Sebastien Sasseville
Sébastien Sasseville helps leaders and organizations to build cohesive and top-performing teams to achieve extraordinary results in changing environments, and to win the long game.
Sébastien spent the first ten years of his career in sales for Fortune 500 companies. One of the most accomplished endurance athletes in the world, his extraordinary accomplishments — which include summiting Mount Everest, the mythical Sahara race, running across Canada, and completing the toughest ultra-cycling event on the planet — are made even more impressive by the fact that he lives with Type 1 Diabetes. Today, he masterfully transforms the lessons learned on his mind-blowing adventures into concrete, actionable and relatable business insights.
Sasseville is also known for his astonishing immersive keynote experiences. A unique keynote format supported by breathtaking visuals, music and lighting.
Speaking topics
- Build Unstoppable Teams
In this awe-inspiring keynote supported by breathtaking audiovisuals, you will deepen your knowledge on how to build, lead, and motivate high-performing teams.
From mount Everest to the Race Across America, Sébastien Sasseville stresses that everything he has accomplished was a collective effort and success. This awe-inspiring keynote supported by breathtaking audiovisuals provides tools to build unstoppable teams, to build trust, to increase engagement, ownership, accountability, cohesion, and performance.
This keynote is perfect for leaders and teams looking to achieve extraordinary results in challenging environments. Sebastien provides a fresh perspective on the century old challenges of the breaking silos in our organizations, and he enables organisations to unite around one shared goal, vision, and mission.
Loaded with actionable insights on how to better collaborate to drive results, this keynote will supercharge your motivation and inspire you to set massive goals, as a team.
Sébastien Sasseville has spoken globally for clients such as SAP, Amazon, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal, Hewitt, Airbus, and KPMG.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- How to create a mission more important than individual success.
- Tools to build a collaborative mindset.
- See beyond their roles and responsibilities and act as one.
- The three pillars of collaboration: Want to collaborate, can collaborate, know how to collaborate.
- How to communicate and collaborate with other business units to eradicate silos.
- Build strong connections amongst our teams to increase resilience.
- How to go from strangers, to team, to family.
- Concepts to understand the links that make us all codependent and coresponsible.
- Learn how to ask for help and let others shine.
- How to build empowered and autonomous teams to increase performance.
- How to create a mission more important than individual success.
- How to create a climate of safety within the team.
- How to leverage everyone’s top strengths.
- How to build a culture of extreme accountability.
FORMAT:
- 45-60-75-90 minutes
- Supported by breathtaking imagery and available in the Immersive Keynote Experience
- Each keynote is customized and aligned with your objectives. Sébastien will work closely with your team to build the perfect message.
- The Mission, A Leadership Story
An awe-inspiring purpose driven story for leaders
Sébastien Sasseville led high-performing teams and empowered them to achieve top performance in the most challenging environments on the planet. This session is customized for leaders looking to lead with purpose, and to become more inspiring leaders to get the best out of their teams.
This session is a defining moment for leaders looking to bring more humanity, love and cohesiveness in their practice. This action-packed keynote will also supercharge your ambition and leave you with concrete tools to lead your teams to the highest levels of performance.
Also an athlete, and author, Sebastien is known to deliver astounding talks supported by breathtaking imagery. He delivers a mind-blowing inspirational story anchored in purpose, humility, and the desire to have a positive impact on the world.
Sébastien Sasseville has spoken globally to thousands of leaders for clients such as SAP, Amazon, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal, Hewitt, Airbus, and KPMG.
LEADERS WILL DEEPEN THEIR ABILITY TO:
- Create engagement and inspire their teams.
- Enable their teams to deliver their best work.
- Create trust to improve performance.
- Lead with purpose.
- Be an inspiring leader.
- Create other leaders and autonomous teams.
- Build resilient teams.
- Embody the mission and the vision of the organization.
- Recognize leadership moments and act as a leader.
- Show up in a position of service.
- Recognize the importance of their role.
- Realize their increase responsibility.
FORMAT:
- 45-60-75-90 minutes, with or without Q&A.
- Available in the Immersive Keynote Experience format.
- Each keynote is customized and aligned with your objectives. Sébastien will work closely with your team to build the perfect message.
- Change, agility and adaptation: From Mt Everest to the Sahara
Sébastien Sasseville is an international motivational speaker on change and agility. He inspires organizations to leverage change to deliver extraordinary results, to change first to dictate the pace, and to transform themselves proactively to win.
From mount Everest, to the Sahara, to the Race Across America, Sébastien had to adapt to survive and conquer. This motivational keynote on change is the perfect fit for organizations looking for an awe-inspiring session that will create a pivotal moment in their journey of transformation.
