Think For A Change
A keynote presentation to open students’ minds to the life-changing, future-making opportunities in a professional skilled trades career.
Thinking In Threes
The Right Message At The Right Time
This keynote helps to change the narrative that students today need to hear.
What do students get out of a professional skilled trades career? Diversity, flexibility, purpose, and professionalism… and a big fat pay cheque!
The Right Message At The Right Time
This keynote helps to change the narrative that students today need to hear.
What do students get out of a professional skilled trades career? Diversity, flexibility, purpose, and professionalism… and a big fat pay cheque!
Breaking The Stigma
This keynote focuses on the skilled trades' pathway from a parents' perspective.
This begins at home. A professional skilled trades career also offers the things any parent would want for their child: incredible wages, pensions, benefits, job security, representation, demand, and low education costs.
Breaking The Stigma
This keynote focuses on the skilled trades' pathway from a parents' perspective.
This begins at home. A professional skilled trades career also offers the things any parent would want for their child: incredible wages, pensions, benefits, job security, representation, demand, and low education costs.
Faculty Support
This keynote gives educators a perspective to guide students in their educational journey towards a skilled trades career.
Insight, tools, and resources that can be used to help students navigate through these opportunities.
Faculty Support
This keynote gives educators a perspective to guide students in their educational journey towards a skilled trades career.
Insight, tools, and resources that can be used to help students navigate through these opportunities.
700,000 retirees in the next 5 years.
375,000 apprentices needed right now.
1.2 million worker shortage by 2030.
Earn up $190,200 in your top year.
Meet Howie Brox
Howie Brox is an engaging and prolific communicator. To meet him is unassuming, to know him, captivating.
From the boardroom to the shop floor, his presence cultivates immediate buy in and alignment. He’s an unlikely diplomat and an artfully skilled consensus builder, loyalty maker, negotiator, and recruiter.
He is a professional communicator, influencer, and recruiter with a string of successful careers with multinational companies and organizations such a Molson/Coors, Pepsi Cola Canada, the Canadian Hockey League, the CFL, the Hockey Hall of Fame and KEWL hockey apparel.
For the past 2 decades he has owned and operated Howitsir Inc., a specialized business development and branding firm.
For the past 15 years, he has worked exclusively within Canada’s Building Trades industry. Throughout his tenure, he has delivered “game changing” brand optimization initiatives that are instrumental to the growth of skilled trade careers across North America. Organizations benefitting from his influence include LiUNA (Labourers International Union of North America), the Pipeline Contractors Association of Canada, Operating Engineers of Canada and United Association of Welders & Pipe Fitters.
He is an accomplished keynote speaker with experience engaging audiences in the areas of brand loyalty marketing, relationship cultivation and entrepreneurship. He has entertained and educated audiences from Ottawa, Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, San Diego, Las Vegas, Miami and Chicago, to San Juan, Puerto Rico) and Kingston, Jamaica.
Howie lives in Barrie, Ontario with his wife and 2 daughters. He is an avid motorcyclist and classic car collector with a passion for music, playing hockey, community service and family.
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