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Dan MacQueen
Leading through Uncertainty
Resilience
Workplace Wellbeing
Dan MacQueen equips leaders and teams to build change confidence and restore agency during disruption. A change management speaker and workplace resilience expert, Dan draws on more than a decade at Hootsuite and 1,000+ delivered sessions.
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International Day of Disability
Dan MacQueen is an international keynote speaker who helps leaders and teams think clearly, make better decisions, and keep moving through change.
Dan spent more than a decade at Hootsuite in Customer Success and Implementation, helping organizations across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and North America adopt new technology and realize its value. During that time, he delivered more than 1,000 professional learning sessions to audiences navigating constant change.
At 28, Dan's own capacity to adapt was tested when a brain hemorrhage led to two emergency brain surgeries, a coma, and months of rehabilitation to relearn how to walk, talk, and smile. That experience, combined with his corporate background, shaped The MacQueen Method, a framework for building change confidence rather than waiting for certainty to return.
Audiences leave Dan's sessions with a way to separate what they can control from what they cannot, tools for restoring a sense of agency when circumstances shift, and a method for building momentum through small, deliberate action rather than motivation alone. His work is supported by more than 500 verified participant evaluations, including a 99% valuable rating at Employment and Social Development Canada.
Book Dan to give teams a practical, tested way to keep performing when the plan changes.
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Constant workplace change doesn't just create uncertainty; it erodes confidence and can leave capable people feeling powerless. Dan MacQueen draws on a decade guiding organizations through technology change at Hootsuite, and his recovery from two emergency brain surgeries, to show audiences how to separate what they can control from what they cannot. Through storytelling, humor, and The MacQueen Method, Dan helps people restore a sense of agency and build momentum through small, deliberate action rather than waiting to feel confident.
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Dan MacQueen combines personal narrative — centred on his recovery from two emergency brain surgeries — with a proprietary framework called The MacQueen Method, which gives audiences a structured process for separating controllable from uncontrollable factors during periods of change.
Dan MacQueen speaks on leading through uncertainty, building change confidence, and restoring personal agency during workplace disruption. He spent over a decade at Hootsuite delivering more than 1,000 professional learning sessions, and his recovery from two emergency brain surgeries informed The MacQueen Method, a framework validated by a 99% valuable rating across 500+ verified participant evaluations.
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