Type, Pause, Click
Communication in these modern times has been reduced to short sharp emoji filled, vowelless sentences. And we get frustrated when people don’t listen or understand us. What has happened to [...]
Defining Your Story Anchor
Every good story needs a solid anchor, an anchor that will allow the listener to find that experiential hook within their own lives to begin to relate to the rest [...]
The Innovation Rhyme
What is there were a simple to use methodology to enable innovation and accelerate change? This is what my Formula of Persuasion offers. Here is an extract of the presentation [...]
Inducted into the Hall of Fame
The Professional Speakers Association of Southern Africa (PSASA) awards members who have shown exemplary service within their industry over several years evidenced by published content, peer review and impact in [...]
The world is my chess board.
Understanding and learning to play chess is an important part of success in life. Chess is not just a game in which you move pieces around a board and win [...]
When funny is not funny anymore
A great story is always made better when it includes funny. Making your audience laugh elevates the good hormones and releases tension bringing people together. Funny allows the storyteller to [...]
Is Sustainability Stickable?
Developing sustainable processes within business environments has become key to CEO and Operational teams. It is not the best practice to dive in a try things that fail and result [...]
Happy Pi Day
Today we celebrate not only Pi Day (3/14) but also the Professional Speakers Celebration Day. So firstly, for the maths nerds: Pi (π) is a mathematical constant that represents the [...]
Who are your Supporting Characters?
For every story, there is the hero, the one who rescues the princess or overcomes the obstacle to clutch victory in the face of defeat. But a lot of this [...]
Sustainability is not Starvation
I am a great fan of the History Channel show Alone. A competition pits 10 survivalists against each other as they are dropped off in an uninhabitable region of the [...]
Strategy vs Plans
A lot of companies are wrapping up their financial year ends this month and now go into annual planning sessions for the year ahead. With new budgets coming into effect [...]
Creating Legacies
Legacy is a word we play around with a lot. What does it mean? How does one create it? Who do you leave it to? I was asked to speak [...]
