Media
Third-party validation will appear here as it earns the page.
Interviews, podcasts, articles, features, and speaking. No invented coverage. No empty theatre. What lives here is only what actually exists.
For journalists, producers, and interviewers
Topics on the record.
Any of the below can be shaped into an interview, a panel appearance, a written contribution, or a keynote. Every topic is grounded in the observations and work published on this site.
- 01
Human Nature in Organizations
How people behave inside systems, why incentives matter, how culture shapes conduct, and why organizations often get exactly the behaviour they reward.
- 02
Culture and Leadership
How environments shape people, how leaders create conditions, how trust compounds, and why culture lives in tolerated behaviour more than stated values.
- 03
The Pursuit of Collective Human Potential
The conditions that allow individuals, teams, organizations, and communities to become more than they otherwise would have been.
- 04
Potential vs Performance
Why potential alone is insufficient, what turns capability into output, and why discipline, environment, belief, and accountability decide the difference.
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Brand, Perception, and Trust
How perception is built, how trust accumulates, how brands are validated through behaviour, and why details reveal values.
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Systems, Craft, and Execution
Why outcomes repeat, how systems shape behaviour, why details matter, and how execution becomes evidence.
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Building, Reinvention, and the Long Game
Lessons from building ventures, refining identity, reading markets, and choosing long-term value over short-term performance.
Related coaching lanes on the same territory: Personal Coaching, Business Coaching, Marketing Coaching, Sales Coaching.
Bio, headshots, and materials
Approved copy and assets.
Short bio
Quentin Young is a Canadian entrepreneur, founder, operator, brand strategist, and creative leader. He owns and operates Kostaja Ltd. and a slate of ventures (Operating Class, LotWise Auto, LotWise Home, Agent Marketing) and is the creative mind behind the brand and websites of Murray Mortgages, Bristol Auto Performance, and others.
Long bio
Quentin Young writes and works at the intersection of human nature, culture, systems, leadership, brand, and craft. His public archive documents the conditions that shape individual and collective potential: how organizations behave, how leaders create environments, how perception is built through detail, and how execution becomes evidence. He speaks and coaches privately with people building, leading, selling, positioning, and becoming something more serious.
Headshots and additional assets
A press kit with high-resolution headshots, alternate crops, and approved logo files can be requested directly. Include the outlet and intended use so the appropriate variants are shared.
Request bio and assets→Recent thinking to draw from
Full archive→Observation
People rarely behave according to what they believe.
They behave according to what they reward.
Observation
Distance distorts reality.
The further the decision sits from the work, the more confident, and the more wrong, it tends to become.
Observation
People can endure almost anything when they know why they are doing it.
Remove the reason and the strongest team grows fragile by Tuesday.
Coverage on record
Currently unpublished
Nothing on the record yet. Designed to remain understated until it is.
Working journalists, podcast hosts, and producers are welcome to reach out for thoughtful editorial. The topics and materials above indicate the substance available for record.
Press inquiry→Or write directly · hello@quentinyoung.ca
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