A couple months ago we had the opportunity to film the second annual F5 Expo in Vancouver featuring Malcolm Gladwell, author of Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, & What the Dog Saw. Apart from Malcolm being the big draw to the conference, many people in the audience thought that Tod Maffin spoke just as well and with just as much passion. Here is a clip from Tod’s keynote address.
(Profile of Tod Maffin, courtesy of F5 Expo)
During the web 1.0 craze, Tod Maffin was a top-flying CEO of a technology company. Worth millions on paper, he led a frantic life that included running his publicly traded artificial intelligence firm while at the same time hosting a national radio show on CBC Radio One about technology. He was working 16-hour days, non-stop.
And then, everything crashed. Tod was crippled with a devastating depression and addiction which all but destroyed him — all the while, struggling to appear to be managerial to employees and colleagues, and happy and healthy to his friends and family.
Today, Tod is an inspirational example of fighting back, recovery in action, and learning how to live sanely in our busy techno-driven life. In the summer of 2009, Tod was featured in Esperanza Mental Health Magazine as an “Everyday Hero.”
Tod’s story is emotional — at once funny and poignant, sad and hopeful.
He’ll show attendees how to be “strategically crazy” — managing teams with insight and vision, without letting the business life run their “real” life. It will speak to each person in the room who feels they’re overworked, they’re doing it to themselves, and they don’t know how to stop.
(photo courtesy of Jeremy Lim)
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