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John Haime

John Haime is President of LearningLinks Inc. and a world-class performance specialist.

 

From 1985 to 1991, John successfully competed on international golf tours in Canada, Australia, Asia, South Africa and the United States.

Along with numerous professional victories, career highlights include a career low 62 in a professional event in Melbourne, Australia.  Before turning professional he was one of Canada’s top amateur and junior golfers.

 

Following a successful career in professional golf, John began a career in international business with a leading Canadian Trade Policy Consulting firm.  He specialized in international trade strategy, negotiation, and dispute resolution, making written and oral submissions to governments on behalf of Fortune 500 clients. He worked in a variety of industries and assisted companies across the globe.

 

In 1997, John Haime created LearningLinks Inc. LearningLinks has developed a number of unique corporate performance solutions including “Mastering the Game: Leadership Effectiveness at Work, In Life and In Golf”. Mastering the Game was inspired by the international bestseller Primal Leadership (Daniel Goleman) and integrates the power of golf, performance and Emotional Intelligence to maximize the potential of leaders and teams.  The programs have been delivered around the globe for the world’s top organizations. Clients include: Cisco Systems, Nortel, Bell Canada, General Electric, KPMG, Capital One, RBC, PSS World Medical, The Hay Group, GlaxoSmithKline and YPO.  LearningLinks programs have helped companies worldwide enhance their team, performance and leadership capability.

 

John is a world-class specialist in the area of performance and one of the world’s leading authorities in Emotional Intelligence as it relates to performance in sport. He personally coaches top executives in a variety of performance areas. He is a sought after speaker by corporate and sports groups around the world.

 

John has been published in some of the world’s leading business and leadership publications. His highly anticipated first book, You Are a Contender: Build Emotional Muscle to Perform Better and Achieve More … in Business, Sports and Life will be released in December 2009.

 

He is launching a company, New Edge Performance, partnering with Roche Martin (Australia). The company has developed an assessment tool to measure the high performance emotional intelligence indicators in athletes - and coach the athletes to higher performance.

 

He is from a prominent Canadian golf family. His father, Peter, was selected the Canadian Professional Golfer’s Association Club Professional of the Year several times and brother Kevin was the 2000 Canadian Professional Golfer’s Association National Golf Instructor of the Year.

 

He is a graduate of Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

 

He lives with his wife and son in Ottawa, Canada.