Speaker Bio
Martin Lespérance is an educator turned engagement specialist on an epic quest to INSPIRE people to take action so that they are happy, engaged, and motivated – and their organizations can create positive change in the world. As an interactive keynote speaker and workshop facilitator who speaks at more than 80 events each year, Martin’s presentations are 50% humor, 50% energy and 100 % emotion. He inspired professionals from more than 20 countries including China, Thailand, all over Europe, United States and Canada.
In 2023 Martin won the title of Inspirational Speaker of the Year at North America’s largest inspirational speaking competition, SpeakerSlam®, and recently delivered a talk at TEDx Lakefield College School entitled “The wrong thing to look for in a great job” that already has 80,000 views.
Martin worked as an artistic gymnastics coach, a soldier-Medic in the Canadian Armed Forces Reserve, a high-school science teacher, an advisor with the Quebec Government Sports and Leisure Secretariat, a national trainer with Bayer, a national director of training and development with Essilor. Martin knows how to light up a room full of participants and rouse their emotions to create memorable moments.
Speaker Topics
As leaders, we all want the same thing: a team that shows up with energy, passion, and purpose.
But today, that’s harder than ever. Fewer people love their jobs, burn out is at historic levels, and engagement is at an all-time low—only 3 out of 10 workers are actively engaged in their work.
It’s easy to blame external factors: budget cuts, remote work, or generational shifts. But are they really the root cause?
Martin believes inspiration doesn’t happen by chance—it happens by choice.
When people feel inspired, they care, collaborate, innovate, and bring their best selves to the team. And the best part? Inspiration is contagious.
In this engaging and actionable keynote, Martin will show you how to create a workplace where people want to be there.
You’ll discover how small, intentional actions can reignite engagement, fuel creativity, and transform workplace culture from the inside out.
Your attendees will be able to…
- Identify the real reasons behind disengagement and how to reverse them.
- Leverage small, daily interactions to inspire and energize their teams.
- Build a culture where people want to show up, not just have to.
- Increase performance, creativity, and retention by fostering genuine workplace connection.
We all want momentum—growth, adaptability, and thriving teams that embrace change with enthusiasm.
But even when we communicate the benefits clearly, resistance persists. Stress rises. Engagement drops. Progress stalls.
And MOMENTUM stops…
Why? Because people don’t resist change—they resist loss. It’s not the change itself that holds them back, but what they fear losing if it happens.
What if your team could embrace change with momentum, excitement, and even a smile?
In this dynamic keynote presentation (as he says ‘it wont be a keynote, we’ll create a memorable moment together, full of emotions, interactions, an invitation to take action), Martin reveals the MOMENTUM ACTIVATION BLUEPRINT—a practical framework to move teams from resistance to action.
Your attendees will learn how to transform…
- Hesitation into energy…
- Stagnation into progress…
- Shange into opportunity…
- And keep their MOMENTUM !!
You know what you must do, but… you keep pushing it back…
You have ambitious goals and don’t know where to start?
What if we looked at the recipe to reach your goals!
Are you IN?
We say that 3% of people are good at defining and tracking their goals.
We say that this 3% is successful… hum!
Martin has done the work for you by transferring the recipe from sports to the business world.
Let him stimulate your INSPIRATION to make the profound change you are seeking to reach the impossible.
We go through the 7 steps that shift a goal from the “impossible” to the “possible” category. You put it all into practice during the session and create YOUR action plan.
Today, we are taking action !!
If you’re ready and want to reach that goal, that dream, that aspiration, the impossible, “It’s GO TIME!!”
The question is… Are you IN?
Testimonials
Martin is like the Simon Sinek from Québec 💓
It’s the first time that I laugh, I participate, I sing, I cry, and above all I laugh again!!
WOW! Motivating to the point of making concrete changes in my life.
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