Straight to the Point!

Keynote speaker, trainers, coaches, consultants, and facilitators. They each serve a different and distinct role in the organisation.

They are external parties hired to speed up organisational development or digital transformation. 

Andrew Chow discusses the difference among them. 

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Business attire has changed significantly over the years, especially in the last 20 years. Too many people have forgotten why proper business attire is important.

Some companies prefer to allow –and even encourage – employees to dress freely or casually for comfort. This tends to work well in more creative work environments.

However, other companies will typically encourage and/or require a more defined and professional dress code to maintain a professional image of themselves and the business where employees routinely interact on a daily basis with prospects, clients and business partners.

Conflicts arise when employees prefer to dress comfortably or in the most recent styles rather than realize the importance for them to present themselves in a more professional or conservative manner.

The major reason why dressing in proper business attire is important for every business professional is because it presents a visual image and sends a message that the employees are professional.

How COVID-19 put us back in the box

And forced us to think in new ways about problem solving, unlearning and relearning

In 2020, we have all been forced to pivot for survival and success. We’ve faced many unknowns and self-doubt has been our lingering company. We’ve experienced a nearly instantaneous economic slowdown, which was triggered by the pandemic shutdown, and it’s wreaked havoc on businesses, large and small.

The recipe for survival requires a thorough rethink and transformation of all we have done in the past, or we risk falling further behind or potentially, going out of business full-stop. But the reality of how entrepreneurs are dealing with the crisis and preparing for the recovery tells a different story. It’s a story of pivoting business models more conducive to short-term survival, along with long-term resilience, planning and growth.

This panel discussion will throw the light on:

As a Standards of Leadership award winner with multi top sales and business awards in her corporate days in Johnson & Joshson, Janet is known for her thought leadership in bringing clarity to personal and organizational growth, leadership and engagement through her customized training and consultations.

With 3 decades of corporate and business experience, other areas of strength include new business development and negotiations, new product launches, and business success. In the last decade, Janet pivoted her business model from a single brick and mortar revenue source to one with multiple revenue sources through e-commerce retail, digital products, royalties and the latest online platform models. Janet will share her lessons learnt, the model she utilizes to measure and improve her business/ product portfolios and the various digital revenue models in her session.

Five compelling reasons to start your Podcast… and how you can launch in 30 days!

Do you want to launch a podcast but don’t know where to start? Or it’s constantly on the back burner because there’s so much else going on? Or maybe you haven’t even considered it yet?

Well step right up, because Sha Nacino, host of The Author’s Voice Podcast and founder of the World Gratitude Summit, will show you five compelling reasons why you need to start your own podcast as a powerful tool to share your message, build relationships with key people, and grow your brand. And guess what? You don’t need to be a techie to launch your own show and you can get it off the ground in 30 days! Sound interesting?

Hang on tight and get ready to learn:

Sha Nacino is the author of 14 books, a keynote speaker on gratitude and creativity, and the host of The Author’s Voice Podcast. Sha sees life as a beautiful adventure to be enjoyed and shared. She loves writing books and creating online courses, online summits, and virtual, as well as in-person events!

She is the founder and host of the HR Summit Global, Write a Book Summit, Global Authors Summit, and the World Gratitude Summit. In her summits and on her podcast, she has had the opportunity to interview some of the world’s best thought leaders like Jack Canfield, Dr. John Demartini, Andrew Matthews, Dr. Ivan Misner, and more. To top it off, in 2019, she was awarded the Female Entrepreneur of the Year by the United Nations Global Entrepreneur Council.

And for the next 18-24 months

Join this session, for lessons from a global speaker and international speaker agent, as they uncover how to prepare for when conferences come back, and – even more urgently – what we can do right now to make the most of the time until that happens. As professional speakers, we have an enforced layoff to take stock and think deeply about our positioning, marketing, and sales processes.

We need to ensure we get aligned with the “new world” of events that will be totally overshadowed by the effects of COVID-19 for foreseeable future, but with all that said, we can’t afford to take our line out of the water, because that’s one guaranteed way not to be booked!

