Dai Manuel - Your Lifestyle Mentor

A talk built around your audience, not a recycled script. Before the event Dai asks who's in the room and what they're struggling with, then shapes the session around it.

Expect plenty of energy, real stories (including his own), and some light audience participation. Every talk ends with one specific habit people can start that week.

Formats: 30 to 60 minute keynotes, half-day and full-day workshops, retreat sessions, and emcee or host duties for conferences and galas.

Dai Manuel spent his teens obese and his twenties helping build a retail business into an eight-figure company as COO and CMO. Somewhere between the two he figured out that the way you treat your body sets the ceiling on everything else you're trying to do.

He has spent 30 years since then coaching, writing and speaking about it. He wrote The Whole Life Fitness Manifesto, gave a TEDx talk on why vulnerability is a human thing, served as a national spokesperson for Canada Beef and Chicken Farmers of Canada, and founded Health & Fitness Industry Professionals, a LinkedIn group of more than 90,000 members.

Today he owns and runs CrossFit BC in Vancouver and leads MERGE Fitness, where he coaches executives and founders one on one. He is also building DadBody, a fitness program for busy dads. His 2% Solution, 30 minutes a day for your health, has been the backbone of his work since 2016.

Media: CBC, CTV, Global, Breakfast Television, CKNW, Huffington Post, Shape, LiveStrong, The Province, Edmonton Sun, North Shore News, canfitpro, plus 250+ podcast appearances.

Dai is known for his fun slide decks, which accompany his keynote talks. These are anything but DEATH by PowerPoint. Fun, engaging insights shared with the audience to help take the presentation to the Nth level.

Equipment required: Screen, projector or HDMI equivalent, and lapel mic.