Phil Eastwood

Session Synopsis: Handcuffs to Handshakes - Leadership Lessons from Over 30 Years Of Handling Humans

Phil Eastwood draws on thirty five years’ experience as a police officer and his masterful storytelling ability to tell audiences about the impact and importance of positive communication. This fascinating keynote address is based on Phil Eastwood’s book by the same title. The talk takes the audience back to Phil’s early days as a London Bobby and embarks on a roller coaster journey from the harsh reality of the violent Brixton Riots to the madness of the Miner’s Strike and the weekly battles on the soccer terraces.

Phil Eastwood graduated from the police academy at the age of eighteen and immediately posted to West London, which included the areas of Portobello Road and Notting Hill – racial hotbeds in the 1970s. His instruction to ‘keep the peace’ was rather like being asked to stand in front of a fully charged fire hose with an umbrella and told to stay dry...... he quickly learned that it was a hard task but not impossible

Phil learned the key to effective communication with friends and foes alike was with using honey, not vinegar. This lesson continued to serve him well after his move to Canada and the continuation of his career in policing with the New Westminster Police Department, where he retired at the rank of inspector in 2015 after twenty five years’ service.

Phil learned the key to effective communication with friends and foes alike was with using honey, not vinegar. This lesson continued to serve him well after his move to Canada and the continuation of his career in policing with the New Westminster Police Department, where he retired at the rank of inspector in 2015 after twenty five years’ service.

“The lessons are daily when it comes to working with people but building a relationship must be central in your dealings with them if you want to get along,” Phil asserts.

The audience will laugh and learn with Phil, but more than anything they will leave this keynote with a better sense of their ability to effectively communicate with people: respectfully, clearly and appropriately.

Join us for a journey with an articulate and engaging speaker that you won’t forget!

Biography

Phil Eastwood MA CSP is one of Canada’s premier human resource training facilitators specializing in leadership, team dynamics, respectful workplace behaviour, and workplace violence prevention.

Phil spent 35 years as a police officer on both sides of the Atlantic - a career focused on working with people in crisis, where he learned the power that professional and respectful communication can have in people's lives.

His company, Fiore Group Training, is focused on "Creating Incredibly Better and Safer Workplaces."

Phil is a dynamic presenter whose story-telling style educates, entertains, and motivates audiences to improve how they show up in their lives.

Popular with audiences large and small, Phil delivers a message that positively impacts life at work and home.