tell Tyson about the room, the people, and what they carry.
  • He tells you what he can do for them, and what he cannot.
  • The shape follows the need, not a menu.
Tyson DesMarais in a blazer in front of a downtown Ottawa glass tower, fastening his jacket.

He has stood where your people stand.

03 Why him

He speaks from experience.

Tyson lost everything, rebuilt his life from nothing, and coaches people across the same ground every week. He speaks from what happened to him, not from a textbook. Your people hear someone who has carried what they carry, and who took responsibility for it in front of everyone he knew.

Read his full story

04 The film

See him in front of a live room.

The Cost of Care. His keynote, filmed in front of a live room. Seven minutes.

Want this in your room?

Tell Tyson about it

05 What happens next

One conversation first.

Built for your room

You tell Tyson about the room, the people, and what they carry. He tells you what he can do for them, and what he cannot.

Keynote, workshop, or ongoing coaching. The shape follows the need, not a menu. No package tiers, no rate card.

This is coaching and speaking, not counselling or clinical care, and it does not replace your EAP.

Send a speaking inquiry

Five questions about your room. He replies to your work email himself, usually within a day.

Tyson DesMarais seated in his gym, talking with a client who is working beside him.
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