Grant D. Fairley
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Grant D. Fairley

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Grant D. Fairley is an inspirational speaker with Strategic Seminars, an executive coach, and a business consultant. For over 30 years, he has been doing presentations on finance, leadership, team building, relationships, personal development, spiritual life, and more. He serves as an executive coach, providing professional development to business, government, and community leaders. He combines mentoring and storytelling to give unique and memorable experiences for his audiences and his individual clients. Grant is the author of a number of books and a co-inventor of patented healthcare technology. Grant is a graduate of Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. One of his great pleasures is spending time with old friends - of any age. Psychiatrist and long-time friend Dr. Bill Cook and Grant wrote their latest book for caregivers and helping professionals about surviving compassion fatigue and avoiding burnout. The title is "Discovering Your Oasis - Escape Compassion Fatigue." Their previous collaboration was the book, "Your Third Act - A Guide to a Great Retirement." His biography of Robert Homme, Friendly Giant biography called "Look Up - Way Up!" came from his love of The Friendly Giant show that he watched as a child. "Up to the Cottage - Memories of Muskoka" included stories and anecdotes about life at the family cottage in Muskoka, Ontario, Canada. It is a book designed to connect with everyone who had a place "away" that they would go to in their summers or weekends. He describes a simpler time with stories that will be familiar to all who knew cottage country in the 1940s to the 2000s. Grant's book called "Own Your Future - Wisdom for Wealth and a Better Tomorrow" was co-authored with colleague and friend Michael H. Lanthier. It looks at ideas that can give you a sound financial strategy that will be successful in any kind of financial weather. It also explore some of the values and big ideas that will help you keep money and wealth in context to ensure that it is your servant - not the other way around. On the topic of leadership, Grant's book is entitled, "Positive Influence - How to Lead Your World." As the title suggests, the book looks at using influence rather than control as the tool to make a lasting difference in your world. It is written to apply to anyone who is in a leadership position from a large company to a small group. The principles and values of a leader are described in ways to can help someone who is new to leadership as well as a fresh perspective for the seasoned executive. This book flows from his leadership experiences as well as my work as an executive coach. Grant's next book is, "Enchanted Living - Insights for Your Life from Fairy Tales & Fables." It is expected in summer 2022. Contact Grant through grant@silverwoods-publishing.com or LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/grantdfairley. You can follow Grant on Twitter @grantfairley and he has a blog on Tumblr http://grantdfairley.tumblr.com. Grant also enjoys doing his family history. He is the grandson of James Alexander Cowan, the public relations pioneer, writer, and Toronto-era friend of Ernest Hemingway. Grant's great-grandfathers were also writers. Hugh Cowan was a Presbyterian minister, historian, and author. Great-grandfather Fred G. H. Williams was a parliamentary reporter in Canada, journalist, and popular historian, who wrote for more than sixty years in Canada's formative period. His great-great-grandfather was Charles Fenwick Williams, the celebrated war correspondent covering the adventures and battles across the world during Victorian England. He is delighted to be married and enjoys being the father of four children and a grandfather of three. From Grant... I am one of those liberal arts generalists who spends my time connecting ideas, people and possibilities together. So it is little wonder that I have done a wide range of activities in what we call a career. In addition to writing, I am an executive coach who works with senior management in corporations, government and organizations as well as top sales people. My role with them is to encourage and challenge them in their professional and personal life journeys. I also do seminars on a wide range of business, relationship, sales training, customer service and team building topics. The writing part of my story is something that has been there since I was very young and when my parents on the advice of my Grade 2 teacher recommended that they buy me a typewriter. She was concerned about my handwriting. I was liberated to put words to paper. I have been typing ever since. I believe that we are echoes of not only those who have parented, taught and mentored us but also of those who are our ancestors. I never met two of the following from my family tree and the third I only knew through the eyes of a child and later a teenager. In spite of this, there is certainly a resonance there. My maternal great-grandfather Hugh Cowan (1867-1943) was a Presbyterian minister in Canada and later with the United Church of Canada. Throughout his career, he also wrote local histories of the areas near where he lived in Ontario (Detroit Windsor & Essex County, Chatham & Kent County, the Georgian Bay area and Sault Ste. Marie) and even wrote an adventure tale set in an earlier century entitled "La Cloche : the Story of Hector McLeod and His Misadventures in the Georgian Bay and the La Cloche Districts." His last book was about a perspective on Christianity and where it might be heading in the latter half of the 20th Century was entitled "The Great Drama of Human Life" now back in print. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_F._Cowan My grandfather, James Alexander Cowan (1901-1978) was a writer for The Toronto Star in his younger years and was a friend of Ernest Hemingway when the Hemingways were in Toronto. Hemingway was the best man at my grandparent's wedding in Toronto just before the Hemingways went to Paris. In his 20's, my grandfather wrote feature articles for Canada's Maclean's magazine. He went on to become the first Public Relations person in Canada. His clients included Cyrus Eaton of C&O Railways, Odeon, Steeprock Mines, Rank Films in England and President Franklin Roosevelt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Alexander_Cowan My great-grandfather, Fred Williams (1863-1944) was a writer for a number of Canadian newspapers in Montreal and Ottawa before going to The Mail & Empire - now part of the Globe & Mail in Toronto. In addition to general features, he also was an early member of the Parliament Hill Press Gallery. For most of his career, he was best known for a syndicated column, "A Day In Canadian History" that popularized Canadian history. This and other columns like "Lest We Forget" continued until his death at the age of 81. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_George_H._Williams My great-great grandfather Charles Fenwick Williams (1838-1904) was a noted war correspondent and newspaper editor in London, England in the 1800s. He witnessed and reported on many of the great battles around the world of the late Victorian era in places like Egypt, Afghanistan, and Turkey. Charles was also the editor of The Evening Standard and other London newspapers as well as being a founder and president of The London Press Club. He wrote more than a half-dozen books on his war experiences and one on promoting understanding between religions. He lectured on his adventures in the UK and in the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Frederick_Williams He welcomes contacts from readers through our publisher's website grant@silverwoods-publishing.com
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