Matt Tod is an expert speaker, youth leadership facilitator and the creator and Executive Director of Leadership Rewired – a youth leadership program, part of The Institute for Health and Human Potential that focuses on working with young people to create positive change in themselves.

Matt Tod, first learned about emotional intelligence in 2004 while attending the University of Guelph. Experiencing the relevance of EI in his own life, Matt chose to focus on how it relates to leadership — particularly youth leadership.

Over the last 4 years, Matt has traveled across North America as a speaker and facilitator, speaking to and working with over 50,000 young people on topics of leadership, youth volunteerism, and social and environmental issues. Matt combines his blended personal experience and knowledge in order to share the challenges surrounding today’s youth, as well as offer practical and tangible solutions to social issues.

In our interview, Matt shares with mindyourmind volunteer, Brianna, what it was like dealing with anxiety and how he learned to best cope with it.