I Help Police Officers and
First Responders Reclaim
Who the F#CK They Are.
TREVER SPARROW
PTSD Survivor
Keynote Speaker
20 Year Law Enforcement Officer
Executive Leader & Disrupter
2x Cancer Survivor
ABOUT
A SURVIVOR, THRIVER, DISRUPTER,
CHANGE-AGENT & LEADER
Trever Sparrow is the Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer of Sparrow Consulting Group Inc.
Trever has over 30 years of senior leadership and comprehensive achievements in public sector arenas of 9-1-1 Dispatch, Policing, Emergency Services and Public Transit.
What brings Trever to share his stories with audiences is, after a 20-year career in law enforcement and going through very traumatic and chaotic incidents that caused PTSD, Trever chose this path of survival, healing and a renewed purpose to help his brothers and sisters in Emergency Services. He openly shares his journey and talks about the human within, being impacted by the work we do, building resiliency around trauma-exposure, and improving mental health wellness.
When not delivering Keynotes, through his work with Sparrow Consulting Group Inc. he is privileged to deliver consulting, education and transformation programs/retreats for leaders and teams in trauma-exposed professions so they can achieve real success, drive change and foster a healthier and more aware next-generation of Emergency Services Leaders.
Trever believes strongly in giving back. He actively volunteers his time to the Prostate Cancer Centre in Calgary, Alberta on mental health support initiatives for patients on their heroic journey of recovery ,and also sits on various mental health, police and transit advisory boards to promote and influence initiatives across Canada.
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? As kids, most of us grew up it!
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 to work we do 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 PURPOSE
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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 the stage, with a call-to-action for all emergency services employers & organizations to do BETTER for their people. Why? Because People Matter.
RETREAT PROGRAMS
We focus on the human within. 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 forgiveness, healing, awareness and building resilience so you can 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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