The Telfer School of Management’s professor Barbara Orser assisted by Luc Lalande has asked me to give one last lecture in 2016. I tried to make it both fun and informative. You can watch the video of the lecture below. It is also available on YouTube, https://youtu.be/GqqdLeT25us
Here is the slidedeck I used, https://www.dropbox.com/s/jvo3187hnzr3397/firestone-legacy-lecture.pptx?dl=0
Here’s the breakdown:
Bruce M Firestone Legacy Lecture Part I, How to Turn a Rich Dad into a Poor Dad by Buying a National Hockey League franchise, Slides: 1-27
Bruce M Firestone Legacy Lecture Part II, Why Governments Don’t Work, You Do, Slides: 28-55
Bruce M Firestone Legacy Lecture Part III, Is This a Good Time to Start Your Own Business?, Slides: 56-73
Bruce M Firestone Legacy Lecture Part IV, Does Everyone on the Planet Need a PB4L, a Personal Business for Life? Slides: 74-84
Bruce M Firestone Legacy Lecture Part V, How to Provide for Yourself and Your Family via Real Estate Investing, Slides: 85-111
Bruce M Firestone Legacy Lecture Part VI, Voyage to Earth 1.2 Billion, Slides: 112-148
More about Bruce M Firestone:
140 Character Résumé: Bruce’s an entrepreneur/real estate broker, developer & coach/urban guru/keynote speaker/Sens founder/novelist/blogger/peerless husband/dad.
Bruce M Firestone is best known as an entrepreneur and founder of NHL hockey team, the Ottawa Senators, their home arena, Canadian Tire Centre, and the Ottawa Senators Foundation, a children’s charity, as well as author, professor, coach, consultant, mentor, real estate broker (with Century 21 Explorer Realty Inc), columnist, novelist and urban guru. Prof Bruce is an effective keynote speaker for organizations with a positive focus on creating opportunities for their stakeholder group. Firestone also advises counties, towns and cities as well as economic development agencies on how to develop live-work-play-learn-shop-grow-make-build-affordable-diversified-sustainable-visitable-neo-urbanist communities based on the principal that nothing is sustainable unless it is also economically sustainable.
“Bruce Firestone has an inspirational message and a voice that will break down the walls,” Carolyn Parker, Triple I Event Services
Bruce applied to go to McGill University in Montreal, at 14, arrived after turning 15 and graduated as a civil engineer before legally an adult (then age 21). He was rejected in his first job search because he was considered a ‘child’, not legally responsible for his actions. Three and a half weeks later he was living in Sydney, Australia. A new and exciting labor government had just been elected. First two things Prime Minister Gough Whitlam did were recall Aussie troops from Vietnam and lower the age of majority to 18.
Firestone worked for the New South Wales government doing operations research and building mixed integer programming models to solve significant environmental issues that LGAs (Local Government Authorities) in the Sydney region were facing at the time. While there, he continued his education at the University of New South Wales where he obtained his Masters of Engineering-Science degree (traffic and transportation) and then at the Australian National University in Canberra, where he received his PhD in urban economics. He was among the first group in Australia to fly hang gliders and not die. He has traveled/worked in Canada, Australia, the United States, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, India, Sweden and many other nations.
Bruce got his start in business in his late 20s with just $10,000 for a downpayment and a yard of guts, which he invested in a faltering business that he turned into a commercial real estate empire; this became the foundation for a successful bid to bring the National Hockey League back to Ottawa after a nearly 60-year hiatus. In just nine years, that business grew from $350,000 in revenues to $120 million. Then Firestone and his group put it all on the line, risking tens of millions of dollars, to bring the Senators back to Ottawa. It became a high tension, multi-faceted endeavor with all the suspense of a Borgia series, with competing cities and political interests aligned against his team’s bid. Their resulting success changed the city of Ottawa and brought a sense of pride to all of Canada at a time when the country was going through another tough recession, and had already lost two existing NHL teams, in Quebec and Winnipeg.
Bruce has started/coached over 300 enterprises as well as taught or studied at McGill University, Laval University, Harvard University, University of Western Ontario, University of New South Wales, Australian National University, University of Ottawa (faculties of management and engineering) and Carleton University (schools of architecture and business).
You can follow Firestone on twitter @ProfBruce and @Quantum_Entity and read one of his blogs at www.profbruce.tumblr.com. You can find his works at www.brucemfirestone.com.
His current motto is, “Making Impossible Possible”.