We will gain:

Marty Wilson knows that accepting the constantly accelerating pace of change is the price of admission to having a successful business. So he offers clients his totally unique expertise on how to help their people be far more resilient through change, stress and disruption. He is a gifted professional speaker, a TEDx veteran, and an “Australian Comedian of the Year.”

This unlikely combination makes his programs more than a mere speech, but a memorable event. Marty’s high content programs, generously spiked with humour, are all filled with actionable strategies that can be implemented immediately. Marty’s programs include: Change Without Fear; What I Wish I Knew about Success; and Healthy Change, Resilient Change

Michael Arnot is the founder and head speaker agent for Encore Speakers, representing speaking talent from Australia, the UK and beyond. Prioritizing relationships with the speakers he represents, Michael understands the topics, styles, personalities and experiences to select the most appropriate speakers for his clients, ensuring they are guaranteed to find the perfect speaker for their event, conference, seminar or meeting.

With more than 15 years’ experience in the events business, Michael is also a coach for speakers, helping them to get the simple things right, so you are EASY TO BUY.

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How to successfully create additional leveraged income streams through online courses and digital products

Professional speaking is an excellent way to make an impact on many at one time, but as we have seen in 2020, the time has come where additional leverage becomes necessary, as well as an opportunity to impact more people and further scale your revenue.

This lab will show us how we can make a greater impact around the world by transforming our expertise into online programs and digital products that produce real results for our customers.

What will be the key take-aways?

Bryan McAnulty is a designer and entrepreneur, who has been building digital products since 2009. Today his company, Heights Platform, helps creators in over 100 countries monetize their knowledge through online courses and digital products.

Bryan architects interactions to create the most engaging user experience, and to ensure that product vision is seamlessly flushed out by merging design and programming knowledge to efficiently manage product development cycles. His design and development knowledge is applied to help businesses optimize each step of a customer’s journey, both before purchase and during use of a product – to increase revenue and increase the lifetime value of each customer. Bryan turns ideas into realities.

How to embrace creativity in a time of massive disruption

Get ready for a power packed fireside chat with Josh Linkner and Peter Sheahan, who will share innovative business strategies, as we search for creative ways of extending our business offerings and revenue streams in an emerging new world of business.

Building on their vast collective experience of creating multiple businesses, as well as advising clients and years of research, Josh and Peter will teach us:

Josh Linkner is a creative troublemaker. He has founded five tech companies, which sold for a combined value of over $200 million, is the author of four books, including the New York Times Bestsellers, Disciplined Dreaming and The Road to Reinvention, and well, this guy just loves starting and building companies. He’s the founding partner of Detroit Venture Partner and has been involved in the launch of over 100 start-ups.

Today, Josh serves as Chairman and co-founder of Platypus Labs, an innovation research, training, and consulting firm. He has twice been named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and is the recipient of the United States Presidential Champion of Change Award.

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Adam Khoo has touched the lives of over 20 million people in more than 80 countries through his work, and he is going to share with us the secrets of his success! Adam will reveal how he focused on playing to his strengths, while surrounding himself with experts who are masters of their domains. This meant everyone delivered at their highest level, ensuring Adam could be laser focused on empowering others to move beyond limiting beliefs. It’s going to be an eye opener, and your take-aways will be

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Some people lamented that this wasn’t fair but it looks pretty tame in comparison to today where we see the top 8% of people in the economy earning 80% of the available income.

I’s happening like this because in every industry there are three groups of people:

Newbies: Just starting out and gaining their skills and talent. They are usually fuelled by enthusiasm to rise up and achieve big things in their industry although they lack the knowhow and training to deliver real value at this point.

Worker-bees: They are great at what they do but often go under-recognised and unrewarded despite having value to offer. Often their enthusiasm starts to diminish as they spend years doing more mundane tasks than they are capable of. Due to advances in technology and outsourcing, these people have become more replaceable and even though they offer value, there’s plenty in supply.

The key people of influence in every industry are earning more money, having more fun and attracting more opportunity than ever before. Social media and other technology is opening up bigger markets to these influencers. No longer are they local heroes, at a click of a button their message goes global.

Andrew Chow shares some practical advice on SME Marketing