Jamie Mason Cohen

TEC Canada Speaker | Leadership Development & Resilience Expert | Podcast Host – The Leadership Standard | Vistage Speaker

Jamie Mason Cohen learned firsthand how to build a mentorship culture that drives trust, performance and accountability working behind the scenes for Lorne Michaels and Saturday Night Live in New York. What he discovered on those legendary studio floors became the foundation of a methodology now proven across 300+ Vistage sessions and 400+ organizations worldwide. He is a recipient of the Dale Carnegie Business Public Speaking Award, the TED-Huffington Post International Innovation Award, and his TEDx talk has surpassed 2.3 million views. Jamie has delivered keynotes and workshops across 30+ countries. As host of The Leadership Standard — Vistage Canada’s podcast, now in its third season, Jamie has interviewed Seth Godin, Daniel Pink, Chip Conley and the world’s foremost business leadership thinkers, bringing those conversations directly into his Vistage sessions.

Jamie Mason Cohen

Vistage Speaker | Communication Trainer | Podcast Host – The Leadership Standard | TEC Canada Speaker

Jamie Mason Cohen learned firsthand how to build a mentorship culture that drives trust, performance and accountability working behind the scenes for Lorne Michaels and Saturday Night Live in New York. What he discovered on those legendary studio floors became the foundation of a methodology now proven across 300+ Vistage sessions and 400+ organizations worldwide. He is a recipient of the Dale Carnegie Business Public Speaking Award, the TED-Huffington Post International Innovation Award, and his TEDx talk has surpassed 2.3 million views. Jamie has delivered keynotes and workshops across 30+ countries. As host of The Leadership Standard — Vistage Canada’s podcast, now in its third season, Jamie has interviewed Seth Godin, Daniel Pink, Chip Conley and the world’s foremost business leadership thinkers, bringing those conversations directly into his Vistage sessions.

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Based on Jamie’s recent appearance on Global’s, The Morning Show, participants will create a vision board in which personal values are the foundation.
A values board is a powerful tool to visualize what matters most to us in our life, what we’re grateful for along our journey and provides an instant roadmap to help us achieve our goals.
It can be used personally to bring positive change into your life. You can do it as a wonderful Sunday activity with your family. It can also be used professionally to revise and refine our purpose, processes, values and meaningful outcomes that we hope to achieve.

Using validated, data-informed tools from The Leadership Circle, Jamie Mason Cohen, a certified trainer and former Saturday Night Live staffer, will help you assess your strengths as a business leader in today’s rapidly changing business landscape. With Jamie’s guidance, you’ll identify the gap between your current leadership style and where you want to be, creating a roadmap for improvement. Backed by a 10-year study of 50,000+ business leaders, The Leadership Circle’s research shows that enhanced leadership effectiveness directly correlates to better business performance, giving you a clear path forward for growth.

In this immersive workshop, TEC members will use the powerful, data-driven Leadership Circle framework, a leading 360 tool used by over 500,000 leaders worldwide, to reflect on the energy spent developing their strengths. With structured time to connect with partners and other members of the TEC community, participants will gain insight into how they show up each day for themselves, their loved ones, and the community. By exploring the 18 creative competencies and 11 reactive tendencies, members will identify how their leadership potential is shaped and how obstacles may be holding them back, all while fostering meaningful connections and self-reflection.

Personal development is professional development. When you work on yourself, you work on others. Join 20-year graphotherapist/handwriting analyst and resident handwriting and personal development expert on Global’s, The Morning Show and certified leadership trainer at The Leadership Circle, Jamie Mason Cohen as he explores a different, instant and surprisingly accurate, psychological self-assessment tool that leaves your audience feeling recognized for the unique individuals that they are without discounting all the success they’ve already had. They’ll experience something new, fun, interactive, moving and unique because they’ve seen it all and done it all before. Your traits are your story; let’s write the next chapter.

Most CEOs have built stories that are worth telling. A customer who stayed because of the culture. An employee who grew into a leader. A moment when the company had to make a hard call and did the right thing. But many of those stories never leave the room. They get told at a peer group meeting, over lunch, or in a hallway conversation, then disappear. That is a missed business opportunity. Jamie Mason Cohen helps leaders find those stories and turn them into useful communication. His background cuts across leadership training, storytelling, education, media, AI, and CEO peer-group work. He has worked with business owners, executives, sales teams, associations, and leadership groups across Canada and the U.S. His strength is helping leaders become more memorable without sounding scripted or overly polished. In this session, members will help each other spot the stories that matter, sharpen them, and decide where they should be shared first.

Every leader knows that talent is their biggest competitive advantage. But knowing it and building a culture that actually attracts, develops, and retains top talent are two very different things. Jamie distilled the mentorship secrets of the world’s most admired organizations — from SNL’s legendary creative culture to global Fortune 500 companies — into a practical leadership framework members can implement the same week. CEOs discover the critical moves that separate mentorship cultures from all others, why the highest-performing organizations invest in mentorship as a business strategy, and how to become the kind of leader people follow, promote, and stay for.

Most AI talks tell CEOs what’s changing. This one tells them what cannot change — and why that’s their greatest competitive edge. At Saturday Night Live, there is a concept called “Final Cut” — the irreplaceable human judgment that decides what actually makes it to air. No matter how brilliant the writers, how talented the cast, how advanced the technology, someone with wisdom and hard-won experience makes the call that matters most. That is the role AI has just created for every CEO in the room. Jamie reveals why the leaders who will dominate the next decade aren’t the ones who understand AI the best — they’re the ones who understand themselves the best. Members discover their own “Final Cut” leadership advantage: the judgment, culture-reading, and people intuition that no model can replicate and the concrete steps to build organizations where that human edge sits at the centre of every critical decision. Exclusive session outcome: Jamie facilitates a live AI sprint in which every member and the Chair creates their own business videocast to build and grow their brand — in a single session. Members leave with a finished, shareable asset that demonstrates their Final Cut leadership brand in action. Best for: Any Vistage CEO group — the AI talk that stands apart from everything else Chairs are being offered right now.

At SNL, 11:30 is non-negotiable. The show goes live regardless of what just happened in the rehearsal room. Every week, Lorne Michaels and his team transform conflict, ego, creative chaos, and relentless pressure into a live performance that cannot fail. Jamie was there — and what he witnessed became the backbone of a leadership masterclass in trust, accountability, and performance under fire. Members discover what elite creative teams do differently when pressure peaks, how to build the kind of trust that doesn’t evaporate under stress, and the leadership moves that turn talented individuals into high-performing units — even when the stakes are highest.