Andrew Tallents

Trusted Advisor | Self-Coaching Expert | Conscious Leadership Coach | Author | Motivational Speaker | Podcast Host

I help CEOs and Founders accelerate profit, purpose and performance—by transforming how they lead themselves and their teams.

For over 30 years, I’ve worked with ambitious leaders across the globe as they focused on building self-led, high-performing boards and leadership teams.

CEOs and Founders come to me when they:

Want to scale sustainably without burning out

Need their leadership team aligned and moving fast

Seek an experienced thought partner to help them think clearly


Our work together is practical and transformative. Whether through high-impact executive coaching, strategic workshops, team alignment programmes, or keynote speaking, I bring clarity, courage, and challenge to leaders who are serious about results—both personal and professional.

I'm also the author of Self-Coaching for Leaders and the creator of a growing AI-powered self-coaching movement. My approach blends insight with action, helping leaders get out of their own way so they can unlock performance in others.

If you're a CEO or Founder scaling a team, preparing for investment, or navigating complexity at the top—let’s talk.

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The Tallents Partnership works with business leaders around the world to improve the leadership capability of their boards and senior management teams. Offering a consultative approach, we deliver a variety of world class human capital solutions through a team of experienced consultants. The Tallents Partnership believes in serving its clients at a local and global level.

✉ andrew@tallents-partnership.com
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Imran Jimoh

Growth Consultant

Greatway Financial Inc.

Account Executive

Sales Development Representative

DucMeta Inc.

Outside Sales Representative

Public Outreach Fundraising

Inside Sales Representative

Abuja Computerized Vehicle Testing Service

Vehicle Inspector

Nigerian Air Force

Aircraft Maintenance Technician

Wealth Management For The Greater Toronto Area - Business Owner - Investor

Welcome to my world.

The name is Imran & here's the backstory.

👉🏾 2017

Engineered a beast of a dune buggy with brilliant mechanical engineering minds for finals.

Graduated at 19, fresh-faced and hungry, just a week shy of 20. 

Pure adrenaline rush.

👉🏾 2018

Intern at Nigerian Air Force, Kaduna base. 

Got hands dirty with aircraft maintenance, keeping military pilots safe in the skies.

Shoulder to shoulder with veterans and civilians.

👉🏾 2019

First real job at 21! Playing vehicle safety detective.

Mastered high-tech inspections from tire treads to underbody defects on everything from sedans to monster trucks.

December. Touched down in Toronto chasing mastery in electro-mechanics and robotics.

👉🏾 2020

Hit the ground running. Landed first SDR role three weeks after arrival. 

Public Outreach, fundraising company. Then boom! Pandemic chaos. 

Climbed to third nationwide. Found my superpower in sales. Pivoted to crushing it in virtual sales. 

👉🏾 2021

Certified Automation & Robotics Technologist with an unexpected love affair with sales.

Leveled up to financial services, payment solutions across Toronto's business district. Back in the field again, bigger game.

👉🏾 2022

Greatway Financial Inc. Bigger financial service. SDR to Account Executive in a flash.

Built sales armies, dropped knowledge bombs in sales trainings & workshops.

Double crown champion easy. Rockstar of the Year for smashing record volume in six months, quick with it.

👉🏾 2023

Became obsessed with lead generation, skill stacking in motion.

Hacked cold email, LinkedIn prospecting, and cold calling.

Partnered with companies to solve marketing and sales inefficiencies. 

Virtual Reality, Real Estate, Media, Growth, Capital Raising, Education. One mission. UNLOCKING B2B PROFIT SECRETS!

👉🏾 2024

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👉🏾 TL;DR

5000+ calls booked and $10M sold between myself, my teams & partners.

- Engineering roots gave me x-ray vision for complex problems.

- Sales journey taught me to speak human.

- Leadership showed me how to multiply success through others.

The hustle never stops. 

Over the weekend, Kevin O'Leary shared a list of the Top 20 AI data centre construction projects worldwide and he said something every serious builder already knows:

“Countries that have energy security will win the AI race.”

He’s right.

Everyone is talking about GPUs, chip supply, Blackwell, wafer-scale compute... but the real bottleneck isn’t hardware.

It’s power.
It’s land.
It’s grid capacity.
It’s the teams who can actually execute at scale.

And that’s where things get interesting for Canada.

While Europe, the UAE, and the US are aggressively pushing 5–40 GW development plans, Canada is sitting on a rare advantage: stable power, renewable-rich regions, vast land, and significantly less political volatility around energy policy.

The real challenge?
Most of that power is locked behind long queues, outdated interconnection processes, and slow-moving planning cycles.

That’s why the Milton project matters.

Milton isn’t “another data centre.”
It’s one of the few Canadian sites being engineered with realistic access to future-proof power, tied directly to partners who understand both sides of the equation generation and high-density AI loads.

It’s being designed with the next decade in mind:
• High-density racks
• Liquid-ready cooling
• Modular electrical distribution
• ESG-aligned grid integration
• The ability to absorb future GPU/wafer-scale generations
• And the operational reliability hyperscalers now demand

This aligns with what Isaac Islam from DarkNX has been saying repeatedly in our conversations:

“The winners won’t be the ones who build fastest… they’ll be the ones who build power-aligned, power-secured, and power-scalable.”

We’re at the stage where the global AI race is no longer theoretical. Countries are outbidding each other for transformers, substations, turbines, liquid cooling, even the raw land.

Canada can lead but only if we move now.

This is exactly the type of project leaders like Kevin O'Leary have signaled interest in: high-impact, power-aligned, scalable, and directly tied to the future of AI compute.

