McManus International is a Toronto based firm that has been developing communicators globally for 20 years.
About Us
DEVELOPING PEOPLE SINCE 2004
We focus on building skills and teaching strategies in such critical moments as: high stake client pitches and presentations, one on one client or internal meetings, influencing scenarios, and managing others. The way people communicate in these ‘moments of truth’ can define success.
Tyler has real world presenting, selling, managing, and negotiating experience over his 30 year career. His philosophy is that you need the right mindset, and skill to accomplish your goals. He provides proven and practical tools that can have a major impact on your daily performance, and career progression.
TYLER McMANUS
OWNER / MANAGING DIRECTOR
Tyler is the Owner of McManus International Inc., a global firm that helps executives and athletes in two important areas: mindset and communication. Tyler’s 30 year career path has taken him from ice level at a professional hockey training camp, to helping start and sell an internet company to a publicly listed NASDAQ firm, to launching McManus International. With lots of world travel mixed in to inform his life outlook. Prior to founding McManus International Inc. in 2006, Tyler built businesses as a sales professional and entrepreneur for: Rogen International, Medtronic, Engage Media (start-up), and The Toronto Star. In the past 20 years, Tyler has coached thousands of Fortune 500 executives to improve their skills in Pitching, Executive Presence, Presentations, Sales Communication, Influencing, and Management.
He has coached and trained executives across 3 continents. These category leaders rely on us: Disney, Deloitte, BMO Nesbitt Burns, The MasterCard Foundation, TD Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays Capital, Pfizer, and McDonald’s Canada.
Projects have included: advising senior management teams and executives for board meetings and key presentations, consulting on New York’s 2012 Olympic bid presentation, advising Wall Street and Bay Street investment bankers on preparing their client Pitch Books, preparing CEOs for quarterly earnings calls and AGMs, coaching Canadian Olympic team hopefuls on their mindset, and helping speakers prepare to communicate with audiences at The United Nations in New York.
Tyler graduated from Cornell University of the Ivy League with a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in Applied Economics and Management. He also played four years of varsity hockey at Cornell and was voted Captain of the team in his senior year. After Cornell, he tried out for the minor league team of the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL.
He enjoys the mental and physical benefits of open water swimming, yoga and a meditation practise. He has participated in open water events including successfully swimming from Alcatraz Island to the San Francisco shore in the frigid and choppy waters of the San Francisco Bay. These experiences and habits help him coach the mental aspect of performance with his business clients. And he loves the water!