ABOUT
"The hardest part wasn’t the trauma. It was pretending it didn’t affect me and acknowledging that I'm human.
My mission now is to make sure no one else feels they have to suffer in silence." – Trever Sparrow
SURVIVOR, DISRUPTOR,
CHANGE-MAKER & LEADER
Trever Sparrow is the Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer of Sparrow Consulting Group Inc. He brings over 30 years of senior leadership experience across of 9-1-1 Dispatch, Policing, Emergency Services and Public Transit— but it’s his lived experience and personal mission that make his voice essential in today’s conversations.
A Voice for the Human Behind the Uniform
After a 20-year career in law enforcement — marked by high-stakes incidents, critical events, and the cumulative toll of trauma — Trever faced the life-altering impacts of PTSD. His journey through the chaos of those experiences, and his choice to fight for survival, healing, and purpose, are what drive him today. Trever doesn’t just talk about leadership and resilience; he lived through the harshest tests of both.
With honesty and heart, he shares what it really means to be human in trauma-exposed professions. His keynotes are a raw, real, and ultimately hopeful look at:
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Navigating life after trauma
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Building personal and organizational resilience
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Creating mentally healthy and resilient workplaces
Leading Change, On Stage and Beyond
When he’s not delivering keynote talks, Trever leads transformative consulting, education, and retreat programs through Sparrow Consulting Group Inc. He works with leaders and teams in trauma-exposed professions to create lasting change — fostering cultures of wellness, resilience, and human-first leadership.
Giving Back & Paying it Forward
Trever is deeply committed to service beyond his business. He actively volunteers with the Prostate Cancer Centre in Calgary, Alberta, supporting mental health initiatives for patients on their recovery journey. He also lends his voice and expertise to various mental health, police, and transit advisory boards, advocating for meaningful change across Canada.
Trever’s mission is simple but urgent:
To disrupt the stigma. To change the conversation. To lead a new path forward for the next generation of emergency services professionals.
A TAILORED EXPERIENCE
Trever tailors the experience to your group’s needs.
Trever is an in-demand and authentic keynote speaker. Trever has spoken for groups at conferences for public transit, bylaw services, security, police, fire EMS and 9-1-1 industries across North America. From LIVED EXPERIENCE, Trever sheds realism on the impacts that trauma-exposure has first-responder professionals. Trever has also spoken at high school career days, college campuses, emergency services spouse & family events. He also offers empowerment workshops and retreats for First Responders.
SPEAKING TOPICS
BEYOND THE CUFFS
Trever gets real and raw about his own mental health crisis' from a 20-year career as a police officer. He will share how through his own journey, it almost ended with him being in jail.
In his Signature Keynote, Trever will speak the raw truth about the impacts that trauma-exposure had on his mental health, and how from rock-bottom he persevered and re-built his life.
This inspiring Keynote will deliver impactful messages to First Responders so they can awaken and remember "who the F#CK they are."
The JENGA Factor
Do you remember the game of Jenga?
In this Keynote, Trever talks about his journey through surviving cancer 2x and shares how the impacts of working in trauma-exposed environments costs us.
This session focuses in on an ironic parallel; How the game of Jenga is a perfect example of the work we do as First Responders and the importance of catching yourself before your stack collapses.
Air Mask & Leadership
The term 'servant leadership' is one of the most over-used and misaligned terms in leadership trends today. This phrase has negatively impacted leaders across all industries and professions by bringing unrealistic expectations on people in leadership roles. This has caused many issues including burn-out, empathetic strain, and individual fatigue on leaders, which can often lead to performance and workplace culture issues.
This Keynote will remind us that to be a truly effective leader at times, it's ESSENTIAL to "put your own air-mask on FIRST."
Tools in Your Sand Box
As a kid, Trever LOVED playing outside in the sandbox his dad built for him, in fact he would spend hours building roads, towns, jumps, bridges - perhaps he was an engineer in a previous life!
In this session, Trever shares how using the right tools are essential to building your teams sandbox and the importance that play has in being an effective and people-centric leader.
This session will remind us all of the importance of not forgetting the kid in all of us and to never stop playing.
TREVER's MISSION
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Trever’s mission is simple but urgent:
To disrupt the stigma. To change the conversation. To lead a new path forward for the next generation of emergency services professionals.
Trever Sparrow is an international keynote speaker, consultant and transformational expert who brings unique perspective through his own journey of mental health challenges and resilience from a 19-year career in law enforcement & emergency services.
Trever has been teaching, coaching and mentoring for over 30 years. He has been both the front line and held senior leadership positions in various portfolios. He understands the challenges that public service professionals and senior leaders face today.
Because of the exposure he's had to various roles, Trever brings authenticity and realness to the issues of trauma-exposure and mental health impacts, and shines a light of hope for all First Responders into the importance of awareness, readiness, early detection, resilience, creating effective triage programs and advocacy for the men and women who to this critical work.
Trever delivers different Keynotes for various audiences including leaders, teams, c-suite executives. But in his signature Keynote, ‘BEYOND THE CUFFS" he gets blunt and to the point with First Responders about his 19-year career in policing and his own brush with C-PTSD, his choices, and life altering crisis that followed. Trever speaks the harsh and real truth about the mental health crisis that has long-impacted his brothers and sisters in policing and emergency services.
Authentic. Uncensored. Raw. Trever brings realness and no-bull-shit to the stage, with a call-to-action for all emergency services employers & organizations to do BETTER for their people. Why? Because People Matter.
LIVED EXPERIENCE
Not theory. Real life.
PROVEN LEADERSHIP
30+ years in public safety leadership roles.
RELATABLE & REAL
No fluff, no sugarcoating - but Always solutions focused.
MISSION DRIVEN
Passionate about leading systemic change in trauma-exposed professions.
WHY TREVER
RETREAT PROGRAMS
Do you remember you?
Do you want to reclaim yourself?
Are you seeking true transformation in your life?
Our signature leadership, wellness and transformational retreat programs are tailored to you, the First Responder.
We focus on the human within. Forgiveness. Healing.
We re-set the foundation and awareness so you can start building resilience and reclaim who the f#ck you are.
Our programs are designed for people who work in trauma-exposed environments, by people who understand these environments - who have 'street-cred.' We are one of you. We speak your language. We see your pain. We see you as the human you are and not by the choices you made.
If you would like to know more about how our retreat program can work for you and your team, please reach out to us for more info.
Join us by taking a 'trek within'
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