Supported by cinematic visuals, this high energy motivational keynote is packed with actionable insights to enable organizations to take a first step and to transform their culture.
Your Organisation Will be Inspired to:
- Take a first step
- Change first to win
- Change often, change fast
- Be in constant evolution to remain relevant
- Understand the cost of inaction
- Build a sense or urgency
- Evolve their mindset
- Embrace change to create performance
- Start, and accept that we don’t have all the answers
- Trust the journey
- Let go of the fear of change
- The Immersive Keynote Experience
Unique, spectacular, impactful.
Elevate your meeting and deliver a one-of-a-kind experience your audience will talk about for years to come with customized projections, lighting, music and more.
Experience the environment and feel the thrill of reaching an impossible goal. This flabbergasting experience will inspire your organisation to set larger-than-life goals and overcome all obstacles.
The immersive keynote experience is designed for organizations and event planners looking to push the limits of creativity. Best suited for larger stages and events, this breathtaking audiovisual experience combined with Sébastien’s powerful insights and awe-inspiring stories always leaves a jaw-dropping impression.
HOW IT WORKS:
Any of Sebastien’s keynotes can be delivered in the Immersive Keynote Experience format. Sebastien’s top three topics are teamwork, leadership, and change.The magic happens before the event. Each keynote is customized, and Sebastien will work closely with your team to create the perfect messaging.
WHAT YOU ARE GETTING:
- Collaboration with your AV team.
- Customization of the audiovisual materials to suit the venue.
- A large bank of existing audiovisual material for quick turnaround.
- Flexible options to suit your budget.
- Arrival one day in advance for rehearsal and technical tests.
FORMAT:
- 60 to 90 minutes.
- A guaranteed WOW!
- A veteran speaker with over 750 keynotes delivered in North America, Europe, and Asia.
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Speaker testimonials
Sébastien Sasseville’s conference inspired our leadership team at Airbus Canada in Mirabel, catalysing everyone’s potential to reach new heights. It was an unforgettable experience that propelled our organisation towards fresh horizons of success and innovation.
So many employees, too many to count, have approached me to share their excitement, inspiration and gratitude for the time you spent sharing your story. A perfect message at the perfect time, with authentic delivery and advice that can be actioned.
Galvanizing! Sebastien Sasseville gives a unique perspective and makes us rethink how we move towards our objectives.
Thank you SO MUCH! Bullseye messaging, perfectly adapted to our audiences. Your participation to our events created strong connections with our teams, everyone loved your approach and humility.
Thank you SO MUCH! Bullseye messaging, perfectly adapted to our audiences. Your participation to our events created strong connections with our teams, everyone loved your approach and humility.
You were quite a hit! The feedback we’ve received has been overwhelmingly positive. Your keynote resonated with the audience, and the leadership team in the room. The tie-in to the business priorities was exceptional.
Well above our expectations, mission accomplished! Thank you so much for a relatable, and an awe-inspiring talk.
Wow, Sebastien, you and your stories are so relatable and inspiring. We’ve just wrapped up and done a quick series of team huddles with the various stakeholders and our core planning team as well and everyone is just abuzz about that keynote. You really took us on an emotional journey – awe, fear, inspiration, and encouragement for the future. So very applicable to what we’re going through individually, as a company and as a society right now.
Motivating, captivating, a world-class storyteller! Sebastien adapted his talk to our needs and made highly relevant parallels between his journey and our reality.
You inspired us to push our limits and I must say that you ignited a lot of conversations around our goals and how we will get there, by doing something different. Thank you!
A huge thank you Sébastien! We received so much positive feedback on your keynote. Our leaders found the parallels you made between your adventures and our challenges particularly brilliant. Bravo! Your session was inspiring, relevant, moving, and funny at the same time.
Your presence at our gala evening, your availability before, during and after your keynote was noticed and appreciated by the whole team. The comments we collected were very positive: inspiring, motivating and moving. A relatable story, both personally and professionally.
It was an amazing session! Thank you again for all of your enthusiasm and insight. Our leaders are feeling inspired and energized after hearing your presentation.
Beyond inspiring, outstanding storyteller. Sebastien’s energy was contagious and we were all inspired to take action to reach our own summit!
Your presentation was exactly what I and the team were looking for! It struck the right balance of inspiration, lessons learned, and hope/confidence that we can do hard things. I appreciate the way you wove in the themes from the morning’s presentations and what we had discussed in the prep session. It made a difference in helping the team connect your talk to their reality.
We asked Sébastien to speak to our team virtually over video conferencing and were blown away with the experience. We felt even closer to him than seeing him on stage.
The session was a combination of him presenting his story as well as a dynamic and vibrant discussion. We were inspired by the lessons and experiences Sébastien shared and left ready to take action. Looking forward to having him back!