It’s free and it’s on Friday February 12th 2016 starting at 0830 in DMS4101; that’s classroom 4101 in the Desmarais building at the University of Ottawa. Here’s a map, https://goo.gl/maps/A5EAwjUHTwo.
There is paid parking under the Desmarais building, which is accessed via Nicholas street.
Can you please let me bruce.firestone@century21.ca and Luc llalande@uottawa.ca know if you can come so we can track our numbers?
The first part is:
Bruce M Firestone Legacy Lecture—Everything I Learned on my Journey
HERE’S A SNEAK PEAK AT SOME SLIDES, https://profbruce.tumblr.com/post/138985689249/wall-street-firms-knowingly-sell-toxic-assets-to
The second part is:
Startopia, HOW TO START (PRACTICALLY) ANY BUSINESS FOR LESS THAN $5,000
Feel free to leave after part 1 or stay for both.
Bruce Murray Firestone, B Eng (Civil), M Eng-Sci, PhD
Bruce M Firestone is best known as an entrepreneur and founder of NHL hockey team, the Ottawa Senators, their home arena, Canadian Tire Centre, and the Ottawa Senators Foundation, a children’s charity, as well as author, professor, coach, consultant, mentor, real estate broker (with Century 21 Explorer Realty Inc), columnist, novelist and urban guru. Prof Bruce is an effective keynote speaker for organizations with a positive focus on creating opportunities for their stakeholder group. Firestone also advises counties, towns and cities as well as economic development agencies on how to develop live-work-play-learn-shop-grow-make-build-affordable-diversified-sustainable-visitable-neo-urbanist communities based on the principal that nothing is sustainable unless it is also economically sustainable.
“Bruce Firestone brings a wealth of real estate and life experience to his coaching and keynote speaking practice, which he easily transfers to people like me who seek his advice and counsel, producing amazingly positive results. Prof Bruce empowered me to leave my day job by showing me how create a world class business model and offering real world real estate advice. I’m not missing my day gig one bit, and it’s crazy—we hit the market with Tire Chalet at the perfect time as every large dealer has some appetite for it. I’d never have done it without his encouragement,” Shawn Hebert, real estate investor, founder Total Storage, Tire Chalet, Winnipeg, Manitoba https://totalstoragewinnipeg.ca/
Firestone worked for the New South Wales government doing operations research and building mixed integer programming models to solve significant environmental issues that LGAs (Local Government Authorities)
in the Sydney region were facing at the time. While there, he continued his education at the University of New South Wales where he obtained his Masters of Engineering-Science degree (traffic and transportation) and then at the Australian National University in Canberra, where he received his PhD in urban economics.
“You wowed the crowd, Bruce! Everyone wants me to bring you back to speak in the future! Thanks for making me look like a rock star for bringing you to the Bay!” Kristen Oliver, Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association executive director, Thunder Bay
He was among the first group in Australia to fly hang gliders and not die. He has traveled/worked in Canada, Australia, the United States, Sri Lanka, New
Zealand, India, Sweden and many other nations.
Bruce got his start in business in his late 20s with just $10,000 for a downpayment and a yard of guts, which he invested in a faltering business that he turned into a commercial real estate empire; this became the foundation for a successful bid to bring the National Hockey League back to Ottawa after a nearly 60-year hiatus. In just nine years, that business grew from $350,000 in revenues to $120 million. Then Firestone and his group put it all on the line, risking tens of millions of dollars, to bring the Senators back to Ottawa. It became a high tension, multi-faceted endeavour with all the suspense of a Borgia series, with competing cities and political interests aligned against his team’s bid. Their resulting success changed the city of Ottawa and brought a sense of pride to all of Canada at a time when the country was going through another tough recession, and had already lost two existing NHL teams, in Quebec and Winnipeg.
“I definitely recognize the professor in Prof Bruce. I’ve taken webinar courses before, but I’m truly blown away at the amount of time I am spending outside of listening to lectures and reviewing slidedecks. There are so many links leading to so much information embedded in his presentations… plus I still have two of Bruce’s real estate mini-books to finish,” Elliott Tessmer, real estate investor, Saskatoon, SK
Bruce has started/coached over 300 enterprises as well as taught or studied at McGill University, Laval University, Harvard University, University of Western Ontario, University of New South Wales, Australian National University, University of Ottawa (faculties of management and engineering) and Carleton University (schools of architecture and business).
You can follow Firestone on twitter @ProfBruce and @Quantum_Entity and read one of his blogs at www.profbruce.tumblr.com. You can find his works at www.brucemfirestone.com.
