Steve Donahue

Associate, Transition Coach, Keynote Speaker

Steve is a professional speaker, coach, consultant and author of Shifting Sands: A Guidebook for Crossing the Deserts of Change. In 1994 he was named a Consummate Speaker of the Year sharing the distinction with only 25 others in the world including Margaret Thatcher. Steve has the unique ability to facilitate large groups, keeping them engaged and entertained with his stories, exercises and wisdom gleaned from 14 years of experience as presenter/facilitator.
 
As a young man Steve crossed the Sahara Desert overland from north to south. This fascinating adventure is the foundation of many of his programs and the subject of his new book; Shifting Sands – A Guidebook for Crossing the Deserts of Change. His book will be released in 2004 by Berrett-Koehler Publishing of San Francisco. InCourage and Steve also created Shifting Sands, a participant based multimedia-learning program that assists people within organizations through transition.

Steve has been featured on the front page of the Financial Post. His work has also been described in the Toronto Star and Ottawa Citizen. He has appeared on CBC’s “The Nature of Things” and CTV’s Canada A.M. Steve is also a certified Six Thinking Hats® facilitator having been personally trained by creativity guru Dr. Edward de Bono.

Some of the groups Steve has addressed or facilitated include: IBM, Royal Bank, Molsons, The Bank of America, The Conference Board (New York), Unilever Best Foods, Pillsbury, AstraZeneca, Merck, and Advance PCS.