Vancouver keynote speaker and emcee
Dai Manuel is a Vancouver keynote speaker, TEDx speaker and event emcee. Nearly thirty years of coaching, operating and teaching sits behind every talk. He speaks plainly, works the room and sends people back to work with something they can use on Monday.
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Formats
A focused address shaped to the event and the people actually in it.
More time, real participation and practical application. Nobody watches from the back.
Clear pacing, prepared transitions and a steady hand for the whole event. The room never feels the seams.
Keynotes from $3,000 CAD, plus travel outside Vancouver. Workshops and emcee work are quoted on the brief.
Seven talks
Thirty minutes is two percent of a day. Dai splits it into fifteen minutes moving, five minutes still and ten minutes reading, then shows the room how to keep it. He has used and taught the framework since 2015, and it sits at the centre of his book and podcast.
For leaders and teams carrying a change nobody asked for. This keynote, first delivered in 2024, deals with the human work required to move through change without losing trust.
For high performers who are winning on paper and running on empty. This corporate and executive talk names the cost, then gives the room a practical way to change course.
Dai’s TEDx talk challenges the script that tells men strength means silence. That script costs men their health, their marriages and sometimes more.
For trainers, facilitators and anyone who teaches adults something that matters. It is available as a facilitated workshop with a participant workbook.
A corporate wellness session about nutrition without the plan, the ban list or the tracking. The focus is simple choices people can repeat in ordinary life.
Connection sits underneath leadership, culture and coaching. This talk shows why it matters and what people can do to create more of it in the room.
Credentials
Watch Dai
The TEDx talk in full, plus television and interview appearances. What you see here is what shows up in your room.
Why Vulnerability is a Human Thing | TEDxBearCreekPark
Dai Manuel on Breakfast Television Montreal
Meet the Moose | Vancouver Real
Stages and media
Why Vulnerability is a Human Thing, March 2021. Watch it above.
Television segments on health, habits and fitness, including Breakfast Television Montreal and Breakfast Television Vancouver.
149 episodes of conversations on health, mindset and doing the next useful thing.
Contributor writing on fitness, family and lifestyle.
Former official member.
Speaking calendar
See when Dai is free, request your date and get a confirmation by email. Nothing is final until Dai confirms the details with you personally.
Greyed-out dates are taken. Dates open from two weeks out.
Pick a date to start.
Choose an open date and share a few details. You will get a confirmation email straight away, and Dai replies personally to confirm.
Event enquiry
Dates, fit and format come first. Keynotes start at $3,000 CAD; the full quote follows once the brief is clear, never before.
Where Dai speaks
Based in Vancouver. Booked for conferences, sales kickoffs, leadership offsites and wellness weeks in every major Canadian city. The subjects travel well: burnout in high performers, leading change, men's mental health, workplace wellness and habits that stick.
Questions
Speaking fees vary with format, date and travel. A local Vancouver keynote costs less than one with flights and hotels, and a half-day workshop is priced differently to a 45-minute keynote. Send the event details and a clear quote follows once the brief is set. No surprises after that.
Most keynotes run 45 to 60 minutes, with time for questions if the agenda allows. Shorter 20 to 30 minute sessions work for summits and lunch-and-learns, and half-day workshops go deeper with real participation.
The talk itself, a planning call to shape it to your audience, and travel coordination. Every talk is tailored: Dai learns who is in the room and what they are dealing with before he writes a word.
Three steps. Use the calendar on this page to hold a date, or send the enquiry form with your event details. Dai replies personally within two business days. Once the brief, date and fee are agreed, the date is confirmed.
Yes. Dai speaks at conferences, leadership offsites and company events in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Victoria and across Canada, and further afield when it fits. Virtual keynotes work too.
Seven signature talks: the 2% Solution, leading change, burnout in high performers, men's mental health (his TEDx talk), safe learning environments, simple nutrition and connection. Each can be shaped to the event.
Yes. He emcees full events, handling pacing, transitions and the room between speakers. It can be combined with a keynote.
Yes. He is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, and travels for events across Canada and beyond. Virtual sessions are also possible.
Corporate teams, leadership offsites, conferences, fitness industry events and wellness programmes. The common thread is people who want something they can use on Monday.
Three to six months is comfortable for most events, and earlier means more date options. Shorter notice sometimes works, especially for Vancouver events and virtual talks. The calendar on this page shows live availability.
Yes. Talks are shaped to the event and the audience. Send the theme and the room details and the talk is built around them.
A reply follows with availability and fit. Once the brief is clear, a quote follows. Format, date and travel shape the fee.
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