Layth Gafoor

Layth Gafoor

Juris Doctor

ON, CANADA
I help individuals and organizations prepare for and manage unwanted attention, so they can keep their reputation intact and create a culture that is able to withstand and thrive in a crisis.

Your reputation is your most important asset and risk. Keynote speaker and legal advisor to some of the world's top athletes and entertainers Layth Gafoor, understands reputation from a very unique perspective. How it is built, sustained or destroyed and how it needs to be protected and repaired. Using his unique perspective and vast skill set developed with his professional athletes and entertainers, Layth helps today's organizations & high profile professionals understand the realities that await them when crisis strikes.

 

Layth Gafoor is a coveted speaker, legal commentator, and advisor to some of today's leading organizations, pro athletes & entertainers faced with the greatest risks.

 

Layth Gafoor delivers powerful talks that help today's organizations understand the realities that await them when crisis strikes. He shows organizations how to create the right systems and culture that are able to withstand the impact of a sudden crisis and thrive in the midst of it.

 

He provides them with the tools, strategies and a framework to help them begin implementing a crisis-ready corporate culture straight away. 

 

Layth speaks worldwide to audiences as well as a wide range of private and public companies, universities and non-profit organizations.

 

Layth is also a partner at Lucentem Sports & Entertainment Law, one of Canada's top law firms, where he advises on legal and business matters within the sports and entertainment industries.  He serves as counsel and agent to a variety of sporting organizations, teams, elite professional athletes and artists, as well as clients in the music, film and television, industries.

 

Layth is one of Canada's leading television and media legal commentators, the Director of the Sport Solution Legal Clinic at Western University, faculty member and holds a seat on the Sports Lawyers Association (SLA).

 

As one of Canada's leading television and media legal commentators Layth is called upon to cover a wide variety of national and international sports stories and analyze them from a Canadian legal framework. He regularly lectures at leading universities throughout Canada and the United States.

Your reputation is your most important asset and risk. Keynote speaker and legal advisor to some of the world's top athletes and entertainers Layth Gafoor, understands reputation from a very unique perspective. How it is built, sustained or destroyed and how it needs to be protected and repaired. Using his unique perspective and vast skill set developed with his professional athletes and entertainers, Layth helps today's organizations & high profile professionals understand the realities that await them when crisis strikes.

 

Layth Gafoor is a coveted speaker, legal commentator, and advisor to some of today's leading organizations, pro athletes & entertainers faced with the greatest risks.

 

Layth Gafoor delivers powerful talks that help today's organizations understand the realities that await them when crisis strikes. He shows organizations how to create the right systems and culture that are able to withstand the impact of a sudden crisis and thrive in the midst of it.

 

He provides them with the tools, strategies and a framework to help them begin implementing a crisis-ready corporate culture straight away. 

 

Layth speaks worldwide to audiences as well as a wide range of private and public companies, universities and non-profit organizations.

 

Layth is also a partner at Lucentem Sports & Entertainment Law, one of Canada's top law firms, where he advises on legal and business matters within the sports and entertainment industries.  He serves as counsel and agent to a variety of sporting organizations, teams, elite professional athletes and artists, as well as clients in the music, film and television, industries.

 

Layth is one of Canada's leading television and media legal commentators, the Director of the Sport Solution Legal Clinic at Western University, faculty member and holds a seat on the Sports Lawyers Association (SLA).

 

As one of Canada's leading television and media legal commentators Layth is called upon to cover a wide variety of national and international sports stories and analyze them from a Canadian legal framework. He regularly lectures at leading universities throughout Canada and the United States.

Eliminating the We're OK Syndrome: Creating a Crisis Ready Culture

Attendees will learn:

• How to promote and foster the mental shifts necessary to create a forward thinking approach when looking at crises within the organization
• How recruiting affects your crisis ready culture and strategies on how to select the right individuals
• How to identify and develop key people (at all levels) within the organization to successfully deal with crises

LeadershipEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Your Organization is as Strong as Your Weakest Link: The Crisis Readiness & Management Blueprint

Attendees will learn:
  • How to define your organization's crisis readiness and assess internal vulnerabilities
  • The essential cultural values that contribute to crisis ready employees and management
  • How to determine the scale of a particular crisis and the three steps involved in successfully mitigating the impact
Crisis ManagementEducational / InformativeTechnical / Specific

Crisis Management Lessons: From the Pro Field to the Boardroom

Attendees will learn:

  • How to calculate your team's "vulnerability factor"
  • The best and worst ways to manage negative publicity
  • To control the narrative with negative publicity and redirect it in to something positive  
Crisis ManagementEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Closing the Mental Gap: How to Achieve Peak Performance when It Counts

Attendees will:

  • Learn how to identify, adjust and close their personal mental gap so they can outperform at key moments
  • Learn how to effectively focus with distractions
  • Redefine balance as they successfully manage their student athlete and social priorities
Sports / AthleticsEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Closing the Mental Gap: How to Achieve Peak Performance when It Counts

Attendees will:

  • Learn how to identify, adjust and close their personal mental gap so they can outperform at key moments
  • Learn how to effectively focus with distractions
  • Redefine balance as they successfully manage their student athlete and social priorities

Moving from the Collegiate Locker Room to the Pro Field/Court

Attendees will:

  • Learn how to build their personal capacity leading up to the transition through "lived experience"
  • Learn how manage the expectations (both on a personal and external level) that come along with being in the pros
  • Learn how to choose and build a supportive team to manage the growth of their professional career
Sports / AthleticsEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Moving from the Collegiate Locker Room to the Pro Field/Court

Attendees will:

  • Learn how to build their personal capacity leading up to the transition through "lived experience"
  • Learn how manage the expectations (both on a personal and external level) that come along with being in the pros
  • Learn how to choose and build a supportive team to manage the growth of their professional career