Events facilitation and keynote speaker

Creating space for candour, clarity, and the future.

I bring experience, calm, and a public sector lens to help you work through questions like:

  • What are we really trying to achieve?
  • What decisions do we need to make?
  • How can we do it better?
  • How do we want to lead together?

As a speaker or facilitator, I work with you to create the right session to spark thinking and move your team forward.

What I offer

I design and facilitate tailored events for public sector teams, including:

  • Executive retreats and strategic planning days
  • Team building sessions
  • Governance or board workshops
  • Change and transformation conversations and info sessions
  • Process improvement workshops
  • Keynote talks to spark insight and set the tone

Together, we design your event to help you move forward – whether a keynote, full group discussions, breakouts, scenario exercises, reflection tools, or decision-making activities.

Events and testimonials

  • 2025 – Canadian Border Services Agency – International Day of Persons with Disabilities – Led a discussion with 30 managers on Accessibility and Duty to Accommodate.
  • 2025 – HC/PHAC Young Professional Network – Delivered a webinar on “Leading When You’re Not Yet a Leader” to 400 young public servants across the GoC.
  • 2025 – Employment and Social Development Canada – Led Root Cause Analysis sessions to identify Canada Pension Plan delivery issues, with 50 staff across business lines.
  • 2025 – Privy Council Office – Designed and facilitated a leadership retreat for 20 EXs on team resilience, change and leading through complexity.
  • 2024 – Canada Water Agency – Prepared team sessions on culture, leadership principles, and internal service models as part of launching the new organization.
  • 2023 – National Defence – Facilitated a cross-team offsite session focused on renewal to meet changing procurement challenges.
  • 2023 – Shared Services Canada – Designed and led discussion sessions with 150 managers and executives on how to implement new workforce practices across their teams.

“Thank you for the great presentation and for your time to put all of together for our team. We really appreciate you speaking about your experience as an executive.” – 2025

“First and foremost, François is an amazing individual.  As a bilingual facilitator, François is extremely affable, respectful, and professional. He is engaging, thoughtful and insightful – and infuses lightness, humour, and laughter in his interactions with others.  He is adept at reading the room (a necessary quality for a facilitator!), and I have no doubt you, and your entire group, will find your session/workshop with him rich and worthwhile.” – 2025

“I had an excellent experience with Francois as facilitator. He provided a 3-hour session for 50+ staff on change management. The session was hands on, with interactive exercises that kept all employees engaged… After the event, François provided a report on the key take aways from the activity and action items for management; the report was well received by myself, the management team and employees, it was professional and of high quality.  Overall, I am very satisfied with the services provided by François.” – 2023 

Price and how to get started

Let’s start with a free consultation to discuss how I can help. I can then develop a costed proposal for your review.

I can be hired through ProServices.

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