On November 27th, we’re hosting a closed-room discussion about this exact topic with leaders from energy, AI infrastructure, and data-centre development.

If you care about:
• future-proof compute,
• sovereign AI capacity,
• cross-border hardware shortages,
• the next generation of AI workloads, or
• where Canada fits in the global race…

Comment “Milton” and I’ll reach out personally with details.

Let’s make sure Canada doesn’t miss the biggest industrial shift since the internet.

Looking forward to discussing this topic alongside the team:

Blackhaven Capital - myself 
Maxperr Energy - Simon Shao CEO
DigitalStar.ca - Konstantyn VL
DarkNX - Arman Salah CTO
DarkNX - Isaac Islam CEO

Firing this back into the feed because this is exactly where Canada needs to be leaning in.

The convergence of compute, power and land is the new industrial base. A 25MW anchor scaling toward 100MW+ is the blueprint for how Canada builds a competitive AI economy instead of renting one from abroad.

This session brings the right operators into the same room, that is power, cooling, capital and real-estate strategy. Canada doesn’t get many moments like this, so when they show up, you move.

Proud to be part of the conversation and even more excited for what comes next.

📢 Excited to join a strategic executive session on Canada’s AI infrastructure expansion.

On November 27, I’ll be speaking at a closed-door briefing focused on the development of a 25MW AI data-centre project in Milton, and its expansion pathway toward 100MW+ of high-density compute capacity.

At industry-standard capex, this development represents a $1B+ multi-phase opportunity for Canada’s AI ecosystem.

The session is organized and hosted by
🔹 Simon Shao, CEO of Maxperr Energy — Co-Organizer, MC, and Speaker
🔹 Konstantyn VL (representing DigitalStar.ca & Maxperr Energy) — Co-Organizer & MC and supported by 9S Centre.

Joining me on stage:
🎙 Arman Salah, CTO of DarkNX Technologies — Data Center Design and industry direction
🎙 Imran Jimoh, Founder and CEO of Blackhaven Capital — on real-estate uplift modeling, AI Infrastructure and project valuation
🎙 Dino Foderaro, MBA, CRO at Accelsius (virtually) where he will be discussing the advancement of data center cooling and how Accelsius is redefining the space.


We’ll be discussing:
• Power delivery constraints and grid access
• Cooling demands for AI-driven workloads and how to future proof your designs with Accelsius  
• Capital structure for multi-phase deployment
• Long-term land valuation and exit strategy
• How Canada positions itself for AI-scale infrastructure

📍 9S Centre, Markham
📅 November 27
⏰ 2 PM – 5 PM

This session is geared towards:
— Data-centre developers
— Utilities & energy teams
— Infrastructure investors
— Technology & OEM providers
— Government and policy leaders

Comment DATACENTER and I will send you the link to register

Looking forward to the conversation and to helping shape the next phase of Canada’s AI infrastructure.

#canada #AI #datacenter #liquidcooling #energy #renewables

China’s advantage is industrial velocity. 

They can add bulk power faster than the U.S. can permit a transmission upgrade. The blind spot in this debate is that AI leadership won’t hinge on model innovation but on how fast a nation can deploy generation, move electrons and convert land into compute-ready megawatts. Data centers can scale in quarters; grids scale in decades.

The hard truth: the U.S. doesn’t have a chip problem, it has a permitting and transmission problem. And in the AI era, slow grids lose.

Chairman, O’Leary Ventures and Beanstox

I’m neck-deep in building data centers right now, and let me tell you something uncomfortable: China is crushing us in power generation for AI.

Not chips. Power.

When the Supreme Leader wants more capacity, he builds a coal plant. Simple. No 5-year regulatory nightmare.

If America wants to lead in AI, we need power. Without it, we’re running in place while China hits the gas.

Everyone talks about building in AI but almost no one is looking at the constraint that defines who actually wins: Controllable Megawatts.

The blind spot in this conversation is that power generation is no longer just an input, it’s the strategic leverage point for the entire AI industrial stack. 

Compute scales in months and transmission and generation scale in years. That gap is where the real returns accrue.

My thesis: whoever controls permitted land tied to real power capacity controls the velocity of AI deployment and capital is already rotating toward that reality. The rest of the market will catch up later, as usual.

If you sent me back in time with no money, I’d still choose entrepreneurship. But today, I’d skate to where the puck is going and that’s power.

AI, defense, manufacturing, data centers… none of it exists without cheap, secure energy. That’s why I’m spending so much time acquiring land permitted for power generation. That’s where generational returns are going to be made.

NVIDIA’s valuation isn’t just a bet on one company, it’s a bet on the physical bottlenecks of the AI economy.

And the market isn’t 'mispricing' tech; it’s 'repricing' the value of compute in a world where GPUs are the new reserve asset. What’s missing in most commentary is that this isn’t an equity story, it’s an industrial capacity story.

NVIDIA sits at the choke point where global demand for compute is compounding faster than power, land and transmission can be built. So the real distortion isn’t NVIDIA’s price, it's the rest of the infrastructure stack still priced like we’re in a software cycle, not a megawatt-constrained buildout.

We take the financially complex and make it simple

The race for AI dominance has created some incredible market distortions — and few examples illustrate that better than NVIDIA.

Right now, NVIDIA’s market cap has soared to over $4 trillion, surpassing the entire financial services industry — that’s JPMorgan, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and more combined.

Investors are clearly betting big that NVIDIA will be the winner in the AI revolution. But is that the whole story?

In this clip, we dig into what this kind of market momentum really signals — and what investors should be watching beyond the hype.

Listen to the the full discussion on the podcast, titled MWM Market Update: The Only Certainty Is Uncertainty Part II - https://lnkd.in/ewXqs9vP

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