Think For A Change
A fast paced, fact-filled keynote presentation to open minds about the lifechanging, future-making opportunities in a professional Red Seal certified skilled trade career.
Thinking In Threes
The Right Message At The Right Time
This keynote helps to change the narrative that students today need to hear.
Skilled trade careers matter and are always in demand, so what do students get from a professional skilled trades career? Diversity, flexibility, purpose, professionalism …. and a Red Seal Certification.
It’s your ticket to earning over $100,000 a year!
Earn While You Learn!
A Red Seal Certification is a professional designated given to over 60 construction skilled trades across Canada. The journey begins through apprenticeship training that can start as early as Grade 11 & 12 through the Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) available at your school.
Breaking The Stigma
This keynote focuses on the skilled trades' pathway from a parents' perspective.
Every parent wants their child to succeed and be happy in their career choice. A professional Red Seal skilled trade career offers just that!
Learn the truth about incredible wages, pensions,
benefits, job security, representation, job demand and most importantly, first-class education & training … at a fraction of the cost of college or university.
Wages, Benefits & Pensions: What a parent knows, a teenager does not!
A Red Seal certification is the “PhD of the skilled trades.” If your student is smart enough to go to college or university, then they’re smart enough to obtain a Canadian Red Seal certification. The cost of their apprenticeship education can be up to 90% funded through OYAP grants or 100% funded through certified Canadian Building Trade Union training.
Faculty Support
This keynote gives educators a fresh perspective and insight into skilled trade careers for
students.
Insight, tools, and resources that can be used to help students navigate through these opportunities.
Helping to map out the apprenticeship journey option for students, educators can use this tool to guide and advise on the best pathway to success for skilled trade education & training
What is the first, best choice for students in a skilled trade?
Explaining the apprenticeship journey can be daunting. Learn how to demystify the pathways available to students through OYAP or trade union training plus advise students on which trade careers are most in demand.
1.2 million worker shortage by 2030.
700,000 retirees in the next 5 years.
375,000 apprentices needed right now.
Earn over $120,000/ year within your first 3 years on the job.
Which skilled trade career is the 5 highest in demand.
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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Did I Change The Way You Think?
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