Thomas Stenson

Location: Edmonton, AB
Business: Stenson HR Consulting
Website: StensonHRConsulting.com
Will the speaker travel: Yes, Internationally

Area(s) of Expertise:
– Business & Entrepreneurship
– Neurodiversity/Inclusion in the workplace
– Leadership & Personal Development

Master Certified Cultivating Safe Spaces Facilitator.
BX Awards Finalist 2025.
Women of Influence Nominee 2024.
People’s Choice Nominee 2025.

“Thomas Stenson is an HR consultant, leadership coach, and founder of Stenson HR Consulting, where he helps small businesses and nonprofits build strong teams and people systems that actually work. With more than a decade of experience across multiple industries, he is known for making complex HR challenges practical, clear, and human.

Thomas specializes in conflict resolution, performance management, recruitment strategy, and creating cultures built on accountability, compassion, and transparency. He also develops leadership training programs, including The Leadership Lab and Roll for Leadership, which use storytelling, gamification, and real-world scenarios to help leaders grow their confidence and capability.

Thomas teaches HR students, mentors emerging professionals, and partners closely with organizations that want to improve communication, strengthen their culture, and retain great people. His presentations are grounded in logic, lived experience, and relatable stories that challenge assumptions while giving leaders tools they can use immediately.

Whether he speaks about navigating difficult conversations, building aligned teams, or designing scalable people practices, Thomas brings clarity, empathy, and a coaching style that pushes leaders to think differently and take meaningful action.”

1. Perfectly Imperfect: Leading Inclusion Before You Feel Ready

Inclusion is not about perfection. It is about progress, intention, and everyday actions that help people feel seen and supported. In this talk, Thomas shows leaders how to move past the fear of “getting it wrong” so they can build teams where everyone can contribute. Attendees learn simple, actionable ways to practice inclusive leadership, communicate with clarity, and create psychological safety even when the path feels uncertain.

2. Patterns in People: The Hidden Signals That Build Extraordinary Teams

Great leaders see patterns long before the problems (or opportunities) become obvious. Drawing on years of HR experience and Thomas’s unique pattern-recognition lens, this talk explores the habits, dynamics, and behaviours that separate average teams from exceptional ones. Leaders will learn how to read team patterns, interrupt unproductive cycles, and replace guesswork with a clear, practical system for building alignment, trust, and accountability.

3. We’re All a Little Weird. Use It

How to Harness Individual Strengths to Build Belonging

Every workplace is full of wonderfully unique humans. The problem is most organizations try to iron out that uniqueness instead of using it. This talk challenges leaders to embrace the quirks, strengths, and differences that make teams powerful. Thomas shows how to create cultures where people feel they belong, how to leverage “weirdness” as a competitive advantage, and how to turn individuality into collaboration and high performance.”

• Virtual
• In-person
• Hybrid

• Keynote
• Workshop
• Panel
• Podcast