His current motto is, “Making Impossible Possible”.
“Entrepreneurs follow a moral path when they—first, take care of their business so second, the business can take care of their families so that, third, their families can take care of them so, fourth, they don’t become a burden on society or their fellow human beings, so, fifth, they can help others so that, sixth, others can help their business,” Prof Bruce
140 Character Résumé: Bruce’s an entrepreneur/real estate broker, developer & coach/urban guru/keynote speaker/Sens founder/novelist/blogger/peerless husband/dad.
Writings and Awards include: Entrepreneurs Handbook II, Real Estate Handbook, Quantum Entity trilogy, Real Estate Investing Made Easy, Retire Rich Retire Early, Quotes for Entrepreneurs, Don’t Back Down, the real story of the founding of the NHL’s Ottawa Senators and why big leagues matter. His books are available from https://brucemfirestone.com/books/.
Prof Bruce won a Canada 125 Anniversary Medal and an Educator of Year award; he was inducted into the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame as well.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Ms Nina Brooks, EA, ninabrooks@rogers.com
or bruce.firestone@century21.ca
“Bruce’s presentations are inspiring, entertaining and educational. He
took the time to learn about our organization, our goals and exactly what we
wanted to accomplish at our event. He created a fully customized deck for each keynote and we’ll certainly invite him back to address our group again,” George Tierney, Director, Marketing Services, Guildcrest Homes
“Bruce Firestone’s keynote at the Growing Rural Tourism Conference in
Camrose, Alberta was so inspirational and spellbinding that he almost sold me a campground in rural Ontario!” Rick Barr, Barr Estate Winery, Sherwood Park, Alberta
“What made Bruce’s keynote really special was his charisma on stage; he
can definitely charm a crowd. His content about entrepreneurship and the sense of humor in his presentation were awesome, but there’s really one thing that made it exceptional—his stories and case studies. They were powerful and motivational, especially the one on how he persevered in his battle to land an NHL team for Ottawa. That made me feel like I was capable of everything after his talk,” Cedric Meloche, founder, The Box Summit
“I so enjoyed Prof Bruce’s presentation to our home-building group. Bruce
is a born teacher, and I should know—I was one for many years. He’s very
inspirational and extremely dynamic. I’d love for him to come to our area and
show us how to animate our community and local economy,” Shannon McMullan, Perivale Gallery, Manitoulin Island ON
“I’d like to thank you and Spirepoint.ca for delivering such a great real
estate course, which I enjoyed very much. I learned a lot, and the real life
examples and stories you shared with the class were a huge bonus,” Sam Balam, real estate entrepreneur
“The students are still raving about your course, Startup DNA. They learned so much, and have made all the other Hyper Island students in Stockholm
jealous (the ones who couldn’t attend),” Daniel Beauchamp, Digital Data Strategist Module Leader, Hyper Island, Stockholm, Sweden
“Having Dr. Bruce Firestone at Bizfest was a huge success. I heard
nothing but positive feedback from all our delegates. One delegate said she could have listened to him speak all day. His message is inspiring, and the delivery very relatable and down to earth. Bruce not only delivered but went above and beyond, offering to be available for an additional Q&A session, when one of my other presenters had to back out at the last minute. The fact that the Q&A session was packed, directly following his keynote speaks volumes to how much the delegates enjoyed and respected his message,” Amy
Malyon, Event Coordinator, Cornwall Chamber of Commerce
Attend the Bruce M Firestone, PhD, Legacy Lecture
Part
1, Everything I Learned on My Journey
Part
2, Startopia, How to Start (practically)
any Business for Less than $5,000
Bruce
M Firestone, PhD, community leader, Ottawa Senators founder, former Telfer
School of Management Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Prof
Bruce shares key lessons learned over a 30-year career, including practical
insights about growing successful businesses with minimal investment
It’s free and it’s on Feb 12th 2016 starting at 0830 in DMS4101; that’s
classroom 4101 in the Desmarais building at the University of Ottawa.
Here’s a map, https://goo.gl/maps/A5EAwjUHTwo. There is paid parking under the Desmarais building, which is accessed via Nicholas street.
Can you please let me bruce.firestone@century21.ca and Luc llalande@uottawa.ca know if you can come so they can track our numbers?
@ profbruce @ quantum_entity
A glimpse at a few slides, https://profbruce.tumblr.com/post/138985689249/wall-street-firms-knowingly-sell-toxic-assets-to
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